Käte Hamburger Lecture with Fellow Diana Rodríguez Vértiz
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Innovation Center, Campus Saarbrücken, Building A2 1, Seminar room 3.05.1
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The Käte Hamburger Centre for Cultural Practices of Reparation (CURE) and the CEUS | Cluster for European Studies warmly invite you to attend the next Käte Hamburger Lecture at Saarland University. This series allows fellows from the centre to share their latest research perspectives on cultural practices of reparation. After the lectures, audience members will have the opportunity to engage with key topics in more detail during a public discussion session.
Diana Rodríguez Vértiz: Luis Hernández Camarero: A Medical (Po)ethics
Even though Peruvian doctor and poet Luis Hernández never explicitly mentioned the word healing in his Poetry Notebooks, a call to dignify the lives of those marked by pain is felt throughout his work. Hernández understood this call, which, at its core, defines the very essence of healing, as the true mission of medicine. But how can healing be fostered within a biomedical practice that, due to a long history of complicity in atrocities, still owes many reparations? Luis Hernández faced the question of how to create a more just medical practice – one that lives up to its duty to heal. In her lecture, CURE fellow Diana Rodríguez Vértiz will share some reflections on the relationship between healing, medicine, and reparation within the aesthetic project of the Peruvian creator.
The Käte Hamburger Lectures provide deeper insight into the centre’s ongoing research, convey these ideas to the wider university community, and invite the public to engage in meaningful discussions on cultural practices of reparation.
Registration for online participation: kontakt@khk.uni-saarland.de
