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École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Trash to Treasure: Extinction, Refuse, and the History of Prehistoric Archaeology and Related Sciences of the Past
Despite their seemingly immaterial nature, the fluid operations of telecommunications, logistics, and global financial trade depend on increasingly large amounts of physical matter. In her keynote CURE fellow Irina Podgorny will discuss extinction, refuse, and the history of prehistoric archaeology and related sciences of the past.
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Käte Hamburger Centre
Neugrabenweg 4 | 66123 SaarbrückenAfter the irreparable.
From Fondane to Césaire: poetic reconstructions and cultural mourningIn this workshop, CURE Artist in Residence, the Congolese-Romanian writer Annie Lulu, will present a talk examining irreparability in literary texts through the lens of loss and mourning, focusing on a selection of poems by Aimé Césaire, Benjamin Fondane, Zéno Bianu, Derek Walcott, Nelly Sachs, and Sabine Huynh.
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Käte Hamburger Centre CURE
Neugrabenweg 4 | 66123 SaarbrückenTuesday seminar series in January
On the first Tuesday of each month, one or two fellows discuss the current state of the research they are conducting during their fellowship. The Tuesday Seminar Series serves as a platform for interdisciplinary exchange and a deeper exploration of research focused on cultural practices of reparation.
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Käte Hamburger Kolleg CURE
Tuesday Seminar in December
On the first Tuesday of each month, one or two fellows discuss the current state of the research they are conducting during their fellowship. The Tuesday Seminar Series serves as a platform for interdisciplinary exchange and a deeper exploration of research focused on cultural practices of reparation.
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Gebäude B3 1, Hörsaal 0.14
Universität des SaarlandesNature Speaking? Non-human Voices in Literary Texts
As part of the lecture series “Sustainability in the Humanities”, Hannah Steurer, programme director at the Käte Hamburger Centre CURE, will speak on 3 November at the Saarbrücken campus.
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Käte Hamburger Centre CURE
Tuesday Seminar series in November
On the first Tuesday of each month, one or two fellows discuss the current state of the research they are conducting during their fellowship. The Tuesday Seminar Series serves as a platform for interdisciplinary exchange and a deeper exploration of research focused on cultural practices of reparation.
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Innovation Center, Campus Saarbrücken,
Building A2 1, Seminar room 0.01Arts et politique en Guinée socialiste : Histoire intellectuelle et archives privées
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.
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Innovation Center A2 1, Seminar room 0.01
Saarland UniversityDanser dans les ghettos et les camps de l’Europe sous domination nazie ? Les chemins de l’histoire et de la mémoire
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.
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Konstanz University
Minor Universalism: Reading Champollion before the College de France
CURE director Markus Messling will give a lecture titled “Minor Universalism: Reading Champollion Before the Collège de France” on 18 October 2025, at the international, interdisciplinary conference Europe After Decolonisation.
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Alte Feuerwache,
Landwehrplatz 1,
66111 SaarbrückenYearning for Autocrats: Käsch und Naziss
A discussion series jointly hosted by the Saarland State Theatre and the Käte Hamburger Centre CURE in cooperation with SR kultur. Panel discussion on the play Käsch und Naziss featuring Jörn Didas (Adolf Bender Centre) and Christiane Solte-Gresser (Käte Hamburger Centre), moderated by Tilla Fuchs (SR kultur).
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Käte Hamburger Centre CURE
Neugrabenweg 4
66123 SaarbrückenFloat: Black Religion and Aesthetics of Suspension Against Capture
This workshop considers how subtle aesthetic gestures in African-descended Caribbean religion might imply radical political and subjective propositions for living in the absence of colonial repair. Nadia Ellis, professor of English and specialist in Black diasporic, Caribbean, and postcolonial literatures and cultures at the University of California, is among the leading scholars in her field.
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University of Konstanz
De la représentation à la réparation? Écritures de la violence dans l’œuvre d’Annie Lulu
At the 39th Romance Studies Conference, CURE director Christiane Solte-Gresser will give a talk in the section “Écritures de la violence en Afrique centrale”.