• Käte Hamburger Centre CURE
    Neugrabenweg 4
    66123 Saarbrücken

    Float: 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.

  • 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”.

  • Saarland University, Innovation Centre A2 1, Seminar Room 3.05.1

    Käte Hamburger Welcome Reception

    The Käte Hamburger Centre CURE will welcome its 2025/26 cohort of fellows with a festive reception at Saarland University’s Innovation Centre. This year’s annual lecture, titled “Repairing the irreparable? Culture and spoliation”, will be delivered by Prof Dr Gisèle Sapiro.

  • Universität des Saarlandes Campus, A2 2, Raum 1.20.1

    Haiti (2010–2025): Imagining a way out of the country’s security crisis through bordertexture

    Jean-Hérald Legagneur (State University of Haiti and fellow at Käte Hamburger Centre CURE) will give a lecture on Wednesday, 9 July 2025 titled: “Haiti (2010–2025): Imagining a way out of the country’s security crisis through bordertexture”. The lecture, held in French, is part of the Atelier Bordertextures series hosted by the Center for Border Studies of the universities of the Greater Region.

  • Saarländische Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek (SULB)
    Campus B1 1 | Universität des Saarlandes

    To the Extinct Stars: Memory of the Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda in 1994

    The exhibition “An die erloschenen Sterne” (To the Extinct Stars) offers the public the opportunity to connect with the thoughts, memories, and stories of survivors of the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. The texts and drawings on display are the result of a therapeutic process involving artistic creation and healing imagination, helping those left behind to cope with their grief.

  • University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and the Centre Expert du Psychotraumatisme Pediatrique, CHU Lenval
    Hôpitaux Pediatriatriques de Nice, France

    Luis Hernández Camarero Poetry Notebooks as a Cultural Practice in the Search for Healing

    CURE Fellow Diana Rodríguez Vértiz will deliver a presentation at the upcoming Beyond Trauma Conference. This conference seeks to critically engage with the multidisciplinary field of trauma studies, challenging its predominant focus on trauma itself and encouraging new directions in thought and research.

  • University of Helsinki
    Unioninkatu 34
    00170 Helsinki

    A Mesopotamian Re(s)pair: Making the green wall along the Iran-Iraq marshlands

    At the Finnish Anthropological Society Biennial Conference, Sana Chavoshian, Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Centre for Cultural Practices of Reparation, will present a paper on “A Mesopotamian Re(s)pair: Making the Green Wall along the Iran-Iraq Marshlands.”

  • Université de Strasbourg
    Salle Table ronde MISHA (salle 4202 Patio)
    67000 Strasbourg

    Ukrainian Literary Culture and Russian Information Operations

    At the conference “Ukrainian Cultural Heritage in Times of War. Strategic and Memorial Issues”, Fiona Greenland, currently a Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Centre, will speak on the topic of “Ukrainian Literary Culture and Russian Information Operations”.

  • Innovation Center, Campus Saarbrücken,
    Building A2 1

    Reparation in an Era of Irreparability? Theoretical Approaches

    From 4 to 6 June 2025, the Käte Hamburger Centre CURE will hold its first annual conference, exploring theoretical approaches to cultural practices of reparation. The international conference will take place at the Innovation Center on the campus of Saarland University (Building A 2.1).

  • Universität des Saarlandes,
    Innovation Center A2 1

    Reparation in an Era of Irreparability? Theoretical Approaches

    From 4 to 6 June 2025, the Käte Hamburger Centre CURE will hold its first annual conference, exploring theoretical approaches to cultural practices of reparation. The international conference will take place at the Innovation Center on the campus of Saarland University (Building A 2.1).

  • University of Bologna

    Erasmus+ Visiting scholar

    From 17 to 21 March 2025, Julien Jeusette is an Erasmus+ Visiting Scholar at the Department of Classical and Italian Philology (FICLIT) at the University of Bologna.

  • Kino achteinhalb |
    Nauwieserstraße 19
    66111 Saarbrücken

    William Klein, Festival panafricain d’Alger 1969

    Film screening and discussion with CURE-Artist in Residence Zineb Sedira as part of the accompanying program for the exhibition THE TRUE SIZE OF AFRICA.