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  • Saarländisches Künstlerhaus,
    Karlstraße 1, 66111 Saarbrücken

    Celebrating five years of Rhinozeros

    To celebrate the fifth anniversary of the Käte Hamburger Centre’s cultural journal and yearbook, Rhinozeros, we’re marking the occasion with a lively evening at the Saarländisches Künstlerhaus.
  • Universität des Saarlandes

    Breaking Away: Figurations, Foundations, Methods, and Theories

    A workshop entitled “Breaking Away: Figurations, Foundations, Methods, and Theories” will take place on 13 and 14 November on the campus of Saarland University.
  • 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.
  • Käte Hamburger Centre
    Neugrabenweg 4 | 66123 Saarbrücken

    After the irreparable.
    From Fondane to Césaire: poetic reconstructions and cultural mourning

    In 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.
  • Käte Hamburger Centre CURE
    Neugrabenweg 4 | 66123 Saarbrücken

    Tuesday 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.
  • 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.
  • Gebäude B3 1, Hörsaal 0.14
    Universität des Saarlandes

    Nature 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.
  • 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.
  • Innovation Center, Campus Saarbrücken,
    Building A2 1, Seminar room 0.01

    Arts 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.
  • Innovation Center A2 1, Seminar room 0.01
    Saarland University

    Danser 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.