• Events

All Events

  • Cercil Museum - Memorial Children Du Vel D'hiv
    45 Rue du Bourdon Blanc, 45000 Orléans

    Paula Padani. La danse migrante : Hambourg, Tel-Aviv, Paris

    Laure Guilbert, resident fellow at CURE, will give two lectures on 24 and 25 January 2026 at CERCIL – Children’s Memorial Museum of the Vel d’Hiv in Orléans. Her talks focus on the life of dancer Paula Padani and are held in connection with the exhibition at the MAHJ (Museum of Jewish Art and History), on view in Paris from 13 November 2024 to 14 December 2025.
  • der buchladen
    Försterstraße 14 | 66111 Saarbrücken

    Cultural Death and Reparation: The Case of Champollion

    At a reading followed by a discussion, Markus Messling will present his recently published book Kulturtod und Reparation. Der Fall Champollion (Cultural death and reparation: the case of Champollion; Matthes & Seitz Berlin). The essay marks the opening of the publication series Reparations at the Käte Hamburger Centre CURE, edited by Christiane Solte-Gresser and Markus Messling. The evening will be moderated by Niklas Bender (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung/Saarland University).
  • Alte Feuerwache,
    Landwehrplatz 1,
    66111 Saarbrücken

    Longing for Autocrats: Napoleon

    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 „Napoleon“ featuring Daniel Cohn-Bendit & Markus Messling (Käte Hamburger Centre), moderated by Tilla Fuchs (SR kultur)
  • Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
    Raum 00.026, Universitätsstr. 19, EG, Schwarz-Weiß-Saal

    Universality and (micro-)history: the case of Champollion

    Markus Messling, director of the Käte Hamburger Centre CURE, will deliver the Ruth Klüger Lecture, hosted by the graduate research training group “Literature and the Public Sphere” at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg. In the lecture, he will present his book Kulturtod und Reparation: Der Fall Champollion (Cultural death and reparation: the case of Champollion), which is due to be published shortly with Matthes & Seitz Berlin as the first volume in CURE’s Reparationen series.
  • Käte Hamburger Centre CURE
    Neugrabenweg 4
    66123 Saarbrücken

    Limites de L’Empathie

    Dominique Rabaté – one of the foremost scholars today of contemporary French literature – will visit the Käte Hamburger Centre CURE for a workshop. The discussion with the centre’s fellows and team will be based on Rabaté’s most recent book, Limites de l’empathie (2025).
  • Institut d’Études Françaises, Villa Europa,
    Kohlweg 7, 66123 Saarbrücken

    Literature and Empathy

    In a time marked by proliferating forms of identitarian ascription, Dominique Rabaté invites us to consider identification as a paradoxical, dynamic, and ambiguous process: one that involves an art of withdrawal, accompanied by a critical engagement with our subjective and moral boundaries.
  • Innovation Center A2 1, seminary room 0.01
    Saarland university

    Erinnerungsräume der Gewalt, Vertreibung und Flucht: Transgenerationelle und transnationale Perspektive

    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.
  • Alte Feuerwache,
    Landwehrplatz 1,
    66111 Saarbrücken

    Longing for Autocrats: Richard III.

    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 „Richard III.“ featuring Albrecht Buschmann (Käte Hamburger Kolleg) and Romana Weiershausen (Universität des Saarlandes), moderated by Jochen Erdmenger (SR kultur).
  • Stiftung Demokratie Saarland, Europaallee 18 66113 Saarbrücken

    Rights of Nature: a Wolrdwide Movement

    The exhibition runs from 13 May to 21 June and presents an installation by the acclaimed writer, artist, and curator Camille de Toledo, CURE’s artist in residence from May to July 2026. Concurrently, the Stiftung Demokratie Saarland is presenting RIVER WALKS, a project carried out on the Saar by the Taiwanese art historian and CURE-Fellow, Yi-Ting Wang.
  • Goethe-Universität Frankfurt

    Freistätte #8: Reparative Reading

    On 28 January, CURE director Christiane Solte-Gresser will deliver a keynote lecture entitled “Reparative Narration: How the Story Continues” at the comparative literature workshop “Freistätte 8: Reparative Reading”, held at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main and organised by CURE alumna Judith Kasper and Anna Iakovets.
  • Käte Hamburger Centre CURE
    Neugrabenweg 4 | 66123 Saarbrücken

    Tuesday seminar series in June

    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 Centre CURE
    Neugrabenweg 4 | 66123 Saarbrücken

    Tuesday seminar series in May

    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.