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  • 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.
  • 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.