Käte Hamburger Lecture with Fellow Fiona Greenland
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Innovation Center, Campus Saarbrücken, Building A2 1, seminar room 3.05.1
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The Käte Hamburger Centre for Cultural Practices of Reparation (CURE) and the CEUS | Cluster for European Studies warmly invite you to attend the next Käte Hamburger Lecture at Saarland University. This series allows fellows from the centre to share their latest research perspectives on cultural practices of reparation. After the lectures, audience members will have the opportunity to engage with key topics in more detail during a public discussion session.
Fiona Greenland: Ukrainian cultural heritage in wartime: Political and institutional challenges of restitution and reparation
Since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022, Ukraine’s cultural heritage assets have sustained significant damage through bombardment, looting, and deliberate atacks by combatants. The toll includes art museums, theatres, archaeological sites, libraries, monuments, and houses of worship. In response, Ukrainian cultural workers have launched innovative projects to monitor and document the damage and thetis. What started as a real-time documentation effort has developing into a joint effort to plan for post-war reparations – including the restitution of stolen artworks and artifacts. This provides a unique opportunity to assess how reparation is planned for and systematized in a context in which there are competing national and international understandings of what constitutes adequate reparations. The talk is based on the author’s extensive study of wartime cultural heritage losses in Ukraine, interviews with Ukrainian NGOs and government officials, and fieldwork conducted in Ukraine in 2024.
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.
Registration for online participation: kontakt@khk.uni-saarland.de
