The central pillar of the Käte Hamburger Research Centre is its fellowship programme, which brings up to twelve international scholars from disciplines concerned with culture to Saarland University each year as visiting scholars. Working together with the centre’s academic directors and academic staff, the fellows will study how reparations are culturally negotiated and how cultural processes of reparation can change our perception of the world, shape our self-conceptions, and alter the ways in which we and others live. The centre also regularly hosts an artist in residence.
CURE aims to bring exceptional researchers from all over the world to the centre, uniting various international research contexts analytically and comparatively through their transdisciplinary perspectives. With this research, it also seeks to emphasise the significance of processes of cultural negotiation, with the ambition of becoming a globally recognised centre for the observation of contemporary processes of reparation.
Up to twelve fellowships are awarded, usually for one year, always starting on 1 October. One of these fellowships is financed by the cross-border university consortium University of the Greater Region (UniGR).
Fellowships are advertised globally each fall. The UniGR fellowship is advertised separately, and only scholars from UniGR partner universities (University of Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU), University of Liège, University of Lorraine, University of Luxembourg, University of Trier) can apply.
At least once a year, an artist in residence is invited to CURE: These artists, authors, musicians, or filmmakers will create their own art or cultural projects on topics related to reparations, in collaboration with various cultural institutions, thus also fostering outreach about our topics to the public.