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  • Looking Back: Festival and Civic Forum „Rivers Beyond Borders – The Saar as a Worker“

    On 4 July 2026, Kulturgut Ost in Saarbrücken hosted the festival and civic forum “Rivers Beyond Borders – The Saar as Worker”. Approximately one hundred people attended over the course of the day. The event was organised by CURE in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut Nancy and numerous other partners working in civil society and environmental protection.

  • Review of the CURE Symposium 2026 – „Reparative Futures: Utopian Thinking in Times of Crisis“

    The second annual conference of the Käte Hamburger Centre CURE took place at Saarland University on 25 and 26 June 2026. Under the title “Reparative Futures: Utopian Thinking in Times of Crisis”, Juliane Rebentisch (HFBK Hamburg), Yves Citton (Université Paris 8), Julien Pieron (CURE), Sophie Wahnich (CNRS), Tijana Vujošević (University of British Columbia), Troy Vettese (University of California, Berkeley), Yi-Ting Wang (CURE), Hendrik Rungelrath (Saarland University), Mauro Bertola (CURE), and Jennifer Allen (Yale University) discussed and presented their reflections on forms of utopian thinking in the present.

  • School project with Camille de Toledo

    As part of his project “Rivers Beyond Borders”, which builds on the notion of river rights to ask how we might shape a future that remains liveable for all, Camille de Toledo also spoke in June 2026 at secondary schools in Saarland with students who hold the future in their hands. The project was organised as a collaboration between the Käte Hamburger Centre CURE and the Institut d’Études Françaises Saarbrücken.

  • Markus Messling elected to the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW)

    In recognition of his outstanding scholarly achievements, CURE director Markus Messling has been elected an ordinary member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. He was admitted to its Class of Humanities during the meetings of the academy’s governing bodies held for Leibniz Day 2026 at the Konzerthaus on Gendarmenmarkt.

  • New publication series: Reparations
    Part of the series of short-form books Fröhliche Wissenschaft from Matthes & Seitz Berlin

    CURE is launching a new publication series. Reparationen, edited by Markus Messling and Christiane Solte-Gresser, is published by Matthes & Seitz Berlin as part of its short-form book series Fröhliche Wissenschaft.

  • CURE Summer School 2026 – “Beyond Division”

    The second CURE Summer School will be held at Villa Vigoni from 21 to 25 September 2026. Titled “Beyond Division”, it will explore cultural practices that process, resolve, or hinder processes of fragmentation. The keynote speaker will be the writer Véronique Tadjo.

  • Five years of Rhinozeros:
    A look back at the book launch and anniversary celebration

    Why is a rhinoceros the journal’s emblem? And why is the latest issue – on the theme of “lying and lies” – so relevant to our politics today? These and other questions were discussed at the launch of the fifth volume of Rhinozeros at the Saarländisches Künstlerhaus.

  • Publication: Rhinozeros. Europa im Übergang 5 | lügen (on lying and lies)

    On 30 October 2025, Rhinozeros 5 was published on the theme of Lügen – lying and lies. Featuring contributions by scholars and artists, the yearbook of the Käte Hamburger Centre CURE asks about the political dimensions of lying and lies and how the res publica can defend itself against the distortion of reality.

  • Conference report published on H-Soz-Kult: “Reparation in an Era of Irreparability? Theoretical Approaches” (June 2024)

    The report on the first annual conference of the Käte Hamburger Centre for Cultural Practices of Reparation (CURE), which brought together an international group of participants, has been published on H-Soz-Kult.

  • Preview: Rhinozeros. Europa im Übergang 5 | lügen (on lying and lies)

    At the end of November, the fifth volume of our yearbook, Rhinozeros. Europa im Übergang (Europe in transition) – on the theme of lying and lies – will be published by Matthes & Seitz Berlin. This edition examines the lies that undermine our society. To mark its five-year anniversary, a celebration will take place on 1 December at the Saarländisches Künstlerhaus, where the fifth volume of Rhinozeros will also be presented.

  • Review of the first CURE Summer School “Dynamics of Despair” at Villa Vigoni

    From 22–26 September 2025, Villa Vigoni (German-Italian Centre for European Dialogue) hosted the first CURE Summer School on “Dynamics of Despair”. Bringing together eighteen PhD students and eight scholars, the program explored cultural, literary, and philosophical perspectives on despair, resilience, and solidarity.

  • Fantastic Encounters 2025 – Workshops for children and young people

    The Kunstschule Kassiopeia invites children and young people to embark on an exciting journey through Africa. The series is being realised in collaboration with the artist and former CURE fellow Géraldine Tobe. Her vision and artistic references invite young people to explore African culture in its philosophical foundations and core values.