Käte Hamburger Centre – Cultural Practices of Reparation Fellowship Programme (CURE)

Annual fellowship programme for outstanding researchers who wish to join the Käte Hamburger Centre for Cultural Practices of Reparation at the Saarland University, Germany for a period of twelve months.

The Käte Hamburger Centre for Cultural Practices of Reparation (CURE) at Saarland University aims to develop a transmedial theory of practices and processes of cultural reparation from a historical and transcultural perspective with the goal to formulate a sociopolitical understanding of cultural reparations as a field of action. The centre is funded by the Bundesministerum für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF – German Federal Ministry of Education and Research).

Each year, the centre offers up to twelve fellowships to junior and senior researchers to develop fresh approaches to memory cultures and historical-political discourses; individual experiences of harm; humiliation, and loss as well as other cultural-ecological questions. The focus of projects should align with at least one of the centre’s thematic fields (ie history, experience, nature). The topic of the 2025/2026 call is ‘Society’.