Fellowships at Käte Hamburger Centre CURE

id="offer-description" class="ecl-u-type-heading-2 ecl-u-mt-none ecl-u-mb-l">Offer Description Call for Applications - up to 12 Fellowships at Käte Hamburger Centre CURE . The Käte Hamburger Centre for Cultural Practices of Reparation (KHK CURE) at Saarland University (UdS) is an institute for advanced study, funded by the German Ministry for Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR) since 2024. Each academic year, a new group of international and interdisciplinary fellows joins the centre to pursue research. For the centre’s fourth year (October 2027 to September 2028), we are pleased to invite applications —pending approval by the BMFTR—for up to twelve fellowships with a duration of six to a maximum of twelve months (beginning in October 2027). THE RESEARCH PROGRAMME AT THE KÄTE HAMBURGER CENTRE. Questions about reparation and irreparability are at the heart of KHK CURE’s research programme, taken up by fellows and members of the CURE team from a range of disciplinary perspectives. Many harms and damages, such as the destruction of cultural heritage in colonised regions, the trauma of war, or the consequences of climate change, cannot be undone. Such irreversible harms often trigger complex processes of negotiation that can reshape reflexive forms of cultural identity and newly imagined or created lifeworlds. They raise the question of how to build a shared future in which we and others can live despite a past scarred by violence, injustice, and the destruction of natural env