New REPAIR lecture recording: Cultural Practices of Reparation
Irreparable damage that cannot be undone in a generation often remains in people and societies. This is where cultural practices such as literature and film, archives and testimonies, theatre and museums, public discourse, rituals and forums come into play, as they can be used to address such irreparable damage. They are indispensable because cultural practices open up spaces for experiencing the contradictory, controversial and ambivalent, because in the mode of fiction, the co-existing, complex and even utopian become thinkable. Prof. Messling’s lecture illustrated this with concrete examples and at the same time presented the Käte Hamburger Kolleg for Cultural Practices of Reparation (CURE), which was established in Saarbrücken in 2024.
You can find the lecture recording here: