jeudi 13 novembre 2025

Histoires d'objets

Object stories in health and medicine, 1700-1900


Conference


Friday, 5 December 2025 (10:00 - 17:15) (UK)
Format
Online
Location
This is a free online event
Contact
a.jamieson@bham.ac.ukRegister for this event


In recent years, material culture has expanded its reach through the humanities and social sciences, allowing for new kinds of histories to be written. In the medical humanities, the study of objects is one methodology that has allowed historians to move away from heroic histories of medical innovators and narratives of ‘progress’. Objects offer insights into the histories left out of official medical records: the everyday and quotidian; the actual, rather than ideal; emotion rather than action; and critically, the patient rather than the practitioner.

This one-day online workshop aims to bring together scholars from across the medical humanities working with material objects in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. While work in the medical humanities is expanding rapidly, comparatively little has addressed earlier periods and contexts. Our focussing on the period 1700-1900 aims to address this dearth, as well as offering a longue-durée perspective that crosses conventional periodisations. In doing so, we will explore the rise of medical professionalism, proliferation of specialisms, growth of institutional care, and radically changing theories of the body and mind, within the context of lived experience of health and sickness.

We hope not only to share research but to enrich our practice in working with objects as primary sources. Together, we will explore the methodological pitfalls and possibilities of a material approach when dealing with historical periods, as well as historically marginalised groups. In doing so, the workshop hopes to develop and advance methods for creatively and ethically analysing histories of medicine and health.

The workshop is hosted by Dr Anna Jamieson (a.jamieson@bham.ac.uk) and Dr Rebecca Whiteley (r.k.whiteley@bham.ac.uk).
 

Programme

10.00-10.10: Welcome and introductions

10.10-11.10: Wearable objects
Helen Esfandiary, King’s College London. Straightening Childhood: The Le Vacher Machine and Maternal Regulation of the Body in Georgian England.

Nida Kibria, University of Leeds. Wrapped in Silence: Material Memory, Emotional History, and the Chaddar (Shawl) as Feminist Archive.

Harriet Barratt, Durham University. Watchful, Wearable Objects: Health Sector Surveillance and the Sussex Asylum ‘Tell-Tale Clock’.

11.10-11.20: Break

11.20-12.40: Personal papers and domestic health
Grace Marshall, Birkbeck, University of London. "Old, odd things": Dis/ability and Materialities of Care in Eighteenth-Century England.

Foteini Lika, Independent Scholar. A Medical Object Story from 19th-Century Greece: Emmanuel Roidis’ Notebook as a Fragmented and Dialogical Pathography.

Katie Dabin, Science Museum. Horse-Riding in the Home: Reconsidering the Chamber Horse in Histories of Domestic Health.

Zoe Copeman, University of Maryland College Park. Scalpel or Pen? The Art of Cutting within John Syng Dorsey’s Surgical Notebook.

12.40-13.30: Lunch



13.30-14.30: Representing the body

Natasha Ruiz-Gómez, University of Essex. Seeing Patients, Identifying Illness: An Album from the Musée Charcot.

Katie Sambrook, Birkbeck, University of London. Wax Bust of Jeanne Marie Le Manach by Jules Talrich, 1876 (Crime of Saint-Ouen).

Jessica Dandona, Minneapolis College of Art and Design. A New Book of the Body: Friedrich Bilz’s Illustrated Guide to Health.

14.30-14.45: Break



14.45-15.45: Object biographies
Nouschka van der Meij, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. Preserving Color: Materiality, and the Anatomical Afterlives of Camper’s skin Specimen A-0500.

Richard Bellis, University of St Andrews. Trading Philip Kendal’s Heart.

Allison Morehead, Queen’s University Canada. The Many Lives of a Baby Incubator.

Margaret Carlyle, The University of British Columbia. Object/ive Knowledge: Sizing up Parturient Pelvises in Eighteenth-Century Paris.

16.05-16.15: Break


16.15-17.15: Summative discussion

Les hallucinations

Les hallucinations : histoire et perspectives

Journée d'étude

Mercredi 10 décembre 2025
institut du cerveau à La Salpêtrière

 

inscription gratuite mais obligatoire :
nicole.fourn@icm-institute.org 

Introduction 

Yves Agid


Session I • Modérateur Philippe Albou
 

Olivier Walusinski (Paris)
Théories physiologiques des hallucinations de l’Antiquité à J.-E. Esquirol
 

Michel Caire (Paris)
Débuts et débats, les hallucinations des aliénistes du XIXe siècle
 

Renaud Jardri (Lille)
Théories des hallucinations verbales

Pause café

Session II • Modérateur Patrick Berche

Yves Edele (Paris)
Histoire des classifications des hallucinations d’Esquirol au DSM V
 

Gilles Fénelon (Paris)
Histoire des hallucinations non pathologiques
 

Emmanuel Broussolle (Lyon)
Histoire des hallucinations visuelles au cours de la maladie de Parkinson et des syndromes apparentés
 

Pause déjeuner
 

Session III • Modérateur Yves Agid

Patrick Chauvel (Cleveland)
Histoire des hallucinations et des épilepsies

Sylvie Chokron (Paris)
Hallucinations et désafférentation: du syndrome de Charles Bonnet aux lésions corticales
 

Eric Konofal (Paris)
Des rêves aux hallucinations, une histoire d’hier et d’aujourd’hui
 

Pause café
 

Session IV • Modérateur Olivier Walusinski

Gilles Fénelon (Paris)
Physiopathologie des hallucinations:
histoire et perspectives
 

Grande conférence
 Jean-François Chevrier (Paris)
Les hallucinations artistiques
 

Conclusion : Olivier Walusinski

mercredi 12 novembre 2025

Les femmes en science

Women in Science: historical perspectives
 

Conference 

Tuesday 18 November 2025 at the Royal Society
 

9.30am Welcome and opening remarks
Alison Noble FRS

9.45am Session 1
Chaired by Patricia Fara, University of Cambridge

9.45am Between London and Lucca: Emilie Du Châtelet and the Royal Society
Sarah Hutton, University of York

10.00am ‘A thankless enterprise’: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, gendered authority, and
communicating vaccine science
Rachel Hindmarsh, University of Oxford and Zakiya Leeming, Royal Northern College
of Music

10.15am Wives, widows, invisible labour: the case of two Marys
Pragya Agarwal, University of Cambridge10.30am Discussion

10.45am Coffee and Networking
 

11.15am Session 2
Chaired by Louisiane Ferlier, Royal Society Library

11.15am A seat at the table: collaborative observation in the Herschel household
Odile Lehnen, Durham University 

11.30am Julia Herschel, Caroline Herschel and collaborative experience 100 years apart
Emily Winterburn, teacher and historian of science 

11.45am ‘The admirable tact and taste of Mrs Sabine’: the scientific persona of
nineteenth-century women translators
Alison E Martin, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany 

12.00pm ‘It would of course be an entire novelty to appoint a lady as an official eclipse
observer’: Annie Maunder’s eclipse expeditions
Megan Briers, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

12.15pm Discussion 

12.30pm Lunch

1.20pm Session 3
Chaired by Isabelle Charmantier, Linnean Society

1.20pm Catherine Strickland: the woman behind dodos
Xinyi Wen, University of Cambridge

1.35pm Eleanor Ormerod and her networks
Sally Shuttleworth, University of Oxford

1.50pm Patroness of plant hunters: Ellen Ann Willmott (1858-1934) and the business of
botanical exploration
John Schaefer, University of Cambridge

2.05pm Nora Barlow and the accession of Darwin material to Cambridge University
Library
Joe Caygill, University of Leeds and Cambridge University Library

2.20pm Discussion

2.35pm Coffee and Networking

3.00pm Session 4
Chaired by Veronica van Heyningen FRS

3.00pm Women researchers and the Government Grant, 1897-1914
Danielle Farrier, University of St Andrews

3.15pm Organising beyond borders: twentieth-century images of women’s
transnational work in STEM
Graeme Gooday and Emily Rees, University of Leeds

3.30pm Women, academic mobility, and scientific lives: Indian scientists in postwar
British universities
Nilakshi Das, University of Leicester and University of Warwick

3.45pm Motherhood and science in Britain since the 1950s
Paul Merchant, National Life Stories and Sally Horrocks, University of Leicester

4.00pm Discussion

4.15pm Break

4.25pm Keynote: introduction by Athene Donald FRS
Breaking the glass ceiling of science: the first eleven women to become
Fellows of the Royal Society 1945-1954
Stella Butler, Librarian Emeritus at the University of Leeds

4.45pm Discussion and conclusions

5.00pm Close 

Perceptions de la santé dans la vallée du Nil

Perceptions of Health in the Nile Valley 



Call for Papers


The call for papers has been announced for the international conference “Perceptions of Health in the Nile Valley: The Social and Cultural Dimension of Healing Practice in the Egyptian Context from Antiquity to the Middle Ages (4th Millennium BCE – 16th Century CE)”. The conference will take place in Cairo in the spring of 2026.

The event is jointly organized by the Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale (IFAO) and the Research Centre in Cairo of the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw (PCMA UW).

The conference aims to explore new and innovative approaches to the study of medicine in ancient, late antique and medieval Egypt, reconstructing the presence of healing and health in the social community, with a more comprehensive understanding of the health and life experiences of individuals in antiquity. Different types of sources (texts, materials, human remains) will be brought into dialogue to explore the process of formation, systematisation, dissemination, accessibility and perception of healing know-how and the concept of health.

Scholars active in the study of Ancient Egyptian, Graeco-Roman, Coptic, and Islamic medicine are invited to submit papers tackling one of the following themes:
  • Narrating health and healing: Systematisation and dissemination of medical know-how through the texts
  • Materialising health and healing: New approaches in the definition and study of healing tools and remedies
  • Embodying health and healing: Human bodies as evidence of the cultural and social perception of health
  • Socialising health and healing: Role of society and social constructs in shaping healing practices and personal well-being
Other

Conference will take place in Cairo from 8 to 9 April 2026 at both the IFAO and PCMA.

The deadline for abstract submission is December 7, 2025.

Contact Email
bm.szymanska@student.uw.edu.pl

URL
https://pcma.uw.edu.pl/en/2025/10/21/call-for-papers-perceptions-of-health-in-t…

mardi 11 novembre 2025

Usages de la photographie en psychiatrie

Les clichés de la folie : usages de la photographie en psychiatrie [XIX-XXIe s.]

Colloque

 

20 au 22 novembre 2025

Maison Suger FMSH 16 rue Suger Paris 6e

Organisation
Marianna Scarfone


Renseignements et inscriptions
mscarfone@unistra.fr 

jeudi 20 novembre 2025 

Pris dans le dispositif photographique institutionnel : quelle place pour le sujet ?

modération
Mireille Berton, Professeure associée d’histoire du cinéma, Université de Lausanne

9h accueil et introduction

Marianna Scarfone
Université de Strasbourg 


9h30 “Une si profonde impression de tristesse”. À propos des “Folles” de Robert Demachy
Julien Faure-Conorton
chargé de recherche et de valorisation des collections au musée Albert-Kahn, Boulogne-Billancourt

10h Les femmes de la Salpêtrière entre contraintes, instruments et espaces du photographe
 Sarah Belhachmi
doctorante, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

10h30 Genres photographiques dans les établissements psychiatriques en Suisse. Concepts du “sauvage”
dans le regard des psychiatres photographes [1900 à 1930]
 Katrin Luchsinger
historienne de l’art, ZHdK / indépendante

11h Images of War Psychiatry: Patients and Institutions in First World War
Tamara Sandrin Université de Udine et Lorenzo Lorusso Université de Milan

11h30 discussion
 

12h déjeuner

La mémoire visuelle de l’institution : entre matérialité des structures et invisibilisation des sujets

modération : Cristina Ferreira ,HESAV, Haute École de Santé Vaud, Lausanne

13 h 30 Entre registre historique et documentation patrimoniale : les photographies
du Centre Hospitalier Guillaume Régnier [XXe-XXIe siècles]
Cristobal Ramirez, Centre Hospitalier G. Régnier, Rennes et Centre Koyré, EHESS, Paris

14 h
Aux jours heureux du Mont-Providence. Mettre en scène [ou pas] des enfants pas comme
les autres [1950-1975]

Marie-Claude Thifault, Université d’Ottawa

14 h 30 discussion


Images militantes : dénonciation, résistance, contre-pouvoir. Vers une réforme de la psychiatrie ?
modération
Marianna Scarfone, Université de Strasbourg

15 h

La psychiatrie française des années 1950 à travers le regard de Jean-Philippe Charbonnier
Clément Fromentin, psychiatre, Association Santé Mentale, Paris 13

15 h 30

Représenter la folie, contester le pouvoir : enjeux éthiques, esthétiques et politiques dans
“L’Infarctus de l’âme” de Paz Errázuriz et Diamela Eltit
 Maira Mora, Institut ACTE, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

16 h

Sortir des murs, réinventer la ville, “entrer dehors” : les photographies de Fabrizio Borelli
aux archives du Santa Maria della Pietà à Rome [1979]
 Camilla Caglioti, psychologue clinicienne et doctorante à l’Université Bauhaus, Weimar, et Chiara Vitali
élève-conservatrice du patrimoine et doctorante, Université Paris 1

16 h 30

Le “Contacts” de Raymond Depardon ou le dispositif photographique à l’épreuve de la folie
 Fanny Bieth, doctorante à l’Université du Québec à Montréal

17 h : discussion
 

Vendredi 21 novembre 2025

Éthique des images psychiatriques : exposition, conservation, réception
modération
Marie-Claude Thifault, Université d’Ottawa
 

La dignité du patient et l’éthique du care [en anglais]
 

9h The glass plate negatives of the patients of the Orange Free State Asylum, South Africa, circa 1900s

Rory du Plessis
Université de Pretoria,
Afrique du Sud 

9h30 The Patient as Image: photographies from norvegian asylums

Jorun Larsen
doctorante,
Université de Bergen,
Norvège
 

10h Psychiatry photography and the ethics of care
 Beatriz Pichel
De Montfort University,
Leicester, UK

10h30 discussion


Photographies subies et subjectivités. Écriture de l’histoire, droit à l’oubli et devoir de mémoire [en français]
 

Les spectres d’Esquirol : les diapositives sur verre d’un hôpital psychiatrique, 1957-1963
 Isabelle Perreault
Université d’Ottawa, Canada

Les gens “d’la côte”. Clichés d’admission à l’hôpital psychiatrique de North Bay, Ontario, Canada 1957-1980

Marie Le Bel
Université de Hearst, Canada


Vivre et travailler à l’asile de Cery [1930-1960] : analyse d’un album photo de famille au prisme du concept d’hétérotopie
Cristina Ferreira
HESAV, Haute École de Santé
Vaud, Lausanne

12h30 discussion
 

13h déjeuner

Photographier autrement : subjectivité, co-création, recherche-action

14h30 “L’entrée des artistes”. Archives asilaires en mouvement
Éléonore Goldberg
Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver

15h Le village psychiatrique de Kenia [Sénégal] vu par la photographie : dialogue interdisciplinaire, 1974-2025
 Marion Gronier
artiste photographe
Romain Tiquet
historien, CNRS-IMAF,
Institut des Mondes Africains
Clémence Delbaire
doctorante Paris 8 et UCAD, Dakar

15h45 Discussion
 

16h L’album rouge de Marc Pataut : photographies des enfants de l’hôpital de jour d’Aubervilliers, 1981-1982. Circonstances et lectures

Maxence Rifflet
artiste, curateur et enseignant à l’ESAM, Caen
et Anaïs Masson, éditrice et chercheuse indépendante
en dialogue avec
Marc Pataut, artiste photographe
 

17h Olivia, une relation photographique. Tonnerre, 2017-2024
 Jean-Robert Dantou
photographe documentaire
et docteur en sociologie, ENS

17h30 Table ronde et conclusions

modérée par
Maxence Rifflet
avec les photographes
Jean-Robert Dantou, Marion Gronier et Marc Pataut



Samedi 22 novembre 2025
Visite de l’exposition
Face à ce qui se dérobe : les clichés de la folie
 

7 h 51 … 9 h 12
Voyage au musée
Nicéphore Niépce
Chalon-sur-Saône
train pour Chalon-sur-Saône
[Paris Gare de Lyon – gare Le Creusot TGV] arrivée au musée
avec navette
 

10 h visite de l’exposition 

Émilie Bernard
et Emmanuelle Vieillard
Musée Nicéphore Niépce










Savoirs et usages médicaux du sang

Savoirs et usages médicaux du sang (XVIIIe-XXIe siècles)

Colloque

27-28 novembre 2025, Amiens-Paris,



Jeudi 27 novembre 2025 (Logis du Roy, Université de Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens)

9h30 : accueil café

9h45 : remerciements et introduction : Céline Cherici, Emmanuelle Berthiaud

Session 1. Explorations

Présidence : Cécile Manaouil (UPJV-CEPRISCA-Centre Antoine Loisel)

10h00 : Céline Cherici (UPJV-CHSSC) : Le sang : objet d’expérience et de culture : Le cas des recherches d’Alexis Carrel

10h40 : Fanny Chambon (UPJV-CHSSC) : Vers une nouvelle forme de thérapeutique : le sang artificiel

Pause (11h20-11h40)

11h40 : Valérie Varnerot (UPJV-CURAPP) : Le régime de l’œuvre de sang


Déjeuner (12h30-14h)
 

Session 2. Relations

Présidence : Claire Barillé (Université de Lille-IRHIS)

14h : Dario Galvao (Université de Namur) : Sang et sève : analogie et expérimentation dans la physiologie végétale au siècle des Lumières

14h40 : Emmanuelle Berthiaud (UPJV-CHSSC) : Le lien du sang : les échanges entre mère et enfant pendant la grossesse, une question médicale disputée (XVIIIe-XIXe siècles).

Pause (15h20-15h40)

15h40 : Eugénie Petitprez (UPJV-CEPRISCA-Centre Antoine Loisel) : « Singularité et évolution de la réparation du préjudice de contamination transfusionnelle »

16h20 : Cécile Manaouil (UPJV-CEPRISCA-Centre Antoine Loisel) : Jusqu'à quel point notre sang nous appartient ? Prélèvements de sang et droit

17h : Clôture de la première journée

A partie de 17h15 : Visite libre de la cathédrale et du marché de Noël

19h30 Dîner de colloque



Vendredi 28 novembre 2025 (Académie nationale de Médecine, Paris)

9h45 : Mot d’accueil des organisatrices

Session 3. Les guerres du sang

Présidence : Raphaële Balu (Service Historique de la Défense)

10h : Sophie Delaporte (UPJV-CHSSC) : Les soins des blessés sur les champs de bataille : arrêter le sang

10h40 : Laure Humbert (Université de Manchester), Benoît Pouget (Sciences Po Aix-en-Provence) : La Bataille du Sang : les centres de transfusions sanguines en Afrique du Nord (1943-1945)

11h20 : Nathalie Sage Pranchère (CNRS-SPHERE) : Quand la guerre fait barrière : la circulation des savoirs sur la découverte du facteur Rhésus (Suède, France, Italie, 1943-1947)

Déjeuner 12h



Session 4 : Table Ronde : Le sang, un enjeu pluriel de santé publique

14h-16h : table-ronde animée par Laurence Monnais (Institut des humanités en médecine, CHUV-Université de Lausanne)

Intervenants :

- Pierre Brissot, professeur émérite de médecine, membre de l’Académie nationale de médecine

- Sébastien Banzet, professeur de médecine, directeur adjoint du Centre de Transfusion Sanguine des armées

- Agnès Mailloux, biologiste, responsable médicale du service d’hémobiologie fœtale et périnatale – CNRHP, AP-HP, Paris

- Céline Lefève, professeure en philosophie de la médecine et du soin, université Paris Cité, SPHERE

- Anne-Marie Moulin, directrice émérite de recherche au CNRS, philosophe et parasitologue, SPHERE, CNRS/Université Paris Cité

Fin de la journée 16h30 environ



Informations pratiques :

Le colloque se tiendra le 27 novembre au Logis du Roy (UPJV, passage du Logis du Roi, Amiens) et le 28 novembre à l’Académie nationale de Médecine (16 rue Bonaparte, Paris)

Entrée libre et gratuite, sans inscription

Comité d’organisation : emmanuelle.berthiaud@u-picardie.fr ; celine.cherici@u-picardie.fr ; nathalie.sage-pranchere@cnrs.fr

lundi 10 novembre 2025

La première crise des opioïdes aux États-Unis

Opium Slavery. Civil War Veterans and America's First Opioid Crisis


Jonathan S. Jones

The University of North Carolina Press
412 Pages, 6.12 × 9.25 in, 15 halftones, notes, bibl., index
Publication date: October 28, 2025 
ISBN 9781469689531 


During the Civil War, the utility and widespread availability of opium and morphine made opiates essential to wartime medicine. After the war ended, thousands of ailing soldiers became addicted, or “enslaved,” as nineteenth-century Americans phrased it. Veterans, their families, and communities struggled to cope with addiction’s health and social consequences. Medical and government authorities compounded veterans' suffering and imbued the epidemic with cultural meaning by branding addiction as a matter of moral weakness, unmanliness, or mental infirmity. Framing addiction as “opium slavery” limited the efficacy of care and left many veterans to suffer needlessly for decades after the war ended.

Drawing from veterans' firsthand accounts as well as mental asylum and hospital records, government and medical reports, newspaper coverage of addiction, and advertisements, Jonathan S. Jones unearths the poorly understood stories of opiate-addicted Civil War veterans in unflinching detail, illuminating the war’s traumatic legacies. In doing so, Jones provides critical historical context for the modern opioid crisis, which bears tragic resemblance to that of the post–Civil War era.

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Käte Hamburger Centre for Cultural Practices of Reparation


Call for Application 

https://cure.uni-saarland.de/en/fellows/call-for-application/


The Käte Hamburger Centre for Cultural Practices of Reparation (CURE) at Saarland University 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 third year (October 2026 to September 2027), we are pleased to invite applications for up to twelve fellowships with a duration of ten to twelve months (beginning in October 2026).
 
THE RESEARCH PROGRAMME AT THE KÄTE HAMBURGER CENTRE

Questions about reparation and irreparability are at the heart of CURE’s research programme, taken up by fellows and members of the KHK 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 life worlds. 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 environments. Economic and legal compensation is often a prerequisite for dismantling asymmetrical situations and structures. But it is most often the case that enduring wounds suffered by individuals, and the harm done to their lifeworlds, can be addressed only through cultural and social practices.

The Käte Hamburger Centre CURE is dedicated to studying such cultural practices of reparation. We define reparation as a process of shaping the future through an awareness that past damage can never be fully undone. Repairing something always means that the traces of destruction remain – whether visible, felt, or understood – and thus gesture toward a fragility of the self. We view cultural practices of reparation as encompassing a broad range of responses to the awareness of damage: oral and written forms of narration, poetry, linguistic and non-linguistic rituals, music, visual art, films, theatre, exhibition practices, historiography, and other forms of scholarship or knowledge production. These practices aim to develop possibilities and scenarios for the future that reach beyond interests grounded in identitarian claims and the restitution of a supposedly original identity, even in the face of enduring harms. Our goal at the centre is to collaboratively develop theoretical approaches to such practices.
 
APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS AND SELECTION CRITERIA

APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS FOR ALL FELLOWSHIPS:

Applications may be submitted by scholars in cultural studies and the humanities who have completed a PhD (submitted and defended) by the application deadline. Applicants must also be actively engaged in research or artistic practice (including independent artists or scholars).

Artists who hold a doctorate and have experience in academic collaboration are also encouraged to apply for an academic fellowship.

CURE is expressly committed to diversity and welcomes applications regardless of gender, nationality, ethnic and social origin, religion/worldview, disability, age, or sexual orientation and identity.

Those without a completed doctorate, as well as members of Saarland University, are not eligible to apply.

Applications should outline an independent research project that is relevant to the research agenda of the centre and will be pursued during the fellowship. The project should align with at least one of the centres’ three thematic fields – ‘history’, ‘experience’, and ‘nature’ – and relate to the third of the four designated themes for the following academic years:
2024/2025: Theory
2025/2026: Society
2026/2027: Bodies
2027/2028: Things

Within the theme of ‘bodies’ in cultural practices of reparation, for instance, research might address issues such as bodily perception, embodiment and its performative forms, performance art, therapy, and lived practices, including questions related to experiences of individual injury or trauma.

Applications are invited only for the fellowship year running from October 2026 to September 2027. Further information on the centre’s thematic fields and annual themes can be found on the centre’s website: https://cure.uni-saarland.de/forschung/forschungsprogramm/.

Our selection process places particular emphasis on proposed project’s academic quality, originality, and conceptual alignment with the centre’s shared research agenda. We also consider applicants’ qualifications, motivation, and career stage. Fostering a diversity of academic cultures additionally plays a role in the final selection of fellows.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS FOR THE UNIGR FELLOWSHIP:

One of the fellowships will be awarded as the University of the Greater Region (UniGR) fellowship to a scholar with a completed doctorate (submitted and successfully defended by the application deadline) who is currently employed at one of the following member institutions: University of Trier, University of Liège, University of Luxembourg, University of Lorraine, and RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau. In addition to the general requirements, applicants for the UniGR fellowship must also be currently employed in an academic position at one of these universities at the time of application and provide proof of employment with their application.

Staff members of Saarland University are not eligible to apply.

The selection process for the UniGR fellowship runs in parallel with the other fellowships and is carried out by the Academic Advisory Board.
 
INVOLVEMENT AND PARTICIPATION

The centre will welcome up to twelve fellows a year. Fellows are expected to live in Saarbrücken and to devote their fellowship both to collaborative work within the centre and to their independent research project. They take part in centre’s events – colloquia, working groups, conferences, workshops, and the like – and contribute actively to the centre’s own publications. With approval from the Executive Committee, fellows will also have the opportunity to organise workshops or to collaborate in teaching or other academic events with our research and cultural cooperation partners. Longer absences from the centre for extended research trips or stays are not possible.

Saarland University is distinguished by its close ties to France and its strong European focus, with programmes and partnerships such as the Cluster for European Studies (CEUS) devoted to the topic of ‘European World(s): Projections, Reflections, Transformations’, the European university alliance Transform4Europe (T4EU), and the international university network University of the Greater Region (UniGR).
 
DURATION AND CONDITIONS

Fellowships are usually awarded for ten to twelve months, always starting on 1 October.

The fellowship guidelines of Saarland University provide two funding options.
Fellows who take unpaid leave from their home institution (or are independent scholars or artists) during the fellowship will receive financial compensation in the form of a stipend (at least 6,100 to 7,200 euros per month before taxes, depending on their qualifications).
If a fellow chooses to keep their current salary and benefits, KHK CURE will pay their home institution the equivalent salary for a teaching replacement during the fellow’s time at the centre.

Accommodation in modern apartments is provided free of charge, and accommodation for families can also be arranged if required. Similarly, the expenses for traveling to and from Saarbrücken will be reimbursed once pursuant to the Saarland Travel Expense Act (SRKG). Fellows will be provided with a fully equipped workspace at the centre.

Insurance and all other (living) costs that may be incurred must be covered by the fellows themselves.
APPLICATION DEADLINE AND MATERIALS

Applications must be submitted by 15 December 2025 using the form available on the centre’s website. Please include
the CURE application form with abstract
a letter outlining your motivation for applying (max. 1 A4 page)
a CV (max. 3 A4 pages)
a publication list
a project outline with bibliography (max. 5 A4 pages), showing its connection to CURE’s research programme and how your research relates to at least one programme area and the annual theme

Please use minimum font size 11 and line spacing 1.15.
Applications may be submitted in German, English, or French.
Please do not include photographs.

You should receive a confirmation email after submitting your application. If you do not, please contact cure@uni-saarland.de.
CONTACT

We will notify applicants by the end of April 2026. Until then, please avoid inquiries about the status of your application.

If you have any other questions, please feel free to contact the centre by writing to cure@khk.uni-saarland.de.

As part of your application for a fellowship at the Käte Hamburger Centre for Cultural Practices of Reparation (CURE) at Saarland University (UdS), you will be submitting personal data. Regarding our use of personal data, please see the university’s privacy policy in accordance with Art. 13 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) regarding the collection and processing of personal data. By submitting your application, you confirm that you have read the UdS policies on data privacy and protection.

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