The second CURE Summer School will be held at Villa Vigoni from 21 to 25 September 2026, in cooperation with with ZfL Berlin and partner institutions in Lisbon, Paris, Naples, and Trieste. 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.
The ever-deepening division within and between societies is one of the most pressing problems of the day, because it damages the ways in which people live with others, relate to one another, and fashion their own selves. In response, a number of thinkers have asked: How can we bridge the gaps created by processes of fragmentation? Are there ways of thinking, speaking, or acting that can help to prevent or repair division? Beginning with this question, the participants in the Summer School – twenty doctoral candidates from around the world, together with scholars from the partner universities – will seek to go “beyond division”: what can the arts, literature, film, music, or philosophy offer in response to dehumanisation, oversimplification, and the flattening of complexity.
Within the framework of the “Young Villa Vigoni” programme
Coordination
Käte Hamburger Kolleg für kulturelle Praktiken der Reparation (CURE) of Saarland University, Saarbrücken, and Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung (ZfL), Berlin, in cooperation with Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, Universidade Católica Portuguesa (UCP), Università degli Studi di Trieste and Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
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