http://www.leuphana.de/en/dfg-programme/kdk.html
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Organisation profile
The cultural sciences research training group “Cultures of Criticism” undertakes a productive revision of the preconditions, roles and validity claims of critique. On the one hand, new technologies and distribution channels have given rise to a welter of unexpected critical and quasi-critical practices. On the other hand, the very theoretical foundations of critique have come under massive pressure – and so, it seems, has the modern project of critique as a whole. What may be regarded as an act of critique and which agents, expectations and criteria take part, is currently subject to basal negotiation.
The research training group conceives critique as a praxis that is always already culturally situated, while its efficacy rides on comprehensive claims to validity and authority. The phenomena under critique are inseparably interwoven with the forms and media used to represent them. Representation thus appears as the focal point in which widely divergent forms of critique and their heterogeneous cultures lend themselves to comparative discussion. Building on studies of diverse concrete critical practices, the Research Training Group seeks to remap the interaction between critique and culture in the history of modernity up to the present and employ the tools of cultural studies to frame a well founded and timely conception of critique.
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Beate Söntgen
Deputy spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Erich Hörl
- 2022
Tera Kuno e.V. (External organisation)
Laura Felicitas Sabel (Office)
06.2022 → …Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Research
Tanzania’s Philosophies of War: From 1885 to the Present
Dyoniz Kindata (Speaker)
15.06.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Politics of Deathdrive - Dis/Identification, Transgression, War
Till Hahn (Organiser), Katja Diefenbach (Organiser), Jenny Kellner (Organiser), Philipp Linstädter (Organiser) & Rebekka Wilkens (Organiser)
16.06.2022 → 17.06.2022Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Transfer
Das Strafrecht als Infrastruktur zur Organisation von Hegemonie. Ein „okzidentales“ Hegemonieprojekt in der Rechtsprechung zu Femiziden
Liza Mattutat (Oral presentation)
23.06.2022 → 24.06.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
Einführung in das Asylrecht
Kelly Bescherer (Speaker)
24.06.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Education
Erinnerung an den Ursprung
Laura Felicitas Sabel (Organiser) & Laura Felicitas Sabel (Moderator)
01.09.2022Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Transfer
"Nehmt Euch die Freiheit der Wissenschaft, entdeckt was Ihr wollt!“ Kunstgeschichte inter- & transdisziplinär?
Thorsten Schneider (Speaker)
03.11.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Infrastructures of Care
Volha Davydzik (Panel participant), Azar Mahmoudian (Panel participant), Tatiana Kochubinska (Panel participant), Neringa Bumblienė (Panel participant) & Antonina Stebur (Panel participant)
22.11.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
Kunstgeschichte ´68. Zur Kritik einer Wissenschaft ohne Geschichte und Gegenwart
Thorsten Schneider (Speaker)
23.11.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
Another End of the World is Possible: Beyond Climate Fatalism and Cruel Eco-Optimism
Lukas Stolz (Speaker)
24.11.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
(Counter-)logistisches Wissen im Museum: Flows und Reibungen ausstellen
Melcher Ruhkopf (Speaker)
09.12.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Guy Hocquenghem - historische Sexualwissenschaft und queerer Marxismus
Lukas Betzler (Speaker) & Jan-Hauke Branding (Speaker)
15.12.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Education
Einführung in das Asylrecht
Kelly Bescherer (Speaker)
16.12.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Education
- 2023
35th Swahili Colloquium
Dyoniz Kindata (Organiser)
2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Deutsch-Französisches Doktorandenkolleg zur Rolle ethnologischer Museen „Den 'Anderen' repräsentieren: Museen, Universitäten, Ethnologie“
Laura Felicitas Sabel (Participant)
01.2023 → …Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Hegemoniekritische Analysen des Strafrechts
Liza Mattutat (Speaker)
01.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
Critique Now
Liza Mattutat (Organiser) & Beate Söntgen (Organiser)
12.01.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
Collapsing intersubjectivity and its rehabilitation in the contemporary sociopolitical crisis
Volha Davydzik (Speaker)
21.01.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Education
The Tuntenstreit: Respectability vs. Gay Feminism
Lukas Betzler (Speaker) & Jan-Hauke Branding (Speaker)
23.01.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Education
Feministische Kritik des Strafrechts
Liza Mattutat (Organiser), Daria Bayer (Organiser), Boris Burghardt (Organiser) & Leonie Steinl (Organiser)
26.01.2023 → 27.01.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
The Wages for Housework Campaign. What Yesterday's Struggles Mean for Today
Liza Mattutat (Organiser), Ben Trott (Organiser) & Silvia Federici (Keynote speaker)
31.01.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
SAFI Graduate Workshop "Legal Philosophy and Theory"
Liza Mattutat (Speaker)
02.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Transfer
Institute of Contemporary History
Jörg Hügel (Visiting researcher)
03.02.2023 → 03.03.2023Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution › Research
Szenische Lesung zu Rechtsuptopien
Liza Mattutat (Speaker), Darya Bayer (Speaker) & Marcus Döller (Speaker)
03.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
Orientalisierte Begierden: Die Schwulen und Algerien.
Julian Volz (Speaker)
03.03.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
Biometric Imaginaries: European Funding and the Heterogeneous Project of (Non)digital Civil Status Registration in Senegal
Kelly Bescherer (Speaker)
30.03.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Das Unerzählte erzählen
Melcher Ruhkopf (Speaker)
04.2023 → 09.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
Imaginative Resilience: Beyond Climate Fatalism and Cruel Eco Optimism
Lukas Stolz (Speaker)
04.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Für Hans Jürgen Krahl
Julian Volz (Speaker) & Meike Gerber (Speaker)
11.04.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Die deutende Gewalt. Eine dekonstruktive Kritik der Rechtsprechung (Jacques Derrida/Walter Benjamin)
Liza Mattutat (Oral presentation)
05.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Genre Developments in the Colonial Kiongozi Newspaper in German East Africa 1885-1918
Dyoniz Kindata (Speaker)
20.05.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Guy Hocquenghem – Homosexual Desire
Lukas Betzler (Speaker) & Jan-Hauke Branding (Speaker)
13.06.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Radical Desires and Decolonial Critique
Julian Volz (Organiser) & Jan-Hauke Branding (Organiser)
13.06.2023 → 15.06.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Transfer
Pessimism and Optimism of the Future: the Future of the World(s) in the Strategies of Feminism and Digital Technologies
Volha Davydzik (Speaker)
16.06.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Hegel and Haiti: Critique of Enlightenment Philosophy beyond Apologia and Condemnation
Liza Mattutat (Organiser) & Susanne Leeb (Organiser)
22.06.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
Einführung in das Asylrecht
Kelly Bescherer (Speaker)
23.06.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Education
Reproductive Coercion and Biopolitical Control: Russian and Belarusian Cases and Trends
Volha Davydzik (Speaker), Sergei Shevchenko (Speaker), Anna Ozhiganova (Speaker), Olga Vinogradova (Speaker), Nadzeya Iliushenka (Speaker) & Alexey Zhavoronkov (Speaker)
23.06.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Corona, Care and Commons. Von ‚Lohn für Hausarbeit‘ zu ‚Care Revolution‘
Liza Mattutat (Organiser)
16.08.2023 → 17.08.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
Science-Fiction, spekulativer Feminismus und strafkritische Fabulation
Liza Mattutat (Oral presentation)
10.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Ästhetik der Autopoiesis als Sorgender Praxis
Anne Gräfe (presenter), Liza Mattutat (Speaker) & Julia Böcker (Speaker)
02.11.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Researching Care: Biological, Social and Ecological Reproduction in Times of Crisis
Liza Mattutat (Organiser) & Julia Böcker (Organiser)
02.11.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
Researching Care: Biological, Social and Ecological Reproduction in Times of Crisis
Julia Böcker (Organiser) & Liza Mattutat (Organiser)
02.11.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
The project “Jacaré”. Borys Malkin's Marketing Strategy of a Tairona Collection from Colombia
Laura Felicitas Sabel (Speaker) & Alexander Brust (Speaker)
02.11.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Herausforderungen postkolonialer Provenienzforschung an der Schnittstelle von indigenen Gesellschaften und Museen anhand zweier Fallbeispiele
Laura Felicitas Sabel (Speaker) & Leonie Maurer (Speaker)
09.11.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Museum als Ort des Wissens
Laura Felicitas Sabel (Organiser)
23.11.2023 → 24.11.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Open-source Citizenship Research: Learning from Anti-corporate Campaigning Methodologies
Kelly Bescherer (Speaker)
30.11.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
- 2024
Alienating Presents. Recovering Futures: On 'Future Idustries' and the Political Imagination
Liza Mattutat (Organiser) & Lukas Stolz (Organiser)
01.2024Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
Einführung in das Asylrecht: Schwerpunkt Klimakatastrophe
Kelly Bescherer (Speaker)
26.01.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Education
Legibility in the German Deportation Regime: Identification and the Construct of the 'Duldung'
Kelly Bescherer (Speaker)
07.03.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Media Practices in “Red Algeria” and its Heritage in Contemporary Arts
Julian Volz (Speaker)
11.04.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Die Gegenwart des Antikolonialismus in den künstlerischen Arbeiten von Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc und Bouchra Khalili
Julian Volz (Speaker)
26.04.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Education
Artist Talk: Mohamad Abdouni im Gespräch mit Julian Volz
Julian Volz (Speaker) & Mohamad Abdouni (Speaker)
08.05.2024Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › artistic events › Transfer