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
- Editor of unfinished anthology/collection
meson press (Publisher)
Andreas Bernard (Editor)
2018Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of unfinished anthology/collection › Research
- Editor of journals
31 : das Magazin des Instituts für Theorie (Journal)
Roberto Nigro (Editorial Board)
2012 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of journals › Research
Kultur & Gespenster (Journal)
Nele Wulff (Editor), Philipp Goll (Editor), Elena Malzew (Editor), Gustav Mechlenburg (Editor), Britta Peters (Editor), Nora Sdun (Editor), Andrea Becker-Weimann (Editor-in-Chief) & Hans-Christian Dany (Editor-in-Chief)
2017Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of journals › Research
- Conferences
10. Interdisziplinärer Niedersächsischer Doktorand_innentag Gender Studies der LAGEN 2020
Rebecca John (Moderator)
30.11.2020Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
33th EGOS Colloquium - EGOS 2017
Timon Beyes (Organiser)
2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
35th Swahili Colloquium
Dyoniz Kindata (Organiser)
2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
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
Conference "Critical Stances" 2018
Holger Kuhn (Organiser), Nadine Schiel (Organiser), Heiko Stubenrauch (Participant), Clara Lotte Warnsholdt (Organiser) & Liza Mattutat (Organiser)
21.06.2018 → 23.06.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Conference "Critical Stances" 2018
Heiko Stubenrauch (Speaker)
2017 → 2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Conference ''The Unforseen'' - 2019
Holger Kuhn (Moderator)
16.11.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › 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
Critical History of Philosophy
Till Hahn (Organiser) & Charlotte Szasz (Organiser)
28.10.2021 → 29.10.2021Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
CritiqueLab. Toolkits for Critique in Digital Cultures - 2018
Clara Lotte Warnsholdt (Moderator)
11.01.2018 → 12.01.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Critique Now
Liza Mattutat (Organiser) & Beate Söntgen (Organiser)
12.01.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
"Crowds and Party" Reading Workshop with Jody Dean - 2019
Clara Lotte Warnsholdt (Organiser), Henrike Kohpeiß (Organiser) & Heiko Stubenrauch (Organiser)
29.05.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
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
»FROM WHERE I STAND. Feminist Art/Writing: Genealogies, Subjectivities, and Critique«
Laura Kowalewski (Organiser) & Isabel Mehl (Organiser)
01.06.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
»FROM WHERE I STAND. Feminist Art/Writing: Genealogies, Subjectivities, and Critique«
Laura Kowalewski (Organiser)
09.11.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › 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
Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft - GfM 2013
Mercedes Bunz (Organiser), Jan Müggenburg (Organiser), Nelly Yaa Pinkrah (Organiser) & Timon Beyes (Organiser)
04.10.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft - GfM 2013
Nelly Yaa Pinkrah (Organiser)
2012 → 2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Konferenz ,,Karl Marx: Der Unzeitgemässe Zeitgenosse'' - 2018
Charlotte Szasz (Organiser)
09.12.2018 → 14.12.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Kritiken des Leidens
Heiko Stubenrauch (Speaker)
2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Kulturen der Kritik Conference - 2017
Elisabeth Heymer (Organiser)
29.11.2017 → 01.12.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Liquidity, Flows, Circulation: The Cultural Logic of Environmentalization (1st part)
Holger Kuhn (Organiser), Milan Stürmer (Organiser) & Mathias Denecke (Organiser)
10.12.2020 → 11.12.2020Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
Liquidity, Flows, Circulation: The Cultural Logic of Environmentalization (2nd part) 2021
Holger Kuhn (Organiser), Milan Stürmer (Organiser) & Mathias Denecke (Organiser)
22.04.2021 → 23.04.2021Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
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
„Positive“ Kritik
Isabel Mehl (Speaker)
24.11.2017 → 26.11.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Post-X Politics - – Internationaler Workshop zu den Herausforderungen des digitalen Wandels
Nelly Yaa Pinkrah (Organiser)
21.11.2017 → 23.11.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › 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
Searching for the Common Ground. The Role of Female Artists in India after 1990
Rebecca John (Organiser), Ragini Bhow (Participant) & Poonam Jain (Participant)
26.06.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
Sixth Feminist Art History Conference
Isabel Mehl (Participant), Oona Lochner (Speaker) & Isabel Mehl (Speaker)
30.09.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
‘Statussymposium Wissenschaft für Nachhaltige Entwicklung‘
Jeremias Herberg (presenter), Oliver Leistert (Coauthor), Esther Maria Meyer (Coauthor), Gregor Schmieg (Coauthor), Isabell Schrickel (Coauthor), Guido Caniglia (Coauthor), Manfred Laubichler (Coauthor), Erich Hörl (Coauthor), Daniel J. Lang (Coauthor) & Ulrike Vilsmaier (Coauthor)
23.01.2017 → 24.01.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
Stipendiat*innentagung der Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes 2017
Oona Lochner (presenter)
24.02.2017 → 26.02.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Strafen und Neoliberalismus
Liza Mattutat (Organiser)
03.11.2016 → 04.11.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Summerschool "Rhetorik(en) der Literaturwissenschaft" 2017
Isabel Mehl (Speaker)
23.07.2017 → 30.07.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
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
transmediale 2017
Nelly Yaa Pinkrah (Moderator)
31.01.2017 → 04.02.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
transmediale 2017
Nelly Yaa Pinkrah (Speaker)
31.01.2017 → 04.02.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Utopie-Konferenz 2018
Christoph Jamme (Organiser)
20.08.2018 → 22.08.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
Widerstandsfähigkeit vs. Widerstand. Semantiken der Verletzlichkeit
Thorsten Schneider (Organiser), Judith Sieber (Organiser) & Nele Wulff (Organiser)
27.01.2022 → 28.01.2022Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
Workshop "From Models to Monsters. Representing the World Economy and its Discontents"
Judith Sieber (Organiser), Holger Kuhn (Organiser), Levin Boaz (Organiser), Ying Sze Pek (Organiser) & Clara Lotte Warnsholdt (Moderator)
03.07.2018 → 04.07.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
Workshop with Michael Hardt and Kathi Weeks
Holger Kuhn (Moderator) & Michael Hardt (Speaker)
09.05.2017 → 10.05.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
- trade fairs and exhibitions
8 Tage Fließgeschwindigkeit
Catharina Berents-Kemp (Curator)
12.09.2010 → 30.01.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › trade fairs and exhibitions › Transfer
Actualités - Honoré Daumier 2009
Catharina Berents-Kemp (Curator)
30.11.2008 → 22.02.2009Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › trade fairs and exhibitions › Transfer
After Progress
Lukas Stolz (Organiser), Martin Savransky (Curator) & Craig Lundy (Curator)
2021 → 2022Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › trade fairs and exhibitions › Transfer
Arbeitsgruppe Kunst. 50 Jahre neue Gesellschaft
Ulrike Jordan (Curator), Christian Hanussek (Curator), Hannah Kruse (Curator), Vincent Schier (Curator), Olga von Schubert (Curator), Eylem Sengezer (Curator), Anna Voswinckel (Curator), Özlem Altin (Artist), Alice Creischer (Artist), Andreas Siekmann (Artist), Nihad Nino Pušija (Artist) & Aykan Safoğlu (Artist)
22.06.2019 → 04.08.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › trade fairs and exhibitions › Transfer
Austellung "Zwiebelfische"
Catharina Berents-Kemp (Curator)
11.11.2012 → 01.09.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › trade fairs and exhibitions › Transfer
Common Ground #1. On Circles and Revolutions
Rebecca John (Curator), Yogesh Barve (Artist), Poonam Jain (Artist) & Amol Patil (Artist)
05.11.2015 → 10.11.2015Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › trade fairs and exhibitions › Transfer
Common Ground #2. On Spaces and the In Between
Rebecca John (Curator), Nihaal Faizal (Artist), Ragini Bhow (Artist) & Tara Kelton (Artist)
12.11.2015 → 30.11.2015Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › trade fairs and exhibitions › Transfer