http://www.leuphana.de/en/dfg-programme/kdk.html
Organisational unit: Projectteam
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
- 2024
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
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
Media Practices in “Red Algeria” and its Heritage in Contemporary Arts
Julian Volz (Speaker)
11.04.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
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
Einführung in das Asylrecht: Schwerpunkt Klimakatastrophe
Kelly Bescherer (Speaker)
26.01.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Education
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
- 2023
Open-source Citizenship Research: Learning from Anti-corporate Campaigning Methodologies
Kelly Bescherer (Speaker)
30.11.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
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
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
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
Science-Fiction, spekulativer Feminismus und strafkritische Fabulation
Liza Mattutat (Oral presentation)
10.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
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
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
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
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
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
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
Die deutende Gewalt. Eine dekonstruktive Kritik der Rechtsprechung (Jacques Derrida/Walter Benjamin)
Liza Mattutat (Oral presentation)
05.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
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
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
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
Orientalisierte Begierden: Die Schwulen und Algerien.
Julian Volz (Speaker)
03.03.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
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
Institute of Contemporary History
Jörg Hügel (Visiting researcher)
03.02.2023 → 03.03.2023Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution › Research
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
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
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 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
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
Critique Now
Liza Mattutat (Organiser) & Beate Söntgen (Organiser)
12.01.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
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
35th Swahili Colloquium
Dyoniz Kindata (Organiser)
2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
- 2022
Einführung in das Asylrecht
Kelly Bescherer (Speaker)
16.12.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Education
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
(Counter-)logistisches Wissen im Museum: Flows und Reibungen ausstellen
Melcher Ruhkopf (Speaker)
09.12.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
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
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
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
"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
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
Einführung in das Asylrecht
Kelly Bescherer (Speaker)
24.06.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Education
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
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
Tanzania’s Philosophies of War: From 1885 to the Present
Dyoniz Kindata (Speaker)
15.06.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Tera Kuno e.V. (External organisation)
Laura Felicitas Sabel (Office)
06.2022 → …Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Research
Online-Workshop "From Dream to Zine. Schreib- und Darstellungsweisen zwischen Wissenschaft und künstlerischer Praxis"
Rebecca Hanna John (Organiser) & Nele Wulff (Organiser)
28.05.2022 → 29.05.2022Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
Scroll
Thorsten Schneider (Speaker)
16.05.2022Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › artistic events › Transfer
Einführung in die utilitaristische Ethik: Fortbildung im Rahmen des Weiterbildungsstudiengangs Ethik der hessischen Lehrkräfteakademie
Liza Mattutat (Organiser)
10.05.2022Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Einführung in die deontologische Ethik: Fortbildung im Rahmen des Weiterbildungsstudiengangs Ethik der hessischen Lehrkräfteakademie
Liza Mattutat (Organiser)
09.05.2022Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
Kritische Theorie und die Studierendenbewegung um Hans-Jürgen Krahl
Julian Volz (Speaker), Emanuel Kapfinger (Speaker) & Meike Gerber (Speaker)
05.05.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Looking at Workers, Working with Workers. 1970s Arbeiterfilm in West Germany
Ulrike Jordan (Speaker)
31.03.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Marivi Véliz. Absentees: Some Effects of Violence in Latin American Performance Art in the 21st Century
Ulrike Jordan (Organiser) & Sebastián Eduardo (Organiser)
18.03.2022Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Transfer
Doing Care - Telling Care
Liza Mattutat (Oral presentation) & Judith Niehaus (Oral presentation)
24.02.2022 → 25.02.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
Team Extra #1
Laura Felicitas Sabel (Organiser) & Laura Felicitas Sabel (Moderator)
05.02.2022Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › 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
Internes Anti-Rassismus-Training
Rebecca Hanna John (Organiser) & Judith Sieber (Organiser)
18.01.2022 → 20.01.2022Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
34th Swahili Colloqium
Dyoniz Kindata (Organiser)
2022Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
- 2021
Art and Art History in the Post-War BRD
Thorsten Schneider (Speaker)
13.12.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Critical Potentials: Refusals - Fugitivity - Failure - Waywardness
Rebecca Hanna John (Organiser) & Malte Fabian Rauch (Organiser)
09.12.2021 → 10.12.2021Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
Right-wing spaces. The transnational dimensions of right-wing extremism
Julian Volz (Speaker)
23.11.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
Buchvorstellung & Diskussion: Für einen Umweltschutz der 99%
Lukas Stolz (Moderator) & Milo Probst (Speaker)
18.11.2021Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Transfer
‘Inanimate’ bodies and the soil in the art of Isabel Ruiz and Edgar Calel
Sebastián Eduardo (Speaker)
18.11.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
From the 'decolonial perspective' to a methodology of transformation, or: becoming a subject in Edgar Calel's earthworks
Sebastián Eduardo (Speaker)
12.11.2021 → 13.11.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
Für feministische Kunstgeschichten - gegen kunsthistorischen Hegelianismus
Thorsten Schneider (Speaker)
04.11.2021 → 07.11.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › 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
Fabrik, Schule, Klinik, Knast - Foucaults Genealogie des Gefängnisses
Liza Mattutat (Speaker)
21.10.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Louis Althusser: Das Kapital lesen
Till Hahn (Lecturer)
18.10.2021 → 31.01.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
The need of a new language: the experience of describing events in Belarus
Volha Davydzik (Speaker)
08.10.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Digital Dimension and Reconfiguration of Political Life in Belarusian Protests of 2020-2021
Volha Davydzik (Speaker)
07.10.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Infrastrukturelle Gewalt und (Counter-)Logistics
Melcher Ruhkopf (Speaker)
10.2021 → 03.2022Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
Die Übertragung von Raum- auf Zeitdarstellung in der Entstehung visueller Statistik im 18. Jahrhundert
Judith Sieber (Speaker)
17.09.2021 → 19.09.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
Filmgespräch: Zustand und Gelände
Julian Volz (Moderator) & Ute Adamczeski (Artist)
17.09.2021Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › artistic events › Transfer
Corona, Care and Commons. Von ‚Lohn für Hausarbeit‘ zu ‚Care Revolution‘
Liza Mattutat (Organiser)
16.08.2021 → 17.08.2021Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
L’art comme non-savoir: Deaktivierung, Désœuvrement, Unlearning
Malte Fabian Rauch (Speaker)
15.07.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
Tragic Differing, Discordant Times: Reiner Schürmann’s Ruins
Malte Fabian Rauch (Speaker)
02.06.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
Arbeitskreis Provenienzforschung e. V. (External organisation)
Laura Felicitas Sabel (Speaker) & Laura Felicitas Sabel (Member)
06.2021 → …Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Research
A Phenomenological Destruction of Ontology? Reiner Schürmann’s Reading of Marx and Heidegger
Malte Fabian Rauch (Speaker) & Nicolas Schneider (Speaker)
29.05.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
HOW? Questions of methodology, intentionality, and situatedness in research as a (critical) praxis
Sebastián Eduardo (Organiser), Katerina Genidogan (Organiser), Judith Sieber (Organiser) & Amelie Buchinger (Organiser)
26.05.2021 → 28.05.2021Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Transfer
Arlene Raven and the Feminist Studio Workshop
Oona Lochner (Oral presentation)
18.05.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
FULL ON ... MASK HYSTERIA: NEW AND OLD NORMALITIES
Thorsten Schneider (Speaker)
01.05.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Recht und Moral
Liza Mattutat (Organiser)
26.04.2021Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Strafzwecktheorien und ihre Kritik: Fortbildung im Rahmen des Weiterbildungsstudiengangs Ethik der hessischen Lehrkräfteakademie
Liza Mattutat (Organiser)
26.04.2021Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
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
From Where I Stand meets Pact of Silence – How to break it? Institutional critique & instituting otherwise from a feminist perspective
Arnika Ahldag (Speaker), Meenakshi Thirukode (Speaker), Rebecca Hanna John (Organiser), Oona Lochner (Organiser), Isabel Mehl (Organiser) & Nele Wulff (Organiser)
16.04.2021Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Forschungskolloquium unter der Leitung von Prof. Bénédicte Savoy
Laura Felicitas Sabel (Participant)
04.2021 → …Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Kritik als Arbeit in den Lücken
Judith Sieber (Oral presentation) & Charlotte Szasz (Oral presentation)
26.02.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
Schwule Politik der Zerstreuung
Jan-Hauke Branding (Panel participant), Lukas Betzler (Panel participant) & Antoine Idier (Panel participant)
15.01.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
33rd Swahlili Colloqium
Dyoniz Kindata (Organiser)
2021Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
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
Athens School of Fine Arts (External organisation)
Lukas Stolz (Member)
2021 → 2022Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Education
RecAf Spring School 2021
Dyoniz Kindata (Participant)
2021Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
RecAf Winter School 2021
Dyoniz Kindata (Participant)
2021Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
- 2020
Topologie der Kritik: Über Gebrochene Hegemonien
Malte Fabian Rauch (Speaker)
15.12.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education