Institute of Sociology and Cultural Organization
Organisational unit: Institute
Organisation profile
The Institute of Sociology and Cultural Organisation (ISCO) is part of the Faculty of Cultural Studies. The research at ISCO is focused on topics of sociology and on issues of cultural organisation(s) in society. Mostly in the degree programs of the Faculty of Cultural Studies we teach general sociological and cultural theoretical courses and interdisciplinary courses of organisational theory with respect to arts and culture. At the following Websites you will find more detailed information about our areas of research and teaching in sociology and cultural organisation.
Main research areas
The Social Organization of Arts — Reflections on the Sociology of Art Theory
Kirchberg, V. (Speaker) & Fang, H. (Lecturer)
13.05.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
The Social Organization of Arts – A Theoretical Compendium (Introduction)
Kirchberg, V. (Speaker)
17.01.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
The Sap of Organizational Life
Conrad, L. (Speaker)
05.07.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
The Rise and Fall of 'Measurement'
Wuggenig, U. (Speaker)
04.12.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
The Relevance of Playful Elements in Hermeneutic Methods
Herbrik, R. (Oral presentation)
29.08.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
The Relevance of New Types of Visualization for Emotional Styles in the Field of Christan Religion
Herbrik, R. (Lecturer)
02.08.2002Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
The practice of ecological art
Kagan, S. (presenter)
05.09.2012 → 08.09.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
’The Politics of Research and Knowledge in the Arts – The Institutionalization of Artistic Research’
Hoop, M. (Speaker)
09.03.2021 → 12.03.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
The photo interview as a projective method
Wuggenig, U. (Speaker)
06.1988Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
The Open University (External organisation)
Scheel, S. (Coordinator)
2010 → 2012Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Education
The new public interest in museums - supply and demand side explanations for an increasing awareness of museums 1998
Kirchberg, V. (Speaker)
11.11.1998Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
The 'Leuphana' culture: Unsustainability in university reforms
Kagan, S. (Speaker)
09.2007Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
The Karamoja Syndrome: Transdisciplinary systems research informing policy and advocacy
Kagan, S. (Speaker)
02.2009Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
The Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society (Journal)
Kirchberg, V. (Editorial Board)
2006 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of journals › Research
The Impossibility of Mapping (Urban Asia)
Kagan, S. (Speaker)
25.11.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
The Impacts of Covid 19 on the Music Industries of the World: Special Edition Launch of the Journal of World Popular Music
Kuchar, R. (Speaker)
31.08.2022 → 02.09.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
The History of Art is Linked but the Data Is Not: Georgia O’Keeffe, Provenance and Scholarship
Rother, L. (Speaker)
21.07.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
The future of traditional societies in Africa: The situation of the Karamoja region of Uganda - 2008
Kagan, S. (Moderator)
11.2008Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
The Future of Provenance and the Catalogue Raisonné
Rother, L. (Speaker), Newbury, D. (Speaker) & Gorayeb, E. (Speaker)
03.12.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
THE FUTURE OF ephemera - 2019
Conrad, L. (Speaker)
02.05.2019 → 03.05.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
The Functions of Museums in the Creative City
Kirchberg, V. (Speaker)
11.09.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
The form of the drug
Henkel, A. (Lecturer)
04.2007Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
"The Emotionalization of Religion"
Herbrik, R. (Lecturer)
08.09.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
The Emerging Urban Significance of Contemporary Chamber and New Music Orchestras
Kirchberg, V. (Speaker) & Seibel, L. (Speaker)
25.11.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
The distribution of the insensible: Organizational aesthetics in the age of digital reproduction
Beyes, T. (Coauthor)
06.07.2017 → 08.07.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
The Consumption of Culture - The Culture of Consumption - ICARE 2009
Kirchberg, V. (Speaker)
17.04.2009Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
The Construction of Drug Dis- tribution as a Competitive Market
Henkel, A. (Lecturer)
09.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
The Construction of Drug Distribution as a Competitive Market
Henkel, A. (Lecturer)
05.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
The city as anthropo-scene? Art and urban spaces of possibility in the Anthropocene
Kagan, S. (presenter)
04.09.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
The choice to mourn a family member? Pregnancy Loss in Germany
Böcker, J. (Speaker)
09.11.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
The calculated complexity of organisation: Im workshop „Identity and Organisation“.
Henkel, A. (Lecturer)
09.2009Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
The Business of Teaching - 2016
Beyes, T. (Organiser)
20.06.2016 → 24.06.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
The Arts, Diversity and Creative Hubs – Interactions in Global Art Worlds
Gaupp, L. (Speaker) & Kirchberg, V. (Speaker)
12.05.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
The Art of Engagement Online Conference - 2008
Kagan, S. (Moderator)
10.2007Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
The Arcane in Digital Cultures - 2018
Beyes, T. (Organiser)
21.11.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
The Aesthetic Turn - SoSe 2014
Beyes, T. (Organiser)
01.04.2014 → 15.07.2014Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
The Aesthetics of Sustainability Conference - 2013
Kagan, S. (Speaker)
03.10.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Tagung "Vergleichen lohnt sich" - Benchmarking als effektives Instrument des Museumsmanagements - 2001
Kirchberg, V. (Speaker)
21.06.2001 → 22.06.2001Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Tagung ,,Räume extremer Gewalt in Europa im 20. Jhd.'' - 2010
Schrage, D. (Speaker)
07.10.2010Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Tagung "Methoden der Umweltbildungsforschung" der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Erziehungswissenschaften
Wuggenig, U. (Speaker)
15.12.1997Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Tagung: Mensch und Welt im Zeichen der Digitalisierung
Henkel, A. (Speaker)
03.01.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Tagung "Kulturbetriebsforschung: Ansätze und Methoden" - 2005
Kirchberg, V. (Speaker)
25.11.2005Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Tagung "Dimensionen der Sorge" Haus Villigst - 2015
Henkel, A. (Speaker)
23.09.2015Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Tagung ,,Die Rückkehr der Regulierung: Wissen, Theorie und Instrumente'' - 2010
Henkel, A. (Speaker)
12.2010Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Tagung „Desperately Seeking the Audience“ - 2011
Schrage, D. (Speaker)
07.04.2011 → 09.04.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Tagung des Centers for Global Change and Governance an der Rutgers University
Kirchberg, V. (Speaker)
25.04.2003Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Tagung des Arbeitskreises Trans_It - 2015
Gaupp, L. (Speaker)
04.2015Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Tagung des Arbeitskreises für Phänomenologie und Soziologie, DGS-Sektion Soziologische Theorie 2017
Henkel, A. (Speaker)
22.06.2017 → 23.06.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Tagung der Sektion Kunst- und Musiksoziologie der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Soziologie - ÖGS 2000
Wuggenig, U. (Organiser)
22.09.2000Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research