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
- 2025
Bedrohung und Affekt im Verschwörungsdenken der Gegenwart am Beispiel sogenannter 'Reichsbürger:innen'
Hundertmark, B. (Speaker) & Rowitz, L. (Speaker)
20.11.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Club, Szene und Stadt. Eine Langzeitbetrachtung von Selbstverständnissen und sozialen Umfeldern von Musikclubs
Kuchar, R. (Speaker)
13.11.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Education
Scene – Infrastructure – Ecosystem? Challenges of researching cultural production within increasing social complexity
Kuchar, R. (Speaker)
12.11.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
DigID Advisory Board Meeting
Scheel, S. (Organiser), Lambert, L. (Organiser) & Hargyono, S. (Organiser)
08.10.2025 → 10.10.2025Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Temporalities of Crises: Towards a Genealogy of Intergenerational Justice in Liberal Thought
Fink, F. (Speaker)
08.10.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Von ‚lebenden Menschen‘ und ‚juristischen Personen‘ - Performative Protestpraktiken sogenannter "Reichsbürger:innen" vor Gericht
Hundertmark, B. (Speaker) & Rowitz, L. (Speaker)
26.09.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
The Autonomy of Citizenship – Learning from the appropriation of national ID cards in Malawi’s borderlands
Scheel, S. (Speaker)
23.09.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
The 13th Midterm Conference of the European Sociological Association (ESA) Research Network Sociology of the Arts - EsArts 2025
Kuchar, R. (Speaker)
08.09.2025 → 09.09.2025Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Thinking music scene outside the scene – between understandings of networks, ecosystem, and infrastructure
Kuchar, R. (Speaker)
08.09.2025 → 09.09.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
‘You Cannot Beat a Fixed System’. Vintage Documents and other Truth Sources in Sierra Leone’s Digital Civil Register
Lambert, L. (Speaker)
03.07.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
The Absent Presence of ‘Tribe’ in Sierra Leone’s Digital Civil Register
Lambert, L. (Speaker)
02.07.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
The Absent Presence of ‘Tribe’ in Sierra Leone’s Digital Civil Register
Lambert, L. (Speaker)
26.06.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
The Autonomy of Citizenship - Learning from the appropriation of national ID cards in the Malawian borderlands
Scheel, S. (Speaker)
26.06.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Power, Resistance, Fascism: Re-reading Foucault in the Present (LIAS Workshop)
Demirović, A. (Speaker), Karakayali, S. (Organiser), Nigro, R. (Organiser) & Luxon, N. (Organiser)
25.06.2025 → 26.06.2025Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
The Sociotechnical Lives of Digital Identification: Intermediaries, Citizenship and Belonging
Lambert, L. (Speaker) & Eyenga, G. (Speaker)
25.06.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
African Migration Research Networks: Where Next?
Lambert, L. (Organiser), Zanker, F. (Organiser), Bjarnesen, J. (Organiser) & Kandilige, L. (Organiser)
11.06.2025Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Die Grammatik des Bias: Über Maschinen, Sprache und Rassismus
Karakayali, S. (Speaker)
03.06.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Von Interpretationen zu Texten oder: Über das Schreiben
Rowitz, L. (Speaker)
02.06.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Off to Europe. Migration - One of the Major Challenges of the 21st Century
Lambert, L. (Speaker)
26.05.2025Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
Off to Europe. Migration - One of the Major Challenges of the 21st Century
Lambert, L. (Speaker)
26.05.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer