Institute of Philosophy and Art History

Organisational unit: Institute

Organisation profile

The institute consists of two departments: philosophy and art history.

Main research areas

Since the winter semester 2016/17, the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences has established a DFG Research Training Group, "Cultures of Critique. Forms, Media, Effects", in which the IPK is significantly involved (speaker: Prof. Dr. Beate Söntgen).

The Institute is also represented at the Leuphana Institute of Advanced Studies for Culture and Society (co-director: Prof. Dr. Susanne Leeb) and is significantly involved in the Center for Critical Studies (speaker: Dr. Ben Trott).

With the Lichtenberg Professorship (Prof. Dr. Lynn Rother), funded by the Volkswagen Foundation, Leuphana University has the first permanent full professorship dedicated entirely to questions of provenance research, looted art, and restitution.

The Kunstraum, which is connected to the Institute of Philosophy and Art History, offers a close practical connection to contemporary art and its actors.

  1. 2019
  2. 29th International Sculpture Conference - 2019

    Kölmel, M.-J. (Organiser), Rees, P. D. M. (Speaker), Garcia Del Castillo, D. J. L. (Speaker) & Kahn, S. (Speaker)

    13.10.2019

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  3. Undoing Ethnographic and Archaological Objects

    Leeb, S. (Speaker)

    26.10.201928.10.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  4. Court of Arbitration for Art (External organisation)

    Rother, L. (Member)

    11.2019 → …

    Activity: MembershipLearned societies and special interest organisationsTransfer

  5. Lena Meyer-Bergner’s conception of modernism between graphics and weaving, between folk art and technology

    Neugärtner, S. (Speaker)

    01.11.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  6. Symposium: Unstable Monuments: Remnants from Times of Ideology

    Gerhardt, U. (Curator)

    01.11.2019

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventartistic eventsResearch

  7. Provenance as (Linked) Data

    Rother, L. (Speaker)

    13.11.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  8. Exhibition: This Might Be a Place for Hummingbirds

    Eduardo, S. (Speaker) & Boror, M. (Speaker)

    22.11.2019

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventartistic eventsResearch

  9. BAKJ-Kongress: „Sicherheitsgesellschaft und Perspektiven der Gegenwehr“

    Nigro, R. (Speaker)

    30.11.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  10. 2020
  11. Aisthesis (Italy) (Journal)

    Costa, M. T. (Editorial Board)

    2020

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workPeer review of publicationenResearch

  12. Getty Provenance Index Advisory Committee

    Rother, L. (Consultant)

    2020 → …

    Activity: Consultancy