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.
Court of Arbitration for Art (External organisation)
Rother, L. (Member)
2019 → …Activity: Membership › Bodies of public institutions › Transfer
Crafting Experience: Exemplarity and Reproduction in Pan (1895–1900)
Koss, M. (Speaker)
21.01.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Creating Effects. Creativity and the New Spirit of Capitalism
Wuggenig, U. (Speaker)
10.11.2006Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Crisi e ritorni dello Stato
Nigro, R. (Speaker)
18.05.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
Crisis, Conflict, Queer Studies
Trott, B. (Organiser), Laufenberg, M. (Organiser) & Trott, B. (Speaker)
11.09.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
Critique Now
Mattutat, L. (Organiser) & Söntgen, B. (Organiser)
12.01.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
„Cultural Turn“ in der Peripherie. Die Anfänge der Kulturwissenschaften an der Hochschule Lüneburg
Wuggenig, U. (Speaker)
23.04.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Curator-artist Interactions: Forms of Exchange under the Pressure of the Logic of the Market
Wuggenig, U. (Speaker)
14.12.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
CyberKant, a Timely Response to the Eclipse of Reason by Mechanical Rationality - 2020
von Xylander, C. (Speaker)
27.08.2020Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Dance, Diaspora, and the Artist's Subject: Edmundo Torres' China Diabla Tradition
Eduardo Dávila, S. (Speaker)
03.04.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research