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. The Ethics of Memory - 2009

    Hobuß, S. (Speaker)

    29.05.200930.05.2009

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsEducation

  2. The Exhibition Les Immatériaux (Paris, 1985)

    Broeckmann, A. (Speaker)

    27.02.2023

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  3. The Expert in the Loop: Developing a Provenance Linked Open Data Management Platform

    Mariani, F. (Speaker)

    28.07.2022

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  4. “The Eye of the Crocodile”: Val Plumwood’s Epiphany and Critical Animal Studies

    Stefanoni, C. (Speaker)

    27.11.2020

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  5. The Future of Critical Art Institutions. The 'Kunstraum der Universität Lüneburg'

    Wuggenig, U. (Speaker)

    12.10.2005

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  6. The Future of Provenance and the Catalogue Raisonné

    Rother, L. (Speaker), Newbury, D. (Speaker) & Gorayeb, E. (Speaker)

    03.12.2020

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  7. The Future of the Kunstraum

    Leeb, S. (Organiser)

    29.06.2018

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventtrade fairs and exhibitionsTransfer

  8. The Grey Role of Animal (Dis)enhancement in Antispeciesism

    Stefanoni, C. (Speaker)

    09.10.2023

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  9. The History of Art is Linked but the Data Is Not: Georgia O’Keeffe, Provenance and Scholarship

    Rother, L. (Speaker)

    21.07.2020

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  10. The Importance of Anticolonialism for '68 and International Solidarity in Art and Film

    Leeb, S. (Speaker)

    18.10.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer