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. Curator-artist Interactions: Forms of Exchange under the Pressure of the Logic of the Market

    Wuggenig, U. (Speaker)

    14.12.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  2. „Cultural Turn“ in der Peripherie. Die Anfänge der Kulturwissenschaften an der Hochschule Lüneburg

    Wuggenig, U. (Speaker)

    23.04.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  3. Critique Now

    Mattutat, L. (Organiser) & Söntgen, B. (Organiser)

    12.01.2023

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesTransfer

  4. Crisis, Conflict, Queer Studies

    Trott, B. (Organiser), Laufenberg, M. (Organiser) & Trott, B. (Speaker)

    11.09.2023

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesTransfer

  5. Creating Effects. Creativity and the New Spirit of Capitalism

    Wuggenig, U. (Speaker)

    10.11.2006

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  6. Crafting Experience: Exemplarity and Reproduction in Pan (1895–1900)

    Koss, M. (Speaker)

    21.01.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsResearch

  7. Court of Arbitration for Art (External organisation)

    Rother, L. (Member)

    11.2019 → …

    Activity: MembershipLearned societies and special interest organisationsTransfer

  8. Court of Arbitration for Art (External organisation)

    Rother, L. (Member)

    2019 → …

    Activity: MembershipBodies of public institutionsTransfer

  9. COST Action IS1203 Plenary Conference: In Search for Transcultural Memory in Europe - ISTME 2014

    Hobuß, S. (Participant)

    09.04.201412.04.2014

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  10. Contemporary Past: Tracking a postcard 2012

    Gerhardt, U. (Speaker)

    18.06.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch