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.
- External workshops, courses, seminars
Workshop zum Thema Fluchtlinien
Nigro, R. (Speaker)
29.04.2022Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
- trade fairs and exhibitions
4th Athens Biennale 2013
Bempeza, S. (Speaker)
29.09.2013 → 01.12.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › trade fairs and exhibitions › Transfer
Ausstellung „Ulrich Rückriem. Zeichnungen und Skulpturmodelle“
Hosseini, A. (Organiser)
03.12.2009 → 11.04.2010Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › trade fairs and exhibitions › Transfer
Disturbing Objects, Disquiet Objects
Leeb, S. (Participant)
13.10.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › trade fairs and exhibitions › Transfer
Exhibition 2022 - Carrie Mae Weems
Leeb, S. (presenter)
01.04.2022Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › trade fairs and exhibitions › Transfer
Open Codes? - 2019
von Xylander, C. (Curator), Weibel, P. (Curator) & Krümmel, C. (Curator)
13.06.2019 → 02.07.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › trade fairs and exhibitions › Transfer
The Future of the Kunstraum
Leeb, S. (Organiser)
29.06.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › trade fairs and exhibitions › Transfer
Tribunalism - 2021
Leeb, S. (Speaker) & Krümmel, C. (Curator)
07.10.2021 → 21.11.2021Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › trade fairs and exhibitions › Transfer
- Conferences
109th College Art Association of America Annual Conference - CAA 2021
Koss, M. (Chair)
02.2021Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
10. Interdisziplinärer Niedersächsischer Doktorand_innentag Gender Studies der LAGEN 2020
Trott, B. (Organiser)
13.11.2020Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
10. Interdisziplinärer Niedersächsischer Doktorand_innentag Gender Studies der LAGEN 2020
Trott, B. (Organiser)
12.11.2020Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
111th Annual Conference of the College Art Association of America - CAA 2023
Koss, M. (Chair)
16.02.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
112th Annual Conference of the College Art Association of America - CAA 2024
Koss, M. (Chair) & Rother, L. (Chair)
16.02.2024Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
11. Hamburger Graduiertenforum 2012
Hemkendreis, A. (Speaker)
01.06.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
11th Conference of the International Society for Utilitarian Studies - ISUS 2011
Schefczyk, M. (Speaker)
23.06.2011 → 25.06.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
11th Congress of the International Society for Utilitarian Studies - 2011
Schefczyk, M. (Speaker)
23.06.2011 → 25.06.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
1. Jahrestagung der Kulturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft - KWG 2015
Wuggenig, U. (Organiser)
12.11.2015 → 14.11.2015Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
2025 Conference of the International Walter Benjamin Society
Costa, M. T. (Speaker)
17.09.2025 → 20.09.2025Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
29th International Sculpture Conference - 2019
Kölmel, M.-J. (Organiser), Rees, P. D. M. (Speaker), Garcia Del Castillo, D. J. L. (Speaker) & Kahn, S. (Speaker)
13.10.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
2. Jahrestagung der Kulturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft (KWG) 2016
Wuggenig, U. (Organiser)
07.10.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
3. Internationales Fast-Forward Theaterfestival - 2013
Wuggenig, U. (Participant)
24.11.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
4. Internationales Symposium - Vertagtes Erbe?
Leeb, S. (Organiser) & Peter, S. (Organiser)
22.11.2018 → 23.11.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
art thinking doing art: Artistic Practices in Educational Contexts from 1900 to Today
Neugärtner, S. (Organiser), Weingart, B. (Speaker), Brus, A. (Moderator), Buchloh, B. (Keynote speaker) & Holert, T. (Keynote speaker)
23.06.2023 → 24.06.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Association for Art History Annual Conference - 2018
Kölmel, M.-J. (Organiser) & Hegenbart, D. S. (Organiser)
07.04.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
Aufarbeitung historischer Schuld 2011
Schefczyk, M. (Speaker)
09.12.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Beyond Humanism - 2009
Förster, Y. (Speaker)
04.2009Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Beyond Jefferson's Futures.
Leeb, S. (Chair)
08.06.2024Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Education
Beyond the New Bentham. Workshop on Current Issues in Bentham Studies 2012
Schefczyk, M. (Speaker)
23.03.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Bodies in Between: Corporeality and Visuality from Historical Avant-garde to Social Media
Gerhardt, U. (Speaker)
29.05.2014Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Carl Einstein Re-Visited.
Marchal, S. (Speaker)
02.02.2017 → 04.02.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Communist Nostalgia Conference - 2015
Gerhardt, U. (Speaker)
11.09.2015 → 13.09.2015Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Conference "Critical Stances" 2018
Kuhn, H. (Organiser), Schiel, N. (Organiser), Stubenrauch, H. (Participant), Warnsholdt, C. L. (Organiser) & Mattutat, L. (Organiser)
21.06.2018 → 23.06.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Conference "Critical Stances" 2018
Leeb, S. (Moderator)
21.06.2018 → 23.06.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Conference - Renewable Futures Conference
Broeckmann, A. (Organiser)
06.10.2022Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
Contemporary Past: Tracking a postcard 2012
Gerhardt, U. (Speaker)
18.06.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
COST Action IS1203 Plenary Conference: In Search for Transcultural Memory in Europe - ISTME 2014
Hobuß, S. (Participant)
09.04.2014 → 12.04.2014Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
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
Das Skulpturale im (post-)digitalen Zeitalter | The Sculptural in the (post-digital) Age - 2021
Kölmel, M.-J. (Organiser) & Ströbele, U. (Organiser)
01.07.2020Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Drafts in Action. Concepts and Practices of Artistic Intervention
Woisnitza, M. (Organiser), Kipke, A. (Organiser), Kovalenko, I. (Organiser), Rogalski, L. (Organiser), Teune, S. (Organiser), Söntgen, B. (Organiser), Werberger, A. (Organiser), Lalu, P. (Speaker), Mader, R. (Speaker), Jones, A. (Keynote speaker), Moussienko, N. (Speaker), Rosa, M. L. (Speaker), Schäfer, F. (Speaker), Schulte-Fischedick, V. (Speaker), Rayyan, A. (Speaker), Serafini, P. (Speaker) & Jakubowska, A. (Speaker)
07.07.2023 → 08.07.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Drei Fragen, drei Orte: Das Erinnern
Wuggenig, U. (Participant)
10.04.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
Duke University - Leuphana University Gender, Queer and Transgender Studies Workshop for Doctoral Candidates
Trott, B. (Organiser) & Rosenberg, G. (Organiser)
24.06.2025 → 25.06.2025Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Eröffnung von "Hinterbühne III" der Ausstellung des Kunstraums
Wuggenig, U. (Chair)
14.06.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies Roundtable Discussion
Barron, A. (Organiser) & Amador-Moreno, C. P. (Organiser)
15.02.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Female Identities in the Post-Utopian 2017
Gerhardt, U. (Organiser)
19.01.2017 → 20.01.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
"Gesellschaft macht geschlecht"-Aktionswoche 2012
Hobuß, S. (Speaker)
08.11.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Globalization of Contemporary Art Markets
Wuggenig, U. (Speaker)
03.10.2013 → 05.10.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Hammershøi und Europa 2012
Hemkendreis, A. (Speaker)
04.09.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Hegel and Haiti: Critique of Enlightenment Philosophy beyond Apologia and Condemnation
Mattutat, L. (Organiser) & Leeb, S. (Organiser)
22.06.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
(Hi)Stories in Art after the End of the Cold War
Gerhardt, U. (Speaker)
03.11.2017 → 05.11.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
Interiors and Interiority
Kuhn, H. (Speaker)
06.12.2012 → 08.12.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
International Conference 2018 - Narrating Culture(s) in Museums and Exhibitions
Leeb, S. (Organiser) & Söntgen, B. (Organiser)
18.01.2018 → 19.01.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
International Conference Dedicated to the Centenary of the H2SO4
Ruhkopf, M. (Moderator), Tchelidze, K. (Organiser), Kipke, A. (Speaker) & Volz, J. (Speaker)
09.10.2024 → 31.10.2024Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
International Conference "Gustave Courbet und die Narrative der modernen Malerei“
Marchal, S. (Organiser) & Stöppel, D. (Organiser)
27.03.2019 → 29.03.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
International Conference "The Body: Out of Time and Without a Place" - 2015
Gerhardt, U. (Speaker)
22.05.2015Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Internationale Konferenz ,,Nietzsche und die Wissenschaftsphilosophie" - 2010
Hobuß, S. (Speaker)
18.07.2010 → 21.07.2010Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Internationaler deutsch-arabischer Workshop 2014
Hobuß, S. (Speaker)
09.06.2014 → 11.06.2014Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Konferenz 2018 - Neolithische Kindheit
Leeb, S. (Speaker)
27.05.2018 → 28.05.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Konferenz - What's the Matter With the Form?
Stefanoni, C. (Organiser), Milani, B. (Organiser), Spinelli, S. (Organiser) & Brunner, C. (Keynote speaker)
17.11.2022 → 18.11.2022Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Semiotik 2008
Hobuß, S. (Speaker)
09.10.2008 → 12.10.2008Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Kulturen der Kritik Conference - 2017
Heymer, E. (Organiser)
29.11.2017 → 01.12.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Kulturpolitisches Kolloquium Loccum in Kooperation mit der Kulturpolitischen Gesellschaft
Wuggenig, U. (Speaker)
20.02.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Leben in der Diktatur. Unrecht und Verantwortung. Internationaler deutsch-arabischer Workshop 2013
Hobuß, S. (Speaker)
08.12.2013 → 11.12.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Leuphana Konferenzwoche 2016
Jürgens, A. (Moderator)
24.02.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
LIAS Workshop: Beyond Restitution: Indigenous Practices, Museums and Heritage
Eduardo Dávila, S. (Organiser), Rother, L. (Organiser), Leeb, S. (Organiser), Felicitas Sabel, L. (Organiser), Moreschi, B. (Organiser) & Pitta, F. (Organiser)
07.02.2025 → 08.02.2025Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Meeting des Management Committee und der Arbeitsgruppen der COST-Aktion IS1203
Hobuß, S. (Speaker)
17.04.2016 → 20.04.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Meeting des Management Committee und der Arbeitsgruppen der COST-Aktion IS1203 - 2015
Hobuß, S. (Speaker)
15.04.2015 → 19.04.2015Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Meeting des Management Committee und der Arbeitsgruppen der COST-Aktion IS1203 "In Search of Transcultural memory in Europe"
Hobuß, S. (Speaker)
28.09.2014 → 01.10.2014Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Meeting des Management Committee und der Arbeitsgruppen der COST-Aktion IS1203 "In Search of Transcultural memory in Europe" - 2013
Hobuß, S. (Participant)
17.09.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Neue Naturverhältnisse in der Gegenwartsliteratur? Eine Bestandsaufnahme 2012
Hobuß, S. (Speaker)
03.10.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
New Work in Queer Studies
Trott, B. (Speaker), Rodríguez, J. M. (Speaker), Rosenberg, G. (Speaker), Trott, B. (Organiser), Kasmani, O. (Speaker), Probst, U. (Speaker) & Schnepf, M. (Speaker)
04.07.2022Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
Nicola Massimo De Feo. Vent'anni dopo
Nigro, R. (Speaker)
29.09.2022Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Podiumsdiskussion: Vom Unrechtskontext zur Kooperation? Über den Umgang mit dem kolonialen Erbe.
Kück, T. (Moderator), Leeb, S. (Participant) & Kindata, D. (Participant)
06.12.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
Podiumsdiskussion zu "Faust I"
Jürgens, A. (Moderator)
09.12.2014Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
Podiumsdiskussion zu MEDEA
Jürgens, A. (Moderator)
08.11.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
Postsecular Reckonings
Eduardo Dávila, S. (Speaker)
14.05.2025 → 15.05.2025Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › 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
Projekt "Transformation - Kultur - Geschlecht"
Hobuß, S. (Organiser)
14.11.2016 → 16.11.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
rA/Upture_2 Conference 2021
Gerhardt, U. (Speaker)
08.05.2021Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Ringvorlesung "Gender und Diversity" 2009
Hobuß, S. (Speaker)
30.11.2009Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Education
Ringvorlesung ,,Liebe. Zu Geschichte und Erscheinungsformen einer rätselhaften Emotion" 2010
Schefczyk, M. (Speaker)
17.12.2010Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Education
Ringvorlesung - Michel Foucault und die Philosophiegeschichte
Nigro, R. (Speaker)
05.12.2022Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Seminar - Research Colloquium in Practical Philosophy 2021/2022 - Session 22
Nigro, R. (Speaker)
31.05.2022Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Sixth Feminist Art History Conference
Mehl, I. (Participant), Lochner, O. (Speaker) & Mehl, I. (Speaker)
30.09.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Studentische Tagung "Ästhetik und Skepsis" 2012
Hemkendreis, A. (Speaker)
09.03.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Studientag "Gefühle als Bedeutungsträger II - Aktuelle Projekte zur Emotionsforschung"
Hemkendreis, A. (Speaker)
10.01.2014Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Subjekte der ökologischen Verwüstung
Stubenrauch, H. (Organiser)
16.05.2024 → 17.05.2024Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Symposium an der Leuphana Universität
Schefczyk, M. (Participant)
10.02.2012 → 11.02.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Symposium - New Old Properties
Leeb, S. (Organiser) & Peter, S. (Organiser)
05.05.2022 → 06.05.2022Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
Table Talks Künstlerische Forschung des Labors Theaterforschung - UDK 2013
Wuggenig, U. (Participant)
19.04.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
Tagung "Differenz - Gleichheit - Wandel" 2017
Hobuß, S. (Organiser)
03.04.2017 → 05.04.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Tagung "Wisdom and Academic Education" - 2006
Förster, Y. (Speaker)
09.2006Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Textile Ecologies Konferenz
Houghteling, S. (Organiser) & Schulz, V.-S. (Organiser)
05.02.2025 → 07.02.2025Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
The Digital Revolution as Counter Revolution
Leeb, S. (Organiser) & Simon, J. (Speaker)
16.11.2023 → 17.11.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
The Practice of Decolonization
Leeb, S. (Organiser), Drayton, R. (Organiser) & Morris, R. C. (Organiser)
11.06.2024Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
The Wages for Housework Campaign. What Yesterday's Struggles Mean for Today
Mattutat, L. (Organiser), Trott, B. (Organiser) & Federici, S. (Keynote speaker)
31.01.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
The Work of Drag - with Olympia Bukkakis
Trott, B. (Organiser)
20.12.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
Transformation - Kultur- Geschlecht
Hobuß, S. (Organiser)
06.09.2017 → 07.09.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Transformation-Kultur-Geschlecht
Hobuß, S. (Chair)
11.07.2016 → 13.07.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Transformation - Kultur - Geschlecht 2017
Hobuß, S. (Organiser)
04.09.2017 → 05.09.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Education