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.
- 2025
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
Zur Aktualität der Queer Studies (Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main)
Trott, B. (Speaker)
25.04.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Beyond the Family. Spatiality, Modes of (Re)production and Forme of Life
Mattutat, L. (Organiser) & Söntgen, B. (Organiser)
11.04.2025Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Thinking of Home Beyond the Family Model and the Supremacy of Man
Costa, M. T. (Speaker)
11.04.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › 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
Revolution Trouble: Massimo De Feo’s Nietzschean Communism
Nigro, R. (Speaker)
03.04.2025 → 05.04.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Les arts de gouverner
Nigro, R. (Speaker)
27.03.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Le néo-marxisme hérétique de Foucault et de Marx
Nigro, R. (Speaker)
26.03.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Violencia de Estado y Violencia Colonial: Reverberaciones de Edicto Cambio de Nombre
Eduardo Dávila, S. (Speaker), Cumes, A. (Speaker) & Boror, M. (Speaker)
22.03.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Witches, Carnival, Dance of Death. On the Artistic Collaboration between Eva Aeppli and Jean Tinguely.
Kipke, A. (Speaker)
21.03.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Cancel Culture Context (Duke University, Durham)
Trott, B. (Speaker)
18.03.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Gender, Queer and Transgender Studies workshop for doctoral candidates (Duke University - Leuphana University )
Trott, B. (Organiser) & Rosenberg, G. (Organiser)
18.03.2025 → 19.03.2025Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Foucault en mots
Nigro, R. (Speaker) & Polleri, M. (Speaker)
08.02.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
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
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
Leaving Art History? Contemporary Art and Material Practices
Leeb, S. (Speaker) & Eduardo Dávila, S. (Speaker)
10.01.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
- 2024
Inquiétude de la philosophie, inactualité de la politique. Sur les divers usages de Nietzsche
Nigro, R. (Speaker)
17.12.2024 → 18.12.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Für eine Philosophie der Übersetzung
Costa, M. T. (Speaker)
12.12.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Le arti di governo di Foucault: un contributo per una lettura marxista eretica del neoliberalismo?
Nigro, R. (Speaker)
11.12.2024 → 12.12.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Small Formation: Lines and Alternating Knots as Logistic Inversions
Neugärtner, S. (Speaker)
02.12.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Gegenwart: Hannah Arendt & Susan Sontag
Costa, M. T. (Speaker) & Kramer, S. (Speaker)
26.11.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Buchvorstellung: Dal rifiuto del lavoro alla moltitudine - La filosofia sovversiva di Toni Negri
Nigro, R. (Speaker)
21.11.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
Research Presentation from PhD Project "Materiality in Art Practices from Postwar Guatemala: Bodies, Soil, Meat, Cosmos"
Eduardo Dávila, S. (Speaker)
21.11.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
PEAR - Provenance Event and Archives Reconciliation
Rother, L. (Speaker), Mariani, F. (Speaker) & van Ginhoven, S. (Speaker)
14.11.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
Podiumsdiskussion: Über den Schmerz der Anderen - Postkolonialismus und multidirektionale Erinnerung.
Kück, T. (Moderator) & Leeb, S. (Speaker)
13.11.2024Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Transfer
The Conjuncture of 'Cancel Culture': Relations of Gender and Sexuality in Times of Crisis (Universität Zürich)
Trott, B. (Speaker)
06.11.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Internationale Perspektiven an der Schnittstelle von Provenienzforschung, Data Science und Vermittlung
Rother, L. (Speaker)
05.11.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
Webtalk Reihe: Kulturerbe und Gerechtigkeit: Die Herausforderung der Restitution
Rother, L. (Speaker), Assmann, A. (Speaker) & Lupfer, G. (Speaker)
05.11.2024Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
Generalized Between Icon, Symbol and Index: The Physical Dimension in Isotype and Unicode
Neugärtner, S. (Speaker)
11.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Foucault's and Marx' Heretical Neo-Marxism
Nigro, R. (Speaker)
18.10.2024 → 19.10.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
The Conjuncture of "Cancel Culture": Gender, Sexuality and "Free Speech" Conflicts Today (Universität Basel)
Trott, B. (Speaker)
17.10.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Provenienza e Intelligenza Artificiale (Provenance and Artificial Intelligence)
Mariani, F. (Speaker)
11.10.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
'THREADS ARE VEINS' – On Magdalena Abakanowicz
Kipke, A. (Speaker)
10.10.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
What is Constituent in the Constituent Power? Limits and Strength of a Concept
Nigro, R. (Speaker)
10.10.2024 → 11.10.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › 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
Toward Interconnected Object Histories: Challenges and Opportunities in the Creation of Provenance Linked Open Data
Mariani, F. (Speaker), Rother, L. (Speaker) & Koss, M. (Speaker)
09.10.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
VISU: Vagueness, Incompleteness, Subjectivity, and Uncertainty in Provenance Language Processing and Linked Open Data Modelling
Mariani, F. (Speaker)
03.09.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Education
University of Basel
Trott, B. (Visiting researcher)
01.09.2024 → 31.12.2024Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution › Research
Riss, Trauma, Heilung - Therapeutische Konstellationen um Emma Kunz
Kipke, A. (Speaker)
28.06.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Memories of Paper: The Digital History of Pan
Koss, M. (Speaker)
26.06.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Duke University - Leuphana University Gender, Queer and Transgender Studies workshop for doctoral candidates
Trott, B. (Organiser) & Rosenberg, G. (Organiser)
25.06.2024 → 29.06.2024Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › artistic events › 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
Beyond Jefferson's Futures.
Leeb, S. (Chair)
08.06.2024Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Education
Emma Kunz: Drawing as a tool, Healing as a process
Kipke, A. (Speaker)
07.06.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Expansive Museality: Camila Caris Seguel in Conversation with Sebastián Eduardo Dávila on Museo del Mundo and the Garífuna Nation
Eduardo Dávila, S. (Speaker) & Caris Seguel, C. (Speaker)
05.06.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › 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
Tracing the Unknown: Learning from Provenance Data
Rother, L. (Organiser) & Mariani, F. (Organiser)
15.05.2024Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
5th Transregional Academy on Latin American Art 2024
Eduardo Dávila, S. (Participant)
04.05.2024 → 12.05.2024Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Provenance of Provenance: Provenance LOD as Nanopublications
Mariani, F. (Speaker)
23.04.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Therapeutische Verfahren in künstlerisch-intervenierenden Praktiken
Kipke, A. (Speaker) & Woisnitza, M. (Speaker)
23.04.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research