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. 2025
  2. 2025 Conference of the International Walter Benjamin Society

    Costa, M. T. (Speaker)

    17.09.202520.09.2025

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesTransfer

  3. Ecologies of Recovery: Complexifying Notions of Connectivity and Resistance in a More-Than-Human World

    Schulz, V.-S. (Speaker)

    24.07.2025

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  4. Beyond Notions of Periphery and Center: Mamluk Metalwork across Afro-Eurasia

    Schulz, V.-S. (Speaker)

    18.07.2025

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

  5. Material Ecologies: Architecture, Objects, and Ornamentation along the East African Coast

    Schulz, V.-S. (Speaker)

    03.07.2025

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  6. Power, Resistance, Fascism: Re-reading Foucault in the Present (LIAS Workshop)

    Demirović, A. (Speaker), Karakayali, S. (Organiser), Nigro, R. (Organiser) & Luxon, N. (Organiser)

    25.06.202526.06.2025

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  7. Duke University - Leuphana University Gender, Queer and Transgender Studies Workshop for Doctoral Candidates

    Trott, B. (Organiser) & Rosenberg, G. (Organiser)

    24.06.202525.06.2025

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  8. Between Siena and the Swahili Coast: Afro-Eurasian Entanglements and Artistic Dynamics

    Schulz, V.-S. (Speaker)

    20.06.2025

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  9. "Branches of an Imaginary Marimba". Indigeneity, Diaspora, and the Nation-State in Contemporary Art Practice

    Eduardo Dávila, S. (Speaker)

    30.05.2025

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

  10. Il y a ‚de la‘ plèbe. La fabbrica della marginalizzazione e il rifiuto del neopopulismo

    Nigro, R. (Speaker)

    22.05.2025

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  11. Crisi e ritorni dello Stato

    Nigro, R. (Speaker)

    18.05.2025

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

  12. L’irruzione dei saperi minoritari

    Nigro, R. (Speaker)

    16.05.2025

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  13. Du refus du travail à la multitude. Le néopéraisme d’Antonio Negri

    Nigro, R. (Speaker)

    15.05.2025

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  14. Postsecular Reckonings

    Eduardo Dávila, S. (Speaker)

    14.05.202515.05.2025

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  15. Zur Aktualität der Queer Studies (Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main)

    Trott, B. (Speaker)

    25.04.2025

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  16. Black Archive Alliance: Epistemologies of Absence and Presence

    Schulz, V.-S. (Speaker)

    24.04.2025

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

  17. Beyond the Family. Spatiality, Modes of (Re)production and Forme of Life

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

    11.04.2025

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

  18. Thinking of Home Beyond the Family Model and the Supremacy of Man

    Costa, M. T. (Speaker)

    11.04.2025

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  19. Dance, Diaspora, and the Artist's Subject: Edmundo Torres' China Diabla Tradition

    Eduardo Dávila, S. (Speaker)

    03.04.2025

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  20. Revolution Trouble: Massimo De Feo’s Nietzschean Communism

    Nigro, R. (Speaker)

    03.04.202505.04.2025

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  21. Les arts de gouverner

    Nigro, R. (Speaker)

    27.03.2025

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  22. Le néo-marxisme hérétique de Foucault et de Marx

    Nigro, R. (Speaker)

    26.03.2025

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  23. Violencia de Estado y Violencia Colonial: Reverberaciones de Edicto Cambio de Nombre

    Eduardo Dávila, S. (Speaker), Cumes, A. (Speaker) & Boror, M. (Speaker)

    22.03.2025

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  24. Witches, Carnival, Dance of Death. On the Artistic Collaboration between Eva Aeppli and Jean Tinguely.

    Kipke, A. (Speaker)

    21.03.2025

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  25. Cancel Culture Context (Duke University, Durham)

    Trott, B. (Speaker)

    18.03.2025

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  26. Gender, Queer and Transgender Studies workshop for doctoral candidates (Duke University - Leuphana University )

    Trott, B. (Organiser) & Rosenberg, G. (Organiser)

    18.03.202519.03.2025

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

  27. Foucault en mots

    Nigro, R. (Speaker) & Polleri, M. (Speaker)

    08.02.2025

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  28. 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)

    07.02.202508.02.2025

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  29. Textile Ecologies Konferenz

    Houghteling, S. (Organiser) & Schulz, V.-S. (Organiser)

    05.02.202507.02.2025

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  30. Matters of Scale: Afro-Eurasian Connectivity in Coastal East Africa

    Schulz, V.-S. (Speaker)

    30.01.2025

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  31. Leaving Art History? Contemporary Art and Material Practices

    Leeb, S. (Speaker) & Eduardo Dávila, S. (Speaker)

    10.01.2025

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

  32. 2024
  33. Inquiétude de la philosophie, inactualité de la politique. Sur les divers usages de Nietzsche

    Nigro, R. (Speaker)

    17.12.202418.12.2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  34. Für eine Philosophie der Übersetzung

    Costa, M. T. (Speaker)

    12.12.2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  35. Le arti di governo di Foucault: un contributo per una lettura marxista eretica del neoliberalismo?

    Nigro, R. (Speaker)

    11.12.202412.12.2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  36. Small Formation: Lines and Alternating Knots as Logistic Inversions

    Neugärtner, S. (Speaker)

    02.12.2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  37. Gegenwart: Hannah Arendt & Susan Sontag

    Costa, M. T. (Speaker) & Kramer, S. (Speaker)

    26.11.2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  38. Buchvorstellung: Dal rifiuto del lavoro alla moltitudine - La filosofia sovversiva di Toni Negri

    Nigro, R. (Speaker)

    21.11.2024

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

  39. Research Presentation from PhD Project "Materiality in Art Practices from Postwar Guatemala: Bodies, Soil, Meat, Cosmos"

    Eduardo Dávila, S. (Speaker)

    21.11.2024

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

  40. PEAR - Provenance Event and Archives Reconciliation

    Rother, L. (Speaker), Mariani, F. (Speaker) & van Ginhoven, S. (Speaker)

    14.11.2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsTransfer

  41. Podiumsdiskussion: Über den Schmerz der Anderen - Postkolonialismus und multidirektionale Erinnerung.

    Kück, T. (Moderator) & Leeb, S. (Speaker)

    13.11.2024

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

  42. The Conjuncture of 'Cancel Culture': Relations of Gender and Sexuality in Times of Crisis (Universität Zürich)

    Trott, B. (Speaker)

    06.11.2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  43. Internationale Perspektiven an der Schnittstelle von Provenienzforschung, Data Science und Vermittlung

    Rother, L. (Speaker)

    05.11.2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsTransfer

  44. Webtalk Reihe: Kulturerbe und Gerechtigkeit: Die Herausforderung der Restitution

    Rother, L. (Speaker), Assmann, A. (Speaker) & Lupfer, G. (Speaker)

    05.11.2024

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesTransfer

  45. Generalized Between Icon, Symbol and Index: The Physical Dimension in Isotype and Unicode

    Neugärtner, S. (Speaker)

    11.2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  46. Foucault's and Marx' Heretical Neo-Marxism

    Nigro, R. (Speaker)

    18.10.202419.10.2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  47. The Conjuncture of "Cancel Culture": Gender, Sexuality and "Free Speech" Conflicts Today (Universität Basel)

    Trott, B. (Speaker)

    17.10.2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  48. Provenienza e Intelligenza Artificiale (Provenance and Artificial Intelligence)

    Mariani, F. (Speaker)

    11.10.2024

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

  49. 'THREADS ARE VEINS' – On Magdalena Abakanowicz

    Kipke, A. (Speaker)

    10.10.2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  50. What is Constituent in the Constituent Power? Limits and Strength of a Concept

    Nigro, R. (Speaker)

    10.10.202411.10.2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

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