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
Gender, Sexuality and Contentious Speech Today
Trott, B. (Speaker)
15.09.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Ecologies of Recovery: Complexifying Notions of Connectivity and Resistance in a More-Than-Human World
Schulz, V.-S. (Speaker)
24.07.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Beyond Notions of Periphery and Center: Mamluk Metalwork across Afro-Eurasia
Schulz, V.-S. (Speaker)
18.07.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
The “Ends of War” and Research in Guatemala.
Eduardo Dávila, S. (Speaker) & Posocco, S. (Speaker)
15.07.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Material Ecologies: Architecture, Objects, and Ornamentation along the East African Coast
Schulz, V.-S. (Speaker)
03.07.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › 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
From Archives to Activism: Using Data to Challenge Structures in Art Collections
Romero, B. (Speaker) & Medina Fortes, L. (Speaker)
24.06.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
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
Between Siena and the Swahili Coast: Afro-Eurasian Entanglements and Artistic Dynamics
Schulz, V.-S. (Speaker)
20.06.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Between Connections and Knowledge: An Approach to Culture through Graph Theory and Complex Systems
Romero, B. (Speaker)
17.06.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Vibe Coding para humanistas. Perdiendo el miedo a la IA
Romero, B. (Speaker)
05.06.2025Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
"Branches of an Imaginary Marimba". Indigeneity, Diaspora, and the Nation-State in Contemporary Art Practice
Eduardo Dávila, S. (Speaker)
30.05.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Il y a ‚de la‘ plèbe. La fabbrica della marginalizzazione e il rifiuto del neopopulismo
Nigro, R. (Speaker)
22.05.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Crisi e ritorni dello Stato
Nigro, R. (Speaker)
18.05.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
L’irruzione dei saperi minoritari
Nigro, R. (Speaker)
16.05.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Du refus du travail à la multitude. Le néopéraisme d’Antonio Negri
Nigro, R. (Speaker)
15.05.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Postsecular Reckonings
Eduardo Dávila, S. (Speaker)
14.05.2025 → 15.05.2025Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
From Left to Right: Shifts in Political Hegemony Against the Backdrop of Structural Transformations of Capitalism and Class Composition
Nigro, R. (Speaker)
09.05.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Zur Aktualität der Queer Studies (Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main)
Trott, B. (Speaker)
25.04.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Black Archive Alliance: Epistemologies of Absence and Presence
Schulz, V.-S. (Speaker)
24.04.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › 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
Matters of Scale: Afro-Eurasian Connectivity in Coastal East Africa
Schulz, V.-S. (Speaker)
30.01.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
A King, a Giraffe, and a Land Full of Riches across the Sea: Florence and Its Afro-Eurasian Entanglements, Connectivity, and Resistance
Schulz, V.-S. (Speaker)
17.01.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › 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