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.
KunstFestSpiele heute
Woisnitza, M. (Project manager, academic)
01.02.19 → 29.02.20
Project: Scientific event
Knowledge in the Arts and the Transformation of Theory
Brunner, C. (Partner), Bippus, E. (Project manager, academic) & Busch, K. (Project manager, academic)
01.05.10 → 01.05.11
Project: Research
KHI-Project "Artistic Practices as Logistical Inversions"
Neugärtner, S. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.24 → 31.03.25
Project: Research
Jameson 2.0. Cognitive Mapping in Contemporary Art
Leeb, S. (Project manager, academic) & Nachtigall, J. (Project staff)
01.04.20 → 31.07.24
Project: Research
International Research Group: The Impact of Idealism
Jamme (✝), C. (Project manager, academic) & Boyle, N. (Coordination)
01.10.09 → 01.11.13
Project: Research
Internationale Tagung: Julius Meier-Graefe - Grenzgänger der Künste
Marchal, S. (Project manager, academic)
05.03.15 → 07.03.15
Project: Scientific event
Internationale Tagung "Gustave Courbet und die Narrative der modernen Malerei“
Marchal, S. (Project manager, academic)
27.03.19 → 29.03.19
Project: Scientific event
Internationales Symposium "Narrating Culture(s) in Museums and Exhibitions"
Söntgen, B. (Project manager, academic) & Leeb, S. (Project manager, academic)
18.01.18 → 19.01.18
Project: Scientific event
International Conference: Judgement Practices in the Artistic Field.
Marchal, S. (Project staff) & Söntgen, B. (Project manager, academic)
29.11.17 → 01.12.17
Project: Scientific event
ISTME: In Search of Transcultural Memory in Europe
Hobuß, S. (Partner)
30.10.12 → 29.10.16
Project: Research
In der Schwebe. Zu Tisch bei Edouard Manet
Berroth, E. (Project manager, academic)
01.11.14 → 31.03.15
Project: Other
Impact of Idealism. The Legacy of Post-Kantian German Thought
Jamme (✝), C. (Project manager, academic)
18.02.09 → 01.10.11
Project: Research
Immediations: Art, Media, Event
Brunner, C. (Project manager, academic), Massumi, B. (Project manager, academic) & Manning, E. (Project manager, academic)
01.06.13 → 31.12.19
Project: Research
Forschungsprojekt: Julius Meier-Graefe und die "neue" Kunstkritik
Marchal, S. (Project manager, academic)
01.01.13 → …
Project: Research
Förderung der Regelprofessur im Fach Kunstgeschichte im Rahmen des Professorinnenprogramms an der Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
van Riesen, K. (Coordination) & Söntgen, B. (Project manager, academic)
Federal Ministry of Education and Research
01.10.11 → 31.12.15
Project: Individual grant
Enlightenments German & Scottish
von Xylander, C. (Project manager, academic) & Wuggenig, U. (Project manager, academic)
01.02.19 → …
Project: Research
Elements of a Critical Theory of Media and Participation
Hörl, E. (Project manager, academic) & Nigro, R. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.18 → 31.10.22
Project: Research
Ecologies, Collections, and Contested Heritage: (Un-)Natural History and Italian Colonial Ambitions in Africa
Schulz, V.-S. (Project manager, academic) & Gabriel, J. M. (Project manager, academic)
Project: Scientific event
Duke University - Leuphana University Gender, Queer and Transgender Studies Workshop for Doctoral Candidates
Trott, B. (Project manager, academic) & Rosenberg, G. (Project manager, academic)
01.11.23 → …
Project: Teaching
Die Experimentalkultur in einer Seifenblase. Das epistemische Potenzial in Chardins Malerei
Hosseini, A. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.11 → …
Project: Dissertation project