Institute of Sociology and Cultural Organization
Organisational unit: Institute
Organisation profile
The Institute of Sociology and Cultural Organisation (ISCO) is part of the Faculty of Cultural Studies. The research at ISCO is focused on topics of sociology and on issues of cultural organisation(s) in society. Mostly in the degree programs of the Faculty of Cultural Studies we teach general sociological and cultural theoretical courses and interdisciplinary courses of organisational theory with respect to arts and culture. At the following Websites you will find more detailed information about our areas of research and teaching in sociology and cultural organisation.
Main research areas
- 2025
Bedrohung und Affekt im Verschwörungsdenken der Gegenwart am Beispiel sogenannter 'Reichsbürger:innen'
Hundertmark, B. (Speaker) & Rowitz, L. (Speaker)
20.11.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Club, Szene und Stadt. Eine Langzeitbetrachtung von Selbstverständnissen und sozialen Umfeldern von Musikclubs
Kuchar, R. (Speaker)
13.11.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Education
Scene – Infrastructure – Ecosystem? Challenges of researching cultural production within increasing social complexity
Kuchar, R. (Speaker)
12.11.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
DigID Advisory Board Meeting
Scheel, S. (Organiser), Lambert, L. (Organiser) & Hargyono, S. (Organiser)
08.10.2025 → 10.10.2025Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Temporalities of Crises: Towards a Genealogy of Intergenerational Justice in Liberal Thought
Fink, F. (Speaker)
08.10.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Von ‚lebenden Menschen‘ und ‚juristischen Personen‘ - Performative Protestpraktiken sogenannter "Reichsbürger:innen" vor Gericht
Hundertmark, B. (Speaker) & Rowitz, L. (Speaker)
26.09.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
The Autonomy of Citizenship – Learning from the appropriation of national ID cards in Malawi’s borderlands
Scheel, S. (Speaker)
23.09.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
The 13th Midterm Conference of the European Sociological Association (ESA) Research Network Sociology of the Arts - EsArts 2025
Kuchar, R. (Speaker)
08.09.2025 → 09.09.2025Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Thinking music scene outside the scene – between understandings of networks, ecosystem, and infrastructure
Kuchar, R. (Speaker)
08.09.2025 → 09.09.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
‘You Cannot Beat a Fixed System’. Vintage Documents and other Truth Sources in Sierra Leone’s Digital Civil Register
Lambert, L. (Speaker)
03.07.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
The Absent Presence of ‘Tribe’ in Sierra Leone’s Digital Civil Register
Lambert, L. (Speaker)
02.07.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
The Absent Presence of ‘Tribe’ in Sierra Leone’s Digital Civil Register
Lambert, L. (Speaker)
26.06.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
The Autonomy of Citizenship - Learning from the appropriation of national ID cards in the Malawian borderlands
Scheel, S. (Speaker)
26.06.2025Activity: 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
The Sociotechnical Lives of Digital Identification: Intermediaries, Citizenship and Belonging
Lambert, L. (Speaker) & Eyenga, G. (Speaker)
25.06.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
African Migration Research Networks: Where Next?
Lambert, L. (Organiser), Zanker, F. (Organiser), Bjarnesen, J. (Organiser) & Kandilige, L. (Organiser)
11.06.2025Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Die Grammatik des Bias: Über Maschinen, Sprache und Rassismus
Karakayali, S. (Speaker)
03.06.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Von Interpretationen zu Texten oder: Über das Schreiben
Rowitz, L. (Speaker)
02.06.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Off to Europe. Migration - One of the Major Challenges of the 21st Century
Lambert, L. (Speaker)
26.05.2025Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
Off to Europe. Migration - One of the Major Challenges of the 21st Century
Lambert, L. (Speaker)
26.05.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
Die Innovationswerkstatt "Rassismus theoretisieren und beforschen"
Karakayali, S. (Organiser), Mecheril, P. (Organiser) & Rühlmann, L. (Organiser)
22.05.2025 → 23.05.2025Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Hybridität in der ethnographischen Forschung zum verschwörungsideologischen Souveränismus - Input aus dem Forschungsprojekt „Alltag im Dissens“
Hundertmark, B. (Speaker) & Rowitz, L. (Speaker)
19.05.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Organization Studies (Journal)
Jorgensen, L. (Reviewer)
16.05.2025 → 27.06.2025Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
The Social Organization of Arts — Reflections on the Sociology of Art Theory
Kirchberg, V. (Speaker) & Fang, H. (Lecturer)
13.05.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Undoing the ‘Migration Crisis’ Statistics. The Displacement Tracking Matrix by the International Organization for Migration and its Discontents in Niger
Lambert, L. (Speaker) & Dauchy, A. (Coauthor)
07.05.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Zugangsbarrieren zum Engagement: Erkenntnisse aus dem Vierten Engagementbericht der Bundesregierung
Karakayali, S. (Speaker)
05.05.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
Brokers of Citizenship: Justices of the Peace as Intermediaries in Sierra Leone’s Digital Identification Project
Lambert, L. (Speaker)
08.04.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Changing ID Systems in West Africa and their Implications
Lambert, L. (Panel participant), Hammar, A. (Speaker), Fourchard, L. (Panel participant) & Sanwo-Olu, G. (Panel participant)
08.04.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Vis-à-Vis
Scheel, S. (Speaker)
31.03.2025Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › artistic events › Research
Researching around the Brown Box - Notes from a Critical Ethnography of Amazon’s Urbanism
Beverungen, A. (presenter) & Voigt, M.-L. (presenter)
14.03.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
RCH Researchers Seminars.
Kuchar, R. (Opponent)
26.02.2025Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
The Social Organization of Arts – A Theoretical Compendium (Introduction)
Kirchberg, V. (Speaker)
17.01.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Memes aus dem Reich: Rechte Rechtskämpfe im Verschwörungsdenken
Hundertmark, B. (Speaker) & Kretschmann, A. (Speaker)
14.01.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
Brill Verlag (Publisher)
Lambert, L. (Editorial Board)
2025 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of series › Research
International Migration Research Network (External organisation)
Lambert, L. (Member)
2025 → …Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Research
- 2024
Input und Podiumsdiskussion zur "Reichsbürger:innen-Bewegung"
Kretschmann, A. (Speaker)
12.12.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Luftrummets organisering
Jorgensen, L. (Speaker)
08.11.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Erlösendes Lachen in der empirischen Feldforschung
Hundertmark, B. (Speaker)
03.11.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Obsolenz der zeitgenössischen Oper? „Pink Mouse“ in der Aufmerksamkeitsökonomie der Gegenwart
Wuggenig, U. (Speaker) & von Xylander, C. (Speaker)
25.10.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Repositioning critical border and migrationstudies in the face of authoritarian turns
Karakayali, S. (Speaker)
25.10.2024 → 26.10.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
“Behind the data: quantitative approaches to interdisciplinary racism research”
Karakayali, S. (Speaker)
23.10.2024 → 25.10.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Recht als Ressource im Verschwörungsdenken
Kretschmann, A. (Speaker)
15.10.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Social Work (Journal)
Karakayali, S. (Editorial Board)
02.10.2024Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Management Communication Quarterly (Journal)
Jorgensen, L. (Reviewer)
01.10.2024 → 07.11.2024Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Club, Szene und Stadt. Eine Langzeitbetrachtung von Selbstverständnissen und sozialen Umfeldern von Musikclubs
Kuchar, R. (Speaker)
27.09.2024 → 28.09.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
Die Beziehung von 'Club, Szene und Stadt'
Kuchar, R. (Speaker)
27.09.2024 → 28.09.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Self-Organization for Resilience in Russian Anti-War Networks
Kalinina, A. (Speaker)
27.09.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Prototyping sustainable futures
Jorgensen, L. (Speaker)
23.09.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
„Solidarität“ – 5. Tagung des Netzwerks Kritische Kommunikationswissenschaft
Karakayali, S. (Speaker), Sandoval, M. (Speaker), Eckert, S. (Speaker) & Dioh, Y. (Moderator)
19.09.2024 → 21.09.2024Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Comparing Various Theories on the Social Organization of Arts
Kirchberg, V. (Speaker) & Zembylas, T. (Speaker)
30.08.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Alternative Perspectives On The Social Organization Of Art
Kirchberg, V. (Speaker) & Zembylas, T. (Speaker)
28.08.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Towards an Emotional Geography of Urban Policing: Exploring the Materialization of Police Territoriality with Emotional Mapping Interviews
Hundertmark, B. (Speaker)
28.08.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
‘Cultural Ecosystem’ as tool for researching alternative cultures – potentials, limits and the question of ‘another black box’.
Kuchar, R. (Speaker)
27.08.2024 → 30.08.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Deferred Citizenship: obligatory passage points, disrupted infrastructures, surrogate papers and cruel optimism in digitized birth registration in Sierra Leone
Scheel, S. (Speaker)
11.07.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
DIY Culture vs. Cultural Ecosystem – The 'Official' Discovery of Alternative Practices in Cultural Policy?
Kuchar, R. (Speaker)
10.07.2024 → 13.07.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Music Eco-Systems
Kuchar, R. (Speaker)
10.07.2024 → 13.07.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Shifting Regimes of Proof: On the Contested Politics of Identification in Border and Migration Management
Scheel, S. (Speaker) & Bescherer, K. (Speaker)
09.07.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Shifting Regimes of Proof: On the Contested Politics of Identification in Border and Migration Management
Bescherer, K. (Speaker) & Scheel, S. (Coauthor)
02.07.2024 → 05.07.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Transparenz und Selbstschutz in konfliktiven Forschungsfeldern – Reflektionen aus dem Forschungsprojekt „Alltag im Dissens“
Hundertmark, B. (Speaker) & Rowitz, L. (Speaker)
02.07.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Kämpfe um Recht im verschwörungsideologischen Souveränismus am Beispiel der "Reichsbürger"
Kretschmann, A. (Speaker)
27.06.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Kultur ist ein Kampfsport
Karakayali, S. (Organiser), Opratko, B. (Organiser), Kretschmann, A. (Speaker), Wuggenig, U. (Speaker) & Jung, S. (Speaker)
27.06.2024Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
Memes from the Reich: The Legal Aesthetics of Sovereign Citizens in the Virtual
Kretschmann, A. (Speaker) & Hundertmark, B. (Speaker)
10.06.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
lunatic Festival
Kuchar, R. (Moderator)
01.06.2024Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › artistic events › Transfer
Ordnungsbildung qua enactment: Die Simulation von Protesten und protest policing durch die Polizei
Kretschmann, A. (Speaker)
06.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Recht als Ressource im Verschwörungsdenken
Kretschmann, A. (Speaker)
06.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Simulative Souveränität
Kretschmann, A. (Speaker)
06.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Racism and Common Public Spaces in the Arts – A Case Study of Hamburg
Kirchberg, V. (Speaker)
30.05.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Reichsbürger:innen: Eine Einführung
Kretschmann, A. (Speaker)
27.05.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Journal for Migration Research (Journal)
Karakayali, S. (Editorial Board)
13.05.2024Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
"Reichsbürger:innen": Eine Einführung
Kretschmann, A. (Speaker)
05.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Reichsbürger:innen: Eine Einführung
Kretschmann, A. (Speaker)
05.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
What's it good for? : Functions of arts and culture for Hamburg's urban development
Kirchberg, V. (Speaker)
25.04.2024Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Roadsides: Infrastructural Anxieties publication workshop
Hargyono, S. (Speaker)
22.04.2024 → 24.04.2024Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Was bringt Akteure zum verschwörungsideologischen Souveränismus?
Kretschmann, A. (Speaker)
11.04.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Emerging Visions of Seamless Travel: (En)Countering Camouflaged Sovereignty at the Frictionless Border
Scheel, S. (Speaker)
09.04.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Enacting clan crime through the production of statistical security knowledge
El-Kahil, S. (Speaker)
09.04.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Policing protest by simulation
Kretschmann, A. (Speaker)
08.04.2024 → 09.04.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
9th GERN Summer School: "Crime and Responses to Crime
Kretschmann, A. (Organiser)
03.04.2024 → 05.04.2024Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Auftaktvortrag 9th GERN Summer School: "Crime and Responses to Crime: Consensus or Conflict?“
Kretschmann, A. (Speaker)
03.04.2024 → 05.04.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Conspiracy sovereigntist's legal practice
Kretschmann, A. (Speaker)
04.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Protest Policing by Simulation
Kretschmann, A. (Speaker)
04.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Conspiracy Theory Meaning Making: Exploring the Sovereign Citizen Movement's Legal Practices
Kretschmann, A. (Speaker)
26.03.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Ouvroir de recherche potentielle
Jorgensen, L. (Speaker)
22.03.2024Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Between Now and Then: Temporalities of “Citizens of the Reich”
Hundertmark, B. (Speaker) & Rowitz, L. (Speaker)
23.02.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
„Reichsbürger and Temporalities“
Kretschmann, A. (Speaker)
23.02.2024 → 24.02.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Autonomous Mobilization: Navigating Transient Solidarity for Lasting Impact in Anti-War Movements
Kalinina, A. (Speaker)
17.02.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › 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
‚Doing law‘ als Normkollision. Das Beispiel ‚Reichsbürger:innen‘
Kretschmann, A. (Speaker)
15.02.2024 → 16.02.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Reichsbürger:innen: Imaginationen von Recht und Staat
Kretschmann, A. (Speaker)
12.02.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
REICHSBÜRGER:INNEN: IMAGINATIONEN VON RECHT UND STAAT
Kretschmann, A. (Keynote Speaker)
12.02.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
From Text to Data: AI and Human Expertise in Provenance Linked Open Data
Mariani, F. (Speaker), Rother, L. (Speaker) & Koss, M. (Speaker)
08.02.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
"Doing Law" als Normalkollision: Das Beispiel "Reichsbürgerinnen"
Kretschmann, A. (Speaker)
02.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
2nd International Workshop - DigID 2024
Hargyono, S. (Organiser)
31.01.2024 → 01.02.2024Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
2nd International Workshop - DigID 2024
O'Brien, O. (Organiser)
31.01.2024 → 01.02.2024Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
"Doing sovereignty"
Kretschmann, A. (Speaker), Hundertmark, B. (Speaker) & Rowitz, L. (Speaker)
30.01.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
‚Doing sovereignty‘. Elemente einer Grammatik der Identitätsbildung qua Recht
Kretschmann, A. (Speaker)
30.01.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Education
Evaluierung des Deutschen Museums von Meisterwerken der Naturwissenschaft und Technik (DM) in München
Kirchberg, V. (Reviewer)
17.01.2024 → 19.01.2024Activity: Other expert activities › Academic Consultant › Research
Polizei und Protest in Deutschland und Frankreich
Kretschmann, A. (Speaker)
17.01.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research