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
Auswirkungen, Herausforderungen und Chancen von KI im Kontext von Rassismus und Antisemitismus
Karakayali, S. (Speaker)
03.06.2025Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
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
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
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
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
- 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. (Editorial Board)
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
Quantity, Quality, Trust: Dilemmas and Strategies of Museum Documentation in the Age of AI
Rother, L. (Speaker), Mariani, F. (Speaker) & Koss, M. (Speaker)
17.01.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Towards Wikidata: How to Transform Provenance with AI
Mariani, F. (Speaker) & Rother, L. (Speaker)
13.01.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
On Right Wing Conspiracy Beliefs and Time
Kretschmann, A. (Speaker)
01.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Vortrag mit Fokus auf Protest Policing und Podiumsdiskussion
Kretschmann, A. (Speaker)
01.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
- 2023
Sigrún Lilja Einarsdottir
Kirchberg, V. (Host)
07.12.2023 → 11.12.2023Activity: Hosting a visitor › Hosting an academic visitor
Enacting Citizenship in the Digital Age
Lambert, L. (Organiser) & Scheel, S. (Organiser)
29.11.2023 → 30.11.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Navigating Limited Field Access in the Research of the Russian Dissident Network
Kalinina, A. (Speaker)
29.11.2023 → 30.11.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Ästhetik der Autopoiesis als Sorgender Praxis
Gräfe, A. (presenter), Mattutat, L. (Speaker) & Böcker, J. (Speaker)
02.11.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Researching Care: Biological, Social and Ecological Reproduction in Times of Crisis
Mattutat, L. (Organiser) & Böcker, J. (Organiser)
02.11.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
Researching Care: Biological, Social and Ecological Reproduction in Times of Crisis
Böcker, J. (Organiser) & Mattutat, L. (Organiser)
02.11.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
(Not) in Demand: The Berlin Museums and their Acquisitions from the Dresdner Bank 1935
Rother, L. (Speaker)
01.11.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
“Wither the side-effects of Digital ID: Citizenship was never meant to be convenient”
El-Kahil, S. (Speaker) & Scheel, S. (Speaker)
26.10.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Academic Engagement and the Politics of Scholarship
Kalinina, A. (Speaker)
16.10.2023 → 18.10.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
Polizei und ihr Umgang mit Protest
Kretschmann, A. (Speaker)
10.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
European Cooperation in Science and Technology Association (External organisation)
El-Kahil, S. (Member)
28.09.2023 → 27.09.2027Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Research
Digital economy, social space and symbolic power. Correspondence and cluster analysis results of secondary analyses of Eurobarometer surveys
Wuggenig, U. (Speaker), von Xylander, C. (Speaker) & Tarnai, C. (Speaker)
27.09.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Correspondence Analysis and Related Methods - CARME 2023
Wuggenig, U. (Speaker) & Tarnai, C. (Speaker)
26.09.2023 → 29.09.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Artificial Intelligence, Human Expertise: the Case of Provenance Linked Open Data
Mariani, F. (Speaker), Rother, L. (Speaker) & Koss, M. (Speaker)
25.09.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Behemoth : a Journal on Civilization (Journal)
Karakayali, S. (Editorial Board)
22.09.2023Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Deutscher Kongress für Geographie 2023
Kuchar, R. (Speaker)
20.09.2023 → 24.09.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Eco-Justice: Impacts, resistance and transformation
Scheunpflug, L. (presenter) & Schüpf, D. (presenter)
20.09.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
Urban Music Studies Scholars Network
Barber-Kersovan, A. (Speaker), Kirchberg, V. (Speaker) & Lutze, T. (Speaker)
20.09.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Contentious politics and the role of connective technologies in Russian anti-war networks
Kalinina, A. (Speaker)
14.09.2023 → 15.09.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Human Relations (Journal)
Jorgensen, L. (Editorial Board)
01.09.2023 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Sensual Policing
Kretschmann, A. (Speaker)
09.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research