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

In der Forschung ist das Institut an den Schwerpunkten „Kulturen des Konflikts“ und „Digitale Kulturen“ beteiligt. Hier bringt es Analysen im Bereich der soziologischen Theorie, der politischen Soziologie, der Migrationsforschung, der Rechts- und Kriminalsoziologie, der Arbeitssoziologie, der Soziologie der Kultur sowie der Technik- und Medienforschung, aber auch Analysen von Geschlechterverhältnissen ein. Mit seinen Arbeiten leistet das Institut einen Beitrag zum Erkenntnisfortschritt auf unterschiedlichen Feldern des Soziokulturellen und seines Wandels.

 

  1. Die (Re-)Produktion sozialer Ungleichheit über die Alltagspraxis Humor

    Moebius, S. (Project manager, academic)

    01.10.13 → …

    Project: Dissertation project

  2. Diversität in Kreativnetzwerken als Bedingung nachhaltiger Stadtentwicklung

    Kirchberg, V. (Project manager, academic) & Dollereder, L. (Project staff)

    01.09.1531.12.16

    Project: Research

  3. Cultures of Critique: Forms, Media, Effects

    Söntgen, B. (Project manager, academic), Hörl, E. (Project manager, academic) & Beyes, T. (Project manager, academic)

    German Research Foundation

    01.10.1631.07.21

    Project: Research

  4. NEMo - Nachhaltige Erfüllung von Mobilitätserfordernissen im ländlichen Raum

    Halberstadt, J. (Project manager, academic), Marx Gómez, J. (Project manager, academic), Hahn, A. (Project manager, academic), Köster, F. (Project manager, academic), Taeger, J. (Project manager, academic), Winter, A. J. (Project manager, academic), Woisetschläger, D. M. (Project manager, academic) & Henkel, A. (Project manager, academic)

    Ministry of Science and Culture of the State of Lower Saxony

    01.03.1628.02.19

    Project: Research

  5. NEMo: NEMo - Nachhaltige Erfüllung von Mobilitätsbedürfnissen im ländlichen Raum

    Henkel, A. (Project manager, academic), Halberstadt, J. (Project manager, academic), Samland, U. (Project staff), Marx Gómez, J. (Project manager, academic), Hahn, A. (Project manager, academic), Köster, F. (Project manager, academic), Taeger, J. (Project manager, academic), Winter, A. J. (Project manager, academic) & Woisetschläger, D. M. (Project manager, academic)

    Ministry of Science and Culture of the State of Lower Saxony

    01.10.1630.04.19

    Project: Research

  6. VERA: Reflexive Responsibilisierung. Verantwortung für nachhaltige Entwicklung

    Henkel, A. (Project manager, academic), Lüdtke, N. (Project staff), Buss, K. (Project staff), Lindemann, G. (Project manager, academic), Alkemeyer, T. (Project manager, academic), Paech, N. (Project manager, academic), Schulz, R. (Project manager, academic), Pfriem, R. (Project manager, academic), Hochmann, L. (Project manager, academic), Buschmann, N. (Project manager, academic) & Sulmowski, Y. (Project manager, academic)

    Ministry of Science and Culture of the State of Lower Saxony

    01.10.1630.04.19

    Project: Research

  7. Sociology of Sustainability

    Henkel, A. (Project manager, academic), Lindemann, G. (Project manager, academic), Lüdtke, N. (Project staff), Neckel, S. (Project manager, academic), Kaldewey, D. (Project manager, academic), Block, K. (Project manager, academic), Barth, T. (Project manager, academic), Besio, C. (Project manager, academic), Böschen, S. (Project manager, academic), Dickel, S. (Project manager, academic), Rödder, S. (Project manager, academic), Schloßberger, M. (Project manager, academic) & Wendt, B. (Project manager, academic)

    German Research Foundation

    01.10.1630.09.19

    Project: Research

  8. “Expanding the Margins: Migration, Mobilities, Borders”, International Summer School

    Bojadzijev, M. (Project manager, academic)

    21.09.1426.09.14

    Project: Scientific event

  9. “Teaching the Crisis. Geographies, Methodologies, Perspectives”, International Summer School

    Bojadzijev, M. (Project manager, academic)

    01.09.1315.09.13

    Project: Scientific event

  10. Migration in die DDR, Archiv und Online Bibliographie

    Bojadzijev, M. (Project manager, academic)

    01.06.11 → …

    Project: Teaching

  11. KOSMOS Workshop "Cataloging Logistics 1: Migration, Humanitarism, Borders"

    Bojadzijev, M. (Project manager, academic)

    25.05.1627.05.16

    Project: Scientific event

  12. KOSMOS Workshop "Cataloging Logistics 2: Migration, Digitalisation, Forms of Life"

    Bojadzijev, M. (Project manager, academic)

    16.06.1617.06.16

    Project: Scientific event

  13. Investigating Logistics: Lifestyles, Migration and the Common(s)

    Bojadzijev, M. (Project manager, academic)

    01.09.1531.12.16

    Project: Scientific event

  14. Politiken und Infrastrukturen der Vermittlung mobiler Arbeit

    Bojadzijev, M. (Project manager, academic)

    01.05.1631.12.16

    Project: Research

  15. Entsolidarisierung und Rassismus

    Bojadzijev, M. (Project manager, academic)

    01.05.1631.12.16

    Project: Research

  16. Forschungsschwerpunkt Dimensionen der Sorge

    Henkel, A. (Project manager, academic), Lindemann, G. (Project manager, academic), Karle, I. (Project manager, academic) & Werner, M. (Project manager, academic)

    01.09.1430.08.19

    Project: Research

  17. Between Logistics and Migration: Duisburg and the New Silk Road

    Bojadzijev, M. (Project manager, academic)

    01.01.17 → …

    Project: Research

  18. FLiF: Forschungsbasiertes Lernen im Fokus

    Hochmann, L. (Project staff)

    01.04.1430.09.16

    Project: Teaching

  19. FLiF+: Forschungsbasiertes Lernen im Fokus plus

    Hochmann, L. (Project staff)

    01.10.1631.12.20

    Project: Teaching

  20. CES Summer School: Artistic and Other Creative Practices as Drivers for Urban Resilience

    Kagan, S. (Project manager, academic), Duxbury, N. (Project manager, academic), Haley, D. (Project manager, academic), Blanc, N. (Project manager, academic) & Holz, V. (Project manager, academic)

    01.09.1530.11.16

    Project: Scientific event

  21. ESA RN2: 9th Midterm Conference of the Research Network Sociology of the Arts at the European Sociological Association: "Arts And Creativity: Working on Identity and Difference"

    Kagan, S. (Project manager, academic), Guerra, P. (Project manager, academic) & Moreira, T. (Project staff)

    01.09.1531.12.16

    Project: Scientific event

  22. European Haniel Program on Entrepreneurship and the Humanities

    Beyes, T. (Project manager, academic), Metelmann, J. (Project manager, academic) & Johnsen, R. (Project manager, academic)

    01.01.1830.09.25

    Project: Other

  23. Digitisation of Labour: Configurations of Real and Virtual Migration

    Bojadzijev, M. (Project manager, academic), Altenried, M. (Project staff) & Wallis, M. (Project staff)

    German Research Foundation

    01.05.1830.04.21

    Project: Research

  24. Dis/connectivity. Imaginaries, Media Technologies, Politics

    Beyes, T. (Project manager, academic) & Stäheli, U. (Project manager, academic)

    German Research Foundation

    01.11.1830.04.22

    Project: Research

  25. Media & Paranoia

    Beyes, T. (Project manager, academic)

    Volkswagen Foundation

    01.09.1831.08.19

    Project: Individual grant

  26. Groove the City 2018

    Kirchberg, V. (Project manager, academic)

    Ministry of Science and Culture of the State of Lower Saxony

    30.05.1830.11.19

    Project: Scientific event

  27. Groove the City 2018

    Kirchberg, V. (Project manager, academic), Kuchar, R. (Project staff), Barber-Kersovan, A. (Project staff) & Gaupp, L. (Project staff)

    Stiftung Niedersachsen

    30.08.1831.03.19

    Project: Scientific event

  28. Integration Through Trust

    Sandermann, P. (Project manager, academic), Friedrichs-Liesenkötter, H. (Project manager, academic), Henkel, A. (Project manager, academic), Münch, S. (Project manager, academic), Husen, O. (Project manager, academic), Kakar, H. (Project staff), Siede, A. (Project staff), Schwenker, V. S. (Project staff), Wenzel, L. (Project staff) & Winkel, M. (Project staff)

    Ministry of Science and Culture of the State of Lower Saxony

    01.02.1931.05.22

    Project: Research

  29. PLUS: Platform Labour in Urban Spaces: Fairness, Welfare, Development

    Bojadzijev, M. (Project manager, academic), Animento, S. (Project staff) & Altenried, M. (Project staff)

    Europäische Union

    01.01.1931.03.22

    Project: Research

  30. CURE: Cultures of Rejection: Conditions of Acceptability in Socio-Spatial and Digital Environments in Contemporary Europe

    Bojadzijev, M. (Project manager, academic), Fiket, I. (Partner), Sauer, B. (Partner), Bojanic, S. (Partner), Jonsson, S. (Partner) & Harder, A. (Project staff)

    Volkswagen Foundation

    15.01.1923.02.22

    Project: Research

  31. Grundversorgung 2.0 (Basic Provision 2.0)

    Beyes, T. (Project manager, academic) & Pias, C. (Project manager, academic)

    01.05.1230.06.15

    Project: Research

  32. Art and Civic Media

    Beyes, T. (Project manager, academic) & Pias, C. (Project manager, academic)

    01.11.1101.05.15

    Project: Research

  33. NITE: Night spaces: migration, culture and IntegraTion in Europe

    Bojadzijev, M. (Project manager, academic), Brandellero, S. (Project manager, academic), Campkin, B. (Project manager, academic), Pardue, D. (Project manager, academic) & Kenny, A. (Project manager, academic)

    Europäische Union

    31.05.1931.05.22

    Project: Research

  34. Selbstorganisation: Diskurse, Praktiken, Technologien

    Conrad, L. (Project manager, academic)

    01.10.18 → …

    Project: Research

  35. Stanford-Leuphana Summer Academy

    Beyes, T. (Project manager, academic) & Pias, C. (Project manager, academic)

    24.06.19 → …

    Project: Research

  36. Groove the City 2020

    Kirchberg, V. (Project manager, academic), Kuchar, R. (Project staff), Barber-Kersovan, A. (Project staff) & Gaupp, L. (Project staff)

    Ministry of Science and Culture of the State of Lower Saxony

    24.01.2030.06.20

    Project: Scientific event

  37. Cultures of Critique: Forms, Media, Effects

    Söntgen, B. (Project manager, academic), Hörl, E. (Project manager, academic), Beyes, T. (Project manager, academic) & Nigro, R. (Project manager, academic)

    German Research Foundation

    01.04.2131.12.25

    Project: Research

  38. Automating the Logistical City: Space, Algorithm, Speculation

    Beverungen, A. (Project manager, academic), Antenucci, I. (Project staff), Voigt, M.-L. (Project staff), Hille, L. (Project staff), Rossiter, N. (Partner), Mattern, S. (Partner) & Halpern, O. (Partner)

    Ministry of Science and Culture of the State of Lower Saxony

    01.09.2130.09.25

    Project: Research

  39. Transforming Solidarities

    Karakayali, S. (Partner)

    01.09.2120.12.22

    Project: Research

  40. Migration und Mitbestimmung

    Karakayali, S. (Project manager, academic)

    01.08.1830.06.21

    Project: Research

  41. ZOMiDi: Zivilgesellschaftliche Organisationen und die Herausforderungen von Migration und Diversität

    Karakayali, S. (Project manager, academic), von Unger, H. (Project manager, academic) & Schönwälder, K. (Project manager, academic)

    01.02.1831.07.21

    Project: Research

  42. Commodified Agency: Social Space and the Digital Value Chain

    Kirchberg, V. (Project manager, academic) & Wuggenig, U. (Project manager, academic)

    Ministry of Science and Culture of the State of Lower Saxony

    01.04.2231.12.25

    Project: Research

  43. (Un)Mapping Infrastructures: Transnational Perspectives in Modern and Contemporary Art

    Dogramaci, B. (Partner), Esner, R. (Partner), Küster, B. (Partner), Langfeld, G. M. (Partner), Lerm-Hayes, C.-M. (Partner), Rother, L. (Partner), Ruckdeschel, A. (Partner), Smolińska, M. (Partner) & Ströbele, U. (Partner)

    01.01.1931.12.25

    Project: Research

  44. UMS: Urban Music Studies Scholars´Network

    Kuchar, R. (Project manager, academic), Barber-Kersovan, A. (Project manager, academic), Kirchberg, V. (Project manager, academic) & Gaupp, L. (Project manager, academic)

    01.01.18 → …

    Project: Research

  45. Until Covid-19 do us apart. Music Scenes in Lockdown

    Kuchar, R. (Project staff), Barber-Kersovan, A. (Project staff) & Kirchberg, V. (Project staff)

    01.03.2101.03.22

    Project: Research

  46. DigID: Doing Digital Identities

    Scheel, S. (Project manager, academic), El-Kahil, S. (Project staff), O'Brien, O. (Project staff), Lambert, L. (Project staff) & Hargyono, S. (Project staff)

    01.02.2331.01.28

    Project: Research