Professur für Soziologie der Organisation und der Kultur

Organisational unit: Professoship

Organisation profile

The research field Sociology of Organization and Culture is dedicated to the interdependency of organization and culture. Organization is conditioned by culture. Forms and processes of organizing are based on cultural dispositions of experiencing, feeling, thinking and acting, and therefore on material, media-technological, spatial, and affective ordering modes and power relations. At the same time, the study of cultural practices and orders requires an organizational perspective. Culture is made manifest and changes on the level of organized and organizing interaction, cooperation and struggle.

Understanding organization through cultural theory (and culture through organization theory) thus denotes a broad approach to the ordering and disordering of the social. This approach is positioned in and at the margins of organizational and cultural sociology and the field of Organization Studies; and at the intersections with cultural theory, literary and media studies, art theory, human geography, and cultural anthropology.

The main research areas include:

  • old and new forms and processes of organizing art and culture
  • artistic engagements with, and reflections of, modes of organization (in literature, theatre, and the visual arts)
  • urban culture and organization: the spatial and urban constitution and contestation of organizational processes
  • the affective and atmospheric constitution of organization
  • colour as force and medium of organizing
  • the interdependency of organization and technology in and before the age of "digital cultures"
  • publics, counterpublics and politics of organizing
  • ethnographic, experimental and performative approaches to social and cultural research
  • the reorganization of university teaching and learning

Main research areas

Die kulturwissenschaftlich verstandene Organisationsforschung (bzw. die organisationstheoretisch verstandene Kulturwissenschaft) bezeichnet damit eine breit gefasste Herangehensweise an die Ordnung und Unordnung und an das alltägliche Geordnet-Werden des Sozialen. Sie arbeitet in und an den Rändern der Organisations- und Kultursoziologie sowie der internationalen Organization Studies; und an den Schnittstellen zu Kulturtheorie, Literatur- und Medienwissenschaft, Kunsttheorie, Humangeographie und Kulturanthropologie.

Die Schwerpunkte des Forschungsbereichs Soziologie der Organisation und der Kultur umfassen:

  • das Wechselverhältnis von Organisation und Medientechnik in und vor der Epoche „digitaler Kulturen“ und ihre gesellschaftlichen und politischen Konsequenzen
  • alte und neue Formen und Prozesse der Kunst- und Kulturorganisation sowie die künstlerische Bearbeitung und Reflexion von Organisationsweisen und Organisationskomplexen insb. in Literatur, Theater und bildender Kunst
  • die räumliche und städtische Konstitution und Umkämpftheit von Organisationsprozessen
  • die affektive und atmosphärische Konstitution und Kraft von Organisationsweisen
  • die Farbe als Kraft und Medium des Organisierens
  • alte und neue Ansätze ethnographischer, experimenteller und performativer Sozial- und Kulturforschung
  • die Reorganisation universitären Lehrens und Lernens, insb. hinsichtlich der Erkundung von Räumen und Atmosphären der Lehre
  1. Cities and Creativity: Urban Ethnographies MA Seminar - 2018

    Beyes, T. (Speaker)

    01.04.200515.07.2018

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsEducation

  2. Colloquium social critique - 2017

    Beyes, T. (Organiser)

    15.10.201701.02.2018

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsEducation

  3. Colour is as colour does: Green and social ordering

    Beyes, T. (Speaker)

    19.05.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  4. Conference of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology - EASST 2018

    Conrad, L. (Organiser)

    25.07.201828.07.2018

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  5. Conference - Stanford-Leuphana Summer Academy 2022

    Beyes, T. (Organiser) & Pias, C. (Organiser)

    20.06.202224.06.2022

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  6. Conference - Stanford-Leuphana Summer Academy 2023:

    Beyes, T. (Speaker) & Pias, C. (Speaker)

    25.06.202330.06.2023

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  7. Conference - Stanford-Leuphana Winter Academy 2021 - Technologies of Bureaucracy

    Beyes, T. (Speaker) & Pias, C. (Speaker)

    13.12.202117.12.2021

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  8. Copenhagen Business School (External organisation)

    Beyes, T. (Office)

    04.201310.2016

    Activity: MembershipLeuphana academic councils and committeesLeuphana Academic Committees

  9. Course/Conference - European Summer Academy 2019 - Be creative!

    Beyes, T. (Organiser)

    26.05.201931.05.2019

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsTransfer

  10. Course/Conference - European Summer Academy 2020 - Don't be evil.

    Beyes, T. (Speaker), Schellmann, M. (Speaker), Schulz, F. (Speaker) & Calcagno, M. (Speaker)

    24.05.202029.05.2020

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsEducation

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