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. 33th EGOS Colloquium - EGOS 2017

    Beyes, T. (Organiser)

    2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  2. 33th EGOS Colloquium - EGOS 2017

    Beyes, T. (Organiser)

    06.07.201708.07.2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  3. 35th EGOS Colloquium - EGOS 2019

    Beyes, T. (Organiser)

    04.06.201906.06.2019

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  4. 4. Workshop des Arbeitskreises Digitalisierung und Organisation der Sektion Organisationssoziologie der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie - 2021

    Beverungen, A. (Speaker), Beyes, T. (Speaker) & Conrad, L. (Speaker)

    30.09.202101.10.2021

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  5. 8th Organizations, Artifacts and Practices Workshop - OAP 2018

    Conrad, L. (Participant)

    21.06.201822.06.2018

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

  6. Academic Space

    Beyes, T. (Speaker)

    25.02.201626.02.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  7. advice on red tape

    Jorgensen, L. (Consultant)

    2024 → …

    Activity: Consultancy

  8. Aesthetics, Affect and the Good Organization

    Beyes, T. (Speaker)

    07.07.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsResearch

  9. After the Revolution: On Digital Cultures

    Beyes, T. (Organiser)

    07.04.2017

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

  10. Annäherung an eine Soziologie der Entnetzung - Analognostalgie und Räumlichkeit

    Wieghorst, C. (Speaker)

    27.11.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsResearch

  11. Architecture and Culture (Journal)

    Jorgensen, L. (Editorial Board)

    01.06.202128.05.2022

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workPeer review of publicationenResearch

  12. Art/Activism

    Beyes, T. (Speaker)

    20.10.201621.10.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsResearch

  13. Art, aesthetics and organization: a research seminar

    Beyes, T. (Speaker)

    12.02.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  14. BA Seminar: Aesthetics and Marketing - 2016

    Beyes, T. (Organiser)

    01.04.201615.07.2016

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

  15. BA Seminar: Cultural Entrepreneurship - 2016

    Beyes, T. (Organiser)

    01.04.201615.07.2016

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

  16. BA Seminar "Strategische Herausforderungen in Nonprofit-Organisationen" - 2005

    Beyes, T. (Organiser)

    01.04.200415.07.2005

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

  17. BA Seminar: Theories of Contemporary Society II

    Beyes, T. (Organiser)

    01.04.201615.07.2016

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

  18. Centre for Digital Cultures (Organisational unit)

    Wieghorst, C. (Member)

    2018

    Activity: MembershipLearned societies and special interest organisationsResearch

  19. Centre for Digital Cultures (Organisational unit)

    Beyes, T. (Office)

    01.201310.2021

    Activity: MembershipLeuphana academic councils and committeesLeuphana Academic Committees

  20. Centre for Digital Cultures (Organisational unit)

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

    2012 → …

    Activity: MembershipLeuphana academic councils and committeesLeuphana Academic Committees

  21. 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

  22. 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

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

    Beyes, T. (Speaker)

    19.05.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  24. 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

  25. 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

  26. 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

  27. 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

  28. Copenhagen Business School (External organisation)

    Beyes, T. (Office)

    04.201310.2016

    Activity: MembershipLeuphana academic councils and committeesLeuphana Academic Committees

  29. 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

  30. 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

  31. Course/Conference - European Summer Academy 2021: Mapping Entrepreneurial Neighbourhoods

    Beyes, T. (Speaker), Steyaert, C. (Speaker), Schellmann, M. (Speaker), Calcagno, M. (Speaker), Blanc, A. (Speaker) & Joergensen, L. (Speaker)

    17.05.202121.05.2021

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

  32. Course/Conference - European Summer Academy 2022

    Beyes, T. (Speaker), Steyaert, C. (Speaker), Schellmann, M. (Speaker), Calcagno, M. (Speaker) & Holt, R. (Speaker)

    29.05.202203.06.2022

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

  33. Course/Conference - European Summer Academy 2023

    Beyes, T. (Speaker), Steyaert, C. (Speaker), Schellmann, M. (Speaker) & Calcagno, M. (Speaker)

    29.05.202303.06.2023

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

  34. Course/Conference - European Winter Academy 2021 - Organizing Museums in Digital Cultures.

    Beyes, T. (Speaker), Steyaert, C. (Speaker), Schellmann, M. (Speaker), Schulze, J. (Speaker) & Joergensen, L. (Speaker)

    07.11.202112.11.2021

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

  35. Creativity and Social Organization MA Seminar - 2018

    Beyes, T. (Organiser)

    01.04.201815.07.2018

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

  36. ‘Critical Atmospheres'

    Jorgensen, L. (Speaker)

    21.04.2023

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  37. Critical Socio-Political-Organization in Digital Cultures

    Beyes, T. (Speaker)

    11.01.201812.01.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  38. Data & Drama - 2019

    Conrad, L. (Speaker), Heinrichs, R. (Speaker) & Cnossen, B. (Speaker)

    10.04.2019

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

  39. Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie (External organisation)

    Wieghorst, C. (Member)

    2019

    Activity: MembershipLearned societies and special interest organisationsResearch

  40. Digital Cultures MA Seminar - 2019

    Beyes, T. (Organiser)

    15.10.201701.02.2019

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

  41. Digital Cultures Research Lab (Organisational unit)

    Pias, C. (Chair), Bachmann, G. (Chair), Beyes, T. (Chair) & Leeker, M. (Chair)

    20132018

    Activity: MembershipLeuphana academic councils and committeesLeuphana Academic Committees

  42. Enterprise Resource Planning Systems: New transparency, new opacity

    Conrad, L. (Speaker)

    27.07.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  43. Ephemera: Theory & Politics in Organization (Journal)

    Conrad, L. (Editorial Board)

    01.04.2018

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workEditor of journalsResearch

  44. European Group of Organizational Studies (External organisation)

    Beyes, T. (Chair)

    2017 → …

    Activity: MembershipLearned societies and special interest organisationsResearch

  45. Flat, intense and shiny: The colour chart’s aesthetics of organizing

    Beyes, T. (Speaker)

    08.03.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  46. Going adrift in dystopian conditions: Organizing protest and resistance in present-day Russia

    Kalinina, A. (Speaker) & Beyes, T. (Speaker)

    18.05.202320.05.2023

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  47. Human Relations (Journal)

    Jorgensen, L. (Editorial Board)

    01.09.2023 → …

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workPeer review of publicationenResearch

  48. Imaginaries of Disconnection

    Wieghorst, C. (Speaker)

    02.10.2020

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

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