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
- 2024
Luftrummets organisering
Jorgensen, L. (Speaker)
08.11.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › 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
Prototyping sustainable futures
Jorgensen, L. (Speaker)
23.09.2024Activity: 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
- 2023
Human Relations (Journal)
Jorgensen, L. (Editorial Board)
01.09.2023 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Conference - Stanford-Leuphana Summer Academy 2023:
Beyes, T. (Speaker) & Pias, C. (Speaker)
25.06.2023 → 30.06.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Course/Conference - European Summer Academy 2023
Beyes, T. (Speaker), Steyaert, C. (Speaker), Schellmann, M. (Speaker) & Calcagno, M. (Speaker)
29.05.2023 → 03.06.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
Going adrift in dystopian conditions: Organizing protest and resistance in present-day Russia
Kalinina, A. (Speaker) & Beyes, T. (Speaker)
18.05.2023 → 20.05.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
‘Critical Atmospheres'
Jorgensen, L. (Speaker)
21.04.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
It’s all method – Schmitz and Neo-phenomenology
Jorgensen, L. (Speaker)
20.04.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Kurs - Organizing Culture
Beyes, T. (Speaker), Steyaert, C. (Speaker) & Schulze, J. (Speaker)
11.04.2023 → 15.04.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
- 2022
Situation, envelopment, attunement: A critique of organizational atmospherics
Beyes, T. (Speaker)
23.09.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
sub-theme convenor: Digital Capitalism: Grappling with Silicon Valley
Beyes, T. (Speaker), Beverungen, A. (Speaker) & Bialski, P. (Speaker)
07.07.2022 → 09.07.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Organization (Journal)
Jorgensen, L. (Editorial Board)
27.06.2022 → 30.09.2023Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Conference - Stanford-Leuphana Summer Academy 2022
Beyes, T. (Organiser) & Pias, C. (Organiser)
20.06.2022 → 24.06.2022Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Course/Conference - European Summer Academy 2022
Beyes, T. (Speaker), Steyaert, C. (Speaker), Schellmann, M. (Speaker), Calcagno, M. (Speaker) & Holt, R. (Speaker)
29.05.2022 → 03.06.2022Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
- 2021
Conference - Stanford-Leuphana Winter Academy 2021 - Technologies of Bureaucracy
Beyes, T. (Speaker) & Pias, C. (Speaker)
13.12.2021 → 17.12.2021Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Stanford-Leuphana Winter Academy 2021
Wieghorst, C. (Participant)
13.12.2021 → 15.12.2021Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Unrelating
Wieghorst, C. (Organiser)
18.11.2021 → 09.12.2021Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Unrelating
Beyes, T. (Speaker), Stäheli, U. (Speaker), Wieghorst, C. (Speaker) & Zierott, L. (Speaker)
18.11.2021 → 09.12.2021Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
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)
07.11.2021 → 12.11.2021Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
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)
30.09.2021 → 01.10.2021Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Symposion/Exhibition - Proof of Stake
Denny, S. (Speaker), Beyes, T. (Speaker) & Steinbrügge, B. (Speaker)
03.09.2021 → 04.09.2021Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › artistic events › Transfer
Presenting paper 'Writing Organization Atmospherically'
Jorgensen, L. (Speaker)
06.07.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Architecture and Culture (Journal)
Jorgensen, L. (Editorial Board)
01.06.2021 → 28.05.2022Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
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)
17.05.2021 → 21.05.2021Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
Imagining 'Off the Grid'
Wieghorst, C. (Speaker)
07.05.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Management Learning (Journal)
Jorgensen, L. (Editorial Board)
16.04.2021 → 30.03.2022Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Digitox seminar January 2021: How to study disconnection and detox? A panel on challenges and opportunities of larger projects
Wieghorst, C. (Speaker)
13.01.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
- 2020
Imaginaries of Disconnection
Wieghorst, C. (Speaker)
02.10.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
School of Culture and Society (Organisational unit)
Beyes, T. (Member)
10.2020 → …Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
Course/Conference - European Summer Academy 2020 - Don't be evil.
Beyes, T. (Speaker), Schellmann, M. (Speaker), Schulz, F. (Speaker) & Calcagno, M. (Speaker)
24.05.2020 → 29.05.2020Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
Senat (Organisational unit)
Beyes, T. (Member)
04.2020 → …Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
Szenen und Imaginäre der Entnetzung
Wieghorst, C. (Speaker)
13.01.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Organization Studies (Journal)
Beyes, T. (Editorial Board)
2020 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of journals › Research
- 2019
Stanford-Leuphana Summer Academy 2019
Beyes, T. (Organiser), Pias, C. (Organiser) & Pinkrah, N. Y. (Organiser)
24.06.2019 → 28.06.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Transfer
35th EGOS Colloquium - EGOS 2019
Beyes, T. (Organiser)
04.06.2019 → 06.06.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Course/Conference - European Summer Academy 2019 - Be creative!
Beyes, T. (Organiser)
26.05.2019 → 31.05.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Transfer
Organization Studies Workshop: Technology and organization - 2019
Wieghorst, C. (Speaker)
23.05.2019 → 25.05.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Organization Studies Workshop: Technology and organization - 2019
Beyes, T. (Organiser)
23.05.2019 → 25.05.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
THE FUTURE OF ephemera - 2019
Conrad, L. (Speaker)
02.05.2019 → 03.05.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Data & Drama - 2019
Conrad, L. (Speaker), Heinrichs, R. (Speaker) & Cnossen, B. (Speaker)
10.04.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Squirreling myself away from the world: Silence and fieldnotes
Conrad, L. (Speaker)
10.04.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie (External organisation)
Wieghorst, C. (Member)
2019Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Research
Organization (Journal)
Conrad, L. (Editor), Beverungen, A. (Editor) & Beyes, T. (Editor)
2019Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of journals › Research
Organization Studies (Journal)
Beyes, T. (Editor)
2019 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of journals › Research
- 2018
Annäherung an eine Soziologie der Entnetzung - Analognostalgie und Räumlichkeit
Wieghorst, C. (Speaker)
27.11.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
The Arcane in Digital Cultures - 2018
Beyes, T. (Organiser)
21.11.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Knowing Colour - 2018/19
Beyes, T. (Organiser)
15.10.2018 → 01.02.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
Institute of Sociology and Cultural Organization (Organisational unit)
Beyes, T. (Office)
10.2018 → …Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
Internationa Conference Digital Cultures
Vehlken, S. (Speaker) & Beyes, T. (Organiser)
19.09.2018 → 22.09.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Enterprise Resource Planning Systems: New transparency, new opacity
Conrad, L. (Speaker)
27.07.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Conference of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology - EASST 2018
Conrad, L. (Organiser)
25.07.2018 → 28.07.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
The Sap of Organizational Life
Conrad, L. (Speaker)
05.07.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
8th Organizations, Artifacts and Practices Workshop - OAP 2018
Conrad, L. (Participant)
21.06.2018 → 22.06.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
The work of disconnection
Beyes, T. (Keynote Speaker)
21.06.2018 → 22.06.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Workshop: Organizing Digital Cultures: Histories, Ethnographies, Materialities
Conrad, L. (Organiser), Beyes, T. (Organiser) & Apprich, C. (Organiser)
07.06.2018 → 08.06.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Medienorganisationstheorie
Beyes, T. (Coauthor)
18.05.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Workshop "Theoretische und empirische Grundlagen einer soziologischen Digitalisierungsforschung" - TU Berlin
Conrad, L. (Lecturer)
18.05.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Creativity and Social Organization MA Seminar - 2018
Beyes, T. (Organiser)
01.04.2018 → 15.07.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
Ephemera: Theory & Politics in Organization (Journal)
Conrad, L. (Editorial Board)
01.04.2018Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of journals › Research
Urban Atmospheres BA Seminar - 2018
Beyes, T. (Organiser)
01.04.2018 → 15.07.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
School of Culture and Society (Organisational unit)
Beyes, T. (Member)
04.2018 → 03.2022Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
Digitalization – a panel discussion with Andrus Ansip (European Commissioner for Digital Single Market and Vice President of the European Commission)
Beyes, T. (Speaker)
21.03.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Flat, intense and shiny: The colour chart’s aesthetics of organizing
Beyes, T. (Speaker)
08.03.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Organization theory and the politics of space
Beyes, T. (Speaker)
15.02.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Art, aesthetics and organization: a research seminar
Beyes, T. (Speaker)
12.02.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Michael Warner,Publics and Counterpublics (2002)
Beyes, T. (Speaker)
17.01.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Critical Socio-Political-Organization in Digital Cultures
Beyes, T. (Speaker)
11.01.2018 → 12.01.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Centre for Digital Cultures (Organisational unit)
Wieghorst, C. (Member)
2018Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Research
Université Paris-Dauphine
Beyes, T. (Visiting lecturer)
2018Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution › Research
University of Minnesota Press (Publisher)
Beyes, T. (Editorial Board), Chun, W. (Editorial Board), Bachmann, G. (Editorial Board) & Bunz, M.-S. (Editorial Board)
2018 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of series › Research
University of Minnesota Press (Publisher)
Beyes, T. (Editor)
2018 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of series › Research
University of Minnesota Press (Publisher)
Beyes, T. (Editorial Board), Bunz, M. (Editorial Board) & Kyong Chun, W. H. (Editorial Board)
2018 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of series › Research
- 2017
Surveillance Capitalism. Überwachen und unterhalten
Beyes, T. (Speaker)
14.12.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Niklas Luhmann am OVG Lüneburg.
Beyes, T. (Speaker)
05.12.2017 → 06.12.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Intendanz vs. kollaborative Leitungsmodelle
Beyes, T. (Speaker)
16.11.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Oxford Handbook of Media, Technology and Organization Studies Writing Workshop
Beyes, T. (Organiser)
19.10.2017 → 20.10.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Colloquium social critique - 2017
Beyes, T. (Organiser)
15.10.2017 → 01.02.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
Digital Cultures MA Seminar - 2019
Beyes, T. (Organiser)
15.10.2017 → 01.02.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
New Forms of Organizing Culture MA Seminar - 2017/18
Beyes, T. (Organiser)
15.10.2017 → 01.02.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
Sloterdijk’s Plural Spherology and its potential for Organization Studies - 2018
Beyes, T. (Organiser)
15.10.2017 → 01.02.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
Aesthetics, Affect and the Good Organization
Beyes, T. (Speaker)
07.07.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
33th EGOS Colloquium - EGOS 2017
Beyes, T. (Organiser)
06.07.2017 → 08.07.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Kafka’s bestiary of organizing
Holt, R. D. (Coauthor) & Beyes, T. (Coauthor)
06.07.2017 → 08.07.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Paper, pegboard, software: Elements of a media theory of organization
Conrad, L. (presenter) & Beyes, T. (Coauthor)
06.07.2017 → 08.07.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
The distribution of the insensible: Organizational aesthetics in the age of digital reproduction
Beyes, T. (Coauthor)
06.07.2017 → 08.07.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Lives of the secret: Rimini Protokoll’s Top Secret International (State 1)
Beyes, T. (Coauthor)
08.06.2017 → 11.06.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Colour is as colour does: Green and social ordering
Beyes, T. (Speaker)
19.05.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Work and Organization in the Digital Age
Beyes, T. (Speaker)
18.05.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Organisation im soziotechnischen Gemenge
Conrad, L. (Oral presentation)
16.05.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Organize: Satin Island.
Beyes, T. (Speaker)
19.04.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Education
After the Revolution: On Digital Cultures
Beyes, T. (Organiser)
07.04.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Rethinking Management Education: Theories, Practices, Interventions 2017
Beyes, T. (Organiser)
01.04.2017 → 15.07.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
Was sind digitale Kulturen? MA Seminar
Beyes, T. (Organiser)
01.04.2017 → 15.07.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
33th EGOS Colloquium - EGOS 2017
Beyes, T. (Organiser)
2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
European Group of Organizational Studies (External organisation)
Beyes, T. (Chair)
2017 → …Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Research
Organization Studies (Journal)
Beyes, T. (Editorial Board)
2017 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of journals › Research