Volker Kirchberg
Prof. Dr.
- Cultural Distribution/Cultural Organization
- Sociology
Research areas
- Editor of journals
City, Culture, and Society (Journal)
Volker Kirchberg (Editor)
09.2013Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of journals › Research
MAiA - Music and Arts in Action (Journal)
Volker Kirchberg (Editorial Board)
2011 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of journals › Research
Museum and Society (Journal)
Volker Kirchberg (Editorial Board)
2006 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of journals › Research
Sociologia urbana e rurale (Journal)
Volker Kirchberg (Editorial Board)
2013 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of journals › Research
The Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society (Journal)
Volker Kirchberg (Editorial Board)
2006 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of journals › Research
- Conferences
10. Konferenz des ESA Sociology of the Arts Research Network - 2008
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
08.11.2008Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
10th Conference of the European Sociological Association - ESA 2011
Volker Kirchberg (Organiser)
07.09.2011 → 10.09.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
10th International Conference of Association for Cultural Economics - ACEI 1998
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
06.1998Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
10th International Conference on Arts and Cultural Management - 2009
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
03.09.2009Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
12th Conference of the European Sociological Association - ESA 2015
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
26.08.2015Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
13. International Conference on Cultural Economics 2004
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
04.06.2004Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
13. Jahrestagung der Visitor Studies Association 2000
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
08.2000Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
13. Versammlung der Alpha Kappa Delta Sociology Honor Society Gamma Chapter der William Paterson University 2002
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
24.04.2002Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
17. Conference on Social Theory, Politics and the Arts 1991
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
10.1991Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
1st European Commission Conference on the European Cities in Transition 2001
Volker Kirchberg (Organiser)
14.12.2001Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
1. Tagung des Arbeitskreises Freilichtmuseen im Deutschen Museumsbund 2008
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
22.09.2008 → 23.09.2008Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
20. Conferene on Social Theory, Politics and the Arts 1994
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
20.10.1994 → 22.10.1994Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
21. Conference on Social Theory, Politics and the Arts 1995
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
19.10.1995 → 21.10.1995Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
24. ISA Weltkongress der Soziologie 1998
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
07.1998Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
24. Treffen der Johns Hopkins International Urban Fellows Conference 1994
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
11.06.1994 → 16.06.1994Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
30. Konferenz Social Theory, Politics and the Arts - 2004
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
08.10.2004Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
34th Annual International Social Theory, Politics and the Arts Conference - STPA 2008
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
18.10.2008Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
36. Kongresses der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie - DSG 2012
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
05.10.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
3. Arbeitstagung des Fachverband für Kulturmanagement - 2009
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
17.01.2009Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
4. Arts and Culture Management International Conference - AIMAC 1997
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
01.07.1997Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
4. Jahrestagung Fachverband für Kulturmanagement 2011
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
13.01.2011 → 15.01.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
6. Konferenz des European Sociological Association Kunstsoziologie Netzwerkes 2004
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
04.11.2004Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
7. International Conference on Cultural Economics 1992
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
22.10.1992 → 24.10.1992Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
7th Conference of the European Sociological Association - ESA 2005
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
09.2005Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
7th Mid-Term Conference of the European Sociological Association - Sociology of the Arts Research Network 2012
Volker Kirchberg (Organiser)
08.09.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
8. International Conference on Cultural Economics 1994
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
24.08.1994 → 26.08.1994Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
92. American Sociological Association-Kongress 1997
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
12.08.1997Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
94. Kongress der American Association of Museums ("International Marketplace of Ideas") 1999
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
26.04.1999Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
97. Kongress der American Sociological Association (Space and Place Network Panel) 2002
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
16.08.2002 → 19.08.2002Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
98. Kongress der American Sociological Association (Kultursoziologie-Sektion) 2003
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
17.08.2003Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
ACME and ASK Seminar Series at the Bocconi Università 2011
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
20.05.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
American Sociological Association’s 111th Annual Meeting
Volker Kirchberg (Participant)
19.08.2016 → 24.08.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Annual Meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society in Baltimore 2009
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
19.03.2009 → 22.03.2009Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
ARNOVA Konferenz 2002
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
16.11.2002Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Artists in Cities of Distress: Baltimore and Detroit
Volker Kirchberg (Organiser)
29.06.2016 → 21.07.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Arts Management: Sociological Inquiries 2009
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
03.09.2009Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Conference European Sociological Association - ESA 2007
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
03.09.2007 → 06.09.2007Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Conference of the European Sociological Association - ESA 2007
Volker Kirchberg (Organiser) & Sacha Kagan (Chair)
28.03.2007 → 01.04.2007Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Conference on Social Theory, Politics and the Arts - STPA 2001
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
19.10.2001Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
ESF SCH/SCSS Exploratory Workshop - 2009
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
29.05.2009Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Fachtagung „Musik prospektiv“ der ON - Neue Musik Köln 2011
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
11.02.2011 → 12.02.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Fortbildungstagung des Sächsischen Museumsbundes 2011
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
07.11.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Frühjahrstagung der Sektion "Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie" 1996
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
28.03.1996 → 30.03.1996Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
gemeinsame Konferenz zur Kunstsoziologie der International Sociological Association und der European Sociological Association 2003
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
15.04.2003Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Groove the City - 2020
Volker Kirchberg (Organiser), Lisa Gaupp (Organiser), Alenka Barber-Kersovan (Organiser) & Robin Kuchar (Organiser)
13.02.2020 → 15.02.2020Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
III. Museums-management-Tagung zum Thema Museumsziele
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
24.11.1998Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
International Conference "Groove the City" 2018
Volker Kirchberg (Organiser), Robin Kuchar (Organiser), Lisa Gaupp (Organiser), Alenka Barber-Kersovan (Organiser) & Robin Kuchar (Chair)
23.11.2018 → 25.11.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Internationales Symposium "Creative Cluster and Creative Milieu: From A Perspective of International Comparison" - 2006
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
17.03.2006Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Internationales Symposium des Hauses der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland in Bonn "Museen und ihre Besucher. Herausforderungen in der Zukunft" 1995
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
21.11.1995 → 24.11.1995Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
International Master's Degree Programme in Museology of the Reinwardt Academy, Amsterdam 2007
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
26.11.2007Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
International Symposium "Museums Matter: A Tribute to Stephen Weil" - 2006
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
13.09.2006 → 15.09.2006Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
International Week: Fall International Talks - IULM 2011
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
09.11.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
ISA Sociology of Art and Culture Conference 2005
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
29.03.2005Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Jahrestagung des Bundesverbandes Museumspädagogik - Crossover 2006
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
12.10.2006Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Jahrestagung des Deutschen Museumsbundes 2011
Volker Kirchberg (Keynote speaker)
09.05.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Konferenz des ESA Research Network for the Sociology of the Arts - 2007
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
31.03.2007Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Konferenz "Lebensstile in Städten" 1993
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
12.05.1993 → 14.05.1993Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Konferenz zum Kultur-Sponsoring in den neuen Bundesländern, Polen und der CSFR 1992
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
10.09.1992Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Kreativität, Kultur und Stadtentwicklung - stadtsoziologische Deutungen der Wechselbeziehungen. 2008
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
20.02.2008Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Kulturkonferenz der Ständigen Kulturpolitischen Konferenz und der Landesarbeitsgemeinschaft Kultur Berlin der Partei Die Linke 2011
Volker Kirchberg (Keynote speaker)
02.09.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Künste und Mächte - Politiken in und durch die Künste
Volker Kirchberg (Organiser), Lisa Gaupp (Organiser) & Alenka Barber-Kersovan (Organiser)
22.11.2018 → 23.11.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Online-Vortrag 1998
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
06.10.1998Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Public Galleries Association of Victoria 1998
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
30.10.1998Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Repository of Memories or Catalyst of Illumination? - 2003
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
2003Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Ringvorlesung "Fortschritt" - Paradigmen der Kulturwissenschaften, Leuphana Universität
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
15.11.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Seminar on City Marketing and Planning 1992
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
12.11.1992 → 13.11.1992Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Sitzung des Hamburger Museumsverbandes - 2006
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
18.01.2006Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Stadt als Möglichkeitsraum - Ist Hannover ein Platz für Reale Utopien? 2018
Volker Kirchberg (Organiser), Julia Barthel (Moderator) & Constantin Alexander (Organiser)
18.04.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
Stadtentwicklung durch Kultur - 2007
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
16.11.2007Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Symposium Kulturvermittlung 2005
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
12.02.2005Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Symposium "Zukunftskonzert: Musikvermittlung und Aufführungskultur" - 2008
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
24.04.2008Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Tagung des Centers for Global Change and Governance an der Rutgers University
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
25.04.2003Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Tagung "Kulturbetriebsforschung: Ansätze und Methoden" - 2005
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
25.11.2005Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Tagung "Vergleichen lohnt sich" - Benchmarking als effektives Instrument des Museumsmanagements - 2001
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
21.06.2001 → 22.06.2001Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
The Consumption of Culture - The Culture of Consumption - ICARE 2009
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
17.04.2009Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
The new public interest in museums - supply and demand side explanations for an increasing awareness of museums 1998
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
11.11.1998Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
What is Urban Music Studies (UMS), and what could it be?
Volker Kirchberg (Organiser), Robin Kuchar (Organiser), Lisa Gaupp (Organiser) & Alenka Barber-Kersovan (Organiser)
20.10.2017 → 21.10.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Workshop at THINC Design 2011
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
23.11.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Workshop der Baltimore Jubilee Inc. 2011
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
30.03.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Workshop "Lernen im Museum: Die Rolle von Medien für die Resituierung von Exponaten" - 2006
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
02.03.2006Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
XIII. Weltsoziologentag - 1994
Volker Kirchberg (Chair)
18.07.1994 → 21.07.1994Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
XIII. Weltsoziologentag - 1994
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
18.07.1994 → 21.07.1994Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
Zur Ambivalenz von Handeln und sozialen Strukturen: Soziologische Akteursmodelle zwischen dem homo sociologicus und dem homo oeconomicus. 2003
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
18.06.2003Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
- External workshops, courses, seminars
6. Konferenz des European Sociological Association Kunstsoziologie Netzwerkes 2004
Volker Kirchberg (Organiser)
04.11.2004Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Artists in Cities of Distress: Baltimore and Detroit
Volker Kirchberg (Organiser)
01.03.2016 → 14.03.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
ESF Exploratory Workshop on Re-inventions of Early-European Performing Arts and the Creative City, Civic Regeneration and Cultural Tourism - REPACC 2012
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
11.09.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Hannovers Möglichkeitsräume - Erster Abschlussworkshop des SaM-Projektes - 2018
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker), Antoniya Hauerwaas (Speaker), Sacha Kagan (Speaker) & Felix Kostrzewa (Organiser)
13.02.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Transfer
Linden Fiction Revisited - Utopie als kreativer Möglichkeitsraum 2018
Ute Finkeldei (Speaker), Annette Grigoleit (Speaker), Verena Holz (Speaker), Charlotte Laube (Speaker) & Volker Kirchberg (Participant)
23.04.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Transfer
- Guest lectures
A preliminary typology of contemporary arts managers' value categories
Volker Kirchberg (Lecturer)
01.05.2007Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Art and Culture as an Urban Development Tool: A Diachronic Case Study
Volker Kirchberg (Lecturer)
19.06.2016 → 21.06.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Arts and culture as urban development tool: a comparative study in Baltimore and Hamburg
Volker Kirchberg (Lecturer)
26.08.2010Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Arts and entertainment districts - creative districts as urban development tools?: The example of Baltimore
Volker Kirchberg (Lecturer)
08.10.2010Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Besucherforschung als Antwort auf die gesellschaftlichen Herausforderungen von Museen
Volker Kirchberg (Lecturer)
24.10.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Contingencies of Art Policy: Comparing Probabilistic and Deterministic Cultural Planning Modes in Baltimore and Hamburg
Volker Kirchberg (Lecturer)
17.01.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Contingencies Of Art Policy: Comparing Probabilistic and Deterministic Cultural Planning Modes in Baltimore and Hamburg
Volker Kirchberg (Lecturer)
28.02.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research