Volker Kirchberg
Prof. Dr.
- Cultural Distribution/Cultural Organization
- Sociology
Research areas
- Academic networks or partnerships
European Sociological Association (ESA) (External organisation)
Volker Kirchberg (Executive member)
2001 → 2011Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Research
Fachverband für Kulturmanagementforschung e.V. (External organisation)
Volker Kirchberg (Chair)
16.01.2016 → …Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Research
International Council of Museums (External organisation)
Volker Kirchberg (Member)
1998 → …Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Research
IULM University (External organisation)
Volker Kirchberg (Coordinator)
08.02.2012 → …Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Research
Leuphana Universität Lüneburg (Organisational unit)
Volker Kirchberg (Member)
15.01.2016 → 24.01.2016Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Education
Wayne State University Detroit (External organisation)
Volker Kirchberg (Member)
06.05.2016 → 12.06.2016Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Education
- Learned societies and special interest organisations
Association of Cultural Economics International (ACEI) (External organisation)
Volker Kirchberg (Member)
2011 → …Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Research
Fachverband für Kulturmanagementforschung e.V. (External organisation)
Volker Kirchberg (Full member)
2008 → …Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Research
- Leuphana academic councils and committees
Graduate School (Organisational unit)
Volker Kirchberg (Chair)
05.2012 → 09.2017Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
Institute of Sociology and Cultural Organization (Organisational unit)
Volker Kirchberg (Chair)
17.01.2008 → 31.12.2011Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
Institute of Sociology and Cultural Organization (Organisational unit)
Volker Kirchberg (Chair)
01.04.2015 → 30.09.2019Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
Leuphana Universität Lüneburg (Organisational unit)
Volker Kirchberg (Member)
05.2011 → 01.2014Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
School of Culture and Society (Organisational unit)
Volker Kirchberg (Member)
01.10.2010 → 01.10.2012Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
School of Culture and Society (Organisational unit)
Volker Kirchberg (Chair)
01.10.2010 → 01.10.2012Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
School of Culture and Society (Organisational unit)
Volker Kirchberg (Chair)
01.04.2010 → 01.10.2012Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
School of Culture and Society (Organisational unit)
Volker Kirchberg (Member)
01.10.2010 → 01.10.2012Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
School of Culture and Society (Organisational unit)
Volker Kirchberg (Chair)
01.04.2019 → …Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
School of Culture and Society (Organisational unit)
Volker Kirchberg (Chair)
01.04.2019 → …Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
School of Culture and Society (Organisational unit)
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
01.04.2019 → …Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
- Visiting an external academic institution
Bifröst University In Iceland
Volker Kirchberg (Visiting researcher)
23.05.2016 → 27.05.2016Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution › Education
Bifröst University, Reykjavik & Bifröst, Iceland
Volker Kirchberg (Visiting researcher)
05.05.2018 → 01.07.2018Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution › Research
New York University
Volker Kirchberg (Visiting researcher)
10.05.2010 → 10.09.2010Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution › Research
- Hosting an academic visitor
J. Pedro Lorente
Volker Kirchberg (Host)
21.07.2023 → 28.07.2023Activity: Hosting a visitor › Hosting an academic visitor
Sabine Knierbein
Volker Kirchberg (Host)
07.08.2023 → 12.08.2023Activity: Hosting a visitor › Hosting an academic visitor
Sigrún Lilja Einarsdottir
Volker Kirchberg (Host)
07.12.2023 → 11.12.2023Activity: Hosting a visitor › Hosting an academic visitor
- Academic Consultant
Evaluierung des Deutschen Museums von Meisterwerken der Naturwissenschaft und Technik (DM) in München
Volker Kirchberg (Reviewer)
17.01.2024 → 19.01.2024Activity: Other expert activities › Academic Consultant › Research
Stellungnahme zum Antrag der CDU- und FDP-Fraktionen Drs. 16/4321 „Senioren und Kultur“ vom 18.11.2011: Bewertung des Entschließungsantrags an den Landtag des Landes Niedersachsen
Volker Kirchberg (Reviewer)
04.03.2012Activity: Other expert activities › Academic Consultant › Transfer
- Peer review of project proposals
Jury-Mitglied: Vergabe des Hanns-Lilje-Stiftungspreises Freiheit und Verantwortung 2014: Die bildende Kraft von Kunst und Kultur
Volker Kirchberg (Reviewer)
28.01.2015Activity: Other expert activities › Peer review of project proposals › Research
- Conference Presentations
Artistic Utopian Spaces and the Promise of Urban Development
Kerstin Niemann (Speaker) & Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
02.09.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Artists, Politics, Cities: A New Typology of Artists
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker) & Avner de-Shalit (Speaker)
04.03.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Bourdieu's political capital revisited – Artists' political activities in view of the field theory
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker) & Marie Hoop (Speaker)
21.08.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Changing Implicitness – Functions of Arts and Culture in Urban Planning and Policies across Times and Places
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
16.07.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
City as Space of Possibility – Alternative and Artistic Initiatives Towards Urban Sustainability
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker) & Sacha Kagan (Speaker)
31.08.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Classical music making in artistic precarity
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker), Alenka Barber-Kersovan (Speaker) & Tobias Lutze (Speaker)
15.09.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Critical Artistic Interventions in Urban Contexts – The Intrinsic Logic or Spirit of Cities and Its Influence on Critical Artists
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker) & Marie Hoop (Speaker)
11.03.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Critical Art(ist)s and Urban Development - A Collaborative Study Comparing German and Israeli Cities
Milena Seidl (Speaker), Tomma Groth (Speaker), Patricia Wedler (Speaker), Volker Kirchberg (Speaker), Avner de-Shalit (Speaker), Merav Kadar (Speaker) & Nir Barak (Speaker)
13.05.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Critical Artists and Urban Development – A Typology of Political Activism in the Arts
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker) & Patricia Wedler (Speaker)
22.11.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Critical Artists and Urban Development in Hanover, Hamburg, Jerusalem and Tel Aviv - Theoretical and Field Access, Exploratory Interviews
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker), Milena Seidl (Speaker) & Tomma Groth (Speaker)
06.03.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Critical Artists and Urban Development - Theoretical Foundations and Proposed Explanations
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker) & Patricia Wedler (Speaker)
19.07.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Cultural Leadership: Perspektiven und Herausforderungen
Volker Kirchberg (Panel participant), Réka Csorba (Panel participant), René Gögge (Panel participant), Tina Heine (Panel participant), Falk Hoquél (Panel participant), Norbert Kölle (Panel participant) & Barbara Neundlinger (Panel participant)
18.01.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Entrance fees as a subjective barrier to visiting museums - results from a representative survey in Germany
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
08.05.1996 → 11.05.1996Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Eras of cultural policy in the Federal Republic of Germany
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
04.07.1996Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Exploring Urban Music Studies (Roundtable)
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker), Lisa Gaupp (Speaker), Robin Kuchar (Speaker) & Alenka Barber-Kersovan (Speaker)
07.09.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Imagining real utopia: An empirical exploration of organizing alternative projects
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker) & Svea Blieffert (Speaker)
28.06.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Imagining real utopias. An empirical exploration of organizing urban and rural projects for the good life
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker) & Svea Blieffert (Speaker)
07.07.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Making Urban Spaces of Possibilities: Cultural Infrastructures and the Politics Of Cooperation In Real-Utopian Place-Making (Workshop)
Volker Kirchberg (Panel participant), Sacha Kagan (Panel participant), Mark-Anthony Falzon (Panel participant) & John Bingham-Hall (Panel participant)
06.09.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Managing Utopia - Artistic Visions of Sustainable Lifestyles and Their Realization
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
26.06.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Managing Utopia in the Arts – Cultural Visions of Sustainable and Other Visionary Lifestyles
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
20.01.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Museums and Theatres as Real Utopias
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
29.02.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Museums, merchandising, and nonprofit commercialization
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
2001Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research