Past Courses

Summer Semester 2012

• Family Memory in Letters and Diaries from WW2 and Its Possible Use for Museum Exhibitions (Volker Kirchberg, Hanno Balz)
• Social Functions of Museums (Volker Kirchberg)
• Organization of Arts and Culture (Volker Kirchberg)
• Methods of Cultural Analyses (Organization and Communication of Arts) - Visitor Research for Arts Institutions (Volker Kirchberg)
• Artistic Innovation in Urban Settings: The Art Scenes in Cities of the "Global South" (Sacha Kagan, Massimiliano Nuccio)
• Methods of Cultural Analyses (Organization and Communication of Arts) - Action Research, Artistic Research and Other Qualitative Approaches (Sacha Kagan)

Winter Semester 2011-2012

• Research Theories and Methods in Cultural Studies (Volker Kirchberg, Sven Kramer)
• Culture and Urban Development in cultural and social theory (Volker Kirchberg)
• Comparative studies of national museums (project seminar and USA excursion) (Volker Kirchberg)
• Content Analysis (Volker Kirchberg)
• Progress? (Volker Kirchberg and others)
• Colloquium for doctoral candidates of the IKKK (Volker Kirchberg and others)
• Independent Studies (Volker Kirchberg, Christoph Behnke, u.a.)
• The Organization of Culture - The Sustainability Perspective (Sacha Kagan)
• Studying the audience for the arts (Sacha Kagan)
• Art and Sustainability: Looking into the Lagoon Cycle by Helen and Newton Harrison (Sacha Kagan)
• Art and Sustainability (Christoph Behnke)
• Sociology of art markets (Christoph Behnke)
• Recent contributions to art Sociology (Christoph Behnke)
• Crash Course Art and Visual Culture (Christoph Behnkeand others)
• Management of cultural organizations (Massimiliano Nuccio)
• Organisation of the music industries (Robin Kuchar)
• Arts Fundraising (Sandra El Dakkak)
• Communication in cultural institutions (Sigrid Bekmeier-Feuerhahn, Henry C. Brinker)

Summer Semester 2011

• Fields and Markets of visual culture (Christoph Behnke)
• Social Functions of Museums (Volker Kirchberg)
• Green Aesthetics (Sacha Kagan)
• Cultural Administration (Andreas Heinen, Tim Knackstedt)
• Social and economic organization in the worlds of arts and culture (Sacha Kagan)
• Art and Social Theory (Christoph Behnke)
• Methods in the Analysis of Cultural Organization and Cultural Distribution (Volker Kirchberg)
• Organization of the musical field exemplified by Hamburg (Robin Kuchar)
• Perception and Consumption of Arts and Culture (Volker Kirchberg)

Winter Semester 2010-2011

• McDonaldization of the Arts - Contemporary Theories of Cultural Institutions (Martin Stolle)
• Introduction to Cultural Economics (Sacha Kagan)
• Research Theories and Methods in Cultural Studies (Volker Kirchberg, Sven Kramer)
• Cultural Administration (Andreas Heinen, Tim Knackstedt)
• Cultural Policy in international comparison (Sacha Kagan)
• Social Network Analysis of Arts and Culture (Volker Kirchberg)
• Social Theories in Art (Christoph Behnke, Sacha Kagan)
• Urban Culture and Social Movements - Gängeviertel, Frappant & Co. (Volker Kirchberg)

Summer Semester 2010

• Theories of photography (Christoph Behnke)
• The avant garde of the 20th century in the exhibition (Christoph Behnke)
• Creative economy reports: a comparison (Christoph Behnke)
• Branding in the arts and in the "creative industries" (Christoph Behnke)
• Cultural mediation (Sacha Kagan)
• Walking as transformative action-research in the arts and sciences (Sacha Kagan)
• Evaluation in arts and culture: the exhibition projekt "Academy of another city" (Yvonne Fietz)
• Historical museums: Construction of collective memory and identity as mediative achievment (Martin Stolle)
• Interpretative studies as foundation of exhibitions - examples from the NLM and elsewhere (Jaap Brakke)
• Conversion has to be accountable - as spaces for the arts become scarce and expensive (Kirsten Wagner)
• Corporate arts support in view of the economic downturn (Sandra Wilgenbusch)
• The significance of arts and cultural policies for the development of the EU (Lothar Prisor)

Winter Semester 2009-2010

• Examination colloquium in cultural distribution and cultural organization (Volker Kirchberg, Christoph Behnke, Sacha Kagan)
• Lecture series: City and culture – Perspectives from cultural sciences (Volker Kirchberg)
• Social network analysis of culture in the Lüneburg area – an analysis of administration and sponsors (Volker Kirchberg)
• Opening up museums to society (project seminar and USA excursion) (Volker Kirchberg)
• Ph.D. colloquium of the ICRA (Institute for Cultural Theory, Research, and the Arts) (Volker Kirchberg)
• The arts, cultural communication and organization (Christoph Behnke)
• World art studies: Globalization of the Arts (Christoph Behnke)
• Situationist psychogeography of a campus university (Christoph Behnke
• Music in Hamburg. Writing an empirical study based on survey data (Christoph Behnke)
• Public land use planning as an artistic field of work. The example of “art paths” in Vechtetal (Christoph Behnke)
• Social and economic organization in the worlds of arts and culture (Sacha Kagan)
• Evolution and Culture (Sacha Kagan and Ullrich Günther)

Summer Semester 2009

• Communication of culture – Culture of communication (Volker Kirchberg and Sigrid Bekmeier-Feuerhahn)
• Music in Hamburg. Project seminar on the production and distribution of music in Hamburg (Volker Kirchberg, Christoph Behnke)
• Exhibition experience and exhibition behavior – Theory and empirical research of an art exhibition visit (Volker Kirchberg)
• Social network analysis of musical venues in the Lüneburg area (Volker Kirchberg)
• Distribution in cultural fields – The museum as an externally-oriented cultural institution? (Volker Kirchberg)
• Arts audiences and art reception (Sacha Kagan)
• Sustainability through the performing arts? (Sacha Kagan)
• Institutions of the art world (Christoph Behnke)
• Urban development through culture – artistic praxis and social intervention in Hamburg (Yvonne Fietz)
• Exhibition management (Claudia Jonischkies)
• Financing multilateral cultural projects at the EU level (Anna Riepe)
• Cultural policy in Germany (Lothar Prisor)

Winter Semester 2008-2009

• Cultural sector and organizational theories (Volker Kirchberg) 
• Networks of culture – Dimensions of networking of places of literature in the Lüneburg region (Volker Kirchberg) 
• Sociology of music (Volker Kirchberg) 
• The future of culture – Prognoses for the development of the art and cultural sector (Volker Kirchberg) 
• Cultural policy in the creative industries (Christoph Behnke) 
• Instruments of cultural sponsoring (Christoph Behnke) 
• The arts, cultural communication and organization (Volker Kirchberg, Carola Schormann and Christoph Behnke) 
• European awareness of sustainability in Africa (Karamoja, Uganda) (Sacha Kagan) 
• Social responsibility in documentary film-making (Sacha Kagan) 
• Art and social change (Sacha Kagan) 
• Quantitative empirical social research (Maritin Stolle)

Summer Semester 2008

• Social functions of museums (Volker Kirchberg)
• The culture of consumption – Consumption of culture (Volker Kirchberg)
• Networks of art and cultural organization in the Lüneburg region (Volker Kirchberg)
• The ecology of culture – the culture of ecology (Volker Kirchberg and Sacha Kagan)
• European awareness of sustainability in Africa (Karamoja, Uganda) (Sacha Kagan)
• Contributions to a theory of collecting (Christoph Behnke and Ulf Wiggenig)
• The aesthetics of the brand: Corporate design (Christoph Behke)
• Changing artist roles and patronage (Christoph Behnke)
• Theories and concepts of rational action (Martin Stolle)

Winter Semester 2007-2008

• Introduction to visitor research (Volker Kirchberg)
• Culture and urban planning: Theoretical foundations and practical examples (Volker Kirchberg)
• Contemporary architecture of places of culture: Culture and urban sociological reflections (Volker Kirchberg)
• Cultural industry and creative industries (Christoph Behnke)
• Introduction to culture and economy (Sacha Kagan)
• The cultures of nanotechnologies and (un)sustainability: Seminar with project work on a future art exhibition (Sacha Kagan)
• Contemporary dance in the US and France: An interdisciplinary introduction to dance studies (Sacha Kagan)
• Quantitative empirical social research (Martin Stolle)

Summer Semester 2007

• Theories of cultural production (Volker Kirchberg)
• Visitor research for museums (Volker Kirchberg)
• The new role of cultural professions in capitalism (Christoph Behnke)
• Art worlds between reproduction and change (Sacha Kagan)
• Lifestyle and socio-structural determinants of cultural reception (Martin Stolle)
• Cultural sponsoring (Sandra Wilgenbusch)
• Introduction to public relations (Sigrid Bekmeier-Feuerhahn)
• Contemporary Anglo-American museum theory (Volker Kirchberg)
• Creative city: Towards the use of culture in the city (Volker Kirchberg)
• Theater management (Volker Kirchberg and Andreas Heinen)
• Environmental art, intervention art and others: Towards sustainability art? (Sacha Kagan)
• Towards the use of culture in the city: Cultural projects in the port of Hamburg (Berno Haller)
• Interpreting exhibitions. On the discussion and examination of analyse methods (Annette Grigoleit)
• Theater – a “mad house”? (Andreas Heinen)

Winter Semester 2006-2007

• Reception theories in cultural transmission and the arts (Volker Kirchberg)
• Music sociology – Organization of a form of culture (Volker Kirchberg)
• Fields of cultural production (Christoph Behnke)
• Arts audience studies (Sacha Kagan)
• Cultural education for children and young people (Martin Stolle)
• Strategic cultural sponsoring by business (Sandra Wilgenbusch)
• Art financing (Agnes Vielhauer)
• PR and fundraising for non-profit projects with case study exercises (Müller-Michaelis)
• Communication strategies for cultural science students (Libuda-Köster and Bekmeier-Feuerhahn)
• Social network analyses of cultural scenes (Volker Kirchberg)
• The museum as a place of cultural remembrance and collective ‘identity factory’ (Volker Kirchberg)
• Introduction to culture and economy (Sacha Kagan)
• Support systems for the arts: Artists in residence (Christoph Behnke)
• Presenting artistic works for the contemporary opera stage (Holm Keller)
• Partial publics in the cultural scene: Education and measurement on trial (Andreas Heinen and Weisenfeld)

Summer Semester 2006

• Understanding museum visitors: Views from the United States (Volker Kirchberg and Zahava Doering)
• Organization of culture: Neo-institutionalism (Volker Kirchberg)
• Cultural distribution through history museums (Martin Stolle)
• Cultural sponsoring (Christoph Behnke)
• Art worlds and conventions (Sacha Kagan)
• Introduction to public relations (Sigrid Bekmeier-Feuerhahn)
• Organization of culture in the urban case study: Hamburg II (Volker Kirchberg)
• Cultural distribution through museum shops (Volker Kirchberg)
• PR as communication strategy (Müller-Michaelis)
• Museums as places of experience (Volker Kirchberg and Christoph Behnke)
• Art and economy (Christoph Behnke)
• Future of work at memorials (Berno Haller)
• Sustainability and art (Sacha Kagan)
• Gaining young adults as new visitors (Berno Haller)
• Project seminar: Conference management (Andreas Heinen)
• Cultural branding: Theoretical and strategic foundations of cultural brands (Sigrid Bekmeier-Feuerhahn)
• Third sector: New alliances and public relations (Sigrid Bekmeier-Feuerhahn)
• Application oriented cultural economics (Steenwarber)
• Organisational development and business consulting (Grunwald)

Winter Semester 2005-2006

• Functions and techniques of visitor research (Volker Kirchberg)
• McDonaldization of culture (Volker Kirchberg)
• Fields of cultural production (Christoph Behnke)
• Basic terms in the culture of the metropolis (Volker Kirchberg)
• Introduction to cultural sociology (Ulf Wuggenig)
• Transmission of the culture of memorials (Volker Kirchberg)
• Towards an organization of culture in the city – The case study of Hamburg (Volker Kirchberg)
• Culture and society: Cultural sociological research colloquium (Volker Kirchberg and Ulf Wuggenig)
• Introduction to culture and economy (Sacha Kagan)
• Organization, work and objectives in memorials (Berno Haller)
• Art in business: Corporate collecting II (Christoph Behnke)
• Marketing for non-profit organizations (Andreas Heinen)
• Introduction to empirical cultural and social research (Ulf Wuggenig)
• Excursion to New York (Non-profit organizations) (Andreas Heinen)

Summer Semester 2005

• Introduction to theories of cultural institutions (Volker Kirchberg and Sacha Kagan)
• Social organization of music – Music sociology (Volker Kirchberg)
• Methods of empirical research in fields of cultural production (Martin Stolle)
• Audience studies – Demography and psychography of cultural consumers (Sacha Kagan)
• Art in business: Corporate collecting in West Germany (Christoph Behnke)
• Social functions of museums (Volker Kirchberg)
• Creative cities and creative industries – Contemporary studies (Volker Kirchberg)
• Cultural policy in international comparison (Christoph Behnke)

Winter Semester 2004-2005

• Consumption of  culture – Culture of consumption (Volker Kirchberg)
• Lifestyle and cultural distribution (Martin Stolle)
• Organizational theorical foundations of culture (Volker Kirchberg)
• The institutionalization of museums in an international perspectives (Volker Kirchberg)
• Urban aspects of cultural distribution (Volker Kirchberg)
• Fields of cultural production (Christoph Behnke)