Dr. Sacha Kagan

Mitglied im Institut für Kulturtheorie, Kulturforschung und Künste

Bereich Soziologie der Künste und Kultur

Kagan

Dr. Sacha Kagan
Scharnhorststr. 1, C5.213
21335 Lüneburg
Fon +49.4131.677-2724
Fax +49.4131.677-2689
kagan@uni.leuphana.de

Seit Mai 2005 wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Fach Kulturvermittlung und Kulturorganisation der Universität Lüneburg.
Gründungsmitglied des Vereins Institut Cultura21 e.V.
Koordinator des internationales Netzwerk Cultura21.
Founding Director of the International Summer School of Arts and Sciences for Sustainability in Social Transformation (ASSiST)
Member of the European Sociological Association (ESA) - and Member of the Board of the ESA Research Network Sociology of the Arts, since 2011
Former member of the International Humanitarian Studies Association (IHSA), from 2009 to 2011

Vita

• 2011-2012: Member of the coordination team for the international conference "Radius of Art: Creative politicization of the public sphere - Cultural potential forces for social transformation" (Heinrich Böll Stiftung, Berlin, 8-9.02.2012). Conception and coordination of the conference thematic window "art toward cultures of sustainability".
• 2011: Doktor der Philosophie, summa cum laude, an der Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Fakultät Kulturwissenschaften. Thema: "Art and (Un-)Sustainability".
• 2011: Member of the selection committee of the COAL Prize 2011 (Prix COAL Art et Environnement, Paris).
• 2010: Main organizer of the workshop "Sustainable Creative Cities: The role of the arts in the globalized urban context" at ASEF’s 4th Connecting Civil Societies Conference (2-3 October 2010, Brussels) in preparation for the ASEM8 Summit (4-5 October 2010, Brussels).
• Since 2009: Founding Director of the International Summer School of Arts and Sciences for Sustainability in Social Transformation (ASSiST - first edition in Gabrovo, Bulgaria on August 21-27 2010)
• 2009: Member of the expert commission on the role of culture in the transition to an ecological age, commissioned by the Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF) alongside COP15.
• 2007 – 2009 (Germany/France/Netherlands/Czech Rep./Uganda) : Partner-Coordinator for the European project „Awareness raising of Europeans on issues of sustainability in semi-pastoral societies of developing countries: the case of the Karimojong people in North-Eastern Uganda“, together with ACTED (Paris). Director of the documentary film "Land of Thorns".
• 2008: Member of the Advisory Board for the "Asia-Europe Dialogue on Arts, Culture & Climate Change" at the ASEF (Asia Europe Foundation).
• June 2008: Member of the Jury for the postgraduate diplomas in visual arts at the Geneva University of Art and Design, CCC research-based program.
• 2006 - 2007 (Lüneburg) : Organisator des Kunstprogramms "Everything will be fine / alles wird gut", zusammen mit  die Halle für Kunst Lüneburg. Mitglied des organisationskomitee und des wissenschaftlischeskomitee der ESA Arts Conference 2007.
• 2006 – 2008 : Mitglied des Rates von Institut Cultura21.
• January to April 2005 (Bordeaux) : Communication Manager at the office for the artistic programming ("Service Culturel") of the University Bordeaux 3.
• 2004 : Master of Arts in 'Cultural Economics and Cultural Entrepreneurship', Cum Laude, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, with Huygens scolarship.
• November 2003 to May 2004 (Rotterdam) : Producer-Organiser of the dance and art-management workshop 'The energy of intercultural dance for social inclusion' (Erasmus Genootschap voor Cultuurmanagement, Stichting Cultuurfonds van de Bank Nederlandse Gemeenten and Deelgemeente Noord Rotterdam).
• 2003 : Graduated (=Magister) at Sciences Po Bordeaux (Institute of Political Sciences), with specialization in political sociology, with distinction, ranked 2nd (out of 250).
• November 2002 to April 2003 (Bordeaux) : Maker of Paroles nomades, video-documentary about the life of Gypsies on the University Campus of Bordeaux.
• June to August 2002 (Rotterdam) : Consultant at AIDA (Atelier voor interactieve Duurzaamheid Activiteiten) for MileuBeleid Rotterdam (communication office, environmental policy direction, municipality of Rotterdam).
• February to May 2002 : Co-Creator of Ego Travels (installation/performances). Performed on May 24th 2002 in Rotterdam (fake travel agency: 'social sculpture').
• July and August 2001 (New-Delhi) : Internship at the French Embassy in New-Delhi (India), near the Cultural Attaché. Mission: to compare the cultural actions of GB, USA, France and Germany in India.
• November 2000 to March 2001 (Bordeaux) : Internship at the FRAC (=regional contemporary art fund and collection) of Aquitaine: Creation of the exhibition Twice the pleasure (works of Duchamp, K. Fritsch, T. Mouillé, J. Kosuth, S. Levine, etc.), promotion and search for partnerships, actions around the "artistic 1%" of buildings on the campus.
• March to September 2000 (Bordeaux) : Press attaché of ARPA (Research and action for photography in Aquitaine) Organization of the photography encounter in South-Gironde (with Antoine Dagata, Max Pam, Klavdij Sluban, Laurent Septier, etc.).
• 2000: Basic diploma (DEUG) in History, Université Bordeaux 3.
• June to August 2000 : Internship in the Museum of Aquitaine (Bordeaux), near the Curator for medieval history.