Events
Winter Term 2018/19: Social Critique
The current landscape of social and cultural research is affected by a renaissance of ‘social critique’. While such critique has always adopted different forms and models, the return of critical positions is marked by an interest in scenes and practices of dissent. In the winter term, the Research Training Group is dedicated to the resurfacing of such positions and their forms, media and effects. Beyond well-worn analyses of critique’s cooptation, ineffectiveness and demise, it is time to re-engage with the conceptual underpinnings, empirical commitments and performative scenes of social critique.
01.11.18: Critical Theory and Social Practice
BICAR (Beirut Institute for Critical Analysis and Research): Nadia Bou Ali, Natasha Gasparian, Angela Harutyunyan / Alex Demirović (Goethe University Frankfurt / Leuphana University Lüneburg) / Sami Khatib (BICAR / Leuphana University Lüneburg)
Hosted by the DFG research training group “Cultures of Critique / Kulturen der Kritik”
public, 18.00h, Kunstraum of Leuphana University, Campus Hall 25
02.11.18: The Specters of Marx and the Fate of Critique
with Prof. Dr. Angela Harutyunyan, Prof. Dr. Nadia Bou-Ali, Dr. Sami Khatib, Mark Hayek, Natasha Gasparian, Ziad Kiblawi, Andrea Comair
Hosted by the DFG research training group “Cultures of Critique / Kulturen der Kritik” in cooperation with BICAR (The Beirut Institute for Critical Analysis and Research)
public, 10.00h, Leuphana Central Building C40.254
08. - 09.11.18: Terra Critica
Hosted by the DFG research training group “Cultures of Critique / Kulturen der Kritik” in Cooperation with Birgit M. Kaiser and Kathrin Thiele (Terra Critica)
non-public, Utrecht University
14.11.18: The Cruel Image
Oraib Toukan (Clarendon Fellow, University of Oxford, Ruskin School of Fine Arts)
Hosted by the DFG research training group “Cultures of Critique / Kulturen der Kritik”
public, 18.00h, Leuphana Central Building C40.154
05.12.18: Shut down the Business School: Alternative Forms of Organizing
Martin Parker (University of Bristol) / Markus Reihlen (Leuphana Universität Lüneburg)
Hosted by the DFG research training group “Cultures of Critique / Kulturen der Kritik”
public, 18.00h, Leuphana Central Building C40.154
09. - 11.12.18: Marx: The Untimely Contemporary
with Jodi Dean (Hobart and William Smith Colleges), Michael Heinrich (Rosa-Luxemburg Stiftung, Berlin) and other guests
on occasion of 200 years of Karl Marx; in cooperation with Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung Ramallah, Goethe-Institut Ramallah, Birzeit University and the Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center
non-public, Ramallah and Birzeit
18.12.18: Parting Ways: Authenticity vs. Social Critique
Eva Illouz (Hebrew University of Jerusalem / Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)
Hosted by the DFG research training group “Cultures of Critique / Kulturen der Kritik” in Cooperation with the Center for Digital Cultures (CDC)
public, 18.00h, Leuphana Central Building
