Doctoral Dissertations
The members of both the departments of Philosophy and of Art History are engaged in a wide range of research activities. Doctoral candidates make a significant contribution to the Institute’s research environment. Some are engaged with doctoral research as members of the "Cultures of Critique: Forms, Media, Effects" research training group and others are carrying out doctoral projects associated directly with the Institute’s professors. An overview of current and completed doctoral dissertations can be found below.
The list is currently still in the process of being compiled. Please contact shk.ipk@leuphana.de if you would like to be added to the overview.
Current Doctoral Dissertations
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Florence Borggrefe | The Art of Care. An Aesthetics of Action |
| David Cabrera | A museum of Memory for Colombia: The emergence of a controversial space |
| Raffaele Campanile | The bourgeois power in the industrial society: biopolitics, hegemony and hygiene. A Gramscian and Foucauldian analysis. |
| Lorenzo Capitanio | The Traces of the Infinite. Friedrich Creuzer’s Myth Interpretation and the Romantic Symbol |
| Mohammad Osman Ali Chaudhry | The Task of Thinking (and) End: Apocalypticism, Modernity, and Subjecthood |
| Giorgi Chubinidze | Philosophy and the Politics of Faciality: Plural Genealogies |
| Raphael Daibert | Lifting the Sky: Practices to Sustain Worlds Otherwise |
| Volha Davydzik | Re-thinking Solidarity and Care Infrastructures in Belarusian Protest Art, 2020-2021 |
| Alan Díaz Alva | Abjection and Formlessness: Value, Digitality, and the Differential Allocation of Form |
| Annalisa Dimola | The Concept of Limit: A Materialist Approach to the Ecological Debate |
| Felix Leonhart Esch | The Dialectic of the Body Politic - A Study of the Transformation of the modern Social Body |
| Marianna Gefen | (In)visible Women: Female Surveillance and the Transformative Lens of Media Art |
| Lara Grandchamp | An indexicality of time – How the work of Rachel Whiteread can enhance the handling of heritage and bring perspectives to the field of experimental preservation. |
| Michael Grieder | Antonio Negri's political concept of philosophy and the theory of constituent power |
| Till Hahn | Marx’s Concept of Form - On the Metaphysic of Capital |
| Adrian Hanselmann | Félix Guattari and the Molecular Revolution in Italy |
| Henrike Heller | Practices of subjectivation and self-formation of women artists around 1900 (Künstler*innenkolonie Ahrenshoop) |
| Ulrike Jordan | Artists enter the factory. Artistic working methods in industrial enterprises of the 1970s |
| Rebecca Hanna John | Transnational Memory Work as Resistance. Archival Critique in Jumana Manna’s, Akram Zaatari’s, and Farah Saleh’s Artistic Practices |
| Cara-Julie Kather | The Mathematics-Rationality-Human Continuum: the Epistemic Violence of Mathematics |
| Dyoniz Kindata | Poetic and photographic practices in the Kiongozi German East African colonial newspaper from 1885–1918 |
| Anna Kipke | Emma Kunz. Therapeutic Lines |
| Stasya Korotkova | Cross-dressing, sexual and gender dissent in pre-Soviet cinema (1908–1920) |
| Deiara Semeco Kouto | The Notion of Sensing in Contemporary Art. The Transcultural Concept of Anton Wilhelm Amo in Relation to the Production of Knowledge in Exhibitions, Curatorial and Mediation Programs |
| Clemens Krümmel | Reportage Drawing – Rhetorics of Engagement in Artistic Drawing after World War II |
| Boaz Levin | An Environmental History of Photography: from the long 16th century to the present |
| Fabio Mariani | Subjective, Uncertain, and Vague Information in Digital Art History |
| Paul Matthews | The Animal Dies: Hegel, Death, and the Becoming of Consciousness |
| Lorenzo Mizzau | Archaeology of the Spectacle. For the Critique of the Neoliberal Communication Machine |
| Penny Monogiou | Art and terrorism: A confusion effect in contemporary perception |
| Pablo Müller | Involved Art Criticism. Practices and Strategies in the Magazine Texte zur Kunst, 1990 - 2000 |
| Mahsa Narimani | Cultural Body of Iranian Exile Dancers |
| Dahl Nyamgerel | The Philosophy of history and poetical historiography in Friedrich Hoelderlin |
| Melcher Ruhkopf | The Logistical Museum – Circulation and Connectivity in Contemporary Museum Practice |
| Laura Felicitas Sabel | Praxes of the Transitory: Restitution, Museum Practice, and the (Im)material Cultural Heritage of the Tairona’s Descendants in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia |
| Stephanie Seidel | Speculative Histories: Betye Saar's Installations |
| Mehran Sinaei | Ingenuity in Philosophical Thinking: In relation to the thoughts of Schopenhauer, Nietzsche and Heidegger |
| Simone Spinelli | Limit and Transgression: A Critical Analysis of Gender Binarism Based on Some Philosophical Concepts by Georges Bataille |
| Ruth Stamm | Linen from the Wendland Region and its Colonial Legacy. Tracing a Transcultural Entanglement in the 18. and 19. Century |
| Saina Tarverdy | Perverse Topologies: Poetics of Sensuous Spatiality |
| Katharina Tchelidze | Formations and artistic practices of the avant-garde group H2SO4 in Georgia |
| Andrea Völker | Art, Canon and Museum. The (Re)presentation of 19th Century Art. An exemplary Analysis of the Hamburger Kunsthalle |
| Julian Volz | 'Alger la Blanche' becomes 'Alger la Rouge' - On the heritage of the anti-colonial movements in contemporary art |
| Christopher Weickenmeier | Institutional Deaths - Palliative institutional critique in contemporary art |
Completed Doctoral Dissertations
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Prof. Dr. Miglė Bareikytė | The Post-Socialist Internet: How Labor, Geopolitics and Critique Produce the Internet in Lithuania |
| Dr. Sabine Becker | Marcel und die Schauspieler: Formen der Rezeption im architektonischen und figürlichen Werk von Isa Genzken |
| Dr. Sebastián Eduardo Dávila | Materiality in Art Practices from Postwar Guatemala. Bodies, Soil, Meat, Cosmos |
| Dr. Mara-Johanna Kölmel | Sculpture in the Augmented Sphere. Reflections at the Intersection of Corporeality, Plasticity and Monumentality |
| Dr. Sarah Kreiseler | Das zweite Original. Fotografische Kunstreproduktionen von Wilhelm Weimar |
| Dr. Liza Mattutat | Emanzipation und Gewalt. Feministische Rechtskritik mit Marx, Derrida und Deleuze |
| Dr. Isabel Mehl | Im Zeichen des Zweil(n)s. Madame Realism oder: Die Funktion der Fiktion in der Kunstkritik |
| Dr. Benedetta Milani | Die digitale Welt als symbolische Form |
| Dr. Alia Rayyan | Decolonizing Socially Engaged Art Practice in East Jerusalem - a Critical Reflection in Non-Western Context |
| Dr. Stephanie Regenbrecht | Collection as Discourse Formation. A Microanalytical History of Meaning in the Falckenberg Private Collection in Hamburg (1994-2011) |
| Dr. Ana Teixeira Pinto | Entropy and the Chronopolitics of Modernity |
| Dr. Thorsten Schneider | Ideologiekritik in der deutschsprachigen Kunstgeschichte um 1968 und ihr Potenzial für eine aktuelle Kunstkritik |
| Dr. Heiko Stubenrauch | Die Zweite Kopernikanische Wende: Kritik und Affekt nach Kant, Adorno und Deleuze |