Research Areas

Questions concerning the historical genesis, current constellations and possibilities of the disruptive condition structure and connect the interests of the researchers and form a common basis for the four interdisciplinary working groups:

A: Regulating and Organising

The working group investigates what effects logics of disruption have on modes of regulating and organising social structures, processes and actors. How can the disruptive condition be traced in changes in political, economic, cultural and legal modes of action, and what forms of producing, acting on and reacting to disruption characterise them? Research in the working group focuses on continuities and ruptures in organisational and regulatory models and on how disruptiveness becomes an essential moment of social integration.

Members

Prof. Dr. Armin Beverungen, Leuphana University Lüneburg
Junior Professorship for Organisation in Digital Cultures

Prof. Dr. Timon Beyes, Leuphana University Lüneburg
Professorship for Sociology of Organisation and Culture

Prof. Dr. Michael Koß, Leuphana University Lüneburg
Professorship for Political System of the Federal Republic of Germany and the EU

Prof. Dr. Jens Newig, Leuphana University Lüneburg
Professorship for Governance and Sustainability

Prof. Dr. Jörg-Philipp Terhechte, Leuphana University Lüneburg
Professorship of Public Law, European and Public International Law and Ragulatory and Antitrust Law

Prof. Dr. Christian Welzel, Leuphana University Lüneburg
Professorship for Research of Political Cultural
 

Scientific coordination Dr. Nicolas Schneider, Leuphana University Lüneburg

B: Perceiving and Addressing

The working group investigates central dimensions of perceiving and addressing the logics of rupture that are specific to the disruptive condition. It asks how disruptive worlds are culturally produced, perceived and experienced, and explores the possibilities at the intersection of the arts, sciences and activism to critically engage with a global agenda of radical change.

Members

Prof. Dr. Erich Hörl, Leuphana University Lüneburg
Professorship for Media Culture and Media Philosophy

Prof. Dr. Susanne Leeb, Leuphana University Lüneburg
Professorship for Contemporary Art

Prof. Dr. Roberto Nigro, Leuphana University Lüneburg
Professorship for Philosophy especially Continental Philosophy


Prof. Dr. Beate Söntgen, Leuphana University Lüneburg
Professorship for Art History
 

Scientific coordination Dr. Anne Gräfe, Leuphana University Lüneburg

C: Knowing and Acting

The working group examines the extent to which scientific as well as non-scientific knowledge is affected by various logics of rupture. The working group aims to historicise and analyse the conditions of knowledge production, techniques, transmission, appropriation and questioning, and at the same time to examine their potentials and possible future prospects. Thus, crises and ruptures have increasingly become the object and challenge of knowledge production and, at the same time, scientific knowledge is itself increasingly understood as and expected to be disruptive.

Members

Prof. Dr. Timon Beyes, Leuphana University Lüneburg
Professorship for Sociology of Organisation and Culture

Prof. Dr. Erich Hörl, Leuphana University Lüneburg
Professorship for Media Culture and Media Philosophy

Prof. Dr. Claus Pias, Leuphana University Lüneburg
Professorship for Theory and Media History

Prof. Dr. Lynn Rother, Leuphana University Lüneburg
Professorship for Provenance Studies

Prof. Dr. Beate Söntgen, Leuphana University Lüneburg
Professorship of Art History

Prof. Dr. Christina Wessely, Leuphana Universitity Lüneburg
Professorship for the Cultural History of Knowledge
 

Scientific coordination Christoph Görlich, Leuphana University Lüneburg

D: Inhabiting and Coexisting

The research group explores practices of inhabiting in (life)worlds that have become precarious and volatile. We examine the changes that our relationships to these worlds and their human and non-human inhabitants are subject to in the disruptive condition. The focus is also on future-oriented strategies aimed at making disrupted socio-ecological, socio-technical and socio-economic worlds habitable again.

Members

Prof. Dr. Armin Beverungen, Leuphana University Lüneburg
Juniorprofessorship for Organisation in Digital Cultures

Prof. Dr. Timon Beyes, Leuphana University Lüneburg
Professorship for Sociology of Organisation and Culture

Prof. Dr. Serhat Karakayali, Leuphana University Lüneburg
Professorship for Migration and Mobility Studies

Prof. Dr. Berta Martín-López, Leuphana University Lüneburg
Professorship for International Sustainable Development and Planning

Prof. Dr. Stephan Scheel, Leuphana University Lüneburg
Professorship for Political Sociology

Scientific coordination Dr. Jessica Wilde, Leuphana University Lüneburg