Summer Semester 2024 Overview of Events
The Center for Critical Studies (CCS) was founded in 2022 and, each semester, organizes a full program of events. An overview of events coming up in the 2023-24 winter semester can be found below. For full details and updates, click here.
CCS gathers together the critical theories, analyses and practices that shape Cultural Studies research in Lüneburg, anchoring the Cultures of Critique research focus within the School of Culture and Society and serving as a space for exchange and collaboration in this area with others from across the university. It is a platform for existing research and a site for new initiatives in both research and teaching. For more information, click here.
CCS membership is open to all Leuphana University of Lüneburg faculty members, with new members proposed at general meetings. Ben Trott is CCS Speaker.
The Center currently has around 53 members and a number of participating institutions, including the Kunstraum, the Arbeitsgespräche für Kritische Theorie (LAKT) and the Provenance Lab. The DFG funded Cultures of Critique research training group plays a central role in the work of the Center as does The Disruptive Condition research initiative. The Center serves as a point of contact and a site of integration for Leuphana Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture and Society (LIAS) fellows. CCS also hosts a colloquium three times a semester, providing a space in which members can present and discuss their research in progress.
Summer Semester 2024 Program
09.04.2024 – Seven New Books in Critical Studies and Digital Cultures
4:15 - 5:45 pm, C40.704
10.04.2024 – W'etter – Bitsy Knox
6:00 pm, Kunstraum
17.04.2024 – "Liebesmühe" Lesung – Christina Wessely
19:30 Uhr, Heinrich-Heine-Haus Lüneburg
23.04.2024 – Vorzeitige Ruhestände. Zum Motiv des Rückzugs in der Nachgeschichte der Kritischen Theorie - Magnus Klaue
6:15 pm, C40.601
24.04.2024 – Good Neigbours – Harkeerat Mangat
6:00 pm, Kunstraum
24.04.2024 – CCS Colloquium – Heiko Stubenrauch
6:15 pm, C5.311
08.05.2024 – Four Films – Ellie Epp
6:00 pm, Kunstraum
15.05.2024 – Krypto-Populismus: Modernisierungsversprechen und autoritäre Wiederverzauberung der Finanz in El Salvador – Tobias Boos
6:00 - 8:00 pm, C5.311
21.05.2024 – CCS Colloqium – Nicolas Schneider
6:15 pm, C40.530
04.&05.06.2024 – Public Lecture & Workshop: The Spacetime of Critical Matters – Birgit Kaiser & Kathrin Thiele
Lecture: 04.06., 7:00 - 9:00 pm, C40.256; Workshop: 05.06., 12:00 - 2:00 pm, C40.255
10.06.2024 – Governing Memory in the Aftermath of Far-Right Terrorism – Robert Nilsson Mohammadi
18:00 Uhr, C16.207
11.06.2024 – CCS Colluqium – Christopher Weickenmeier
6:15 pm, C40.530
25.06.2024 – Trans Liminalities: Histories from Weimar and Nazi Germany – Zavier Nunn
4:15 pm, Kunstraum