Winter Semester 2024/25 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 2024/25 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 59 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.
 

Winter Semester 2024/25 Program

“The Professor’s Body: On Academic Affect and Habitus” – Exhibition by Leda Bourgogne
Weds. 23.10.24 – Weds. 27.11.24. Kunstraum, Leuphana University Lüneburg.
Opening: Weds. 23.10.24. 6pm.

“LIAS Lecture: Coercion or Discourses – On Foucault’s Extension of Marx’s Theory” – Alex Demirović (Lecture)
Tues. 29.10.24. 6:00pm. Lecture Hall 5.

CCS Colloquium: “Edmundo Torres’ China Diabla performance. On the syncretism of contemporary art” – Sebastián Eduardo Dávila
Tues. 19.11.24. 6:15 pm, C40.601

„Schichten – Gewebe – Form Texturen der Sprachbildlichkeit in Bewegung“ – Cultural Studies Symposium
Fri. 29.11.24 (2:00 – 8:00 pm) – Sat. 30.11.24 (9:00 am – 5:00 pm). Dokumentationszentrum Hanne Darboven, Am Burgberg 26 – 28, 21079 Hamburg (Harburg)

„Abtreibungspillen per Post. Reproduktive Gerechtigkeit in der politischen Praxis“ –  Inga Kanitz (Lecture)
Tues. 3.12.24. 10:15-11:45 am. Online.

CCS Colloquium: "Imputation. Techné as the Naturalization of Nature (WT)" – Benedikt Kuhn
Tues. 17.12.24. 6:15 pm, C40.704

CCS Colloquium: "Zur Legitimität von Klimatrauer" – Julia Böcker
Tues. 28.01.25. 6:15 pm, C40.530