Magazine
LIAS Magazine 2023/24 Published
The LIAS Magazine documents the inaugural academic year of the Leuphana Institute for Advanced Studies (LIAS) in Culture and Society. It brings together contributions from the first cohort of international Fellows, who reflect on their research at LIAS and engage with current social, political, and cultural investigations. The texts range from methodological reflections and political analyses to essayistic explorations of local observations made in Lüneburg.
In addition, the magazine offers insights into key events, discussion formats, and the institutional development of LIAS during its founding year.
It serves both as an annual review and as a platform for concise academic formats.
Booklet "Philosophie Magazin"
The booklet, which we link to here, was published as an insert in Philosophie Magazin 04/2024 on 10 May. The conversation between Premesh Lalu, LIAS advisory board member and research professor and founding director of the Centre for Humanities Research (CHR) at the University of the Western Cape, and Erich Hörl, LIAS co-director and professor of media culture and media philosophy at Leuphana, is part of the new cooperation between the Leuphana Institute for Advanced Studies (LIAS) in Culture and Society and the Centre for Humanities Research (CHR) at the University of the Western Cape. Both are convinced that there must be a necessary restoration and re-foundation of the university today.
Under the title Re:Timing the University.Apartitionality and the University-to-Come, the research institutions in Lüneburg and Cape Town are working together on a reconceptualisation of what the university is for and what university could mean. Annual retreats for intensive academic discussion, joint readings and seminars on the historical and theoretical elaboration of the problem complex and, according to the project's development horizon, the promotion and exchange of doctoral and postdoctoral students, are intended to support an initiative for the contemporary redefinition of the task of the university, which is unique in this constellation of perspectives, problematisation methods and expertise.