Vorlesungsverzeichnis

Einführung in die Kulturwissenschaften (Vorlesung)

Dozent/in: Ben Trott

Termin:
wöchentlich | Mittwoch | 12:15 - 13:45 | 15.10.2025 - 28.01.2026 | C HS 4

Inhalt: Das Studium Kulturwissenschaften in Lüneburg zielt auf eine kritische Analyse der Gegenwart und ihrer sozialen, medialen, ästhetischen, historischen, ökonomischen, wissenschaftlichen und politischen Konstituiertheit. Es geht darum, die Bedingungen, Grenzen und Möglichkeiten kultureller Formationen und Wissenspraktiken in ihrem historische Gewordensein und aktuellen Manifestationen zu analysieren und theoretisch zu befragen. Die Vorlesung „Einführung in die Kulturwissenschaften“ führt in dieses Verständnis der Kulturwissenschaften ein, stellt die verschiedenen Vertiefungsfächer des Majors Kulturwissenschaften vor und gibt einen exemplarischen Überblick über Praxisfelder der Kulturwissenschaften. Aktuelle gesellschaftliche Herausforderungen sind mit technologischer Transformation, Digitalisierung, globalem Kapitalismus, Migration und Mobilität, Globalisierung, Urbanisierung, Geschlechterverhältnissen, ökologischen Krisen, sozialer Ungleichheit, Arbeit, Privatheit und insgesamt der Veränderung von kulturellen Formationen nur grob benannt. All diese Phänomene fordern zu einer gesellschaftlichen Neubestimmung heraus und bedingen die Weisen, wie wir leben. Dies bedeutet auch, zu untersuchen, inwiefern Kultur selbst zur zweiten Natur geworden ist und als normative Ordnung Ein- und Ausschließungen produziert. Kultur ist so verstanden als umstrittenes und von Wechselwirkungen durchzogenes Feld der Konstitution und Transformation von Praktiken, Institutionen und Artefakten, deren Erforschung es nötig macht, über eine enge Definition von Kultur hinauszugehen. Neben Wissensformationen nehmen wir künstlerische und politische Handlungsformen, ökonomische, ökologische und arbeitsweltliche Transformationen sowie insgesamt gesellschaftliche, organisationale und interaktionale Strukturen und Wandlungsprozesse in den Blick. Die Kulturwissenschaften in Lüneburg verfolgen damit einen Ansatz, der historische und aktuelle Formen der Kulturwissenschaften, die Tradition der kritischen Theorie, Ansätze der Cultural Studies und eine Vielfalt sozialtheoretischer Perspektiven – von der Systemtheorie bis zum Pragmatismus – im Hinblick auf eine Erneuerung des Aufklärungs- und Kritikanspruchs der Kulturwissenschaften verknüpft. In Fächern und Schwerpunkten wie Kulturtheorie und Kulturanalyse, Kultur- und Mediensoziologie, Kulturorganisation und -analyse, Medienwissenschaft, Kulturtechnik und Digitale Kulturen, Wissensgeschichte, Raumforschung, Kunst und Visuelle Kultur, Auditive Kultur bzw. Sound Studies, Literaturwissenschaft, Gender- und Queer Studies, Globalisierte Kulturen und Migrationsforschung begegnen wir den aktuellen Herausforderungen mit kritisch-analytischem Denken und diagnostischen Beschreibungen, um zu einem Handlungsräume und Horizonte eröffnenden Verständnis gegenwärtiger Gesellschaften und ihrer Geschichte zu gelangen.

Leuphana Bachelor - Leuphana Semester - Kulturwissenschaften: Einführung in die Grundlagen

Queer Theory (FSL) (SBP) (Vorlesung)

Dozent/in: Ben Trott

Inhalt: Students will be introduced to Queer Theory as a field that addresses the ways in which contested gender and sexual norms play an important role in shaping society as a whole. The lecture-based class also explores the ways in which key figures within Queer Studies have refused to study gender or sexuality in isolation from other axes and hierarchies of difference or from contemporary forms of capital accumulation and nationalism. Students will critically engage with key works by Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, José Esteban Muñoz, Kadji Amin, and others.

Theories and Applications of Intersectionality and Multidimensionality: Gender and Diversity Certificate Core Seminar (FSL) (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Ben Trott

Termin:
wöchentlich | Montag | 12:15 - 13:45 | 13.10.2025 - 26.01.2026 | C 40.255 Seminarraum

Inhalt: Nobody experiences the world in just one dimension. This seminar looks critically at how gender, sexuality, racism and class form multiple, intersecting dimensions that shape individual experience, social structures and power relations. This ‘intersectionality’ or ‘multidimensionality’ informs the ways in which some people and some groups experience specific (often particularly egregious) forms of oppression, marginalisation or exploitation. However, the seminar also looks at how ‘intersectional’ or ‘multidimensional’ approaches have historically informed the ways in which such oppression, marginalisation or exploitation have been resisted. Throughout this course, we will look at how economic questions – i.e. questions of class and capitalism, waged and unwaged labour – shape gender, sexuality, racism and the ways in which these are entangled with one another. Students will engage with key works by Kimberlé W. Crenshaw, Roderick A. Ferguson, Patricia Hill Collins, Stuart Hall, the Combahee River Collective, Sara Ahmed, and Angela Davis.

Production and Reproduction: Capitalism, Colonialism, Global Order (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Ben Trott

Inhalt: If capitalism is characterised in part by the accumulation and expansion of capital, how and where does this take place? In other words, how is capital produced, and how are the social relations that facilitate this production re-produced? When and through which mechanisms did capital accumulation begin? Does our current system of accumulation have global or perhaps more regional (European?) origins? How can we understand the relationship between contemporary forms of globalization and colonial histories? What is the relation between production and reproduction, historically and today? How have anti-colonial and feminist thinkers – from Frantz Fanon to Silvia Federici – contributed to a re-thinking of the role of places, practices and actors long thought peripheral to (global) capitalist production? What role does sexuality play in this history of capitalism, and what does it mean to take a queer approach to the critique of capitalism? How are contemporary social movements contesting exploitation, alienation, inequality, appropriation, and injustices from within the nexus of production and re-production today? In this seminar, students will engage critically with the work of Gargi Bhattacharyya, Christopher Chitty Frantz Fanon, Silvia Federici, Nancy Fraser, Rahel Jaeggi, Petrus Liu, Karl Marx, Sandro Mezzadra and Brett Nielson, Cedric Robinson, Quinn Slobodian, and Immanuel Wallerstein.

Masterprogramm Kulturwissenschaften: Kritik der Gegenwart - Künste, Theorie, Geschichte - Kernbereich - Kapitalismus, Kolonialität, Globalisierung

Introduction to Theories of Gender and Diversity (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Ben Trott

Inhalt: This seminar introduces some of the key theoretical approaches to the study of gender and other forms of social difference and heterogeneity. It includes an attention to theories of sexuality, racism, disability/able-bodiedness, the legacies of colonialism, and social/economic class. Over the course of the semester, students explore the historical relationship between theories that were developed within feminist and other social movements in the second half of the twentieth century and those that have subsequently taken hold within critical fields of study in the university. These include Women’s Studies, Gay and Lesbian Studies, Queer Studies, Transgender Studies, Black Studies, Post-Colonial Studies, Disability Studies, sociological theories of class and inter-disciplinary scholarship on diversity and intersectionality.

Masterforum: Künste, Theorie, Kritik (Kolloquium)

Dozent/in: Ben Trott

Inhalt: This Master Forum is intended primarily for students of the “Kritik der Gegenwart – Künste, Theorie und Geschichte” MA program. It provides an opportunity for students embarking on their MA theses to present an outline of their projects, with the goal of receiving productive critical feedback – both from instructors and from student peers. In the first meeting of the Master Forum, Ben Trott will introduce some of the common issues confronted by those carrying out scholarly research or writing in Cultural Studies, the Humanities and the Social Sciences. This will include general questions, including: how to arrive at and formulate a research question and a suitable framework for your project; how to begin thinking about method and methodology, and starting to conducting research; and ways of referencing and of acknowledging the use of sources. Students are invited to sign up to present an outline of their MA thesis in the subsequent meetings of the Master Forum. Students can choose whther to present in German or English. Students should expect to have around 30 minutes in total for the presentation and discussion of their projects, and presentations themselves should last between 10 and 15 minutes, allowing plenty of time for discussion. Students are required upload a two-page summary of their project to myStudy one week before they are due to present. This should include: • a working title for your thesis as well as your research question; • the approach, method or methodology that you plan on using, and the theoretical framework or points of reference for your project; • what you anticipate discovering or arguing in your thesis; • and a list of up to five key works that you will use, along with any additional information about sources you plan on using – such as archives, exhibitions or interview partners. Students are asked to attend all sessions of the Master Forum, not the simply the session in which they will present, and to have read the two-page summaries ahead of time. Please be ready to provide your fellow students with productive critical feedback on their projects! The Master Forum is examined (pass/fail) as a combined scholarly work [Kombinierte wissenschaftliche Arbeit] made up of (a) your two-page summary and (b) your presentation.

Political Philosophy (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Ben Trott

Termin:
wöchentlich | Montag | 16:15 - 17:45 | 13.10.2025 - 26.01.2026 | C 40.255 Seminarraum

Inhalt: This seminar will critically engage with canonical and contemporary works of political philosophy, exploring how it has understood questions of government, the social contract, resistance, the subject, utopia, human nature, freedom, colonialism, liberty, exploitation, democracy, revolution, human nature, violence and rights. Throughout, it will look at how philosophers have understood the relation between the spheres of ‘society’ and ‘politics’, how the two often blur, and their entanglements with the realms of ‘economics’ and ‘culture’.

Leuphana Bachelor - Minor Philosophie (ab Studienbeginn WS 17/18) - Politische Philosophie

Vorlesungsverzeichnis

Veranstaltungen von Ben Trott

Lehrveranstaltungen

Einführung in die Kulturwissenschaften (Vorlesung)

Queer Theory (FSL) (SBP) (Vorlesung)

Theories and Applications of Intersectionality and Multidimensionality: Gender and Diversity Certificate Core Seminar (FSL) (Seminar)

Production and Reproduction: Capitalism, Colonialism, Global Order (Seminar)

Introduction to Theories of Gender and Diversity (Seminar)

Masterforum: Künste, Theorie, Kritik (Kolloquium)

Political Philosophy (Seminar)