Doctoral Dissertations
The members of both the departments of Philosophy and of Art History are engaged in a wide range of research activities. Doctoral candidates make a significant contribution to the Institute’s research environment. Some are engaged with doctoral research as members of the "Cultures of Critique: Forms, Media, Effects" research training group and others are carrying out doctoral projects associated directly with the Institute’s professors. An overview of current and completed doctoral dissertations can be found below.
The list is currently still in the process of being compiled. Please contact shk.ipk@leuphana.de if you would like to be added to the overview.
Current Doctoral Dissertations
| Name | Titel |
|---|---|
| Boaz Levin | An Environmental History of Photography: from the long 16th century to the present. |
| David Cabrera | A museum of Memory for Colombia: The emergence of a controversial space |
| Lorenzo Capitanio | The Traces of the Infinite. Friedrich Creuzer’s Myth Interpretation and the Romantic Symbol |
| Raphael Daibert | Lifting the Sky: Practices to Sustain Worlds Otherwise |
| Volha Davydzik | Re-thinking Solidarity and Care Infrastructures in Belarusian Protest Art, 2020-2021 |
| Alan Díaz Alva | Abjection and Formlessness: Value, Digitality, and the Differential Allocation of Form |
| Felix Leonhart Esch | The Dialectic of the Body Politic - A Study of the Transformation of the modern Social Body |
| Marianna Gefen | (In)visible Women: Female Surveillance and the Transformative Lens of Media Art |
| Lara Grandchamp | An indexicality of time – How the work of Rachel Whiteread can enhance the handling of heritage and bring perspectives to the field of experimental preservation. |
| Till Hahn | Marx’s Concept of Form - On the Metaphysic of Capital |
| Adrian Hanselmann | Félix Guattari and the Molecular Revolution in Italy |
| Henrike Heller | Art and Life - Women of the Ahrenshoop Artists' Colony 1880-1945 |
| Ulrike Jordan | Artists enter the factory. Artistic working methods in industrial enterprises of the 1970s |
| Rebecca Hanna John | Transnational Memory Work as Resistance. Archival Critique in Jumana Manna’s, Akram Zaatari’s, and Farah Saleh’s Artistic Practices |
| Anna Kipke | Emma Kunz. Therapeutic Lines |
| Deiara Semeco Kouto | The Notion of Sensing in Contemporary Art. The Transcultural Concept of Anton Wilhelm Amo in Relation to the Production of Knowledge in Exhibitions, Curatorial and Mediation Programs |
| Clemens Krümmel | Reportage Drawing – Rhetorics of Engagement in Artistic Drawing after World War II |
| Fabio Mariani | Subjective, Uncertain, and Vague Information in Digital Art History |
| Pablo Müller | Involved Art Criticism. Practices and Strategies in the Magazine Texte zur Kunst, 1990 - 2000 |
| Benedetta Milani | The Digital World as a Symbolic Form |
| Mahsa Narimani | Cultural Body of Iranian Exile Dancers |
| Dahl Nyamgerel | The Philosophy of history and poetical historiography in Friedrich Hoelderlin |
| Melcher Ruhkopf | The Logistical Museum – Circulation and Connectivity in Contemporary Museum Practice |
| Laura Felicitas Sabel | Praxes of the Transitory: Restitution, Museum Practice, and the (Im)material Cultural Heritage of the Tairona’s Descendants in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia |
| Stephanie Seidel | Speculative Histories: Betye Saar's Installations |
| Thorsten Schneider | Ideological Critique in German-Speaking Art History around 1968 and its Potential for Contemporary Art Criticism |
| Simone Spinelli | Limit and Transgression: A Critical Analysis of Gender Binarism Based on Some Philosophical Concepts by Georges Bataille |
| Ruth Stamm | Linen from the Wendland Region and its Colonial Legacy. Tracing a Transcultural Entanglement in the 18. and 19. Century |
| Saina Tarverdy | Perverse Topologies: Poetics of Sensuous Spatiality |
| Katharina Tchelidze | Formations and artistic practices of the avant-garde group H2SO4 in Georgia |
| Andrea Völker | Art, Canon and Museum. The (Re)presentation of 19th Century Art. An exemplary Analysis of the Hamburger Kunsthalle |
| Julian Volz | 'Alger la Blanche' becomes 'Alger la Rouge' - On the heritage of the anti-colonial movements in contemporary art |
| Christopher Weickenmeier | Institutional Deaths - Palliative institutional critique in contemporary art |
Completed Doctoral Dissertations
| Name | Titel |
| Dr. Sebastián Eduardo Dávila | Materiality in Art Practices from Postwar Guatemala. Bodies, Soil, Meat, Cosmos |
| Dr. Sarah Kreiseler | The Second Original. Photographic Art Reproductions by Wilhelm Weimar |
| Dr. Stephanie Regenbrecht | Collection as Discourse Formation. A Microanalytical History of Meaning in the Falckenberg Private Collection in Hamburg (1994-2011) |
| Dr. Ana Teixeira Pinto | Entropy and the Chronopolitics of Modernity |