School of Culture and Society
Organisational unit: Faculty
Organisation profile
The School of Culture and Society continues an almost thirty-year tradition of teaching and research in cultural studies at Leuphana University of Lüneburg. At the faculty, more than one hundred scholars from disciplines such as art history, literary studies, media studies, philosophy, sociology, geography and history teach and conduct research in a total of five institutes. The faculty currently offers three majors ("Cultural Studies," "Studium Individuale", and "Digital Media") and four minors ("Philosophy," "Digital Media / Information Technology and Culture", and "Studium Individuale") at Leuphana College and four master's degrees ("Critical Studies - Arts - Theory - History", "Media and Digital Cultures", "Culture and Organization" and "Theory and History of Modernity").
Topics
Die Wissenschaftsinitiative Kulturforschung fragt nach den historischen und kulturellen Grundlagen, Praktiken und Werten der Zivilgesellschaft im 21. Jahrhundert. Aus der Perspektive der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften verbindet die Initiative zwei anwendungsorientierte Forschungsschwerpunkte (Kunst & visuelle Kultur, Medienkultur & Kommunikation) mit einem starken Kernbereich Integrativer Kulturforschung. Beteiligt sind derzeit etwa 20 Professuren aus den Disziplinen Kunst, Medien, Philosophie, Geschichte, Literatur, Soziologie, Politik, Informatik und Geographie/Raumwissenschaft.
- 2020
Campus Necrologies
Cheryce von Xylander (Chair)
23.11.2020Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Digital Enlightenment - 2020
Cheryce von Xylander (Chair)
24.11.2020Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Lower Saxony — Scotland Joint Forum 2020
Timon Beyes (Speaker)
24.11.2020Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Understanding Museums as Agents of Social Change – Questions about the Tool of Digitalization
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
24.11.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Affekte der Migration - Habitus als verkörperlichte Urteilskraft
Serhat Karakayali (Speaker)
25.11.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Crisis, Unrest, Common Sense. Environmental Societies of Control in the Films of Melanie Gilligan
Holger Kuhn (Oral presentation)
25.11.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
Rhetorik – Kritik – Mondialisation. Zur rhetorischen Analytik strategischer Züge des Handelns beim Reden - 2020
Rebecca John (Organiser), Malte Fabian Rauch (Organiser) & Valerija Kuzema (Organiser)
26.11.2020 → 27.11.2020Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Cultural Haritage and Memory
Ursula Kirschner (Speaker)
27.11.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Review of International Organizations (Journal)
Tobias Lenz (Reviewer)
27.11.2020Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
“The Eye of the Crocodile”: Val Plumwood’s Epiphany and Critical Animal Studies
Chiara Stefanoni (Speaker)
27.11.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research