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.
Art History Institute in Florence of the Max Planck Society
Susanne Leeb (Visiting researcher)
20.03.2017 → 31.03.2017Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution › Research
Art History, Provenance Research and Educational Materials Advisory Group
Lynn Rother (Consultant)
04.2020 → 12.2022Activity: Consultancy
Artificial Intelligence, Human Expertise: the Case of Provenance Linked Open Data
Fabio Mariani (Speaker), Lynn Rother (Speaker) & Max Koss (Speaker)
25.09.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Art in urban Spaces of Possibility for Sustainability Transformation
Sacha Kagan (Keynote Speaker)
27.10.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Artistic Strategies for Building Urban Space
Sacha Kagan (Speaker)
29.01.2016 → 30.01.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Artistic Utopian Spaces and the Promise of Urban Development
Kerstin Niemann (Speaker) & Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
02.09.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Artists in Cities of Distress: Baltimore and Detroit
Volker Kirchberg (Organiser)
29.06.2016 → 21.07.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Artists in Cities of Distress: Baltimore and Detroit
Volker Kirchberg (Organiser)
01.03.2016 → 14.03.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Artists, Politics, Cities: A New Typology of Artists
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker) & Avner de-Shalit (Speaker)
04.03.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Artist Talk: Edgar Calel - Laberinto de los pájaros
Sebastián Eduardo (Speaker) & Edgar Calel (Speaker)
08.09.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › artistic events › Transfer