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.
- Conferences
The Digital Revolution as Counter Revolution
Susanne Leeb (Organiser) & Joshua Simon (Speaker)
16.11.2023 → 17.11.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
The Fifth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry - QI 2009
Tanja Thomas (Speaker)
05.2009Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
The future of traditional societies in Africa: The situation of the Karamoja region of Uganda - 2008
Sacha Kagan (Moderator)
11.2008Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
The Impossibility of Mapping (Urban Asia)
Sacha Kagan (Speaker)
25.11.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
The Invisible Man in the Digital Age: From Anonymity to Invisibility, A right to remain Unknown
Paula Bialski (Speaker)
02.02.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Education
The Mediation of Business - 2013
Sebastian Vehlken (Speaker)
23.05.2013 → 24.05.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
The Motif's Address. Or: Writing Resemblance - 2011
Martin Warnke (Speaker)
15.06.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
The new public interest in museums - supply and demand side explanations for an increasing awareness of museums 1998
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
11.11.1998Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
The politics of uncertainty
Sybille Münch (Organiser)
15.11.2017 → 16.11.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
The Practice of Decolonization
Susanne Leeb (Organiser), Richard Drayton (Organiser) & Rosalind Morris (Organiser)
11.06.2024Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research