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.
- Guest lectures
Che für alle: Was Pressefotos zu Bildikonen macht
Elke Grittmann (Speaker)
23.01.2006Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Cities, culture & sustainability
Sacha Kagan (Speaker)
12.09.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Cities in the governance of deportation: do they still open pathways to local membership?
Sybille Münch (Oral presentation)
27.04.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Cities in the Industrial Revolution
Martin Pries (Lecturer)
17.03.2010Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
City of enterprise, city as prey? On urban entrepreneurial spaces
Timon Beyes (Coauthor)
06.06.2004 → 08.06.2004Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Collective Decisions
Michael Schefczyk (Speaker)
21.06.2012 → 22.06.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Colloquium an der Higher School of Economics
Christian Welzel (Lecturer)
15.10.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Colloquium Presentation at the Political Science Department, Georg-August-University, Goettingen
Christian Welzel (presenter)
11.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Colloquium Presentation: "How Civilization Turned into Human Empowerment"
Christian Welzel (Speaker)
10.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Colonial Archaeology
Susanne Leeb (Speaker)
09.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education