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.
- Academic councils, panels and committees
Centre for Integration and Migration Research e.V. (External organisation)
Stephan Scheel (Member)
2020 → 2022Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Transfer
Conference Cooperative Design, Visualization, and Engineering (External organisation)
Ursula Kirschner (Member)
2013 → …Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Research
Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften (External organisation)
Christina Wessely (Chair)
09.2021 → …Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Transfer
Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften (External organisation)
Christina Wessely (Member)
09.2021 → …Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Transfer
DFG-Researchgroup "Cultures of Critique" (Organisational unit)
Christina Wessely (Member)
10.2016 → …Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Transfer
DFG-Researchgroup "Cultures of Critique" (Organisational unit)
Roberto Nigro (Member)
2017 → …Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Education
DFG-Researchgroup "Cultures of Critique" (Organisational unit)
Erich Heinrich Hörl (Speaker)
10.2016 → …Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Transfer
Elsevier B.V. (External organisation)
Ulf Wuggenig (Member)
2008 → …Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Transfer
epOs-Verlag Osnabrück (External organisation)
Rolf Großmann (Member)
2001 → …Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Research
European Cooperation in Science and Technology Association (External organisation)
Sacha Kagan (Member)
12.2013 → 07.2015Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Research