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.

  1. 2024
  2. Legibility in the German Deportation Regime: Identification and the Construct of the 'Duldung'

    Kelly Bescherer (Speaker)

    07.03.2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  3. The Creation of the World out of Exhaustion

    Anne Gräfe (Speaker)

    29.02.202401.03.2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  4. „Reichsbürger and Temporalities“

    Andrea Kretschmann (Speaker)

    23.02.202424.02.2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsResearch

  5. Justice at the End of the Supply Chain: Interrogating Amazon’s Logistical Urbanism from the Cloud to the Curb

    Armin Beverungen (Speaker), Maja-Lee Voigt (Speaker) & Ulf Treger (Speaker)

    21.02.2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  6. Autonomous Mobilization: Navigating Transient Solidarity for Lasting Impact in Anti-War Movements

    Anna Kalinina (Speaker)

    17.02.2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  7. 112th Annual Conference of the College Art Association of America - CAA 2024

    Max Koss (Chair) & Lynn Rother (Chair)

    16.02.2024

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  8. ‚Doing law‘ als Normkollision. Das Beispiel ‚Reichsbürger:innen‘

    Andrea Kretschmann (Speaker)

    15.02.202416.02.2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  9. REICHSBÜRGER:INNEN: IMAGINATIONEN VON RECHT UND STAAT

    Andrea Kretschmann (Keynote Speaker)

    12.02.2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  10. Tennis Moments in Theory, Writing, and Art.

    Anna Kipke (Speaker)

    09.02.2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  11. From Text to Data: AI and Human Expertise in Provenance Linked Open Data

    Fabio Mariani (Speaker), Lynn Rother (Speaker) & Max Koss (Speaker)

    08.02.2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsResearch