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.
Università di Macerata
Steffi Hobuß (Visiting researcher)
04.2009Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution › Education
Universita Bocconi di Milano (External organisation)
Volker Kirchberg (Member)
01.01.2011 → 31.12.2013Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Research
United Nations Human Rights Council
Pavel Satra (Visiting researcher)
10.2017 → 11.2017Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution › Research
Unidem Seminar organised by the Venice Commission/Council of Europe 2004
Florian Grotz (Speaker)
19.11.2004 → 20.11.2004Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
Unemployment and processes of division in the periphery
Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker) & Uwe Engel (Speaker)
10.10.1987Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Undoing Ethnographic and Archaological Objects
Susanne Leeb (Speaker)
26.10.2019 → 28.10.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Understanding Societal Development and Moral Progress: The Contribution of the World Values Surveys
Christian Welzel (Speaker)
05.11.2014 → 06.11.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Understanding Museums as Agents of Social Change – Questions about the Tool of Digitalization
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
24.11.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Understanding Corruptive Behaviour by Means of Experiments
Ina Kubbe (Speaker)
04.07.2012 → 06.07.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Understanding Corruption by Means of Experiments
Ina Kubbe (Oral presentation)
23.10.2014 → 24.10.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research