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.
The Creation of the World out of Exhaustion
Anne Gräfe (Speaker)
29.02.2024 → 01.03.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
The control of life and everything living. Biohacking as a Technology of Cybernetic Biopolitics
Laura Hille (Speaker)
23.09.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
The Contract Governance Conference - 2010
Florian Grotz (Participant)
30.09.2010 → 02.10.2010Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Transfer
The “Contagion Effect” of Populism: the Case of Italy
Jakob Schwörer (Speaker)
22.08.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
The Contagion Effect of Populism on Mainstream Parties
Jakob Schwörer (Speaker)
22.11.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
The Consumption of Culture - The Culture of Consumption - ICARE 2009
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
17.04.2009Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
The Construction of Drug Dis- tribution as a Competitive Market
Anna Henkel (Lecturer)
09.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
The Construction of Drug Distribution as a Competitive Market
Anna Henkel (Lecturer)
05.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
The compatibility of knowing and believing in Quentin Meillassoux’s Divine« Inexistence
Charlotte Szasz (Speaker)
17.11.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
"The Common Sense": Maschinische Verschuldung bei Melanie Gilligan
Holger Kuhn (Speaker)
26.04.2018 → 27.04.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research