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
Artful Sustainability Studies: Of aesthetics of complexity and radical open citizenship
Sacha Kagan (Lecturer)
29.06.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Artful Sustainability: The imagination of world-making versus the fiction of planning
Sacha Kagan (Lecturer)
02.06.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Art market research. Some non-obvious results
Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)
25.11.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Art or Science?: Leopold Blaschka's Marine Aquaria
Florian Huber (Lecturer)
04.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Arts and culture as urban development tool: a comparative study in Baltimore and Hamburg
Volker Kirchberg (Lecturer)
26.08.2010Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Arts and entertainment districts - creative districts as urban development tools?: The example of Baltimore
Volker Kirchberg (Lecturer)
08.10.2010Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Aspekte der Militärgeschichte der Stadt Lüneburg
Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)
20.05.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
“Assessing Representative Democracy, the Democratic Deficit and Institutional Reform
Florian Grotz (Lecturer)
25.11.2011 → 26.11.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Ästhetik der Autopoiesis als Sorgender Praxis
Anne Gräfe (presenter), Liza Mattutat (Speaker) & Julia Böcker (Speaker)
02.11.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Ästhetische Biologie bei Uexküll
Gottfried Schnödl (Speaker) & Maximilian Haas (Speaker)
18.12.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research