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
Jenseits von Wand und Vitrine: Mobile, projizierte und ephemere Bilder einer Ausstellung
Franziska Brons (Lecturer)
27.06.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
John Stuart Mills Theorie der modernen Welt
Michael Schefczyk (Lecturer)
08.10.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
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)
21.02.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Karte, Gestik und Ikon - Facetten des Visuellen im Spiel
Regine Herbrik (Lecturer)
25.05.2007Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Key Lecture: "Human Empowerment as an Analytical Framework to Study Social and Political Change"
Christian Welzel (Speaker)
01.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Key Lecture: The Civic Culture Transformed: From Allegiant to Assertive Citizens
Christian Welzel (Lecturer)
07.04.2015 → 10.04.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Keynote: "Die Studieneingangsphase – zwischen Kompensation und produktiver Verunsicherung"
Andreas Jürgens (Speaker)
24.11.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Keynote: "From Sacrificing Life to Living It: Moral Evolution and the Emerging Mass Basis of Global Peace"
Christian Welzel (Speaker)
03.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Keynote Lecture: "Can China Escape the Emancipatory Impulse of Modernization?"
Christian Welzel (Lecturer)
12.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Keynote Lecture: "How Civilization Turned into Human Empowerment"
Christian Welzel (Speaker)
11.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research