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.
- Conference Presentations
Books for Children. Transnational encounters 1750-1850
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
30.05.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Border - the videographic traces by Laura Waddington as a cinematographic memorial.
Eva Kuhn (Speaker)
30.08.2009 → 01.09.2009Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Bourdieu's political capital revisited – Artists' political activities in view of the field theory
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker) & Marie Hoop (Speaker)
21.08.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Bringing the region back in? German Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) between regional engagement and isolated business
Miriam Hufnagl (Speaker) & Nicole Schulze (Speaker)
25.08.2011 → 27.08.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Building trust in early childhood education and care. The role of local civil society
Sybille Münch (Speaker) & Anna Siede (Speaker)
11.10.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Business Leaders and Gender Hierarchy in News Photography. The Iconography of Male and Female Managers in German Newspapers and Magazines
Elke Grittmann (Speaker)
13.07.2011 → 17.07.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Calculating Disaster. Swarming, Panic, and Crowd Control
Sebastian Vehlken (Speaker)
30.05.2013 → 01.06.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Challenges for the Positioning of Destinations: Destination Formation Processes and Territorial Boundaries
Karlheinz Wöhler (Speaker)
24.08.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Changing identities of DIY based music venues? Clubs between scene - traditionalism, assimilation and ‘subcultural institutionalization’
Robin Kuchar (Speaker)
04.07.2018 → 07.07.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Changing Implicitness – Functions of Arts and Culture in Urban Planning and Policies across Times and Places
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
16.07.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research