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.

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  1. 2012
  2. Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association's - APSA 2012

    Amy Alexander (Speaker)

    30.08.201202.09.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  3. Neighborhood Technologies 2012

    Sebastian Vehlken (Organiser)

    30.08.201201.09.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  4. 33rd International IBBY Congress 2012

    Emer O'Sullivan (Keynote speaker)

    24.08.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesTransfer

  5. Challenges for the Positioning of Destinations: Destination Formation Processes and Territorial Boundaries

    Karlheinz Wöhler (Speaker)

    24.08.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  6. Destination Governance – A New Management Concept for Tourism Destinations?

    Anja Saretzki (Speaker)

    24.08.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  7. 43. Tagung des Institus für Jugendliteratur der Universität Wien 2012

    Emer O'Sullivan (Keynote speaker)

    16.08.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  8. Cultivating Commons versus Consuming Spaces: The Spatial Economy of Artists’ Quarters

    Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)

    16.08.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  9. National Research University - Higher School of Economics

    Christian Welzel (Visiting researcher)

    13.08.201212.11.2012

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionEducation

  10. ECREA Doctoral Summer School 2012

    Merle-Marie Kruse (presenter)

    12.08.201225.08.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  11. Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (Publisher)

    Andreas Lutter (Editor)

    08.2012

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workEditor of journalsResearch