School of Culture and Society
Organisational unit: Research School
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.
- 2024
»Cultural Aspects of National Socialism«. Reconsidering an unfinished project of the International Institute of Social Research
Lukas Betzler (Speaker)
21.06.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Interdisziplinärer Workshop Postmoderne Prähistorie
Patrick Stoffel (Organiser)
21.06.2024Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Tiefenzeit als Schaubühne und auf der Schaubühne. Die „Geschichte der Urwelt“ (1889) in der Urania Berlin
Patrick Stoffel (Speaker)
14.06.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
The Practice of Decolonization
Susanne Leeb (Organiser), Richard Drayton (Organiser) & Rosalind C. Morris (Organiser)
11.06.2024Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Memes from the Reich: The Legal Aesthetics of Sovereign Citizens in the Virtual
Ben Hundertmark (Speaker) & Andrea Kretschmann (Speaker)
10.06.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Beyond Jefferson's Futures.
Susanne Leeb (Chair)
08.06.2024Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Education
Emma Kunz: Drawing as a tool, Healing as a process
Anna Kipke (Speaker)
07.06.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Expansive Museality: Camila Caris Seguel in Conversation with Sebastián Eduardo Dávila on Museo del Mundo and the Garífuna Nation
Sebastián Eduardo Dávila (Speaker) & Camila Caris Seguel (Speaker)
05.06.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
What could museums learn from the ancestral knowledge of the peoples from the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta?
Laura Felicitas Sabel (Speaker)
05.06.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
lunatic Festival
Robin Kuchar (Moderator)
01.06.2024Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › artistic events › Transfer