School of Culture and Society
Organisational unit: Research School
Organisation profile
Leuphana University Lüneburg's School of Culture and Society is driven by the deep conviction that contemporary scientific and societal challenges can only be addressed by transcending traditional academic disciplines. Our college’s five institutes feature more than one hundred faculty from disciplines including art history, literary studies, media studies, philosophy, sociology, geography, and history. Together, they form a highly integrated network in terms of both their research and teaching, continuing a successful tradition of cooperation and collaboration in cultural studies that has defined our programme for almost forty years.
Main research areas
Culture and Society at Leuphana
More than 100 academics from the humanities and social sciences work at the School of Culture and Society at Leuphana. They pursue the shared goal of further developing the cultural studies project in the context of changing socio-cultural conditions. The point is not to dissolve individual disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, but rather to establish a specific cultural studies programme that aims at a critique of the present.
Research Areas
The School of Culture and Society focuses on cross-disciplinary research that explores questions that are highly significant to contemporary society. Our two primary research areas (Digital Cultures and Cultures of Critique) and our one research initiative (Cultures of Conflict) form a framework for innovative, advanced research in cultural studies. All of these research areas rely heavily on collaboration, and they include colloquia, conferences, and summer programs as well as ongoing collaborations with numerous externally funded projects.
Cultures of Critique: Forms, Media, Effects
Söntgen, B. (Project manager, academic), Hörl, E. (Project manager, academic), Beyes, T. (Project manager, academic) & Nigro, R. (Project manager, academic)
01.04.21 → 31.12.25
Project: Research
Praxes of the Transitory: Restitution, Museum Practice, and the (Im)material Cultural Heritage of the Tairona’s Descendants in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia
Felicitas Sabel, L. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.22 → …
Project: Dissertation project
Gastdozentur Prof. Pettai, Uni Tartu
Pettai, V. A. (Project manager, academic) & Müller-Rommel, F. (Coordination)
01.10.08 → 01.02.11
Project: Teaching
Back to the Future. Öffnungen der Zukunft nach der ›Breiten Gegenwart‹
Vehlken, S. (Project manager, academic)
01.05.20 → …
Project: Research
Schlüsselbegriffe der Kunstgeschichte und visuellen Kultur
Sieber, J. (Project manager, academic)
05.04.18 → 06.07.18
Project: Teaching
Plutonium Worlds. Computer Simulation and Nuclear Energy 1950-1980
Vehlken, S. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.13 → …
Project: Research
Emotionalisierung der Religion. Neue emotionale Stile im Kontext religöser Erfahrung
Herbrik, R. (Project manager, academic) & Knoblauch, H. (Project manager, academic)
20.10.10 → 30.09.13
Project: Research
Socio-Economic Inequality and Its Effect on Liberal Democratic Culture across the World
Schmitz, A.-E. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.17 → 30.09.22
Project: Dissertation project
ASSiST: International Summer School of Arts and Sciences for Sustainability in Social Transformation
Kagan, S. (Project manager, academic), Koefoed, O. (Partner), Savova, N. D. (Partner), Cozzolino, F. (Partner), Radhika, P. N. (Partner) & Sanguinetti, I. (Partner)
15.08.10 → 29.08.10
Project: Teaching
Repräsentationsvorstellungen von Abgeordneten
Reiser, M. (Project manager, academic)
01.06.15 → …
Project: Research
Gamification. Shifting Boundaries between the Ludic and the Non-Ludic
Fuchs, M. (Project manager, academic), Pias, C. (Project manager, academic), Raessens, J. (Partner) & Bogost, I. (Partner)
01.04.18 → 30.06.21
Project: Research
The Gender-Governance Link: Gender equality and public goods provision
Welzel, C. (Project manager, academic), Alexander, A. (Partner) & Klasen, S. (Partner)
Ministry of Science and Culture of the State of Lower Saxony
01.02.15 → 31.07.18
Project: Research
Industriekultur im Leinebergland
Pries, M. (Project manager, academic)
01.07.08 → 15.10.09
Project: Research
Arbeitsgruppe Konsumsoziologie
Schrage, D. (Project manager, academic) & Hellmann, K.-U. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.02 → …
Project: Research
Populismus und Protest. Deutsche und italienische Gegenwartsliteratur inmitten polarisierter Öffentlichkeiten
Drews, K. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.24 → 31.12.24
Project: Scientific event
Willkommen in Niedersachsen (WIN)
Kirschner, U. (Project manager, academic)
04.04.18 → 30.09.18
Project: Other
Party Politics and Democracy in Europe
Müller-Rommel, F. (Project manager, academic)
01.02.14 → 03.07.14
Project: Scientific event
IniVPol: Instrumente in der Verbraucherpolitik
Leipold, A. (Project staff) & Loer, K. (Project manager, academic)
01.01.17 → 31.12.19
Project: Research
College-Studien in der Praxis- Wie lassen sich Versorgungslücken im ländlichen Raum schließen?
Hellmann, K. (Project manager, academic) & Pez, P. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.13 → 31.03.14
Project: Practical Project
Mediengeschichte von den Anfängen bis heute
Faulstich, W. (Project manager, academic)
01.01.96 → 31.12.11
Project: Teaching