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.

 

  1. (Un)Mapping Infrastructures: Transnational Perspectives in Modern and Contemporary Art

    Dogramaci, B. (Partner), Esner, R. (Partner), Küster, B. (Partner), Langfeld, G. M. (Partner), Lerm-Hayes, C.-M. (Partner), Rother, L. (Partner), Ruckdeschel, A. (Partner), Smolińska, M. (Partner) & Ströbele, U. (Partner)

    01.01.1931.12.25

    Project: Research

  2. «Curtius Academy» im Rahmen des European Haniel Program on Entrepreneurship and the Humanities (2023-2026)

    Beyes, T. (Project manager, academic), Steyaert, C. (Partner) & Holt, R. (Partner)

    01.10.2330.09.26

    Project: Research

  3. Hypothetizität. Kernkraft, Computersimulation und das ›German Manhattan Project‹

    Vehlken, S. (Project manager, academic)

    01.10.1420.08.20

    Project: Research

  4. PAESE 3.0: Provenance and Collection Research Digital - Subproject: PAESE 3.0

    Rother, L. (Project manager, academic), Andratschke, C. (Partner) & Köhler, R. (Project staff)

    01.11.2431.10.28

    Project: Research

  5. Gastwissenschaftler/innen Aufenthalt

    Kirschner, U. (Project manager, academic)

    05.03.0730.08.07

    Project: Individual grant

  6. Summer School: Activist Sense and Urban Ecologies of Care

    Brunner, C. (Project manager, academic)

    01.01.1831.12.19

    Project: Research

  7. Workshop Print-PR

    Bekmeier-Feuerhahn, S. (Project manager, academic) & Adam, U. (Project staff)

    01.08.1231.08.12

    Project: Transfer (professional training)

  8. Integration Through Trust

    Sandermann, P. (Project manager, academic), Friedrichs-Liesenkötter, H. (Project manager, academic), Henkel, A. (Project manager, academic), Münch, S. (Project manager, academic), Husen, O. (Project manager, academic), Kakar, H. (Project staff), Siede, A. (Project staff), Schwenker, V. S. (Project staff), Wenzel, L. (Project staff) & Winkel, M. (Project staff)

    Ministry of Science and Culture of the State of Lower Saxony

    01.02.1931.05.22

    Project: Research

  9. “Expanding the Margins: Migration, Mobilities, Borders”, International Summer School

    Bojadzijev, M. (Project manager, academic)

    21.09.1426.09.14

    Project: Scientific event

  10. Duke University - Leuphana University Gender, Queer and Transgender Studies Workshop for Doctoral Candidates

    Trott, B. (Project manager, academic) & Rosenberg, G. (Project manager, academic)

    01.11.23 → …

    Project: Teaching

  11. The Authenticity of the Event: On the Testimony of Web Videos

    Simons, S. (Project manager, academic)

    01.11.0912.10.17

    Project: Dissertation project

  12. Workshop PM/PV

    Bekmeier-Feuerhahn, S. (Project manager, academic) & Adam, U. (Project staff)

    01.05.1231.05.12

    Project: Transfer (professional training)

  13. Repression, Mobilization, and Civil Society

    Welzel, C. (Project manager, academic), Inglehart, R. C. (Partner) & Deutsch, F. (Partner)

    01.01.1231.12.16

    Project: Research

  14. Methoden der Kunstgeschichte und Visual Studies

    Sieber, J. (Project manager, academic)

    13.12.1811.01.19

    Project: Teaching

  15. Workshop "Representation in the European Union: Coping with present challenges to democracy", 16. bis 18. September 2010 in Lüneburg

    Friedrich, D. (Project manager, academic) & Kröger, S. (Project manager, academic)

    Fritz Thyssen Stiftung

    01.07.1031.12.11

    Project: Scientific event

  16. NEMo: NEMo - Nachhaltige Erfüllung von Mobilitätsbedürfnissen im ländlichen Raum

    Henkel, A. (Project manager, academic), Halberstadt, J. (Project manager, academic), Samland, U. (Project staff), Marx Gómez, J. (Project manager, academic), Hahn, A. (Project manager, academic), Köster, F. (Project manager, academic), Taeger, J. (Project manager, academic), Winter, A. J. (Project manager, academic) & Woisetschläger, D. M. (Project manager, academic)

    Ministry of Science and Culture of the State of Lower Saxony

    01.10.1630.04.19

    Project: Research

  17. Diversität in Kreativnetzwerken als Bedingung nachhaltiger Stadtentwicklung

    Kirchberg, V. (Project manager, academic) & Dollereder, L. (Project staff)

    01.09.1531.12.16

    Project: Research

  18. Present and Future of Urban FRONTIER ZONES in Tunis

    Kirschner, U. (Project manager, academic)

    01.01.2031.12.20

    Project: Research

  19. Lifting the Sky: Practices to Sustain Worlds Otherwise

    Daibert , R. (Project manager, academic)

    01.10.22 → …

    Project: Dissertation project

  20. Migration in die DDR, Archiv und Online Bibliographie

    Bojadzijev, M. (Project manager, academic)

    01.06.11 → …

    Project: Teaching

  21. KOSMOS Workshop "Cataloging Logistics 2: Migration, Digitalisation, Forms of Life"

    Bojadzijev, M. (Project manager, academic)

    16.06.1617.06.16

    Project: Scientific event

  22. Frontier Zones

    Kirschner, U. (Project manager, academic)

    27.05.1515.12.17

    Project: Other

  23. KUL: Kunstraum of Leuphana University of Lüneburg

    Wuggenig, U. (Project manager, academic), Behnke, C. (Project staff) & Loichinger, H. C. (Project staff)

    01.06.0225.08.11

    Project: Practical Project

  24. CURE: Cultures of Rejection: Conditions of Acceptability in Socio-Spatial and Digital Environments in Contemporary Europe

    Bojadzijev, M. (Project manager, academic), Fiket, I. (Partner), Sauer, B. (Partner), Bojanic, S. (Partner), Jonsson, S. (Partner) & Harder, A. (Project staff)

    Volkswagen Foundation

    15.01.1923.02.22

    Project: Research

  25. Vivipoetik – Eine Literaturgeschichte theoretischer Biologien

    Huber, F. (Project manager, academic)

    22.01.19 → …

    Project: Research

  26. Jahrbuch der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung

    O'Sullivan, E. (Partner), Dettmar, U. (Partner), von Glasenapp, G. (Partner), Tomkowiak, I. (Partner) & Roeder, C. (Partner)

    01.05.1515.01.17

    Project: Other

  27. Project Quality Audit

    Rau, A. (Project manager, academic), Preuschl, C. (Project manager, academic) & Heuser, G. (Project manager, academic)

    Federal Ministry of Education and Research

    01.10.1130.09.16

    Project: Teaching

  28. Reisegeschwindigkeitsprofile in deutschen Städten im Zuge der Innovation Pedelec

    Pez, P. (Project manager, academic)

    02.04.1231.12.13

    Project: Research

  29. Meta-Image II: Development of a distributed virtual environment for research and communication for the discourse of images in art history

    Warnke, M. (Project manager, academic), Dieckmann, L. (Project manager, academic) & Bredekamp, H. (Project manager, academic)

    German Research Foundation

    01.09.1231.08.17

    Project: Research

  30. Öffentlichkeit einer Schriftstellerfamilie. Inszenierung und Repräsentanz der Familie Mann

    Klinkenbusch, I. (Project manager, academic)

    01.01.17 → …

    Project: Dissertation project

  31. Leuphana Arts Program 2019

    Leeb, S. (Project manager, academic)

    Ministry of Science and Culture of the State of Lower Saxony

    21.12.1831.03.20

    Project: Other

  32. Symposion: Soziale Medien - Neue Massen?

    Pias, C. (Project manager, academic)

    German Research Foundation

    01.09.1103.02.15

    Project: Scientific event

  33. Affect- and Psychotechnolog Studies. Emergent Technologies of Affective and Emotional (Self-)Control

    Pias, C. (Project manager, academic) & Schrape, N. (Project manager, academic)

    German Research Foundation

    01.11.1530.03.17

    Project: Research

  34. CSR-Kommunikation: Einflussfaktoren der Glaubwürdigkeit

    Bekmeier-Feuerhahn, S. (Project manager, academic) & Bögel, P. M. (Project manager, academic)

    15.09.1230.06.16

    Project: Dissertation project

  35. KHI-Project "Artistic Practices as Logistical Inversions"

    Neugärtner, S. (Project manager, academic)

    01.10.2431.03.25

    Project: Research

  36. Workshop: Populism in Italy

    Schwörer, J. (Project manager, academic)

    25.10.1926.10.19

    Project: Teaching

  37. CLICK Festival - First Viewer Television

    Ruffino, P. (Project manager, academic)

    07.05.1312.05.13

    Project: Practical Project

  38. Politiken und Infrastrukturen der Vermittlung mobiler Arbeit

    Bojadzijev, M. (Project manager, academic)

    01.05.1631.12.16

    Project: Research

  39. Exploratory Workshop

    Papilloud, C. (Project manager, academic)

    01.12.0620.03.09

    Project: Other

  40. Grundversorgung 2.0 (Basic Provision 2.0)

    Beyes, T. (Project manager, academic) & Pias, C. (Project manager, academic)

    01.05.1230.06.15

    Project: Research

  41. Der Sound der Leuphana. Campus Compilation

    Großmann, R. (Project manager, academic) & Engelberg, B. (Project staff)

    01.10.1201.05.13

    Project: Practical Project

  42. transmedial culture - A Practice-Based Research Project of Networking Art and Culture

    Pias, C. (Project manager, academic) & Bazzichelli, T. (Project staff)

    01.07.1224.03.15

    Project: Transfer (R&D project)

  43. Supercomputing. Medienkulturen zwischen Parallelität und Scalability

    Vehlken, S. (Project manager, academic) & Engemann, C. (Project manager, academic)

    27.07.1131.03.13

    Project: Research

  44. Teilmaßnahme 1.1 KT 12: Grundversorgung 2.0 - Internet-TV für die neue Mediengeneration

    Graßmuck, V. (Project manager, academic), Beyes, T. (Project manager, academic) & Pias, C. (Project manager, academic)

    Investitions- und Förderbank Niedersachsen – NBank

    19.08.0931.01.16

    Project: Research

  45. PolPolPol: Police, Politics, Polis – Dealing with refugees in the city

    Münch, S. (Project manager, academic) & Jantzer, L. (Project staff)

    German Research Foundation

    01.01.2131.12.23

    Project: Research

  46. NITE: Night spaces: migration, culture and IntegraTion in Europe

    Bojadzijev, M. (Project manager, academic), Brandellero, S. (Project manager, academic), Campkin, B. (Project manager, academic), Pardue, D. (Project manager, academic) & Kenny, A. (Project manager, academic)

    Europäische Union

    31.05.1931.05.22

    Project: Research

  47. Einfluss impliziter Motive auf die Weiterempfehlungsabgabe in Kulturinstitutionen - eine quantitative Studie

    Bekmeier-Feuerhahn, S. (Project manager, academic) & Sikkenga, J. (Project manager, academic)

    15.01.0931.05.13

    Project: Research

  48. Elements of a Critical Theory of Media and Participation

    Hörl, E. (Project manager, academic) & Nigro, R. (Project manager, academic)

    German Research Foundation

    01.10.1831.10.22

    Project: Research

  49. Die Aktualität der Romantik

    Förster, Y. (Partner), Vieweg, K. (Project manager, academic) & Deiters, F.-J. (Project manager, academic)

    01.01.1001.05.12

    Project: Research

  50. Investigating Logistics: Lifestyles, Migration and the Common(s)

    Bojadzijev, M. (Project manager, academic)

    01.09.1531.12.16

    Project: Scientific event

  51. Forschungsprojekt: Julius Meier-Graefe und die "neue" Kunstkritik

    Marchal, S. (Project manager, academic)

    01.01.13 → …

    Project: Research

  52. SIBA: Sicherheit und Reisen

    Wöhler, K. (Project manager, academic), Sonnenberg, G. (Project staff), Kummerer, A. (Project staff) & Demski, D. (Project staff)

    01.01.0731.12.09

    Project: Research

  53. Die wirtschaftlich-kulturelle Bedeutung des Rohstoffs Ton für die Backsteinstadt Lüneburg

    Pries, M. (Project manager, academic), Herdeg, U. (Partner) & Seidel, A. (Project staff)

    Volkswagen Foundation

    01.01.1026.01.16

    Project: Research

  54. Alice 150: celebrating Alice in Wonderland

    O'Sullivan, E. (Project manager, academic)

    21.04.1507.07.15

    Project: Practical Project

  55. Transforming Solidarities

    Karakayali, S. (Partner)

    01.09.2120.12.22

    Project: Research

  56. PML: Post-Media Lab

    Wuggenig, U. (Project manager, academic), Apprich, C. (Project staff) & Schultz, O. L. (Project staff)

    01.09.1131.05.14

    Project: Research

  57. KOSMOS Workshop "Cataloging Logistics 1: Migration, Humanitarism, Borders"

    Bojadzijev, M. (Project manager, academic)

    25.05.1627.05.16

    Project: Scientific event

  58. Social Desirability Bias im Kulturbereich

    Bekmeier-Feuerhahn, S. (Project manager, academic), Mers, A. (Project staff), Heinen, A. (Project staff), Bögel, P. M. (Project staff) & Sikkenga, J. (Project staff)

    01.04.1231.05.17

    Project: Research

  59. VERA: Reflexive Responsibilisierung. Verantwortung für nachhaltige Entwicklung

    Henkel, A. (Project manager, academic), Lüdtke, N. (Project staff), Buss, K. (Project staff), Lindemann, G. (Project manager, academic), Alkemeyer, T. (Project manager, academic), Paech, N. (Project manager, academic), Schulz, R. (Project manager, academic), Pfriem, R. (Project manager, academic), Hochmann, L. (Project manager, academic), Buschmann, N. (Project manager, academic) & Sulmowski, Y. (Project manager, academic)

    Ministry of Science and Culture of the State of Lower Saxony

    01.10.1630.04.19

    Project: Research

  60. Local Interest Representation in Multi-Level Parties

    Reiser, M. (Project manager, academic)

    01.08.14 → …

    Project: Research

  61. Between Logistics and Migration: Duisburg and the New Silk Road

    Bojadzijev, M. (Project manager, academic)

    01.01.17 → …

    Project: Research

  62. NMUN: National Model United Nations 2010 - New York

    Müller-Rommel, F. (Project manager, academic)

    19.03.1031.05.10

    Project: Teaching

  63. Political Parties and Religious Communication

    Schwörer, J. (Project manager, academic)

    01.01.19 → …

    Project: Research

  64. 24th ECPR PhD Summer School on “Political Parties in New Democracies”

    Müller-Rommel, F. (Project manager, academic)

    07.09.1413.09.14

    Project: Scientific event

  65. Dawn of the Doomed: The Religious and Political "Zombies' of the Anthropocene"

    Wessely, C. (Project manager, academic), Stoffel, P. (Project manager, academic), Lindemann, U. (Project manager, academic) & Asmuth, C. (Project manager, academic)

    01.03.2531.08.26

    Project: Research

  66. Think Dress! Fashion as Art

    Förster, Y. (Project manager, academic)

    01.03.14 → …

    Project: Research

  67. Commodified Agency: Social Space and the Digital Value Chain

    Kirchberg, V. (Project manager, academic) & Wuggenig, U. (Project manager, academic)

    Ministry of Science and Culture of the State of Lower Saxony

    01.04.2231.12.25

    Project: Research

  68. Subnationale Demokratiemuster in Asien und Lateinamerika

    Böttcher, F. (Project manager, academic)

    01.02.1201.09.17

    Project: Dissertation project

  69. Political Parties in Africa: Ethnicity and Party Formation

    Elischer, S. (Project manager, academic)

    01.09.1201.09.14

    Project: Research

  70. RIR: Relationen im Raum, Teilprojekt Informatische Aufarbeitung

    Brocke, M. (Coordination), Warnke, M. (Project manager, academic), Kollatz, T. (Partner) & Arnold, I. (Partner)

    Federal Ministry of Education and Research

    12.07.1230.07.15

    Project: Research

  71. MOPP: Moral Philosophy & Politics

    Schefczyk, M. (Project manager, academic)

    31.01.1105.12.22

    Project: Research

  72. Die Experimentalkultur in einer Seifenblase. Das epistemische Potenzial in Chardins Malerei

    Hosseini, A. (Project manager, academic)

    01.10.11 → …

    Project: Dissertation project

  73. Urbane Kreativitätsimpulse durch 2-3 Straßen?

    Kirchberg, V. (Project manager, academic), Behnke, C. (Project staff), Grigoleit, A. (Project staff), Hahn, J. (Project staff), Körs, A. (Project staff) & Nerlich, M. R. (Project staff)

    14.09.1031.05.11

    Project: Research

  74. Wer macht in Hamburg Musik?

    Kuchar, R. (Project manager, academic) & Behnke, C. (Project staff)

    01.03.0931.10.09

    Project: Transfer (Scientific Services)

  75. Scoring - Analysis of the Social Credit System in the PRC and Scoring in the West, Subproject: Data Infrastructure in East and West

    Warnke, M. (Project manager, academic), Pias, C. (Project manager, academic), Woesler, M. (Project manager, academic), Martin, D. (Project manager, academic), Nax, C. (Project staff) & Song, Y. (Project staff)

    Federal Ministry of Education and Research

    01.07.2131.05.25

    Project: Research

  76. Diffusing the EU Model? The European Union’s Influence on Regional Organizations

    Lenz, T. (Project manager, academic)

    01.01.1531.12.17

    Project: Research

  77. Akteur-Kunst-Theorie. Kunsttheoretische Potentiale der Akteur-Netzwerk-Theorie

    Weinert, A. (Project manager, academic)

    01.04.1510.01.24

    Project: Dissertation project

  78. RCA-SP5: Performing Anonymity - Sub-Project of "Reconfiguring Anonymity - Contemporary Forms of Reciprocity, Identifiability and Accountability in Transformation"

    Wuggenig, U. (Project manager, academic), Broeckmann, A. (Coordination), Knecht, M. (Project manager, academic), Bachmann, G. (Project manager, academic), Bialski, P. (Project staff), Koch, G. (Project manager, academic) & Zurawski, N. (Project manager, academic)

    Volkswagen Foundation

    01.07.1531.12.18

    Project: Research

  79. Demokratiefindung in der ehemaligen DDR

    Thaysen, U. (Project manager, academic)

    01.12.9030.10.93

    Project: Research

  80. Enlightenments German & Scottish

    von Xylander, C. (Project manager, academic) & Wuggenig, U. (Project manager, academic)

    01.02.19 → …

    Project: Research