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.
(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)
01.01.19 → 31.12.25
Project: Research
«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)
01.10.23 → 30.09.26
Project: Research
Alternative Datenpraktiken zwischen Data Commons und Datensouveränität: Technopolitische Modalitäten von Teilhabe und Subjektivierung in Technokollektiven (Arbeitstitel)
Wessalowski, N. (Project manager, academic)
03.06.20 → …
Project: Dissertation project
Hypothetizität. Kernkraft, Computersimulation und das ›German Manhattan Project‹
Vehlken, S. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.14 → 20.08.20
Project: Research
Leuphana Arts Program 2015/2016
Leeb, S. (Project manager, academic)
Ministry of Science and Culture of the State of Lower Saxony
01.11.15 → 31.01.18
Project: Other
PAESE 3.0: Provenance and Collection Research Digital - Subproject: PAESE 3.0
Rother, L. (Project manager, academic), Andratschke, C. (Partner) & Köhler, R. (Project staff)
01.11.24 → 31.10.28
Project: Research
Gastwissenschaftler/innen Aufenthalt
Kirschner, U. (Project manager, academic)
05.03.07 → 30.08.07
Project: Individual grant
Summer School: Activist Sense and Urban Ecologies of Care
Brunner, C. (Project manager, academic)
01.01.18 → 31.12.19
Project: Research
Workshop Print-PR
Bekmeier-Feuerhahn, S. (Project manager, academic) & Adam, U. (Project staff)
01.08.12 → 31.08.12
Project: Transfer (professional training)
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
01.02.19 → 31.05.22
Project: Research
“Expanding the Margins: Migration, Mobilities, Borders”, International Summer School
Bojadzijev, M. (Project manager, academic)
21.09.14 → 26.09.14
Project: Scientific event
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
The Authenticity of the Event: On the Testimony of Web Videos
Simons, S. (Project manager, academic)
01.11.09 → 12.10.17
Project: Dissertation project
Workshop PM/PV
Bekmeier-Feuerhahn, S. (Project manager, academic) & Adam, U. (Project staff)
01.05.12 → 31.05.12
Project: Transfer (professional training)
Repression, Mobilization, and Civil Society
Welzel, C. (Project manager, academic), Inglehart, R. C. (Partner) & Deutsch, F. (Partner)
01.01.12 → 31.12.16
Project: Research
Methoden der Kunstgeschichte und Visual Studies
Sieber, J. (Project manager, academic)
13.12.18 → 11.01.19
Project: Teaching
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)
01.07.10 → 31.12.11
Project: Scientific event
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
01.10.16 → 30.04.19
Project: Research
Diversität in Kreativnetzwerken als Bedingung nachhaltiger Stadtentwicklung
Kirchberg, V. (Project manager, academic) & Dollereder, L. (Project staff)
01.09.15 → 31.12.16
Project: Research
Present and Future of Urban FRONTIER ZONES in Tunis
Kirschner, U. (Project manager, academic)
01.01.20 → 31.12.20
Project: Research