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.
Sustainable Creative Cities: The role of the arts in globalized urban context
Kagan, S. (Project manager, academic), Sasaki, M. (Project manager, academic) & Verstraete, K. (Partner, non-academic)
05.07.10 → 08.02.11
Project: Research
Entrainment: Temporal Structuring of Creative Projects
Schüßler, E. (Project manager, academic), Grabher, G. (Project manager, academic), Sydow, J. (Project manager, academic) & Hoop, M. (Project staff)
01.10.23 → 31.05.25
Project: Research
ESA RN2: 9th Midterm Conference of the Research Network Sociology of the Arts at the European Sociological Association: "Arts And Creativity: Working on Identity and Difference"
Kagan, S. (Project manager, academic), Guerra, P. (Project manager, academic) & Moreira, T. (Project staff)
01.09.15 → 31.12.16
Project: Scientific event
33 1/3 Revolutions
Fuchs, M. (Project manager, academic)
16.05.16 → 29.05.16
Project: Non-academic projects
Kunst in neuen Kontexten: Die Artist Placement Group als Case Study
Jordan, U. (Project manager, academic) & Waligorski, A. (Project manager, academic)
25.10.13 → 26.01.14
Project: Teaching
Gastwissenschaftler Prof. Dr. David Sperling
Kirschner, U. (Project manager, academic)
06.06.16 → 24.06.16
Project: Research
Migrationspolitiken im Mehrebenensystem
Jantzer, L. (Project manager, academic)
01.04.22 → 01.10.22
Project: Teaching
Cities on Demand? Unboxing Urban Un_Certainties from Amazon’s Algorithmic Architectures and Forecasted Futures
Voigt, M.-L. (Project staff)
01.04.22 → …
Project: Dissertation project
Assistive Media - Subproject 2
Hagen, W. (Project manager, academic), Müggenburg, J. (Project manager, academic), Harasser, K. (Partner), Mills, M. (Partner) & Macele, P. (Project staff)
01.10.18 → 31.12.21
Project: Research
Regionalism and its Causes in sub-Saharan Africa
Elischer, S. (Project manager, academic)
01.06.14 → …
Project: Research
republicart: republicart
Wuggenig, U. (Project manager, academic) & Stoller, D. (Project staff)
30.04.02 → 30.03.05
Project: Research
Reale Utopien - Ursachen und Wirkungen
Kirchberg, V. (Project manager, academic) & Blieffert, S. (Project manager, academic)
15.05.22 → 31.08.23
Project: Research
Methodenkritik und feministische Institutionskritik. Kritik, Interventionen und neue Formen des Sprechens
Sieber, J. (Project manager, academic) & Wulff, N. (Project manager, academic)
06.04.20 → 10.07.20
Project: Teaching
Soziale Gerechtigkeit und Anerkennung in der medialen Klimakommunikation aus kosmopolitischer Perspektive
Grittmann, E. (Project manager, academic)
01.05.13 → …
Project: Research
Tagungsreihe "Der Einfluss des Idealismus. Das Vermächtnis des nachkantianischen deutschen Denkens in Ästhetik, Literatur und Literaturtheorie"
Jamme (✝), C. (Project manager, academic)
01.09.10 → 15.11.12
Project: Scientific event
Strategische Steuerung in Party-Government-Systemen
Tils, R. (Project staff), Müller-Rommel, F. (Project manager, academic) & Saretzki, T. (Project manager, academic)
01.04.06 → 30.09.10
Project: Research
Individuelle und systemische Belastungen im flexiblen Kapitalismus. Demokratietheoretische Implikationen einer kritischen Theorie sozialen Stresses
Schottdorf, T. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.16 → …
Project: Dissertation project
Nationalist, people-centered and anti-elitist communication strategies of political parties. A theoretical and empirical introduction
Schwörer, J. (Project manager, academic)
03.05.19 → 25.05.19
Project: Teaching
E-Participation in the European Multi-Level System. Supply and Use of New Digital Media in the European Parliament.
Kunert, J. S. (Project manager, academic)
01.02.12 → 01.02.15
Project: Dissertation project
EU COST Action on "Data Matters: Sociotechnical Challenges of European Migration and Border Control (DATAMIG)”
Scheel, S. (Project manager, academic)
28.09.23 → 27.09.27
Project: Research