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.
eMotion – das psychogeographische Museum: mapping museum experience
Kirchberg, V. (Partner), Tröndle, M. (Project manager, academic), Tschacher, W. (Partner), van den Berg, K. (Partner) & Wintzerith, S. (Partner)
01.10.08 → 15.01.16
Project: Research
Gastdozentur Prof. Pettai, Uni Tartu
Pettai, V. A. (Project manager, academic) & Müller-Rommel, F. (Coordination)
01.10.08 → 01.02.11
Project: Teaching
Soziale Netzwerkanalyse von Kunst und Kultur in der Region Lüneburg
Kirchberg, V. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.08 → 25.05.13
Project: Research
Field Research: Art World Zurich
Wuggenig, U. (Project manager, academic), Prinz, S. (Partner) & Tarnai, C. (Partner)
Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst
01.12.08 → 31.08.17
Project: Research
Political Culture and Political Development
Welzel, C. (Project manager, academic) & Dalton, R. J. (Partner)
01.01.09 → 31.12.13
Project: Research
"Stalingrad": Krieg und Medienkultur am Beispiel des Zweiten Weltkriegs - Beziehungen, Formen, Funktionen
Faulstich, W. (Project manager, academic)
01.01.09 → 31.12.11
Project: Teaching
Bestimmung impliziter Motive der Weiterempfehlungsabgabe in Kulturinstitutionen - eine qualitative Studie
Bekmeier-Feuerhahn, S. (Project manager, academic) & Sikkenga, J. (Project manager, academic)
15.01.09 → 31.05.13
Project: Research
Einfluss impliziter Motive auf die Weiterempfehlungsabgabe in Kulturinstitutionen - eine quantitative Studie
Bekmeier-Feuerhahn, S. (Project manager, academic) & Sikkenga, J. (Project manager, academic)
15.01.09 → 31.05.13
Project: Research
Weiterempfehlung als informative und soziale Funktion in Kulturinstitutionen
Bekmeier-Feuerhahn, S. (Project manager, academic) & Sikkenga, J. (Project manager, academic)
15.01.09 → 31.05.13
Project: Dissertation project
Impact of Idealism. The Legacy of Post-Kantian German Thought
Jamme (✝), C. (Project manager, academic)
18.02.09 → 01.10.11
Project: Research
Wer macht in Hamburg Musik?
Kuchar, R. (Project manager, academic) & Behnke, C. (Project staff)
01.03.09 → 31.10.09
Project: Transfer (Scientific Services)
Neue Medien in der Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung - GPS-Bildungsrouten im Biosphärenreservat Flusslandschaft Elbe
Möller, A. (Project manager, academic), Pez, P. (Project manager, academic) & Corleis, F. (Coordination)
German Federal Environmental Foundation
03.03.09 → 17.10.11
Project: Research
Einsatz von Architektur bei der Markenbildung von Kulturunternehmen
Bekmeier-Feuerhahn, S. (Project manager, academic) & Ober-Heilig, N. (Project manager, academic)
01.04.09 → 23.06.14
Project: Dissertation project
Party Government in the New Europe. London: Routledge
Müller-Rommel, F. (Project manager, academic) & Keman, H. (Project manager, academic)
01.04.09 → 31.10.11
Project: Research
Demokratische Regierungssysteme in Mittel- und Osteuropa
Müller-Rommel, F. (Project manager, academic)
01.05.09 → 24.11.09
Project: Scientific event
Einfluss der Vertrauensentwicklung, unternehmerischer Wandel
Bekmeier-Feuerhahn, S. (Project manager, academic) & Eichenlaub, A. (Project staff)
01.05.09 → 30.08.11
Project: Research
PPGG-Programm PELP -Public Policy and Good Governance
Friedrich, D. (Project manager, academic)
01.07.09 → 30.06.15
Project: Teaching
SES²: Smart Emergency Supply System: Intelligente Notstromversorgungssysteme unter Einbeziehung regenerativer Energien - Teilvorhaben: Soziologische Begleitforschung zum Smart Emergency Supply System
Burkart, G. (Project manager, academic), Müller, T. (Project staff), Maischatz, K. (Project staff), Ortjohann, E. (Coordination), Siekhaus, K.-H. (Project manager, academic), Blümel, A. (Project manager, academic) & Richter, A. (Project manager, academic)
Federal Ministry of Education and Research
01.08.09 → 31.07.13
Project: Research
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
19.08.09 → 31.01.16
Project: Research
TM 1.1 KT 02 - Moving Image: Moving Image Lab: Development and examination of moving image formats
Beyes, T. (Project manager, academic), Riedel, M. (Project staff), Gupta, S. (Project staff) & Hagen, F. (Project staff)
Investitions- und Förderbank Niedersachsen – NBank
19.08.09 → 31.03.16
Project: Research
Nouveau terrain d'apparition
Brunner, C. (Partner) & Courchesne, L. (Project manager, academic)
01.09.09 → 31.08.11
Project: Research
Gamer's games: Narratives of opposition, independence and engagement in video game culture
Ruffino, P. (Project manager, academic)
14.09.09 → 31.08.14
Project: Dissertation project
Gamers' games: narratives of opposition, independence and engagement in video game culture
Ruffino, P. (Project manager, academic)
22.09.09 → 01.01.14
Project: Dissertation project
A Survey of Surveys - Eine international vergleichende Metastudie repräsentativer Bevölkerungsanalysen des Kulturkonsums
Kirchberg, V. (Project manager, academic) & Kuchar, R. (Project staff)
30.09.09 → 31.03.11
Project: Research
Globally traded Television Formats and their reception - A study on the appropriation of the Top Model-format in different cultural contexts
Stehling, M. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.09 → 30.09.18
Project: Dissertation project
International Research Group: The Impact of Idealism
Jamme (✝), C. (Project manager, academic) & Boyle, N. (Coordination)
01.10.09 → 01.11.13
Project: Research
Meta-Image – a collaborative environment for the image discourse
Warnke, M. (Project manager, academic), Schirmbacher, P. (Partner), Dieckmann, L. (Project manager, academic) & Kliemann, A. (Project staff)
01.10.09 → 13.10.15
Project: Research
Urbane Musikräume im Wandel. DIY geprägte Musikclubs auf St. Pauli zwischen Szene, Stadt und Music Industries
Kuchar, R. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.09 → 26.10.17
Project: Dissertation project
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
Evaluation des Projektes "RAUMsichten"
Kirchberg, V. (Project manager, academic), Behnke, C. (Partner) & Grigoleit, A. (Partner)
03.11.09 → 31.12.12
Project: Transfer (R&D project)
Representation in the European Union
Friedrich, D. (Project manager, academic) & Kröger, S. (Partner)
28.11.09 → 15.01.13
Project: Research
The construction of national identity in ABC books and picturebooks from the 19th century to the present
O'Sullivan, E. (Project manager, academic), Immel, A. (Partner), Lathey, G. (Partner), Morgado, M. R. (Partner), Rutschmann, V. (Partner) & Renonciat, A. (Partner)
04.12.09 → …
Project: Research
Die Aktualität der Romantik
Förster-Beuthan, Y. (Partner), Vieweg, K. (Project manager, academic) & Deiters, F.-J. (Project manager, academic)
01.01.10 → 01.05.12
Project: Research
Die wirtschaftlich-kulturelle Bedeutung des Rohstoffs Ton für die Backsteinstadt Lüneburg
Pries, M. (Project manager, academic), Herdeg, U. (Partner) & Seidel, A. (Project staff)
01.01.10 → 26.01.16
Project: Research
Pratiques de pouvoir et formes de représentation
Nigro, R. (Project manager, academic)
01.01.10 → 31.12.16
Project: Research
NMUN: National Model United Nations 2010 - New York
Müller-Rommel, F. (Project manager, academic)
01.02.10 → 24.06.10
Project: Teaching
Parlamentarische Sozialisation von Landtagsabgeordneten
Reiser, M. (Project manager, academic) & Borchert, J. (Project manager, academic)
01.02.10 → …
Project: Research
DFG-Network: Sound in Media Culture. Aspects of a Cultural History of Sound
Großmann, R. (Partner) & Hanacek, M. (Project manager, academic)
01.03.10 → 01.03.13
Project: Research
NMUN: National Model United Nations 2010 - New York
Müller-Rommel, F. (Project manager, academic)
19.03.10 → 31.05.10
Project: Teaching
The Determinants of Political Corruption in Comparative Perspective
Kubbe, I. (Project manager, academic)
01.04.10 → 09.12.14
Project: Dissertation project
Bürgermeisterwahlkämpfe im Professionalisierungsdiskurs der Wahlkampfforschung. Ein kandidatenzentrierter Vergleich in niedersächsischen Städten
Freund, C. (Project manager, academic)
01.05.10 → 23.07.13
Project: Dissertation project
Knowledge in the Arts and the Transformation of Theory
Brunner, C. (Partner), Bippus, E. (Project manager, academic) & Busch, K. (Project manager, academic)
01.05.10 → 01.05.11
Project: Research
bLÜmsday 2010: Bloomsday in Lüneburg
O'Sullivan, E. (Project manager, academic)
22.06.10 → 03.02.11
Project: Practical Project
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
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
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
Dynamik, Gründe und Folgen des postindustriellen Wertewandels: Deutschlands Werteentwicklung im internationalen Vergleich
Welzel, C. (Project manager, academic)
01.09.10 → 30.06.11
Project: Research