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.
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
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)
14.09.10 → 31.05.11
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
The Mediatized Home: Changes of Domestic Communication Cultures
Röser, J. (Project manager, academic) & Peil, C. (Project staff)
01.11.10 → 28.09.12
Project: Research
MOPP: Moral Philosophy & Politics
Schefczyk, M. (Project manager, academic)
31.01.11 → 05.12.22
Project: Research
Hermann Bahr: Ein österreichischer Kritiker der europäischen Avantgarden
Pias, C. (Project manager, academic)
01.02.11 → 05.02.14
Project: Research
Post-sozialistische Regierungssystemreform: Armenien, Kroatien, Russland und die Ukraine im Vergleich
Seha, E. (Project manager, academic)
01.03.11 → 10.07.14
Project: Dissertation project
College-Studien in der Praxis- Nachhaltiges Nutzungskonzept für das Heimathaus
Hellmann, K. (Project manager, academic) & Kirschner, U. (Project staff)
01.04.11 → 30.09.11
Project: Practical Project
Klimafolgenanpassung: Klimafolgenanpassung - Analyse der Entwicklung einer Klimaanpassungsstrategie für Niedersachsen
Striegnitz, M. (Project manager, academic), Saretzki, T. (Project manager, academic) & Ebermann, V. (Project staff)
Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Umwelt, Energie und Klimaschutz
01.04.11 → 30.06.18
Project: Research
Jahrestagung des Fachverbands Kulturmanagement: Jahrestagung Fachverband Kulturmanagement
Bekmeier-Feuerhahn, S. (Coordination), Mandel, B. (Coordination), Kirchberg, V. (Coordination) & Ober-Heilig, N. (Project staff)
01.06.11 → 30.06.12
Project: Scientific event
Migration in die DDR, Archiv und Online Bibliographie
Bojadzijev, M. (Project manager, academic)
01.06.11 → …
Project: Teaching
Radius of Art: Creative politicization of the public sphere - Cultural potential forces for social transformation
Gad, D. (Coordination), Löschmann, H. (Coordination), Kagan, S. (Partner), Müffelmann, A. (Coordination), Eckstein, K. (Coordination), Merkel, C. M. (Partner), Jarchow, U. (Partner), Thoss, M. M. (Partner), Classen, R. (Partner), aus dem Moore, E. (Partner), Winkler, S. (Partner), Müller, E. (Partner) & Ernst, R. (Partner)
06.06.11 → 09.02.12
Project: Scientific event
DoktorandInnen-Workshop Sektion Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft (2011)
Müller-Rommel, F. (Project manager, academic)
17.06.11 → 18.06.11
Project: Scientific event
Hör.Spiel.Gut H A S S E L B U R G – Mehr als ein Museum
Bekmeier-Feuerhahn, S. (Project manager, academic), Flach, A. (Project staff) & Brinker, H. C. (Partner, non-academic)
01.07.11 → 02.02.12
Project: Practical Project
Workshop externe PR Print oder Online
Bekmeier-Feuerhahn, S. (Project manager, academic) & Adam, U. (Project staff)
01.07.11 → 31.07.11
Project: Transfer (professional training)
Supercomputing. Medienkulturen zwischen Parallelität und Scalability
Vehlken, S. (Project manager, academic) & Engemann, C. (Project manager, academic)
27.07.11 → 31.03.13
Project: Research
PML: Post-Media Lab
Wuggenig, U. (Project manager, academic), Apprich, C. (Project staff) & Schultz, O. L. (Project staff)
01.09.11 → 31.05.14
Project: Research
Symposion: Soziale Medien - Neue Massen?
Pias, C. (Project manager, academic)
01.09.11 → 03.02.15
Project: Scientific event
Die Experimentalkultur in einer Seifenblase. Das epistemische Potenzial in Chardins Malerei
Hosseini, A. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.11 → …
Project: Dissertation project
Förderung der Regelprofessur im Fach Kunstgeschichte im Rahmen des Professorinnenprogramms an der Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
van Riesen, K. (Coordination) & Söntgen, B. (Project manager, academic)
Federal Ministry of Education and Research
01.10.11 → 31.12.15
Project: Individual grant
How to attract visitors with strategic, value-based experience design - A review and analysis of customer experience and visitor segmentation research for cultural organisations
Bekmeier-Feuerhahn, S. (Project manager, academic), Ober-Heilig, N. (Project manager, academic) & Sikkenga, J. (Project staff)
01.10.11 → 31.01.13
Project: Research
Mode und Accessoires. Fetischistische Strukturen in der Malerei Pierre-Auguste Renoirs (AT)
Sawer, A. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.11 → …
Project: Dissertation project
New technologies, new sound practices
Großmann, R. (Project manager, academic) & Hanacek, M. (Partner)
01.10.11 → 31.05.12
Project: Scientific event
'Politics' under (de-)construction? – Aushandlungsprozesse 'des Politischen' in mediatisierten Alltagswelten Jugendlicher (Arbeitstitel)
Kruse, M.-M. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.11 → …
Project: Dissertation project
Project Quality Audit
Rau, A. (Project manager, academic), Preuschl, C. (Project manager, academic) & Heuser, G. (Project manager, academic)
Federal Ministry of Education and Research
01.10.11 → 30.09.16
Project: Teaching
Strategiebildung in der subnationalen Klimaanpassungspolitik (Arbeitstitel)
Ebermann, V. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.11 → 30.09.14
Project: Dissertation project
Strategic policy making in research and innovation policy (working titel)
Hufnagl, M. (Project manager, academic)
10.10.11 → 01.04.15
Project: Dissertation project
Art and Civic Media
Beyes, T. (Project manager, academic) & Pias, C. (Project manager, academic)
01.11.11 → 01.05.15
Project: Research
TM 1.1 KT 09 - Segmented Media: Art and Civic Media - Neue Medienformate für die gesellschaftlichen Bedürfnisse von morgen
Pias, C. (Project manager, academic) & Beyes, T. (Project manager, academic)
Investitions- und Förderbank Niedersachsen – NBank
01.01.12 → 31.03.16
Project: Research
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
Was machen eigentlich Parlamente?
Koß, M. (Project manager, academic)
01.01.12 → 31.12.18
Project: Research
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
Freedom Rising: Human Empowerment and the Quest for Emancipation
Welzel, C. (Project manager, academic)
01.02.12 → 31.03.13
Project: Research
Nachbarschafts-Technologien. Mathematik und Medien dynamischer Netzwerke
Vehlken, S. (Project manager, academic) & Harks, T. (Project manager, academic)
01.02.12 → 04.02.13
Project: Scientific event
Subnationale Demokratiemuster in Asien und Lateinamerika
Böttcher, F. (Project manager, academic)
01.02.12 → 01.09.17
Project: Dissertation project
Studienergänzung Public Relations 5
Bekmeier-Feuerhahn, S. (Project manager, academic) & Adam, U. (Project staff)
01.03.12 → 31.07.13
Project: Transfer (professional training)
Music and Politics. Political Cultural Education as an Access to Politics for Adolescents!?
Oeftering, T. (Project manager, academic), Kuhn, H.-W. (Project manager, academic) & Gloe, M. (Project manager, academic)
06.03.12 → 30.08.14
Project: Scientific event
Touristische Potenziale der Samtgemeinde Horneburg
Pries, M. (Project manager, academic)
10.03.12 → 11.07.12
Project: Research
College Studien in der Praxis- Wirtschaftsförderung der Samtgemeinde Horneburg & GD Incentives GmbH
Hellmann, K. (Project manager, academic) & Pries, M. (Project staff)
01.04.12 → 30.09.12
Project: Practical Project
Deliberative Bürgerbeteiligung in der deutschen Debatte um Priorisierung in der medizinischen Versorgung - Potentiale und Grenzen
Stumpf, S. (Project manager, academic)
01.04.12 → 31.03.15
Project: Dissertation project
Messung der Wirkung von Architektur als Erlebnisträger beim Museumsbesuch
Bekmeier-Feuerhahn, S. (Project manager, academic) & Ober-Heilig, N. (Project manager, academic)
01.04.12 → 23.06.14
Project: Research
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)
01.04.12 → 31.05.17
Project: Research
Reisegeschwindigkeitsprofile in deutschen Städten im Zuge der Innovation Pedelec
Pez, P. (Project manager, academic)
02.04.12 → 31.12.13
Project: Research
Der deutsche Gatsby x 8: eine Ausstellung
O'Sullivan, E. (Project manager, academic)
10.04.12 → 01.07.12
Project: Practical Project
Grundversorgung 2.0 (Basic Provision 2.0)
Beyes, T. (Project manager, academic) & Pias, C. (Project manager, academic)
01.05.12 → 30.06.15
Project: Research
Teilmaßnahme 1.1 KT 11: Hybrid Publishing
Warnke, M. (Project manager, academic), Beyes, T. (Project manager, academic), Beverungen, A. (Project staff), Bunz, M. (Project manager, academic), Heise, C. (Project staff), Kuper, H.-G. (Project staff), Loebel, J.-M. (Project staff), Worthington, S. (Project staff), Hall, G. (Partner), Levin, T. (Partner), Lovink, G. (Partner), Shah, N. N. (Project staff), Amorosa, J. (Project staff), Burkhardt, M. (Project staff), Dieter, M. (Project staff), Gollner, U. (Project staff), Hui, Y. (Project staff), Kirchner, A. (Project staff), Kral, C. (Project staff), Le, M. (Project staff) & Peters, H. (Project staff)
Investitions- und Förderbank Niedersachsen – NBank
01.05.12 → 31.03.16
Project: Research
IP TM 1.1 KT 11: Internes Projektbudget KT 11 - Hybrid Publishing
Warnke, M. (Project manager, academic) & Beyes, T. (Project manager, academic)
Investitions- und Förderbank Niedersachsen – NBank
01.05.12 → 31.03.16
Project: Other
Workshop PM/PV
Bekmeier-Feuerhahn, S. (Project manager, academic) & Adam, U. (Project staff)
01.05.12 → 31.05.12
Project: Transfer (professional training)
Vorhabensteil: Sprachliche Heterogenität im schulischen Fachunterricht der Sekundarstufe I
Leiss, D. (Project manager, academic), Schwippert, K. (Partner), Lutter, A. (Partner), Neumann, A. (Partner), Schmidt, T. (Partner) & Holle, K. (Project staff)
26.06.12 → 31.12.12
Project: Research