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.
Poetic and Photographic Practices in the Kiongozi German East African Colonial Newspaper 1885 to 1918
Kindata, D. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.22 → …
Project: Dissertation project
Praxes of the Transitory: Restitution, Museum Practice, and the (Im)material Cultural Heritage of the Tairona’s Descendants in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia
Felicitas Sabel, L. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.22 → …
Project: Dissertation project
‚Primitive Communism‘ as a narrative concept between 1848 and 1940
Hügel, J. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.22 → …
Project: Dissertation project
Re-thinking Solidarity and Care Infrastructures in Belarusian Protest Art 2020–2021
Davydzik, V. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.22 → …
Project: Dissertation project
The Ecotechnical Community: Hospitality and the Organisation of Locality
Stewart, D. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.22 → …
Project: Dissertation project
The Logistical Museum – Circulation and Connectivity in Contemporary Museum Practice
Ruhkopf, M. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.22 → …
Project: Dissertation project
DigID: Doing Digital Identities
Scheel, S. (Project manager, academic), El-Kahil, S. (Project staff), O'Brien, O. (Project staff), Lambert, L. (Project staff) & Hargyono, S. (Project staff)
01.02.23 → 31.01.28
Project: Research
Alltag im Dissens: Eine Studie zum Gebrauch (imaginären) Rechts von Reichsbürger:innen (Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur)
Kretschmann, A. (Project manager, academic), Hundertmark, B. (Project staff) & Rowitz, L. (Project staff)
01.04.23 → 31.05.26
Project: Research
LoMAR: Reproductive Loss and Bereavement in Medically Assisted Reproduction
Böcker, J. (Project manager, academic) & Jakoby, N. (Coordination)
01.04.23 → 30.06.24
Project: Research
TrICo Subprojekt - Community Art and Culture
Beyes, T. (Project manager, academic), Cnossen, B. (Project manager, academic), Kuchar, R. (Project staff), Bartusch, L. (Project manager, academic), Schellmann, M. (Project staff) & Börner, S. (Project staff)
01.04.23 → 31.12.27
Project: Transfer (R&D project)
Decolonial Thought and Practice
Daibert , R. (Project manager, academic)
04.04.23 → 04.07.23
Project: Teaching
Queer Cities: Cruising, Spaces and Encounters
Daibert , R. (Project manager, academic)
04.04.23 → 07.07.23
Project: Teaching
Den Himmel zeichnen - Eine Veranstaltung in der Historischen Sternwarte Göttingen
Steierwald, U. (Project manager, academic) & Reiners, A. (Partner)
14.09.23 → 31.12.23
Project: Scientific event
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
A Museum of Memory for Colombia: The emergence of a controversial space
Rueda, D. C. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.23 → …
Project: Dissertation project
«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
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
Smartness as Wealth
Beverungen, A. (Project manager, academic), Halpern, O. (Project manager, academic), Steinberg, M. (Project manager, academic), Nag, A. (Project manager, academic) & Cirolia, L. R. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.23 → 30.09.27
Project: Research
Wendländisches Leinen und Koloniales Erbe. Spurensuche einer transkulturellen Verflechtung im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert
Söntgen, B. (Partner), Leeb, S. (Partner), Kreiseler, S. (Project manager, academic) & Stamm, R. (Project staff)
01.10.23 → 30.09.25
Project: Research
“The Word for World is Forest”: Art and Human Ecological Restoration
Daibert , R. (Project manager, academic)
17.10.23 → 01.02.24
Project: Teaching
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
Erasmus Mundus application
Jorgensen, L. (Project manager, academic)
08.01.24 → 30.06.25
Project: Other
LIAS x LOST: Exploring the Organization of Societal Polarization
Kostuj, L. (Project manager, academic)
19.03.24 → 19.03.24
Project: Scientific event
Civil Society in 2024 Russia
Kalinina, A. (Project manager, academic)
01.04.24 → 30.11.24
Project: Practical Project
Body narratives and world-making. A practice-based seminar on performance studies and art
Daibert , R. (Project manager, academic)
02.04.24 → 03.07.24
Project: Teaching
KHI-Project "Artistic Practices as Logistical Inversions"
Neugärtner, S. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.24 → 31.03.25
Project: Research
Populismus und Protest. Deutsche und italienische Gegenwartsliteratur inmitten polarisierter Öffentlichkeiten
Drews, K. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.24 → 31.12.24
Project: Scientific event
Art, Decoloniality and Popular Knowlegde
Daibert , R. (Project manager, academic)
14.10.24 → 31.01.25
Project: Teaching
Neocolonialism and Film
Daibert , R. (Project manager, academic) & Rizk, P. (Project manager, academic)
14.10.24 → 31.01.25
Project: Teaching
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
Transkulturalität der europäischen Literatur. Zwischen islamischer Aufklärung und jüdischem Exil (DFG Heisenbergförderung)
Meyzaud, M. (Project manager, academic)
01.01.25 → 31.12.27
Project: Research
Rück(ver)bindung mit dem (im)materiellen Kulturgut aus der Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta
Felicitas Sabel, L. (Project manager, academic)
15.01.25 → 15.02.25
Project: Practical Project
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)
01.03.25 → 31.08.26
Project: Research
ANTIRA: Konflikte um Antisemitismus und Rassismus. Aktuelle Kontroversen zwischen Solidarität und Instrumentalisierung in Deutschland
Karakayali, S. (Project manager, academic) & Opratko, B. (Project manager, academic)
01.05.25 → 31.10.25
Project: Research
Unfinished Business. Zum Stand der industriepolitischen Interventionen in der Halbleiterund Batterie(zell)produktion
Karakayali, S. (Project manager, academic)
01.06.25 → 30.11.25
Project: Research
Zukünfte des Erinnerns in der Postmigrationsgesellschaft: Konflikte, Kontinuitäten, Konkurrenzen
Drews, K. (Project manager, academic), Kollender, E. (Project manager, academic) & Schoop, M. (Project manager, academic)
01.08.25 → 31.10.26
Project: Research
Decentering Italian Colonial Heritage
Schulz, V.-S. (Project manager, academic) & Gabriel, J. M. (Project manager, academic)
Project: Scientific event
Ecologies, Collections, and Contested Heritage: (Un-)Natural History and Italian Colonial Ambitions in Africa
Schulz, V.-S. (Project manager, academic) & Gabriel, J. M. (Project manager, academic)
Project: Scientific event
Everyday Externalization. The Transformations of Individual Asylum in Niger
Lambert, L. (Project manager, academic)
Project: Dissertation project
Gaults Teletactor. Archäologie eines kontroversen Experiments
Wiechern, A.-L. (Project manager, academic)
Project: Dissertation project
Transmoderne Formationen – Die Gruppe H2SO4 in Georgien der 1920er
Tchelidze, K. (Project manager, academic)
Project: Dissertation project