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.
Chronotope: Time has come today. Special time patterns of pop-musical chronotopes and their impact on the temporal differentiation of life worlds since the 1960s
Schrage, D. (Project manager, academic), Respondek, L. (Project staff) & Schwetter, H. (Project staff)
01.03.14 → 20.10.15
Project: Research
Die Europäische Union als Diskurs: "Europa für Bürgerinnen und Bürger" dank einer aktivierten Zivilgesellschaft? (Arbeitstitel)
Wach, L. (Project manager, academic)
01.04.14 → …
Project: Dissertation project
FLiF: Forschungsbasiertes Lernen im Fokus
Hochmann, L. (Project staff)
01.04.14 → 30.09.16
Project: Teaching
Nicht-sprachliche Klangzeichen
Großmann, R. (Project manager, academic)
01.04.14 → 30.04.17
Project: Research
„What is Political Education?“ An Enquiry of Student Teachers´ Ideas
Oeftering, T. (Project manager, academic) & Fischer, F. (Partner)
01.04.14 → 31.03.16
Project: Teaching
Mediengeschichte u. kritische Publizistik
Lahme, T. M. (Project manager, academic)
01.05.14 → 29.02.20
Project: Other
MOOC Managing the Arts: Marketing for Cultural Organizations
Kagan, S. (Project manager, academic), Kirchberg, V. (Project manager, academic), Ober-Heilig, N. (Project manager, academic), Bekmeier-Feuerhahn, S. (Project manager, academic) & Shah, N. N. (Project manager, academic)
01.05.14 → 31.01.20
Project: Teaching
Videos für Wikipedia-Artikel
Pias, C. (Project manager, academic)
Federal Ministry of Education and Research
01.05.14 → 31.12.14
Project: Research
Regionalism and its Causes in sub-Saharan Africa
Elischer, S. (Project manager, academic)
01.06.14 → …
Project: Research
Local Interest Representation in Multi-Level Parties
Reiser, M. (Project manager, academic)
01.08.14 → …
Project: Research
Forschungsschwerpunkt Dimensionen der Sorge
Henkel, A. (Project manager, academic), Lindemann, G. (Project manager, academic), Karle, I. (Project manager, academic) & Werner, M. (Project manager, academic)
01.09.14 → 30.08.19
Project: Research
Personalization of Politics
Müller-Rommel, F. (Project manager, academic) & Garzia, D. (Project manager, academic)
01.09.14 → 31.08.17
Project: Research
24th ECPR PhD Summer School on “Political Parties in New Democracies”
Müller-Rommel, F. (Project manager, academic)
07.09.14 → 13.09.14
Project: Scientific event
“Expanding the Margins: Migration, Mobilities, Borders”, International Summer School
Bojadzijev, M. (Project manager, academic)
21.09.14 → 26.09.14
Project: Scientific event
Hypothetizität. Kernkraft, Computersimulation und das ›German Manhattan Project‹
Vehlken, S. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.14 → 20.08.20
Project: Research
Kulturelle Diversität als kuratorisches Konzept. Strategien und Narrative der Inszenierung und Dekonstruktion auf transkulturellen PerformingArts- und Musik-Festivals
Kirchberg, V. (Project manager, academic) & Gaupp, L. (Partner)
Ministry of Science and Culture of the State of Lower Saxony
01.10.14 → 10.01.22
Project: Research
Metaphorology of Flows and Streams
Denecke, M. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.14 → 06.04.19
Project: Dissertation project
Social Protest in Africa's Hybrid Regimes
Elischer, S. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.14 → 30.09.17
Project: Dissertation project
In der Schwebe. Zu Tisch bei Edouard Manet
Berroth, E. (Project manager, academic)
01.11.14 → 31.03.15
Project: Other
CCP: Complexity or control? Paradigms for sustainable development
Vilsmaier, U. (Project manager, academic), Lang, D. J. (Project manager, academic), Hörl, E. (Project manager, academic), Laubichler, M. (Project manager, academic), Herberg, J. (Coordination), Caniglia, G. (Project staff), Leistert, O. (Project staff), Schrickel, I. (Project staff), Meyer, E. (Project staff) & Schmieg, G. (Project staff)
Ministry of Science and Culture of the State of Lower Saxony
01.01.15 → 31.03.20
Project: Research
Diffusing the EU Model? The European Union’s Influence on Regional Organizations
Lenz, T. (Project manager, academic)
01.01.15 → 31.12.17
Project: Research
Phenomenality of the Unphenomenal: Neural Nets and Embodied Cognition
Förster-Beuthan, Y. (Project manager, academic)
01.01.15 → …
Project: Research
SaM: Die Stadt als Möglichkeitsraum
Kirchberg, V. (Project manager, academic), Kagan, S. (Project manager, academic), Weisenfeld, U. (Project manager, academic), Stoltenberg, U. (Project manager, academic), Holz, V. (Project staff), Hauerwaas, A. (Project staff), Grigoleit, A. (Project staff) & Wedler, P. (Project staff)
Ministry of Science and Culture of the State of Lower Saxony
01.02.15 → 31.01.18
Project: Research
SaM: Stadt als Möglichkeitsraum
Kirchberg, V. (Project manager, academic), Stoltenberg, U. (Project manager, academic), Weisenfeld, U. (Project manager, academic), Kagan, S. (Project manager, academic), Holz, V. (Project staff) & Hauerwaas, A. (Project staff)
Ministry of Science and Culture of the State of Lower Saxony
01.02.15 → 31.01.19
Project: Research
SaM: The City as Space of Possibility (subproject)
Kagan, S. (Project manager, academic)
Ministry of Science and Culture of the State of Lower Saxony
01.02.15 → 30.04.19
Project: Research
The Gender-Governance Link: Gender equality and public goods provision
Welzel, C. (Project manager, academic), Alexander, A. (Partner) & Klasen, S. (Partner)
Ministry of Science and Culture of the State of Lower Saxony
01.02.15 → 31.07.18
Project: Research
Treueschwur und Realitätsverlust. Phasen und Dispositive auditiver Medienkultur
Großmann, R. (Project manager, academic) & Pelleter, M. (Project manager, academic)
19.02.15 → 20.02.15
Project: Scientific event
Internationale Tagung: Julius Meier-Graefe - Grenzgänger der Künste
Marchal, S. (Project manager, academic)
05.03.15 → 07.03.15
Project: Scientific event
Akteur-Kunst-Theorie. Kunsttheoretische Potentiale der Akteur-Netzwerk-Theorie
Weinert, A. (Project manager, academic)
01.04.15 → 10.01.24
Project: Dissertation project
Tischszenen: Der Tisch als Versammlungsort, Denkraum und Instrument der Ordnung.
Berroth, E. (Project manager, academic)
01.04.15 → …
Project: Dissertation project
Alice 150: celebrating Alice in Wonderland
O'Sullivan, E. (Project manager, academic)
21.04.15 → 07.07.15
Project: Practical Project
Jahrbuch der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung
O'Sullivan, E. (Partner), Dettmar, U. (Partner), von Glasenapp, G. (Partner), Tomkowiak, I. (Partner) & Roeder, C. (Partner)
01.05.15 → 15.01.17
Project: Other
Netzwerk "Externe Demokratisierungspolitik" (EDP)
van Hüllen, V. (Project manager, academic)
01.05.15 → 30.04.19
Project: Other
Repräsentationsvorstellungen von Abgeordneten
Reiser, M. (Project manager, academic)
01.06.15 → …
Project: Research
Online Anonymity and Sociality - Teilprojekt im Verbundvorhaben "Reconfiguring Anonymity - Contemporary Forms of Reciprocity, Identifiability and Accountability in Transformation"
Bachmann, G. (Project manager, academic)
01.07.15 → 31.12.20
Project: Research
RCA-SP5: Performing Anonymity - Sub-Project of "Reconfiguring Anonymity - Contemporary Forms of Reciprocity, Identifiability and Accountability in Transformation"
Wuggenig, U. (Project manager, academic), Broeckmann, A. (Coordination), Knecht, M. (Project manager, academic), Bachmann, G. (Project manager, academic), Bialski, P. (Project staff), Koch, G. (Project manager, academic) & Zurawski, N. (Project manager, academic)
01.07.15 → 31.12.18
Project: Research
Dourgouti Island Hotel Project
Genidogan, K. (Partner, non-academic)
01.08.15 → 31.10.16
Project: Practical Project
Technoecologies of Participation: New Perspectives from Media Philosophy and Anthropology
Hörl, E. (Project manager, academic)
01.08.15 → 31.08.18
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
CES Summer School: Artistic and Other Creative Practices as Drivers for Urban Resilience
Kagan, S. (Project manager, academic), Duxbury, N. (Project manager, academic), Haley, D. (Project manager, academic), Blanc, N. (Project manager, academic) & Holz, V. (Project manager, academic)
01.09.15 → 30.11.16
Project: Scientific event
Diversität in Kreativnetzwerken als Bedingung nachhaltiger Stadtentwicklung
Kirchberg, V. (Project manager, academic) & Dollereder, L. (Project staff)
01.09.15 → 31.12.16
Project: Research
Investigating Logistics: Lifestyles, Migration and the Common(s)
Bojadzijev, M. (Project manager, academic)
01.09.15 → 31.12.16
Project: Scientific event
Einwanderungsland Europa - Wie begegnet Lüneburg der Welt?
Prien-Ribcke, S. (Project manager, academic) & Müller, A. (Partner)
01.10.15 → 31.07.17
Project: Scientific event
Media and Participation. Between demand and entitlement, TP 5: Participatory Critique as Transforming and Transversal "With"
Bippus, E. (Partner), Brunner, C. (Project manager, academic), Nigro, R. (Partner), Ochsner, B. (Project manager, academic) & Hörl, E. (Partner)
01.10.15 → 31.07.22
Project: Research
Sculpture in the Augmented Field (working title)
Kölmel, M.-J. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.15 → …
Project: Dissertation project