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.
Konferenzmanagement und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit zur Konferenzwoche 2020
Jantzer, L. (Project manager, academic) & Prien-Ribcke, S. (Project manager, academic)
14.10.19 → 02.02.20
Project: Teaching
Workshop: Populism in Italy
Schwörer, J. (Project manager, academic)
25.10.19 → 26.10.19
Project: Teaching
Modern Migrants: Paintings from Europe in US Museums
Rother, L. (Project manager, academic), Koss, M. (Project staff) & Mariani, F. (Project staff)
01.11.19 → 31.10.27
Project: Research
Zukunft machen. Vergangene und gegenwärtige Zukünfte des Silicon Valleys
Bachmann, G. (Project manager, academic)
Ministry of Science and Culture of the State of Lower Saxony
01.11.19 → 30.11.23
Project: Research
Schottland-Inititave des MWK
Bialski, P. (Project manager, academic)
Ministry of Science and Culture of the State of Lower Saxony
22.11.19 → 31.12.19
Project: Other
Present and Future of Urban FRONTIER ZONES in Tunis
Kirschner, U. (Project manager, academic)
01.01.20 → 31.12.20
Project: Research
Groove the City 2020
Kirchberg, V. (Project manager, academic), Kuchar, R. (Project staff), Barber-Kersovan, A. (Project staff) & Gaupp, L. (Project staff)
Ministry of Science and Culture of the State of Lower Saxony
24.01.20 → 30.06.20
Project: Scientific event
Archivio Nicola Massimo De Feo
Nigro, R. (Coordination), Marzocca, O. (Coordination), Casale, R. (Coordination), Ciccarelli, R. (Project staff), Licinio, A. (Project staff), Marzocca, O. (Project staff), Nigro, R. (Project staff), Casale, R. (Project staff), Gadaleta, C. (Project staff), di Girolamo, C. (Project staff), Papagni, S. (Project staff) & Spagnuolo, M. (Project staff)
01.02.20 → …
Project: Research
The Authority of International Organizations and Institutional Overlap
Lenz, T. (Project manager, academic) & Haftel, Y. Z. (Project manager, academic)
Ministry of Science and Culture of the State of Lower Saxony
01.03.20 → 28.02.23
Project: Research
Jameson 2.0. Cognitive Mapping in Contemporary Art
Leeb, S. (Project manager, academic) & Nachtigall, J. (Project staff)
01.04.20 → 31.07.24
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
Back to the Future. Öffnungen der Zukunft nach der ›Breiten Gegenwart‹
Vehlken, S. (Project manager, academic)
01.05.20 → …
Project: Research
BMoS: Blockchains. Media of Sovereignty
Leistert, O. (Project manager, academic)
01.06.20 → 31.05.23
Project: Research
Alternative Datenpraktiken zwischen Data Commons und Datensouveränität: Technopolitische Modalitäten von Teilhabe und Subjektivierung in Technokollektiven (Arbeitstitel)
Wessalowski, N. (Project manager, academic)
03.06.20 → …
Project: Dissertation project
Vorstudie zum Einsatz von KI-basierter Wegenetzoptimierung auf Basis von Behördendaten und offenen Daten sowie unter der Berücksichtigung der Physik und Psychologie der aktiven Mobilität.
Pez, P. (Project manager, academic)
01.08.20 → 30.11.21
Project: Research
Methods and Techniques of Political Science
Griaznova, O. (Project manager, academic)
15.09.20 → 28.01.21
Project: Teaching
Städte des Willkommens, der Zuflucht und der Solidarität: Wie auf der kommunalen Ebene globale Verantwortung übernommen wird
Jantzer, L. (Project manager, academic)
12.10.20 → 31.01.21
Project: Teaching
Methods of Political Science: Introduction to Quantitative Methods
Griaznova, O. (Project manager, academic)
15.10.20 → 31.01.21
Project: Teaching
RVF 3.0: Radverkehrsförderung 3.0 - barrierefrei, netztransparent, digital
Pez, P. (Project manager, academic) & Seidel, A. (Project staff)
15.10.20 → 31.12.24
Project: Research
Lena Meyer-Bergner’s Socially Transformative Concept Of Modernity In The Global Social Transitions Of The First Half Of The 20th Century
Neugärtner, S. (Project manager, academic) & Biberman, I. (Project staff)
01.01.21 → 30.11.25
Project: Research
PolPolPol: Police, Politics, Polis – Dealing with refugees in the city
Münch, S. (Project manager, academic) & Jantzer, L. (Project staff)
01.01.21 → 31.12.23
Project: Research
Sicherheit für wen? Bedeutungen und Praktiken von Sicherheit aus geflüchteter und polizeilicher Sicht
Jantzer, L. (Project manager, academic)
01.01.21 → …
Project: Dissertation project
Until Covid-19 do us apart. Music Scenes in Lockdown
Kuchar, R. (Project staff), Barber-Kersovan, A. (Project staff) & Kirchberg, V. (Project staff)
01.03.21 → 01.03.22
Project: Research
TSoSS: The Sound of Sound Studies. Was bewegt Klangforschung und Soundkultur?
Großmann, R. (Project manager, academic) & Pelleter, M. (Project staff)
04.03.21 → 06.03.21
Project: Scientific event
Cultures of Critique: Forms, Media, Effects
Söntgen, B. (Project manager, academic), Hörl, E. (Project manager, academic), Beyes, T. (Project manager, academic) & Nigro, R. (Project manager, academic)
01.04.21 → 31.12.25
Project: Research
Scoring - Analysis of the Social Credit System in the PRC and Scoring in the West, Subproject: Data Infrastructure in East and West
Warnke, M. (Project manager, academic), Pias, C. (Project manager, academic), Woesler, M. (Project manager, academic), Martin, D. (Project manager, academic), Nax, C. (Project staff) & Song, Y. (Project staff)
Federal Ministry of Education and Research
01.07.21 → 31.05.25
Project: Research
DigiTaL - Digital Transformation Lab for Teaching and Learning
Hörl, E. (Project manager, academic) & Webersik, J. (Project manager, academic)
German Foundation for Innovation in Higher Education
01.08.21 → 31.12.25
Project: Teaching
Souver@nes digitales Lehren und Lernen
Hörl, E. (Project manager, academic) & Webersik, J. (Project manager, academic)
German Foundation for Innovation in Higher Education
01.08.21 → 31.12.25
Project: Teaching
DigiTaL: Teilprojekt „Skills for a Digital Future“ im Projekt "Leuphana: Digital Transformation Lab for Teaching and Learning" (DigiTaL)
Köllner, G. (Project staff), Hörl, E. (Project manager, academic) & Webersik, J. (Project manager, academic)
01.08.21 → 31.07.24
Project: Teaching
Automating the Logistical City: Space, Algorithm, Speculation
Beverungen, A. (Project manager, academic), Antenucci, I. (Project staff), Voigt, M.-L. (Project staff), Hille, L. (Project staff), Rossiter, N. (Partner), Mattern, S. (Partner) & Halpern, O. (Partner)
Ministry of Science and Culture of the State of Lower Saxony
01.09.21 → 30.09.25
Project: Research
LIR: The exhibition Les Immatériaux: Interdisciplinarity, Epistemology, Curatorial Subjects
Broeckmann, A. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.21 → 30.09.24
Project: Research
Strukturen und Kontexte rechtskonformen Polizeihandelns Eine qualitative Untersuchung zur Rechtsbindung am Beispiel des Streifendienstes der Polizei Niedersachsen
Kretschmann, A. (Project manager, academic)
15.11.21 → 15.07.22
Project: Research
TACTICS: Erasmus Mundus Design Measure: Thinking in Action: Creative Transformation of Intercultural Common Space
Kirchberg, V. (Project manager, academic), Beyes, T. (Project manager, academic) & Cnossen, B. (Project manager, academic)
08.12.21 → 01.07.25
Project: Other
SFB 1512 "Intervening Arts": Artistic Way of Life as Intervention (A06)
Söntgen, B. (Project manager, academic), Woisnitza, M. (Project staff) & Kipke, A. (Project staff)
01.01.22 → 31.12.25
Project: Research
Stanford-Leuphana Summer Academy 2022-2024 (Fritz Thyssen Stiftung)
Beyes, T. (Project manager, academic) & Pias, C. (Project manager, academic)
01.01.22 → 21.06.24
Project: Scientific event
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
Commodified Agency: Social Space and the Digital Value Chain
Kirchberg, V. (Project manager, academic) & Wuggenig, U. (Project manager, academic)
Ministry of Science and Culture of the State of Lower Saxony
01.04.22 → 31.12.25
Project: Research
Migrationspolitiken im Mehrebenensystem
Jantzer, L. (Project manager, academic)
01.04.22 → 01.10.22
Project: Teaching
Reale Utopien - Ursachen und Wirkungen
Kirchberg, V. (Project manager, academic) & Blieffert, S. (Project manager, academic)
15.05.22 → 31.08.23
Project: Research
LIAS-CAS: Leuphana Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture and Society
Leeb, S. (Project manager, academic)
01.06.22 → 31.05.27
Project: Research
InnoPlus: Digitale Barrierefreiheit im BA Digital Media
Wiechern, A.-L. (Project manager, academic)
01.07.22 → 31.12.23
Project: Practical Project
From Self-Organization to Survival Organizing: Exploring Distributed Collective Action in the Case of the Russian Anti-war Ecology
Kalinina, A. (Project manager, academic)
01.09.22 → 01.09.26
Project: Dissertation project
‚Alger la Blanche‘ becomes ‚Alger la Rouge‘ – On the heritage of the anti-colonial movements in contemporary art
Volz, J. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.22 → …
Project: Dissertation project
Die Dialektik des Body Politic: Eine Studie zum Wandel des neuzeitlich sozialen Körpers
Esch, F. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.22 → …
Project: Dissertation project
Facing Reality: Between Doom and Cruel Optimism
Stolz, L. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.22 → …
Project: Dissertation project
Gay Radical Theory Formation as (a Constellation of) Critique
Branding, J.-H. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.22 → …
Project: Dissertation project
Identity as Deportability: On ‘Identitatsklärung’ as a Contested Practice of Control within the German-European Deportation Regime
Bescherer, K. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.22 → …
Project: Dissertation project
Lifting the Sky: Practices to Sustain Worlds Otherwise
Daibert , R. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.22 → …
Project: Dissertation project