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.

 

  1. Post-sozialistische Regierungssystemreform: Armenien, Kroatien, Russland und die Ukraine im Vergleich

    Seha, E. (Project manager, academic)

    01.03.1110.07.14

    Project: Dissertation project

  2. ISTME: In Search of Transcultural Memory in Europe

    Hobuß, S. (Partner)

    30.10.1229.10.16

    Project: Research

  3. Verantwortung, Gerechtigkeit, Erinnerungskultur

    Hobuß, S. (Partner), Dhouib, S. (Project manager, academic) & Jürgens, A. (Partner)

    20.02.1331.12.15

    Project: Research

  4. Strategiebildung in der subnationalen Klimaanpassungspolitik (Arbeitstitel)

    Ebermann, V. (Project manager, academic)

    01.10.1130.09.14

    Project: Dissertation project

  5. Value Orientations and Cooperation: Exploring the Value-Behavior Link

    Welzel, C. (Project manager, academic) & Thöni, C. (Project manager, academic)

    German Research Foundation

    01.01.1331.08.17

    Project: Research

  6. Representation in the European Union

    Friedrich, D. (Project manager, academic) & Kröger, S. (Partner)

    28.11.0915.01.13

    Project: Research

  7. 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)

    01.02.1201.02.15

    Project: Dissertation project

  8. Repression, Mobilization, and Civil Society

    Welzel, C. (Project manager, academic), Inglehart, R. C. (Partner) & Deutsch, F. (Partner)

    01.01.1231.12.16

    Project: Research

  9. Political Culture and Political Development

    Welzel, C. (Project manager, academic) & Dalton, R. J. (Partner)

    01.01.0931.12.13

    Project: Research

  10. Freedom Rising: Human Empowerment and the Quest for Emancipation

    Welzel, C. (Project manager, academic)

    01.02.1231.03.13

    Project: Research

  11. Party Government in the New Europe. London: Routledge

    Müller-Rommel, F. (Project manager, academic) & Keman, H. (Project manager, academic)

    01.04.0931.10.11

    Project: Research

  12. Subnationale Demokratiemuster in Asien und Lateinamerika

    Böttcher, F. (Project manager, academic)

    01.02.1201.09.17

    Project: Dissertation project

  13. Regierungssysteme in Mittel- und Osteuropa: Die neuen EU-Staaten im Vergleich.

    Müller-Rommel, F. (Project manager, academic) & Grotz, F. (Project manager, academic)

    01.01.0831.08.10

    Project: Research

  14. Personalization of Politics

    Müller-Rommel, F. (Project manager, academic) & Garzia, D. (Project manager, academic)

    01.09.1431.08.17

    Project: Research

  15. DCRL: Digital Cultures Research Lab (2013 - 2016)

    Bachmann, G. (Project manager, academic), Pias, C. (Project manager, academic), Beyes, T. (Project manager, academic), Leeker, M. (Project manager, academic), Beverungen, A. (Project staff), Bialski, P. (Project manager, academic), Kaldrack, I. (Project manager, academic), Simons, S. (Project manager, academic), Sprenger, F. (Project manager, academic), Sander, N. (Partner), Gupta, S. (Coordination) & Feigelfeld, P. (Project manager, academic)

    Ministry of Science and Culture of the State of Lower Saxony

    21.02.1330.06.19

    Project: Research

  16. Weiterempfehlung als informative und soziale Funktion in Kulturinstitutionen

    Bekmeier-Feuerhahn, S. (Project manager, academic) & Sikkenga, J. (Project manager, academic)

    15.01.0931.05.13

    Project: Dissertation project

  17. CSR-Kommunikation: Einflussfaktoren der Glaubwürdigkeit

    Bekmeier-Feuerhahn, S. (Project manager, academic) & Bögel, P. M. (Project manager, academic)

    15.09.1230.06.16

    Project: Dissertation project

  18. 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)

    01.04.1231.05.17

    Project: Research

  19. Strategic policy making in research and innovation policy (working titel)

    Hufnagl, M. (Project manager, academic)

    10.10.1101.04.15

    Project: Dissertation project

  20. Deliberative Bürgerbeteiligung in der deutschen Debatte um Priorisierung in der medizinischen Versorgung - Potentiale und Grenzen

    Stumpf, S. (Project manager, academic)

    01.04.1231.03.15

    Project: Dissertation project

  21. Einsatz von Architektur bei der Markenbildung von Kulturunternehmen

    Bekmeier-Feuerhahn, S. (Project manager, academic) & Ober-Heilig, N. (Project manager, academic)

    01.04.0923.06.14

    Project: Dissertation project

  22. Political Parties in Africa: Ethnicity and Party Formation

    Elischer, S. (Project manager, academic)

    01.09.1201.09.14

    Project: Research

  23. Messung der Wirkung von Architektur als Erlebnisträger beim Museumsbesuch

    Bekmeier-Feuerhahn, S. (Project manager, academic) & Ober-Heilig, N. (Project manager, academic)

    01.04.1223.06.14

    Project: Research

  24. Der Sound der Leuphana. Campus Compilation

    Großmann, R. (Project manager, academic) & Engelberg, B. (Project staff)

    01.10.1201.05.13

    Project: Practical Project

  25. Bestimmung impliziter Motive der Weiterempfehlungsabgabe in Kulturinstitutionen - eine qualitative Studie

    Bekmeier-Feuerhahn, S. (Project manager, academic) & Sikkenga, J. (Project manager, academic)

    15.01.0931.05.13

    Project: Research

  26. Einfluss impliziter Motive auf die Weiterempfehlungsabgabe in Kulturinstitutionen - eine quantitative Studie

    Bekmeier-Feuerhahn, S. (Project manager, academic) & Sikkenga, J. (Project manager, academic)

    15.01.0931.05.13

    Project: Research

  27. Workshop Print-PR

    Bekmeier-Feuerhahn, S. (Project manager, academic) & Adam, U. (Project staff)

    01.08.1231.08.12

    Project: Transfer (professional training)

  28. Video-Podcast-Projekt

    Bekmeier-Feuerhahn, S. (Project manager, academic) & Adam, U. (Project staff)

    01.09.1230.11.12

    Project: Transfer (professional training)

  29. Workshop PM/PV

    Bekmeier-Feuerhahn, S. (Project manager, academic) & Adam, U. (Project staff)

    01.05.1231.05.12

    Project: Transfer (professional training)

  30. Workshop externe PR Print oder Online

    Bekmeier-Feuerhahn, S. (Project manager, academic) & Adam, U. (Project staff)

    01.07.1131.07.11

    Project: Transfer (professional training)

  31. Significant: Details Conversations with Women in Science

    Fuchs, M. (Project manager, academic), Gupta, S. (Coordination) & Hoppenhaus, K. (Project staff)

    01.01.1330.06.13

    Project: Transfer (R&D project)

  32. Forschungsprojekt: Julius Meier-Graefe und die "neue" Kunstkritik

    Marchal, S. (Project manager, academic)

    01.01.13 → …

    Project: Research

  33. Gamers' games: narratives of opposition, independence and engagement in video game culture

    Ruffino, P. (Project manager, academic)

    22.09.0901.01.14

    Project: Dissertation project

  34. CLICK Festival - First Viewer Television

    Ruffino, P. (Project manager, academic)

    07.05.1312.05.13

    Project: Practical Project

  35. Leuphana Soundscape

    Großmann, R. (Project manager, academic) & Engelberg, B. (Project staff)

    01.07.1330.06.14

    Project: Practical Project

  36. College Studien in der Praxis- Wirtschaftsförderung der Samtgemeinde Horneburg & GD Incentives GmbH

    Hellmann, K. (Project manager, academic) & Pries, M. (Project staff)

    01.04.1230.09.12

    Project: Practical Project

  37. Emotionalisierung der Religion. Neue emotionale Stile im Kontext religöser Erfahrung

    Herbrik, R. (Project manager, academic) & Knoblauch, H. (Project manager, academic)

    20.10.1030.09.13

    Project: Research

  38. Kommunikative Vermittlungsstrategien des Imaginären

    Herbrik, R. (Project staff) & Soeffner, H.-G. (Project manager, academic)

    15.10.0615.09.09

    Project: Research

  39. Linie Figur Grund. Tanzdarstellungen bei Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

    Mordhorst, S. (Project manager, academic)

    01.07.12 → …

    Project: Dissertation project

  40. Gamer's games: Narratives of opposition, independence and engagement in video game culture

    Ruffino, P. (Project manager, academic)

    14.09.0931.08.14

    Project: Dissertation project

  41. Putting the figure on the map: Imagining sameness and difference for children. Conference, Princeton University, 11. -13.09.2013

    O'Sullivan, E. (Project manager, academic) & Immel, A. (Partner)

    01.09.1231.12.13

    Project: Scientific event

  42. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft 2013

    Pias, C. (Project manager, academic)

    German Research Foundation

    03.10.1303.07.14

    Project: Scientific event

  43. College-Studien in der Praxis- Nachhaltiges Nutzungskonzept für das Heimathaus

    Hellmann, K. (Project manager, academic) & Kirschner, U. (Project staff)

    01.04.1130.09.11

    Project: Practical Project