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.
Cultures of Critique: Forms, Media, Effects
Söntgen, B. (Project manager, academic), Hörl, E. (Project manager, academic) & Beyes, T. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.16 → 31.07.21
Project: Research
Förderung des Ausbaus eines Programms für Schlüsselqualifikationen an den Mitgliedshochschulen der Internationalen Bodenseehochschule
Herbrik, R. (Project staff) & Stadler, A. (Project manager, academic)
15.06.06 → 15.09.07
Project: Research
"Privat/Öffentlich V“. 20. Workshop der AG „GeschlechterGesellschaftsTheorien“, 03. – 05. November 2016, an der Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
Burkart, G. (Project manager, academic)
03.11.16 → 05.11.16
Project: Scientific event
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
Nicht-sprachliche Klangzeichen
Großmann, R. (Project manager, academic)
01.04.14 → 30.04.17
Project: Research
Value Orientations and Cooperation: Exploring the Value-Behavior Link
Welzel, C. (Project manager, academic) & Thöni, C. (Project manager, academic)
01.01.13 → 31.08.17
Project: Research
Bestimmung impliziter Motive der Weiterempfehlungsabgabe in Kulturinstitutionen - eine qualitative Studie
Bekmeier-Feuerhahn, S. (Project manager, academic) & Sikkenga, J. (Project manager, academic)
15.01.09 → 31.05.13
Project: Research
Klang (ohne) Körper I
Großmann, R. (Project manager, academic), Harenberg, M. (Project manager, academic), Weissberg, D. (Project manager, academic), Köpp, K. (Project manager, academic) & Saxer, M. (Project manager, academic)
01.09.12 → 01.09.13
Project: Research
Internationale Tagung "Gustave Courbet und die Narrative der modernen Malerei“
Marchal, S. (Project manager, academic)
27.03.19 → 29.03.19
Project: Scientific event
Dynamik, Gründe und Folgen des postindustriellen Wertewandels: Deutschlands Werteentwicklung im internationalen Vergleich
Welzel, C. (Project manager, academic)
01.09.10 → 30.06.11
Project: Research
Medien der Assistenz/ Assistive Media
Wiechern, A.-L. (Project manager, academic) & Müggenburg, J. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.18 → 31.12.21
Project: Research
Peace Counts School Freiburg
Oeftering, T. (Project manager, academic)
08.03.07 → …
Project: Practical Project
Weiterempfehlung als informative und soziale Funktion in Kulturinstitutionen
Bekmeier-Feuerhahn, S. (Project manager, academic) & Sikkenga, J. (Project manager, academic)
15.01.09 → 31.05.13
Project: Dissertation project
Strategiebildung in der subnationalen Klimaanpassungspolitik (Arbeitstitel)
Ebermann, V. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.11 → 30.09.14
Project: Dissertation project
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
Converging institutions? How do regional institutions stimulate the innovation process of nanotechnologies in economy an d society? A German-French comparison
Papilloud, C. (Project manager, academic) & Ott, I. (Project manager, academic)
15.11.07 → 14.06.10
Project: Research
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
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
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
Gastdozentur Prof. Pettai, Uni Tartu
Pettai, V. A. (Project manager, academic) & Müller-Rommel, F. (Coordination)
01.10.08 → 01.02.11
Project: Teaching
Back to the Future. Öffnungen der Zukunft nach der ›Breiten Gegenwart‹
Vehlken, S. (Project manager, academic)
01.05.20 → …
Project: Research
Schlüsselbegriffe der Kunstgeschichte und visuellen Kultur
Sieber, J. (Project manager, academic)
05.04.18 → 06.07.18
Project: Teaching
Plutonium Worlds. Computer Simulation and Nuclear Energy 1950-1980
Vehlken, S. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.13 → …
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
Socio-Economic Inequality and Its Effect on Liberal Democratic Culture across the World
Schmitz, A.-E. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.17 → 30.09.22
Project: Dissertation project
ASSiST: International Summer School of Arts and Sciences for Sustainability in Social Transformation
Kagan, S. (Project manager, academic), Koefoed, O. (Partner), Savova, N. D. (Partner), Cozzolino, F. (Partner), Radhika, P. N. (Partner) & Sanguinetti, I. (Partner)
15.08.10 → 29.08.10
Project: Teaching
Repräsentationsvorstellungen von Abgeordneten
Reiser, M. (Project manager, academic)
01.06.15 → …
Project: Research
Gamification. Shifting Boundaries between the Ludic and the Non-Ludic
Fuchs, M. (Project manager, academic), Pias, C. (Project manager, academic), Raessens, J. (Partner) & Bogost, I. (Partner)
01.04.18 → 30.06.21
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
Industriekultur im Leinebergland
Pries, M. (Project manager, academic)
01.07.08 → 15.10.09
Project: Research
Arbeitsgruppe Konsumsoziologie
Schrage, D. (Project manager, academic) & Hellmann, K.-U. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.02 → …
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
Willkommen in Niedersachsen (WIN)
Kirschner, U. (Project manager, academic)
04.04.18 → 30.09.18
Project: Other
Party Politics and Democracy in Europe
Müller-Rommel, F. (Project manager, academic)
01.02.14 → 03.07.14
Project: Scientific event
IniVPol: Instrumente in der Verbraucherpolitik
Leipold, A. (Project staff) & Loer, K. (Project manager, academic)
01.01.17 → 31.12.19
Project: Research
College-Studien in der Praxis- Wie lassen sich Versorgungslücken im ländlichen Raum schließen?
Hellmann, K. (Project manager, academic) & Pez, P. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.13 → 31.03.14
Project: Practical Project
Mediengeschichte von den Anfängen bis heute
Faulstich, W. (Project manager, academic)
01.01.96 → 31.12.11
Project: Teaching
Sustainable Creative Cities: The role of the arts in globalized urban context
Kagan, S. (Project manager, academic), Sasaki, M. (Project manager, academic) & Verstraete, K. (Partner, non-academic)
05.07.10 → 08.02.11
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
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
33 1/3 Revolutions
Fuchs, M. (Project manager, academic)
16.05.16 → 29.05.16
Project: Non-academic projects
Kunst in neuen Kontexten: Die Artist Placement Group als Case Study
Jordan, U. (Project manager, academic) & Waligorski, A. (Project manager, academic)
25.10.13 → 26.01.14
Project: Teaching
Gastwissenschaftler Prof. Dr. David Sperling
Kirschner, U. (Project manager, academic)
06.06.16 → 24.06.16
Project: Research
Migrationspolitiken im Mehrebenensystem
Jantzer, L. (Project manager, academic)
01.04.22 → 01.10.22
Project: Teaching
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
Assistive Media - Subproject 2
Hagen, W. (Project manager, academic), Müggenburg, J. (Project manager, academic), Harasser, K. (Partner), Mills, M. (Partner) & Macele, P. (Project staff)
01.10.18 → 31.12.21
Project: Research
Regionalism and its Causes in sub-Saharan Africa
Elischer, S. (Project manager, academic)
01.06.14 → …
Project: Research
republicart: republicart
Wuggenig, U. (Project manager, academic) & Stoller, D. (Project staff)
30.04.02 → 30.03.05
Project: Research
Reale Utopien - Ursachen und Wirkungen
Kirchberg, V. (Project manager, academic) & Blieffert, S. (Project manager, academic)
15.05.22 → 31.08.23
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
Soziale Gerechtigkeit und Anerkennung in der medialen Klimakommunikation aus kosmopolitischer Perspektive
Grittmann, E. (Project manager, academic)
01.05.13 → …
Project: Research
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
Strategische Steuerung in Party-Government-Systemen
Tils, R. (Project staff), Müller-Rommel, F. (Project manager, academic) & Saretzki, T. (Project manager, academic)
01.04.06 → 30.09.10
Project: Research
Individuelle und systemische Belastungen im flexiblen Kapitalismus. Demokratietheoretische Implikationen einer kritischen Theorie sozialen Stresses
Schottdorf, T. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.16 → …
Project: Dissertation project
Nationalist, people-centered and anti-elitist communication strategies of political parties. A theoretical and empirical introduction
Schwörer, J. (Project manager, academic)
03.05.19 → 25.05.19
Project: Teaching
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
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
NEMo - Nachhaltige Erfüllung von Mobilitätserfordernissen im ländlichen Raum
Halberstadt, J. (Project manager, academic), Marx Gómez, J. (Project manager, academic), Hahn, A. (Project manager, academic), Köster, F. (Project manager, academic), Taeger, J. (Project manager, academic), Winter, A. J. (Project manager, academic), Woisetschläger, D. M. (Project manager, academic) & Henkel, A. (Project manager, academic)
Ministry of Science and Culture of the State of Lower Saxony
01.03.16 → 28.02.19
Project: Research
Professionalisierung der Kommunalpolitik in deutschen Großstädten
Reiser, M. (Project manager, academic)
01.12.01 → 30.05.05
Project: Research
Scholarship for a visiting scientist via Wissenschaft.Niedersachsen.Weltoffen
Münch, S. (Project manager, academic)
Ministry of Science and Culture of the State of Lower Saxony
01.02.18 → 31.01.21
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
bLÜmsday 2010: Bloomsday in Lüneburg
O'Sullivan, E. (Project manager, academic)
22.06.10 → 03.02.11
Project: Practical Project
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)
Soziale Netzwerkanalyse von Kunst und Kultur in der Region Lüneburg
Kirchberg, V. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.08 → 25.05.13
Project: Research
Encounter: An art research workshop with Bracha Ettinger
Genidogan, K. (Project manager, academic)
15.05.17 → 15.05.20
Project: Scientific event
Design Process. Software, Computation, and Cultural Techniques in Architecture
Stöcklmayr, N. (Project manager, academic)
01.04.13 → …
Project: Research
Evaluation des Projektes "RAUMsichten"
Kirchberg, V. (Project manager, academic), Behnke, C. (Partner) & Grigoleit, A. (Partner)
03.11.09 → 31.12.12
Project: Transfer (R&D project)
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
FWF-Projekt (P20421): Regulierungswissen und Möglichkeitssinn 1914-1933
Pias, C. (Partner)
01.06.08 → 01.06.10
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
„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
Futurhythmaschinen. Drum-Machines und die klanglichen Zukünfte auditiver Kultur im 20. Jahrhundert
Pelleter, M. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.12 → 30.11.18
Project: Dissertation project
Internationale Tagung: Julius Meier-Graefe - Grenzgänger der Künste
Marchal, S. (Project manager, academic)
05.03.15 → 07.03.15
Project: Scientific event
Demokratische Regierungssysteme in Mittel- und Osteuropa
Müller-Rommel, F. (Project manager, academic)
01.05.09 → 24.11.09
Project: Scientific event
Der Körper auf Tauchstation: Zu einer Wissensgeschichte der Immersion
Kasprowicz, D. (Project manager, academic)
01.05.13 → 01.12.16
Project: Dissertation project
Einfluss der Vertrauensentwicklung, unternehmerischer Wandel
Bekmeier-Feuerhahn, S. (Project manager, academic) & Eichenlaub, A. (Project staff)
01.05.09 → 30.08.11
Project: Research
Touristische Potenziale der Samtgemeinde Horneburg
Pries, M. (Project manager, academic)
10.03.12 → 11.07.12
Project: Research
Directly Elected Mayors: Impact on the Local Party System
Reiser, M. (Project manager, academic) & Bottom, K. (Project manager, academic)
01.06.13 → …
Project: Research
Tourismusregionen als lernende Regionen: Organisation und Kooperation für wissensintensive Dienstleistungen im Tourismus
Wöhler, K. (Project manager, academic) & Saretzki, A. (Project manager, academic)
01.09.00 → 28.02.01
Project: Transfer (R&D project)
Lehrforschungsprojekt mit Studierendenaustausch mit Universidade Sao Paulo, Brasilien (UNIBRAL)
Kirschner, U. (Project manager, academic)
02.01.08 → 30.12.11
Project: Research
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
Translate: Translate
Wuggenig, U. (Project manager, academic) & Steinbrügge, B. (Project staff)
01.10.05 → 06.04.09
Project: Research
DFG-Network: Sound in Media Culture. Aspects of a Cultural History of Sound
Großmann, R. (Partner) & Hanacek, M. (Project manager, academic)
01.03.10 → 01.03.13
Project: Research
Meta-Image – a collaborative environment for the image discourse
Warnke, M. (Project manager, academic), Schirmbacher, P. (Partner), Dieckmann, L. (Project manager, academic) & Kliemann, A. (Project staff)
01.10.09 → 13.10.15
Project: Research
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
Video-Podcast-Projekt
Bekmeier-Feuerhahn, S. (Project manager, academic) & Adam, U. (Project staff)
01.09.12 → 30.11.12
Project: Transfer (professional training)
Freedom Rising: Human Empowerment and the Quest for Emancipation
Welzel, C. (Project manager, academic)
01.02.12 → 31.03.13
Project: Research
Dourgouti Island Hotel Project
Genidogan, K. (Partner, non-academic)
01.08.15 → 31.10.16
Project: Practical Project
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)
01.09.12 → 31.12.13
Project: Scientific event
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
Verantwortung, Gerechtigkeit, Erinnerungskultur
Hobuß, S. (Partner), Dhouib, S. (Project manager, academic) & Jürgens, A. (Partner)
20.02.13 → 31.12.15
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
Entsolidarisierung und Rassismus
Bojadzijev, M. (Project manager, academic)
01.05.16 → 31.12.16
Project: Research
Die Bedeutung von Kunst und Kultur für die Stadtentwicklung - Ein Vergleich von Baltimore und Hamburg
Kirchberg, V. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.04 → …
Project: Research
The Domestication of the Internet. Reconstruction of Domestic Appropriation Processes of a New Medium (1997-2007)
Röser, J. (Project manager, academic) & Peil, C. (Project staff)
01.03.08 → 30.04.11
Project: Research