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. Digitisation of Labour: Configurations of Real and Virtual Migration

    Bojadzijev, M. (Project manager, academic), Altenried, M. (Project staff) & Wallis, M. (Project staff)

    German Research Foundation

    01.05.1830.04.21

    Project: Research

  2. Tischszenen: Der Tisch als Versammlungsort, Denkraum und Instrument der Ordnung.

    Berroth, E. (Project manager, academic)

    01.04.15 → …

    Project: Dissertation project

  3. Autocracies' Counterintuitive Delegation Preferences to International Human Rights Organizations

    Šatra, P. (Project manager, academic)

    01.10.1630.09.19

    Project: Dissertation project

  4. 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)

    01.10.2330.09.25

    Project: Research

  5. 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

    24.01.2030.06.20

    Project: Scientific event

  6. InnoPlus: Digitale Barrierefreiheit im BA Digital Media

    Wiechern, A.-L. (Project manager, academic)

    01.07.2231.12.23

    Project: Practical Project

  7. Forschungsschwerpunkt Dimensionen der Sorge

    Henkel, A. (Project manager, academic), Lindemann, G. (Project manager, academic), Karle, I. (Project manager, academic) & Werner, M. (Project manager, academic)

    01.09.1430.08.19

    Project: Research

  8. Dis/connectivity. Imaginaries, Media Technologies, Politics

    Beyes, T. (Project manager, academic) & Stäheli, U. (Project manager, academic)

    German Research Foundation

    01.11.1830.04.22

    Project: Research

  9. Medien des Meeres

    Vehlken, S. (Project manager, academic)

    01.05.19 → …

    Project: Research

  10. Vorhabensteil: Sprachliche Heterogenität im schulischen Fachunterricht der Sekundarstufe I

    Leiss, D. (Project manager, academic), Schwippert, K. (Partner), Lutter, A. (Partner), Neumann, A. (Partner), Schmidt, T. (Partner) & Holle, K. (Project staff)

    26.06.1231.12.12

    Project: Research

  11. A Museum of Memory for Colombia: The emergence of a controversial space

    Rueda, D. C. (Project manager, academic)

    01.10.23 → …

    Project: Dissertation project

  12. TSoSS: The Sound of Sound Studies. Was bewegt Klangforschung und Soundkultur?

    Großmann, R. (Project manager, academic) & Pelleter, M. (Project staff)

    04.03.2106.03.21

    Project: Scientific event

  13. International Research Group: The Impact of Idealism

    Jamme, C. (Project manager, academic) & Boyle, N. (Coordination)

    01.10.0901.11.13

    Project: Research

  14. Methods of Political Science: Introduction to Quantitative Methods

    Griaznova, O. (Project manager, academic)

    15.10.2031.01.21

    Project: Teaching

  15. 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)

    08.12.2101.07.25

    Project: Other

  16. Einzelhandelsstrukturen in Soltau und seinem Umfeld

    Pez, P. (Project manager, academic)

    14.11.0731.08.09

    Project: Transfer (R&D project)

  17. Knowledge in the Arts and the Transformation of Theory

    Brunner, C. (Partner), Bippus, E. (Project manager, academic) & Busch, K. (Project manager, academic)

    01.05.1001.05.11

    Project: Research

  18. Kunstkritik und Krisenrhetorik - Modellfall Kunstschriftstellerei

    Söntgen, B. (Project manager, academic) & Marchal, S. (Project manager, academic)

    Volkswagen Foundation

    24.05.1607.10.20

    Project: Research

  19. Exhibition Project “Hitler´s Crimes: A French Occupying Forces´ Exhibition 1945-1946“ Conducted at Freiburg University of Education

    Oeftering, T. (Project staff), Uhl, H. (Project manager, academic) & Merz, H.-G. (Project manager, academic)

    10.03.04 → …

    Project: Practical Project

  20. MECS: DFG-Kolleg-Forschergruppe MECS (Medienkulturen der Computersimulation)

    Pias, C. (Project manager, academic), Warnke, M. (Project manager, academic), Vehlken, S. (Project staff), Schrape, N. (Project staff), Schrickel, I. (Project staff), Stöcklmayr, N. (Project staff), Engemann, C. (Project staff), Winter, F. (Project staff) & Wellmann, J. (Project staff)

    01.01.1331.07.22

    Project: Research

  21. Selbstorganisation: Diskurse, Praktiken, Technologien

    Conrad, L. (Project manager, academic)

    01.10.18 → …

    Project: Research

  22. 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

  23. eMotion – das psychogeographische Museum: mapping museum experience

    Kirchberg, V. (Partner), Tröndle, M. (Project manager, academic), Tschacher, W. (Partner), van den Berg, K. (Partner) & Wintzerith, S. (Partner)

    01.10.0815.01.16

    Project: Research

  24. Stanford-Leuphana Summer Academy 2022-2024 (Fritz Thyssen Stiftung)

    Beyes, T. (Project manager, academic) & Pias, C. (Project manager, academic)

    01.01.2221.06.24

    Project: Scientific event

  25. The ParlSpeech Data Set

    Šatra, P. (Project manager, academic)

    01.10.1517.05.17

    Project: Research

  26. 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

  27. Participatory Critique as Transforming and Transversal "With"

    Brunner, C. (Project manager, academic)

    German Research Foundation

    01.10.1830.09.22

    Project: Research

  28. DFH Digital Anthropologies

    Brunner, C. (Project manager, academic)

    01.03.1931.12.19

    Project: Scientific event

  29. Kommunale Wählergemeinschaften in Ost- und Westdeutschland

    Reiser, M. (Coordination) & Holtmann, E. (Project manager, academic)

    15.09.0431.07.12

    Project: Research

  30. Art, Decoloniality and Popular Knowlegde

    Daibert , R. (Project manager, academic)

    14.10.2431.01.25

    Project: Teaching

  31. Errichtung eines Simulationslabors im Teilrechenzentrum Buxtehude

    Kirschner, U. (Project manager, academic)

    02.09.02 → …

    Project: Research

  32. Gay Radical Theory Formation as (a Constellation of) Critique

    Branding, J.-H. (Project manager, academic)

    01.10.22 → …

    Project: Dissertation project

  33. LoMAR: Reproductive Loss and Bereavement in Medically Assisted Reproduction

    Böcker, J. (Project manager, academic) & Jakoby, N. (Coordination)

    01.04.2330.06.24

    Project: Research

  34. Language and Performance in the Work of Hollis Frampton

    Breimaier, A. (Project manager, academic)

    01.10.12 → …

    Project: Dissertation project

  35. Personalization of Politics

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

    01.09.1431.08.17

    Project: Research

  36. Civil Society in 2024 Russia

    Kalinina, A. (Project manager, academic)

    01.04.2430.11.24

    Project: Practical Project

  37. The Ecotechnical Community: Hospitality and the Organisation of Locality

    Stewart, D. (Project manager, academic)

    01.10.22 → …

    Project: Dissertation project

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