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. transmedial culture - A Practice-Based Research Project of Networking Art and Culture

    Pias, C. (Project manager, academic) & Bazzichelli, T. (Project staff)

    01.07.1224.03.15

    Project: Transfer (R&D project)

  2. Supercomputing. Medienkulturen zwischen Parallelität und Scalability

    Vehlken, S. (Project manager, academic) & Engemann, C. (Project manager, academic)

    27.07.1131.03.13

    Project: Research

  3. Teilmaßnahme 1.1 KT 12: Grundversorgung 2.0 - Internet-TV für die neue Mediengeneration

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

    Investitions- und Förderbank Niedersachsen – NBank

    19.08.0931.01.16

    Project: Research

  4. PolPolPol: Police, Politics, Polis – Dealing with refugees in the city

    Münch, S. (Project manager, academic) & Jantzer, L. (Project staff)

    German Research Foundation

    01.01.2131.12.23

    Project: Research

  5. NITE: Night spaces: migration, culture and IntegraTion in Europe

    Bojadzijev, M. (Project manager, academic), Brandellero, S. (Project manager, academic), Campkin, B. (Project manager, academic), Pardue, D. (Project manager, academic) & Kenny, A. (Project manager, academic)

    Europäische Union

    31.05.1931.05.22

    Project: Research

  6. 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

  7. Elements of a Critical Theory of Media and Participation

    Hörl, E. (Project manager, academic) & Nigro, R. (Project manager, academic)

    German Research Foundation

    01.10.1831.10.22

    Project: Research

  8. Die Aktualität der Romantik

    Förster, Y. (Partner), Vieweg, K. (Project manager, academic) & Deiters, F.-J. (Project manager, academic)

    01.01.1001.05.12

    Project: Research

  9. Investigating Logistics: Lifestyles, Migration and the Common(s)

    Bojadzijev, M. (Project manager, academic)

    01.09.1531.12.16

    Project: Scientific event

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

    Marchal, S. (Project manager, academic)

    01.01.13 → …

    Project: Research

  11. SIBA: Sicherheit und Reisen

    Wöhler, K. (Project manager, academic), Sonnenberg, G. (Project staff), Kummerer, A. (Project staff) & Demski, D. (Project staff)

    01.01.0731.12.09

    Project: Research

  12. Die wirtschaftlich-kulturelle Bedeutung des Rohstoffs Ton für die Backsteinstadt Lüneburg

    Pries, M. (Project manager, academic), Herdeg, U. (Partner) & Seidel, A. (Project staff)

    Volkswagen Foundation

    01.01.1026.01.16

    Project: Research

  13. Alice 150: celebrating Alice in Wonderland

    O'Sullivan, E. (Project manager, academic)

    21.04.1507.07.15

    Project: Practical Project

  14. Transforming Solidarities

    Karakayali, S. (Partner)

    01.09.2120.12.22

    Project: Research

  15. PML: Post-Media Lab

    Wuggenig, U. (Project manager, academic), Apprich, C. (Project staff) & Schultz, O. L. (Project staff)

    01.09.1131.05.14

    Project: Research

  16. KOSMOS Workshop "Cataloging Logistics 1: Migration, Humanitarism, Borders"

    Bojadzijev, M. (Project manager, academic)

    25.05.1627.05.16

    Project: Scientific event

  17. 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

  18. VERA: Reflexive Responsibilisierung. Verantwortung für nachhaltige Entwicklung

    Henkel, A. (Project manager, academic), Lüdtke, N. (Project staff), Buss, K. (Project staff), Lindemann, G. (Project manager, academic), Alkemeyer, T. (Project manager, academic), Paech, N. (Project manager, academic), Schulz, R. (Project manager, academic), Pfriem, R. (Project manager, academic), Hochmann, L. (Project manager, academic), Buschmann, N. (Project manager, academic) & Sulmowski, Y. (Project manager, academic)

    Ministry of Science and Culture of the State of Lower Saxony

    01.10.1630.04.19

    Project: Research

  19. Local Interest Representation in Multi-Level Parties

    Reiser, M. (Project manager, academic)

    01.08.14 → …

    Project: Research

  20. Between Logistics and Migration: Duisburg and the New Silk Road

    Bojadzijev, M. (Project manager, academic)

    01.01.17 → …

    Project: Research

  21. NMUN: National Model United Nations 2010 - New York

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

    19.03.1031.05.10

    Project: Teaching

  22. Political Parties and Religious Communication

    Schwörer, J. (Project manager, academic)

    01.01.19 → …

    Project: Research

  23. 24th ECPR PhD Summer School on “Political Parties in New Democracies”

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

    07.09.1413.09.14

    Project: Scientific event

  24. Dawn of the Doomed: The Religious and Political "Zombies' of the Anthropocene"

    Wessely, C. (Project manager, academic), Stoffel, P. (Project manager, academic), Lindemann, U. (Project manager, academic) & Asmuth, C. (Project manager, academic)

    01.03.2531.08.26

    Project: Research

  25. Think Dress! Fashion as Art

    Förster, Y. (Project manager, academic)

    01.03.14 → …

    Project: Research

  26. 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

    01.04.2231.12.25

    Project: Research

  27. Subnationale Demokratiemuster in Asien und Lateinamerika

    Böttcher, F. (Project manager, academic)

    01.02.1201.09.17

    Project: Dissertation project

  28. Political Parties in Africa: Ethnicity and Party Formation

    Elischer, S. (Project manager, academic)

    01.09.1201.09.14

    Project: Research

  29. RIR: Relationen im Raum, Teilprojekt Informatische Aufarbeitung

    Brocke, M. (Coordination), Warnke, M. (Project manager, academic), Kollatz, T. (Partner) & Arnold, I. (Partner)

    Federal Ministry of Education and Research

    12.07.1230.07.15

    Project: Research

  30. MOPP: Moral Philosophy & Politics

    Schefczyk, M. (Project manager, academic)

    31.01.1105.12.22

    Project: Research

  31. Die Experimentalkultur in einer Seifenblase. Das epistemische Potenzial in Chardins Malerei

    Hosseini, A. (Project manager, academic)

    01.10.11 → …

    Project: Dissertation project

  32. Urbane Kreativitätsimpulse durch 2-3 Straßen?

    Kirchberg, V. (Project manager, academic), Behnke, C. (Project staff), Grigoleit, A. (Project staff), Hahn, J. (Project staff), Körs, A. (Project staff) & Nerlich, M. R. (Project staff)

    14.09.1031.05.11

    Project: Research

  33. Wer macht in Hamburg Musik?

    Kuchar, R. (Project manager, academic) & Behnke, C. (Project staff)

    01.03.0931.10.09

    Project: Transfer (Scientific Services)

  34. 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

    01.07.2131.05.25

    Project: Research

  35. Diffusing the EU Model? The European Union’s Influence on Regional Organizations

    Lenz, T. (Project manager, academic)

    01.01.1531.12.17

    Project: Research

  36. Akteur-Kunst-Theorie. Kunsttheoretische Potentiale der Akteur-Netzwerk-Theorie

    Weinert, A. (Project manager, academic)

    01.04.1510.01.24

    Project: Dissertation project

  37. 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)

    Volkswagen Foundation

    01.07.1531.12.18

    Project: Research

  38. Demokratiefindung in der ehemaligen DDR

    Thaysen, U. (Project manager, academic)

    01.12.9030.10.93

    Project: Research

  39. Enlightenments German & Scottish

    von Xylander, C. (Project manager, academic) & Wuggenig, U. (Project manager, academic)

    01.02.19 → …

    Project: Research

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