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.
transmedial culture - A Practice-Based Research Project of Networking Art and Culture
Pias, C. (Project manager, academic) & Bazzichelli, T. (Project staff)
01.07.12 → 24.03.15
Project: Transfer (R&D project)
Technoecologies of Participation: New Perspectives from Media Philosophy and Anthropology
Hörl, E. (Project manager, academic)
01.08.15 → 31.08.18
Project: Research
Supercomputing. Medienkulturen zwischen Parallelität und Scalability
Vehlken, S. (Project manager, academic) & Engemann, C. (Project manager, academic)
27.07.11 → 31.03.13
Project: Research
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
19.08.09 → 31.01.16
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
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)
31.05.19 → 31.05.22
Project: Research
Das Unwort erklärt die Untat – Die „Döner-Mordserie“ und der Umgang mit Gewalt an Migrantinnen und Migranten in den Medien
Grittmann, E. (Project manager, academic) & Thomas, T. (Project manager, academic)
01.11.13 → 12.02.15
Project: Research
Einfluss impliziter Motive auf die Weiterempfehlungsabgabe in Kulturinstitutionen - eine quantitative Studie
Bekmeier-Feuerhahn, S. (Project manager, academic) & Sikkenga, J. (Project manager, academic)
15.01.09 → 31.05.13
Project: Research
Elements of a Critical Theory of Media and Participation
Hörl, E. (Project manager, academic) & Nigro, R. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.18 → 31.10.22
Project: Research
Online Anonymity and Sociality - Teilprojekt im Verbundvorhaben "Reconfiguring Anonymity - Contemporary Forms of Reciprocity, Identifiability and Accountability in Transformation"
Bachmann, G. (Project manager, academic)
01.07.15 → 31.12.20
Project: Research
Die Aktualität der Romantik
Förster, Y. (Partner), Vieweg, K. (Project manager, academic) & Deiters, F.-J. (Project manager, academic)
01.01.10 → 01.05.12
Project: Research
Investigating Logistics: Lifestyles, Migration and the Common(s)
Bojadzijev, M. (Project manager, academic)
01.09.15 → 31.12.16
Project: Scientific event
Forschungsprojekt: Julius Meier-Graefe und die "neue" Kunstkritik
Marchal, S. (Project manager, academic)
01.01.13 → …
Project: Research
Unfinished Business. Zum Stand der industriepolitischen Interventionen in der Halbleiterund Batterie(zell)produktion
Karakayali, S. (Project manager, academic)
01.06.25 → 30.11.25
Project: Research
SIBA: Sicherheit und Reisen
Wöhler, K. (Project manager, academic), Sonnenberg, G. (Project staff), Kummerer, A. (Project staff) & Demski, D. (Project staff)
01.01.07 → 31.12.09
Project: Research
Die wirtschaftlich-kulturelle Bedeutung des Rohstoffs Ton für die Backsteinstadt Lüneburg
Pries, M. (Project manager, academic), Herdeg, U. (Partner) & Seidel, A. (Project staff)
01.01.10 → 26.01.16
Project: Research
Alice 150: celebrating Alice in Wonderland
O'Sullivan, E. (Project manager, academic)
21.04.15 → 07.07.15
Project: Practical Project
PML: Post-Media Lab
Wuggenig, U. (Project manager, academic), Apprich, C. (Project staff) & Schultz, O. L. (Project staff)
01.09.11 → 31.05.14
Project: Research
KOSMOS Workshop "Cataloging Logistics 1: Migration, Humanitarism, Borders"
Bojadzijev, M. (Project manager, academic)
25.05.16 → 27.05.16
Project: Scientific event
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)
01.04.12 → 31.05.17
Project: Research
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
01.10.16 → 30.04.19
Project: Research
Local Interest Representation in Multi-Level Parties
Reiser, M. (Project manager, academic)
01.08.14 → …
Project: Research
Between Logistics and Migration: Duisburg and the New Silk Road
Bojadzijev, M. (Project manager, academic)
01.01.17 → …
Project: Research
NMUN: National Model United Nations 2010 - New York
Müller-Rommel, F. (Project manager, academic)
19.03.10 → 31.05.10
Project: Teaching
Political Parties and Religious Communication
Schwörer, J. (Project manager, academic)
01.01.19 → …
Project: Research
24th ECPR PhD Summer School on “Political Parties in New Democracies”
Müller-Rommel, F. (Project manager, academic)
07.09.14 → 13.09.14
Project: Scientific event
Verwaltungsmodernisierung in Niedersachsen - Begleitende Studie zur Aussetzung der gerichtlichen Vorverfahrens
Müller-Rommel, F. (Project manager, academic) & Meyer, H. (Project staff)
Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Inneres und Sport
21.09.06 → 02.07.12
Project: Research
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)
01.03.25 → 31.08.26
Project: Research
Kulturorganisation und Kulturvermittlung
Kirchberg, V. (Project manager, academic)
Ministry of Science and Culture of the State of Lower Saxony
13.05.04 → 30.04.10
Project: Other
The Cool Water Effect: Why Human Civilization Turned towards Emancipation in Cold-Wet Regions
Welzel, C. (Project manager, academic)
01.01.18 → 31.12.24
Project: Research
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
Subnationale Demokratiemuster in Asien und Lateinamerika
Böttcher, F. (Project manager, academic)
01.02.12 → 01.09.17
Project: Dissertation project
Deutsch-Türkischer Journalistendialog: Die Berichterstattung der Medien über die NSU-Morde vor dem November 2011
Grittmann, E. (Project manager, academic)
27.02.14 → 23.10.14
Project: Scientific event
Political Parties in Africa: Ethnicity and Party Formation
Elischer, S. (Project manager, academic)
01.09.12 → 01.09.14
Project: Research
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
12.07.12 → 30.07.15
Project: Research
MOPP: Moral Philosophy & Politics
Schefczyk, M. (Project manager, academic)
31.01.11 → 05.12.22
Project: Research
Die Experimentalkultur in einer Seifenblase. Das epistemische Potenzial in Chardins Malerei
Hosseini, A. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.11 → …
Project: Dissertation project
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)
14.09.10 → 31.05.11
Project: Research
Wer macht in Hamburg Musik?
Kuchar, R. (Project manager, academic) & Behnke, C. (Project staff)
01.03.09 → 31.10.09
Project: Transfer (Scientific Services)
Political Discourses of Business and Capital Taxation. A Comparative Network Analysis of Tax Policy-Focused Media and Parliamentary Debates in the U.S. and Germany, 1965-2015
Leipold, A. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.16 → 30.09.19
Project: Dissertation project
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
‚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
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
Diffusing the EU Model? The European Union’s Influence on Regional Organizations
Lenz, T. (Project manager, academic)
01.01.15 → 31.12.17
Project: Research
Akteur-Kunst-Theorie. Kunsttheoretische Potentiale der Akteur-Netzwerk-Theorie
Weinert, A. (Project manager, academic)
01.04.15 → 10.01.24
Project: Dissertation project
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)
01.07.15 → 31.12.18
Project: Research
Demokratiefindung in der ehemaligen DDR
Thaysen, U. (Project manager, academic)
01.12.90 → 30.10.93
Project: Research
Enlightenments German & Scottish
von Xylander, C. (Project manager, academic) & Wuggenig, U. (Project manager, academic)
01.02.19 → …
Project: Research