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.
Dourgouti Island Hotel Project
Genidogan, K. (Partner, non-academic)
01.08.15 → 31.10.16
Project: Practical Project
DoktorandInnen-Workshop Sektion Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft (2011)
Müller-Rommel, F. (Project manager, academic)
17.06.11 → 18.06.11
Project: Scientific event
DigID: Doing Digital Identities
Scheel, S. (Project manager, academic), El-Kahil, S. (Project staff), O'Brien, O. (Project staff), Lambert, L. (Project staff) & Hargyono, S. (Project staff)
01.02.23 → 31.01.28
Project: Research
Diversität in Kreativnetzwerken als Bedingung nachhaltiger Stadtentwicklung
Kirchberg, V. (Project manager, academic) & Dollereder, L. (Project staff)
01.09.15 → 31.12.16
Project: Research
Dis/connectivity. Imaginaries, Media Technologies, Politics
Beyes, T. (Project manager, academic) & Stäheli, U. (Project manager, academic)
01.11.18 → 30.04.22
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
Digitisation of Labour: Configurations of Real and Virtual Migration
Bojadzijev, M. (Project manager, academic), Altenried, M. (Project staff) & Wallis, M. (Project staff)
01.05.18 → 30.04.21
Project: Research
DigiTaL - Digital Transformation Lab for Teaching and Learning
Hörl, E. (Project manager, academic) & Webersik, J. (Project manager, academic)
German Foundation for Innovation in Higher Education
01.08.21 → 31.12.25
Project: Teaching
DCRL (2017 - 2022): Digital Cultures Research Lab (2017 - 2022)
Bachmann, G. (Project manager, academic), Bernard, A. (Project manager, academic), Hörl, E. (Project manager, academic), Pias, C. (Project manager, academic), Beverungen, A. (Project manager, academic), Beyes, T. (Project manager, academic) & Leeker, M. (Project staff)
Ministry of Science and Culture of the State of Lower Saxony
01.10.16 → 31.07.22
Project: Research
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
21.02.13 → 30.06.19
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
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
SaM: Die Stadt als Möglichkeitsraum
Kirchberg, V. (Project manager, academic), Kagan, S. (Project manager, academic), Weisenfeld, U. (Project manager, academic), Stoltenberg, U. (Project manager, academic), Holz, V. (Project staff), Hauerwaas, A. (Project staff), Grigoleit, A. (Project staff) & Wedler, P. (Project staff)
Ministry of Science and Culture of the State of Lower Saxony
01.02.15 → 31.01.18
Project: Research
Die (Re-)Produktion sozialer Ungleichheit über die Alltagspraxis Humor
Moebius, S. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.13 → …
Project: Dissertation project
Die Experimentalkultur in einer Seifenblase. Das epistemische Potenzial in Chardins Malerei
Hosseini, A. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.11 → …
Project: Dissertation project
Die Europäische Union als Diskurs: "Europa für Bürgerinnen und Bürger" dank einer aktivierten Zivilgesellschaft? (Arbeitstitel)
Wach, L. (Project manager, academic)
01.04.14 → …
Project: Dissertation project
Die Dialektik des Body Politic: Eine Studie zum Wandel des neuzeitlich sozialen Körpers
Esch, F. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.22 → …
Project: Dissertation project
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
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
DFH Digital Anthropologies
Brunner, C. (Project manager, academic)
01.03.19 → 31.12.19
Project: Scientific event
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
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)
01.01.13 → 31.07.22
Project: Research
Meta-Image II: Development of a distributed virtual environment for research and communication for the discourse of images in art history
Warnke, M. (Project manager, academic), Dieckmann, L. (Project manager, academic) & Bredekamp, H. (Project manager, academic)
01.09.12 → 31.08.17
Project: Research
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
D’EST: A Multi-Curatorial Online Platform for Video Art from the Former ‘East’ and ‘West’
Gerhardt, U. (Project manager, academic)
15.02.18 → 31.12.24
Project: Research
Design Process. Software, Computation, and Cultural Techniques in Architecture
Stöcklmayr, N. (Project manager, academic)
01.04.13 → …
Project: Research
Der Sound der Leuphana. Campus Compilation
Großmann, R. (Project manager, academic) & Engelberg, B. (Project staff)
01.10.12 → 01.05.13
Project: Practical Project
Der Körper auf Tauchstation: Zu einer Wissensgeschichte der Immersion
Kasprowicz, D. (Project manager, academic)
01.05.13 → 01.12.16
Project: Dissertation project
Der deutsche Gatsby x 8: eine Ausstellung
O'Sullivan, E. (Project manager, academic)
10.04.12 → 01.07.12
Project: Practical Project
Den Himmel zeichnen - Eine Veranstaltung in der Historischen Sternwarte Göttingen
Steierwald, U. (Project manager, academic) & Reiners, A. (Partner)
14.09.23 → 31.12.23
Project: Scientific event
Demokratische Regierungssysteme in Mittel- und Osteuropa
Müller-Rommel, F. (Project manager, academic)
01.05.09 → 24.11.09
Project: Scientific event
Demokratiefindung in der ehemaligen DDR
Thaysen, U. (Project manager, academic)
01.12.90 → 30.10.93
Project: Research
Deliberative Bürgerbeteiligung in der deutschen Debatte um Priorisierung in der medizinischen Versorgung - Potentiale und Grenzen
Stumpf, S. (Project manager, academic)
01.04.12 → 31.03.15
Project: Dissertation project
Decolonial Thought and Practice
Daibert , R. (Project manager, academic)
04.04.23 → 04.07.23
Project: Teaching
Decentering Italian Colonial Heritage
Schulz, V.-S. (Project manager, academic) & Gabriel, J. M. (Project manager, academic)
Project: Scientific event
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
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
«Curtius Academy» im Rahmen des European Haniel Program on Entrepreneurship and the Humanities (2023-2026)
Beyes, T. (Project manager, academic), Steyaert, C. (Partner) & Holt, R. (Partner)
01.10.23 → 30.09.26
Project: Research
CURE: Cultures of Rejection: Conditions of Acceptability in Socio-Spatial and Digital Environments in Contemporary Europe
Bojadzijev, M. (Project manager, academic), Fiket, I. (Partner), Sauer, B. (Partner), Bojanic, S. (Partner), Jonsson, S. (Partner) & Harder, A. (Project staff)
15.01.19 → 23.02.22
Project: Research
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
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
CSR-Kommunikation: Einflussfaktoren der Glaubwürdigkeit
Bekmeier-Feuerhahn, S. (Project manager, academic) & Bögel, P. M. (Project manager, academic)
15.09.12 → 30.06.16
Project: Dissertation project
Critical Art(ist)s and Urban Development - A collaborative study comparing German and Israeli Cities
Kirchberg, V. (Project manager, academic), de-Shalit, A. (Partner) & Hoop, M. (Project staff)
Ministry of Science and Culture of the State of Lower Saxony
01.04.16 → 31.03.19
Project: Research
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
CCP: Complexity or control? Paradigms for sustainable development
Vilsmaier, U. (Project manager, academic), Lang, D. J. (Project manager, academic), Hörl, E. (Project manager, academic), Laubichler, M. (Project manager, academic), Herberg, J. (Coordination), Caniglia, G. (Project staff), Leistert, O. (Project staff), Schrickel, I. (Project staff), Meyer, E. (Project staff) & Schmieg, G. (Project staff)
Ministry of Science and Culture of the State of Lower Saxony
01.01.15 → 31.03.20
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
College Studien in der Praxis- Wirtschaftsförderung der Samtgemeinde Horneburg & GD Incentives GmbH
Hellmann, K. (Project manager, academic) & Pries, M. (Project staff)
01.04.12 → 30.09.12
Project: Practical Project
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
College-Studien in der Praxis- Nachhaltiges Nutzungskonzept für das Heimathaus
Hellmann, K. (Project manager, academic) & Kirschner, U. (Project staff)
01.04.11 → 30.09.11
Project: Practical Project