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.
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Großmann, R. (Project manager, academic), Pelleter, M. (Project staff) & Otto, A. (Partner)
01.10.97 → …
Project: Research
Autocracies' Counterintuitive Delegation Preferences to International Human Rights Organizations
Šatra, P. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.16 → 30.09.19
Project: Dissertation project
Autocracies in International Relations (winter semester 2018-19, bachelor Political Science)
Šatra, P. (Project manager, academic)
15.10.18 → 01.02.19
Project: Teaching
Automating the Logistical City: Space, Algorithm, Speculation
Beverungen, A. (Project manager, academic), Antenucci, I. (Project staff), Voigt, M.-L. (Project staff), Hille, L. (Project staff), Rossiter, N. (Partner), Mattern, S. (Partner) & Halpern, O. (Partner)
Ministry of Science and Culture of the State of Lower Saxony
01.09.21 → 30.09.25
Project: Research
KARAMOJA: Awareness raising of Europeans on issues of sustainability in semi-pastoral societies of developing countries: the case of the Karimojong people in North-Eastern Uganda
Kirchberg, V. (Project manager, academic) & Kagan, S. (Project staff)
01.01.08 → 14.07.09
Project: Transfer (R&D project)
Back to the Future. Öffnungen der Zukunft nach der ›Breiten Gegenwart‹
Vehlken, S. (Project manager, academic)
01.05.20 → …
Project: Research
Bargfost Symposium, Campinas Brasilien
Kirschner, U. (Project manager, academic)
14.03.16 → 16.03.16
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
Between Logistics and Migration: Duisburg and the New Silk Road
Bojadzijev, M. (Project manager, academic)
01.01.17 → …
Project: Research
Beyond the Protest: Self-Organization in Russian Anti-War Ecology of Resistance, Solidarity, and Aid
Kalinina, A. (Project manager, academic)
01.09.22 → 01.09.25
Project: Dissertation project
BMoS: Blockchains. Media of Sovereignty
Leistert, O. (Project manager, academic)
01.06.20 → 31.05.23
Project: Research
bLÜmsday 2010: Bloomsday in Lüneburg
O'Sullivan, E. (Project manager, academic)
22.06.10 → 03.02.11
Project: Practical Project
Body narratives and world-making. A practice-based seminar on performance studies and art
Daibert , R. (Project manager, academic)
02.04.24 → 03.07.24
Project: Teaching
Bürgermeisterwahlkämpfe im Professionalisierungsdiskurs der Wahlkampfforschung. Ein kandidatenzentrierter Vergleich in niedersächsischen Städten
Freund, C. (Project manager, academic)
01.05.10 → 23.07.13
Project: Dissertation project
CAPFLO - Local resilience capacity building for flood mitigation
Newig, J. (Project manager, academic) & Kochskämper, E. (Project staff)
01.01.16 → 30.06.19
Project: Research
Career patterns and political performance of Prime Ministers in Central East European Democracies
Müller-Rommel, F. (Project manager, academic)
01.02.18 → 30.06.20
Project: Research
CES Summer School: Artistic and Other Creative Practices as Drivers for Urban Resilience
Kagan, S. (Project manager, academic), Duxbury, N. (Project manager, academic), Haley, D. (Project manager, academic), Blanc, N. (Project manager, academic) & Holz, V. (Project manager, academic)
01.09.15 → 30.11.16
Project: Scientific event
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
Citizenship Education in South Africa and Germany – theories, concepts and practice
Oeftering, T. (Project manager, academic) & Ngcoza, K. (Partner)
01.01.17 → 30.11.17
Project: Research