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.
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
KunstFestSpiele heute
Woisnitza, M. (Project manager, academic)
01.02.19 → 29.02.20
Project: Scientific event
Kunst in neuen Kontexten: Die Artist Placement Group als Case Study
Jordan, U. (Project manager, academic) & Waligorski, A. (Project manager, academic)
25.10.13 → 26.01.14
Project: Teaching
Kunstkritik und Krisenrhetorik - Modellfall Kunstschriftstellerei
Söntgen, B. (Project manager, academic) & Marchal, S. (Project manager, academic)
24.05.16 → 07.10.20
Project: Research
KUL: Kunstraum of Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Wuggenig, U. (Project manager, academic), Behnke, C. (Project staff) & Loichinger, H. C. (Project staff)
01.06.02 → 25.08.11
Project: Practical Project
Language and Performance in the Work of Hollis Frampton
Breimaier, A. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.12 → …
Project: Dissertation project
Leadership: Eine Frage der Persönlichkeit? Ein Vergleich des Führungshandelns von Bundeskanzlerin Merkel angesichts der Währungs- und Migrationskrise
Wehrkamp, H. (Project manager, academic)
01.01.17 → 01.01.20
Project: Dissertation project
LESÖB: Lebensweltorientierte Konstruktion von (nachhaltigen) Lernaufgaben in der sozioökonomischen Bildung
Oeftering, T. (Project manager, academic), Fischer, A. (Project manager, academic), Oppermann, J. (Project staff) & Hantke, H. (Project staff)
01.10.17 → 31.12.18
Project: Research
Lehrforschungsprojekt mit Studierendenaustausch mit Universidade Sao Paulo, Brasilien (UNIBRAL)
Kirschner, U. (Project manager, academic)
02.01.08 → 30.12.11
Project: Research
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
Leuphana Arts Program 2014
Waligorski, A. (Project manager, academic)
Ministry of Science and Culture of the State of Lower Saxony
15.11.13 → 18.06.19
Project: Teaching
Leuphana Arts Program 2015/2016
Leeb, S. (Project manager, academic)
Ministry of Science and Culture of the State of Lower Saxony
01.11.15 → 31.01.18
Project: Other
Leuphana Arts Program 2017
Leeb, S. (Project manager, academic)
Ministry of Science and Culture of the State of Lower Saxony
01.01.17 → 31.12.18
Project: Other
Leuphana Arts Program 2019
Leeb, S. (Project manager, academic)
Ministry of Science and Culture of the State of Lower Saxony
21.12.18 → 31.03.20
Project: Other
LIAS-CAS: Leuphana Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture and Society
Leeb, S. (Project manager, academic)
01.06.22 → 31.05.27
Project: Research
Leuphana Soundscape
Großmann, R. (Project manager, academic) & Engelberg, B. (Project staff)
01.07.13 → 30.06.14
Project: Practical Project
LIAS x LOST: Exploring the Organization of Societal Polarization
Kostuj, L. (Project manager, academic)
19.03.24 → 19.03.24
Project: Scientific event
Lifting the Sky: Practices to Sustain Worlds Otherwise
Daibert , R. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.22 → …
Project: Dissertation project
Linie Figur Grund. Tanzdarstellungen bei Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Mordhorst, S. (Project manager, academic)
01.07.12 → …
Project: Dissertation project
Local Interest Representation in Multi-Level Parties
Reiser, M. (Project manager, academic)
01.08.14 → …
Project: Research
Making Sense(s). Die Medialität der Nahsinne
Vehlken, S. (Project manager, academic), Bernard, A. (Project manager, academic) & Wentz, D. (Project manager, academic)
12.06.19 → …
Project: Research
Media and Participation. Between demand and entitlement, TP 5: Participatory Critique as Transforming and Transversal "With"
Bippus, E. (Partner), Brunner, C. (Project manager, academic), Nigro, R. (Partner), Ochsner, B. (Project manager, academic) & Hörl, E. (Partner)
01.10.15 → 31.07.22
Project: Research
Medien der Assistenz/ Assistive Media
Wiechern, A.-L. (Project manager, academic) & Müggenburg, J. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.18 → 31.12.21
Project: Research
Mediengeschichte u. kritische Publizistik
Lahme, T. M. (Project manager, academic)
01.05.14 → 29.02.20
Project: Other
Mediengeschichte von den Anfängen bis heute
Faulstich, W. (Project manager, academic)
01.01.96 → 31.12.11
Project: Teaching
Messung der Wirkung von Architektur als Erlebnisträger beim Museumsbesuch
Bekmeier-Feuerhahn, S. (Project manager, academic) & Ober-Heilig, N. (Project manager, academic)
01.04.12 → 23.06.14
Project: Research
Metabody. Media Embodiment Tékhne and Bridges of Diversity
Förster, Y. (Partner)
01.06.13 → …
Project: Research
Meta-Image – a collaborative environment for the image discourse
Warnke, M. (Project manager, academic), Schirmbacher, P. (Partner), Dieckmann, L. (Project manager, academic) & Kliemann, A. (Project staff)
01.10.09 → 13.10.15
Project: Research
Metaphorology of Flows and Streams
Denecke, M. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.14 → 06.04.19
Project: Dissertation project
Methoden der Kunstgeschichte und Visual Studies
Sieber, J. (Project manager, academic)
13.12.18 → 11.01.19
Project: Teaching
Methodenkritik und feministische Institutionskritik. Kritik, Interventionen und neue Formen des Sprechens
Sieber, J. (Project manager, academic) & Wulff, N. (Project manager, academic)
06.04.20 → 10.07.20
Project: Teaching
Methods and Techniques of Political Science
Griaznova, O. (Project manager, academic)
15.09.20 → 28.01.21
Project: Teaching
Methods of Political Science: Introduction to Quantitative Methods
Griaznova, O. (Project manager, academic)
15.10.20 → 31.01.21
Project: Teaching
Migration in die DDR, Archiv und Online Bibliographie
Bojadzijev, M. (Project manager, academic)
01.06.11 → …
Project: Teaching
Migrationspolitiken im Mehrebenensystem
Jantzer, L. (Project manager, academic)
01.04.22 → 01.10.22
Project: Teaching
Migration und Mitbestimmung
Karakayali, S. (Project manager, academic)
01.08.18 → 30.06.21
Project: Research
Mobile Medienkultur in Japan. Entwurf eines kulturorientierten Kontextualisierungskonzepts der Mobilkommunikation
Peil, C. (Project manager, academic)
01.04.05 → 12.07.10
Project: Dissertation project
Modern Migrants: Paintings from Europe in US Museums
Rother, L. (Project manager, academic), Koss, M. (Project staff) & Mariani, F. (Project staff)
01.11.19 → 31.10.27
Project: Research
MONA: Modes of sustainability-related research in comparison (MONA): Modes of research and their impact on scientific and societal project outcomes - a comparative analysis of 100 third-party funded sustainability-related research projects
Newig, J. (Project manager, academic) & Jahn, S. (Project staff)
15.04.13 → 08.09.21
Project: Research
Mode und Accessoires. Fetischistische Strukturen in der Malerei Pierre-Auguste Renoirs (AT)
Sawer, A. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.11 → …
Project: Dissertation project
MOOC Managing the Arts: Marketing for Cultural Organizations
Kagan, S. (Project manager, academic), Kirchberg, V. (Project manager, academic), Ober-Heilig, N. (Project manager, academic), Bekmeier-Feuerhahn, S. (Project manager, academic) & Shah, N. N. (Project manager, academic)
01.05.14 → 31.01.20
Project: Teaching
MOPP: Moral Philosophy & Politics
Schefczyk, M. (Project manager, academic)
31.01.11 → 05.12.22
Project: Research
TM 1.1 KT 02 - Moving Image: Moving Image Lab: Development and examination of moving image formats
Beyes, T. (Project manager, academic), Riedel, M. (Project staff), Gupta, S. (Project staff) & Hagen, F. (Project staff)
Investitions- und Förderbank Niedersachsen – NBank
19.08.09 → 31.03.16
Project: Research
Music and Politics. Political Cultural Education as an Access to Politics for Adolescents!?
Oeftering, T. (Project manager, academic), Kuhn, H.-W. (Project manager, academic) & Gloe, M. (Project manager, academic)
06.03.12 → 30.08.14
Project: Scientific event
Nachbarschafts-Technologien. Mathematik und Medien dynamischer Netzwerke
Vehlken, S. (Project manager, academic) & Harks, T. (Project manager, academic)
01.02.12 → 04.02.13
Project: Scientific event
Nationalist, people-centered and anti-elitist communication strategies of political parties. A theoretical and empirical introduction
Schwörer, J. (Project manager, academic)
03.05.19 → 25.05.19
Project: Teaching
NMUN: National Model United Nations 2010 - New York
Müller-Rommel, F. (Project manager, academic)
19.03.10 → 31.05.10
Project: Teaching
NMUN: National Model United Nations 2010 - New York
Müller-Rommel, F. (Project manager, academic)
01.02.10 → 24.06.10
Project: Teaching
NMUN : National Model Univer Nations (NMUN) 2008-2010
Müller-Rommel, F. (Project manager, academic)
01.01.08 → 01.09.10
Project: Teaching
NEMo: NEMo - Nachhaltige Erfüllung von Mobilitätsbedürfnissen im ländlichen Raum
Henkel, A. (Project manager, academic), Halberstadt, J. (Project manager, academic), Samland, U. (Project staff), Marx Gómez, J. (Project manager, academic), Hahn, A. (Project manager, academic), Köster, F. (Project manager, academic), Taeger, J. (Project manager, academic), Winter, A. J. (Project manager, academic) & Woisetschläger, D. M. (Project manager, academic)
Ministry of Science and Culture of the State of Lower Saxony
01.10.16 → 30.04.19
Project: Research
NEMo - Nachhaltige Erfüllung von Mobilitätserfordernissen im ländlichen Raum
Halberstadt, J. (Project manager, academic), Marx Gómez, J. (Project manager, academic), Hahn, A. (Project manager, academic), Köster, F. (Project manager, academic), Taeger, J. (Project manager, academic), Winter, A. J. (Project manager, academic), Woisetschläger, D. M. (Project manager, academic) & Henkel, A. (Project manager, academic)
Ministry of Science and Culture of the State of Lower Saxony
01.03.16 → 28.02.19
Project: Research
Neocolonialism and Film
Daibert , R. (Project manager, academic) & Rizk, P. (Project manager, academic)
14.10.24 → 31.01.25
Project: Teaching
Netzwerk "Externe Demokratisierungspolitik" (EDP)
van Hüllen, V. (Project manager, academic)
01.05.15 → 30.04.19
Project: Other
Neue Medien in der Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung - GPS-Bildungsrouten im Biosphärenreservat Flusslandschaft Elbe
Möller, A. (Project manager, academic), Pez, P. (Project manager, academic) & Corleis, F. (Coordination)
German Federal Environmental Foundation
03.03.09 → 17.10.11
Project: Research
New technologies, new sound practices
Großmann, R. (Project manager, academic) & Hanacek, M. (Partner)
01.10.11 → 31.05.12
Project: Scientific event
Nicht-sprachliche Klangzeichen
Großmann, R. (Project manager, academic)
01.04.14 → 30.04.17
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
Nouveau terrain d'apparition
Brunner, C. (Partner) & Courchesne, L. (Project manager, academic)
01.09.09 → 31.08.11
Project: Research
Öffentlichkeit einer Schriftstellerfamilie. Inszenierung und Repräsentanz der Familie Mann
Klinkenbusch, I. (Project manager, academic)
01.01.17 → …
Project: Dissertation project
Ökonomische Ungleichheit und der Einfluss von Diskurskoalitionen auf Vermögensbesteuerung in Deutschland, 1995-2015. Eine Diskursnetzwerkanalyse von Policy-Wandel in der Steuerpolitik
Leipold, A. (Project manager, academic)
01.12.15 → 11.05.16
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
"Other Knowledge" in Artistic Research and Aesthetic Theory
Brunner, C. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.17 → 30.04.23
Project: Research
Parlamentarische Sozialisation von Landtagsabgeordneten
Reiser, M. (Project manager, academic) & Borchert, J. (Project manager, academic)
01.02.10 → …
Project: Research
Partial Versions Collective
Genidogan, K. (Project manager, academic), Jones, A. (Project manager, academic), Mason, L. (Project manager, academic) & Osman, H. (Project manager, academic)
09.05.18 → …
Project: Research
Participatory Critique as Transforming and Transversal "With"
Brunner, C. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.18 → 30.09.22
Project: Research
Party Government in the New Europe. London: Routledge
Müller-Rommel, F. (Project manager, academic) & Keman, H. (Project manager, academic)
01.04.09 → 31.10.11
Project: Research
Party Politics and Democracy in Europe
Müller-Rommel, F. (Project manager, academic)
01.02.14 → 03.07.14
Project: Scientific event
Peace Counts School Freiburg
Oeftering, T. (Project manager, academic)
08.03.07 → …
Project: Practical 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
Personalization of Politics
Müller-Rommel, F. (Project manager, academic) & Garzia, D. (Project manager, academic)
01.09.14 → 31.08.17
Project: Research
Phd Program Democracy under Stress (DUS)
Müller-Rommel, F. (Project manager, academic) & Welzel, C. (Coordination)
Ministry of Science and Culture of the State of Lower Saxony
01.10.16 → 31.12.21
Project: Other
Phenomenality of the Unphenomenal: Neural Nets and Embodied Cognition
Förster, Y. (Project manager, academic)
01.01.15 → …
Project: Research
PLUS: Platform Labour in Urban Spaces: Fairness, Welfare, Development
Bojadzijev, M. (Project manager, academic), Animento, S. (Project staff) & Altenried, M. (Project staff)
01.01.19 → 31.03.22
Project: Research
Plutonium Worlds. Computer Simulation and Nuclear Energy 1950-1980
Vehlken, S. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.13 → …
Project: Research
Poetic and Photographic Practices in the Kiongozi German East African Colonial Newspaper 1885 to 1918
Kindata, D. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.22 → …
Project: Dissertation project
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
Political Culture and Political Development
Welzel, C. (Project manager, academic) & Dalton, R. J. (Partner)
01.01.09 → 31.12.13
Project: Research
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
Political Parties and Religious Communication
Schwörer, J. (Project manager, academic)
01.01.19 → …
Project: Research
Political Parties in Africa: Ethnicity and Party Formation
Elischer, S. (Project manager, academic)
01.09.12 → 01.09.14
Project: Research
'Politics' under (de-)construction? – Aushandlungsprozesse 'des Politischen' in mediatisierten Alltagswelten Jugendlicher (Arbeitstitel)
Kruse, M.-M. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.11 → …
Project: Dissertation project
Politiken und Infrastrukturen der Vermittlung mobiler Arbeit
Bojadzijev, M. (Project manager, academic)
01.05.16 → 31.12.16
Project: Research
"Politische Kunst" - von der Avantgarde bis heute
Jordan, U. (Project manager, academic) & Szántó, I. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.13 → 31.03.14
Project: Teaching
Populism in Germany and Europe
Schwörer, J. (Project manager, academic)
20.04.18 → 26.05.19
Project: Teaching
Populismus und Protest. Deutsche und italienische Gegenwartsliteratur inmitten polarisierter Öffentlichkeiten
Drews, K. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.24 → 31.12.24
Project: Scientific event
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
Post-sozialistische Regierungssystemreform: Armenien, Kroatien, Russland und die Ukraine im Vergleich
Seha, E. (Project manager, academic)
01.03.11 → 10.07.14
Project: Dissertation project
PPGG-Programm PELP -Public Policy and Good Governance
Friedrich, D. (Project manager, academic)
01.07.09 → 30.06.15
Project: Teaching
Pratiques de pouvoir et formes de représentation
Nigro, R. (Project manager, academic)
01.01.10 → 31.12.16
Project: Research
Praxes of the Transitory: Restitution, Museum Practice, and the (Im)material Cultural Heritage of the Tairona’s Descendants in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia
Felicitas Sabel, L. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.22 → …
Project: Dissertation project
PusH: Precarious Housing in Europe. Pushing for Innovation in Higher Education
Münch, S. (Project manager, academic) & Siede, A. (Project staff)
01.09.19 → 31.08.22
Project: Research
Present and Future of Urban FRONTIER ZONES in Tunis
Kirschner, U. (Project manager, academic)
01.01.20 → 31.12.20
Project: Research
Primeval Times and Environment. Staging Prehistory in Modern Age
Wessely, C. (Project manager, academic)
01.03.17 → 31.03.21
Project: Research
‚Primitive Communism‘ as a narrative concept between 1848 and 1940
Hügel, J. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.22 → …
Project: Dissertation project
"Privat/Öffentlich V“. 20. Workshop der AG „GeschlechterGesellschaftsTheorien“, 03. – 05. November 2016, an der Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
Burkart, G. (Project manager, academic)
03.11.16 → 05.11.16
Project: Scientific event
Professionalisierung der Kommunalpolitik in deutschen Großstädten
Reiser, M. (Project manager, academic)
01.12.01 → 30.05.05
Project: Research