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.
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
Emotionalisierung der Religion. Neue emotionale Stile im Kontext religöser Erfahrung
Herbrik, R. (Project manager, academic) & Knoblauch, H. (Project manager, academic)
20.10.10 → 30.09.13
Project: Research
eMotion – das psychogeographische Museum: mapping museum experience
Kirchberg, V. (Partner), Tröndle, M. (Project manager, academic), Tschacher, W. (Partner), van den Berg, K. (Partner) & Wintzerith, S. (Partner)
01.10.08 → 15.01.16
Project: Research
Encounter: An art research workshop with Bracha Ettinger
Genidogan, K. (Project manager, academic)
15.05.17 → 15.05.20
Project: Scientific event
Enlightenments German & Scottish
von Xylander, C. (Project manager, academic) & Wuggenig, U. (Project manager, academic)
01.02.19 → …
Project: Research
Entrainment: Temporal Structuring of Creative Projects
Schüßler, E. (Project manager, academic), Grabher, G. (Project manager, academic), Sydow, J. (Project manager, academic) & Hoop, M. (Project staff)
01.10.23 → 31.05.25
Project: Research
Entsolidarisierung und Rassismus
Bojadzijev, M. (Project manager, academic)
01.05.16 → 31.12.16
Project: Research
E-Participation in the European Multi-Level System. Supply and Use of New Digital Media in the European Parliament.
Kunert, J. S. (Project manager, academic)
01.02.12 → 01.02.15
Project: Dissertation project
Epistemic Games. The Construction of the Validity of Computer Simulations through Simulation Games
Schrape, N. (Project manager, academic)
01.05.13 → 30.04.17
Project: Research
Erasmus Mundus application
Jorgensen, L. (Project manager, academic)
08.01.24 → 30.06.25
Project: Other
TACTICS: Erasmus Mundus Design Measure: Thinking in Action: Creative Transformation of Intercultural Common Space
Kirchberg, V. (Project manager, academic), Beyes, T. (Project manager, academic) & Cnossen, B. (Project manager, academic)
08.12.21 → 01.07.25
Project: Other
Errichtung eines Simulationslabors im Teilrechenzentrum Buxtehude
Kirschner, U. (Project manager, academic)
02.09.02 → …
Project: Research
EU COST Action on "Data Matters: Sociotechnical Challenges of European Migration and Border Control (DATAMIG)”
Scheel, S. (Project manager, academic)
28.09.23 → 27.09.27
Project: Research
European Haniel Program on Entrepreneurship and the Humanities
Beyes, T. (Project manager, academic), Metelmann, J. (Project manager, academic) & Johnsen, R. (Project manager, academic)
01.01.18 → 30.09.25
Project: Other
Evaluation des Projektes "RAUMsichten"
Kirchberg, V. (Project manager, academic), Behnke, C. (Partner) & Grigoleit, A. (Partner)
03.11.09 → 31.12.12
Project: Transfer (R&D project)
Everyday Externalization. The Transformations of Individual Asylum in Niger
Lambert, L. (Project manager, academic)
Project: Dissertation project
Executive Power in Parliamentary Democracies (2013-2017)
Müller-Rommel, F. (Project manager, academic)
01.09.13 → 31.08.17
Project: Research
Exhibition Project “Hitler´s Crimes: A French Occupying Forces´ Exhibition 1945-1946“ Conducted at Freiburg University of Education
Oeftering, T. (Project staff), Uhl, H. (Project manager, academic) & Merz, H.-G. (Project manager, academic)
10.03.04 → …
Project: Practical Project
Exhibition Project “Political Caricatures of the Conflict in Iraq“
Oeftering, T. (Project staff), Kuhn, H.-W. (Project manager, academic) & Merz, H.-G. (Project manager, academic)
05.03.03 → 31.03.04
Project: Practical Project
Exkursionsförderung - Brasilienexkursion
Kirschner, U. (Project manager, academic)
13.03.06 → …
Project: Research
“Expanding the Margins: Migration, Mobilities, Borders”, International Summer School
Bojadzijev, M. (Project manager, academic)
21.09.14 → 26.09.14
Project: Scientific event
Facing Reality: Between Doom and Cruel Optimism
Stolz, L. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.22 → …
Project: Dissertation project
Field Research: Art World Zurich
Wuggenig, U. (Project manager, academic), Prinz, S. (Partner) & Tarnai, C. (Partner)
Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst
01.12.08 → 31.08.17
Project: Research
Förderung Autorenworkshop Sonderheft ZPOL November 2018 durch Thyssenstiftung
Münch, S. (Project manager, academic), Barbehön, M. (Partner) & Schlag, G. (Partner)
01.10.18 → 31.03.19
Project: Scientific event
Förderung der Regelprofessur im Fach Kunstgeschichte im Rahmen des Professorinnenprogramms an der Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
van Riesen, K. (Coordination) & Söntgen, B. (Project manager, academic)
Federal Ministry of Education and Research
01.10.11 → 31.12.15
Project: Individual grant
Förderung des Ausbaus eines Programms für Schlüsselqualifikationen an den Mitgliedshochschulen der Internationalen Bodenseehochschule
Herbrik, R. (Project staff) & Stadler, A. (Project manager, academic)
15.06.06 → 15.09.07
Project: Research
FLiF: Forschungsbasiertes Lernen im Fokus
Hochmann, L. (Project staff)
01.04.14 → 30.09.16
Project: Teaching
FLiF+: Forschungsbasiertes Lernen im Fokus plus
Hochmann, L. (Project staff)
01.10.16 → 31.12.20
Project: Teaching
Forschungsprojekt: Julius Meier-Graefe und die "neue" Kunstkritik
Marchal, S. (Project manager, academic)
01.01.13 → …
Project: Research
Forschungsschwerpunkt Dimensionen der Sorge
Henkel, A. (Project manager, academic), Lindemann, G. (Project manager, academic), Karle, I. (Project manager, academic) & Werner, M. H. (Project manager, academic)
01.09.14 → 30.08.19
Project: Research
Freedom Rising: Human Empowerment and the Quest for Emancipation
Welzel, C. (Project manager, academic)
01.02.12 → 31.03.13
Project: Research
"Freiwillige Rückkehr" - Implementierung und Politisierung im europäischen Mehrebenensystem
Münch, S. (Project manager, academic)
01.05.19 → 30.11.19
Project: Research
From Self-Organization to Survival Organizing: Exploring Distributed Collective Action in the Case of the Russian Anti-war Ecology
Kalinina, A. (Project manager, academic)
01.09.22 → 01.09.26
Project: Dissertation project
Futurhythmaschinen. Drum-Machines und die klanglichen Zukünfte auditiver Kultur im 20. Jahrhundert
Pelleter, M. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.12 → 30.11.18
Project: Dissertation project
Gamers' games: narratives of opposition, independence and engagement in video game culture
Ruffino, P. (Project manager, academic)
22.09.09 → 01.01.14
Project: Dissertation project
Gamer's games: Narratives of opposition, independence and engagement in video game culture
Ruffino, P. (Project manager, academic)
14.09.09 → 31.08.14
Project: Dissertation project
Gamification. Shifting Boundaries between the Ludic and the Non-Ludic
Fuchs, M. (Project manager, academic), Pias, C. (Project manager, academic), Raessens, J. (Partner) & Bogost, I. (Partner)
01.04.18 → 30.06.21
Project: Research
Gastdozentur Prof. Pettai, Uni Tartu
Pettai, V. A. (Project manager, academic) & Müller-Rommel, F. (Coordination)
01.10.08 → 01.02.11
Project: Teaching
Gastwissenschaftler/innen Aufenthalt
Kirschner, U. (Project manager, academic)
05.03.07 → 30.08.07
Project: Individual grant
Gastwissenschaftler Prof. Dr. David Sperling
Kirschner, U. (Project manager, academic)
06.06.16 → 24.06.16
Project: Research
Gaults Teletactor. Archäologie eines kontroversen Experiments
Wiechern, A.-L. (Project manager, academic)
Project: Dissertation project
Gay Radical Theory Formation as (a Constellation of) Critique
Branding, J.-H. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.22 → …
Project: Dissertation project
Glasmoden – Die naturkundlichen Objekte von Vater und Sohn Blaschka zwischen Handwerk, Wissenschaft und Kunst
Huber, F. (Project manager, academic)
22.01.19 → …
Project: Dissertation project
Globally traded Television Formats and their reception - A study on the appropriation of the Top Model-format in different cultural contexts
Stehling, M. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.09 → 30.09.18
Project: Dissertation project
Groove the City 2018
Kirchberg, V. (Project manager, academic)
Ministry of Science and Culture of the State of Lower Saxony
30.05.18 → 30.11.19
Project: Scientific event
Groove the City 2018
Kirchberg, V. (Project manager, academic), Kuchar, R. (Project staff), Barber-Kersovan, A. (Project staff) & Gaupp, L. (Project staff)
30.08.18 → 31.03.19
Project: Scientific event
Groove the City 2020
Kirchberg, V. (Project manager, academic), Kuchar, R. (Project staff), Barber-Kersovan, A. (Project staff) & Gaupp, L. (Project staff)
Ministry of Science and Culture of the State of Lower Saxony
24.01.20 → 30.06.20
Project: Scientific event