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.
Project Quality Audit
Rau, A. (Project manager, academic), Preuschl, C. (Project manager, academic) & Heuser, G. (Project manager, academic)
Federal Ministry of Education and Research
01.10.11 → 30.09.16
Project: Teaching
PriMus: Promovieren im Museum
Söntgen, B. (Project manager, academic), Leeb, S. (Project manager, academic) & Klinkenbusch, I. (Project staff)
Federal Ministry of Education and Research
01.01.17 → 01.09.20
Project: Research
PAESE 3.0: Provenance and Collection Research Digital - Subproject: PAESE 3.0
Rother, L. (Project manager, academic), Andratschke, C. (Partner) & Köhler, R. (Project staff)
01.11.24 → 31.10.28
Project: Research
Putting the figure on the map: Imagining sameness and difference for children. Conference, Princeton University, 11. -13.09.2013
O'Sullivan, E. (Project manager, academic) & Immel, A. (Partner)
01.09.12 → 31.12.13
Project: Scientific event
Queer Cities: Cruising, Spaces and Encounters
Daibert , R. (Project manager, academic)
04.04.23 → 07.07.23
Project: Teaching
Radius of Art: Creative politicization of the public sphere - Cultural potential forces for social transformation
Gad, D. (Coordination), Löschmann, H. (Coordination), Kagan, S. (Partner), Müffelmann, A. (Coordination), Eckstein, K. (Coordination), Merkel, C. M. (Partner), Jarchow, U. (Partner), Thoss, M. M. (Partner), Classen, R. (Partner), aus dem Moore, E. (Partner), Winkler, S. (Partner), Müller, E. (Partner) & Ernst, R. (Partner)
06.06.11 → 09.02.12
Project: Scientific event
RVF 3.0: Radverkehrsförderung 3.0 - barrierefrei, netztransparent, digital
Pez, P. (Project manager, academic) & Seidel, A. (Project staff)
15.10.20 → 31.12.24
Project: Research
Reale Utopien - Ursachen und Wirkungen
Kirchberg, V. (Project manager, academic) & Blieffert, S. (Project manager, academic)
15.05.22 → 31.08.23
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
Regierungssysteme in Mittel- und Osteuropa: Die neuen EU-Staaten im Vergleich.
Müller-Rommel, F. (Project manager, academic) & Grotz, F. (Project manager, academic)
01.01.08 → 31.08.10
Project: Research
Regionalism and its Causes in sub-Saharan Africa
Elischer, S. (Project manager, academic)
01.06.14 → …
Project: Research
FWF-Projekt (P20421): Regulierungswissen und Möglichkeitssinn 1914-1933
Pias, C. (Partner)
01.06.08 → 01.06.10
Project: Research
Reisegeschwindigkeitsprofile in deutschen Städten im Zuge der Innovation Pedelec
Pez, P. (Project manager, academic)
02.04.12 → 31.12.13
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
Repräsentationsvorstellungen von Abgeordneten
Reiser, M. (Project manager, academic)
01.06.15 → …
Project: Research
Representation in the European Union
Friedrich, D. (Project manager, academic) & Kröger, S. (Partner)
28.11.09 → 15.01.13
Project: Research
Repression, Mobilization, and Civil Society
Welzel, C. (Project manager, academic), Inglehart, R. C. (Partner) & Deutsch, F. (Partner)
01.01.12 → 31.12.16
Project: Research
LoMAR: Reproductive Loss and Bereavement in Medically Assisted Reproduction
Böcker, J. (Project manager, academic) & Jakoby, N. (Coordination)
01.04.23 → 30.06.24
Project: Research
republicart: republicart
Wuggenig, U. (Project manager, academic) & Stoller, D. (Project staff)
30.04.02 → 30.03.05
Project: Research
Re-thinking Solidarity and Care Infrastructures in Belarusian Protest Art 2020–2021
Davydzik, V. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.22 → …
Project: Dissertation project
Rück(ver)bindung mit dem (im)materiellen Kulturgut aus der Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta
Felicitas Sabel, L. (Project manager, academic)
15.01.25 → 15.02.25
Project: Practical Project
Schlüsselbegriffe der Kunstgeschichte und visuellen Kultur
Sieber, J. (Project manager, academic)
05.04.18 → 06.07.18
Project: Teaching
Scholarship for a visiting scientist via Wissenschaft.Niedersachsen.Weltoffen
Münch, S. (Project manager, academic)
Ministry of Science and Culture of the State of Lower Saxony
01.02.18 → 31.01.21
Project: Research
Schottland-Inititave des MWK
Bialski, P. (Project manager, academic)
Ministry of Science and Culture of the State of Lower Saxony
22.11.19 → 31.12.19
Project: Other
Schwärme. Medienkulturen der Intransparenz
Vehlken, S. (Project manager, academic)
01.01.05 → 30.11.10
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
Sculpture in the Augmented Field (working title)
Kölmel, M.-J. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.15 → …
Project: Dissertation project
Selbstorganisation: Diskurse, Praktiken, Technologien
Conrad, L. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.18 → …
Project: Research
SFB 1512 "Intervening Arts": Artistic Way of Life as Intervention (A06)
Söntgen, B. (Project manager, academic), Woisnitza, M. (Project staff) & Kipke, A. (Project staff)
01.01.22 → 31.12.25
Project: Research
Sicherheit für wen? Bedeutungen und Praktiken von Sicherheit aus geflüchteter und polizeilicher Sicht
Jantzer, L. (Project manager, academic)
01.01.21 → …
Project: Dissertation project
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
Significant: Details Conversations with Women in Science
Fuchs, M. (Project manager, academic), Gupta, S. (Coordination) & Hoppenhaus, K. (Project staff)
01.01.13 → 30.06.13
Project: Transfer (R&D project)
SES²: Smart Emergency Supply System: Intelligente Notstromversorgungssysteme unter Einbeziehung regenerativer Energien - Teilvorhaben: Soziologische Begleitforschung zum Smart Emergency Supply System
Burkart, G. (Project manager, academic), Müller, T. (Project staff), Maischatz, K. (Project staff), Ortjohann, E. (Coordination), Siekhaus, K.-H. (Project manager, academic), Blümel, A. (Project manager, academic) & Richter, A. (Project manager, academic)
Federal Ministry of Education and Research
01.08.09 → 31.07.13
Project: Research
Smartness as Wealth
Beverungen, A. (Project manager, academic), Halpern, O. (Project manager, academic), Steinberg, M. (Project manager, academic), Nag, A. (Project manager, academic) & Cirolia, L. R. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.23 → 30.09.27
Project: Research
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
Social Protest in Africa's Hybrid Regimes
Elischer, S. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.14 → 30.09.17
Project: Dissertation project
Socio-Economic Inequality and Its Effect on Liberal Democratic Culture across the World
Schmitz, A.-E. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.17 → 30.09.22
Project: Dissertation project
Sociology of Sustainability
Henkel, A. (Project manager, academic), Lindemann, G. (Project manager, academic), Lüdtke, N. (Project staff), Neckel, S. (Project manager, academic), Kaldewey, D. (Project manager, academic), Block, K. (Project manager, academic), Barth, T. (Project manager, academic), Besio, C. (Project manager, academic), Böschen, S. (Project manager, academic), Dickel, S. (Project manager, academic), Rödder, S. (Project manager, academic), Schloßberger, M. (Project manager, academic) & Wendt, B. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.16 → 30.09.19
Project: Research
Sonic-Pi-Workshop: "Live-Coding" mit SP-Entwickler Sam Aaron
Großmann, R. (Project manager, academic) & Aaron, S. (Partner, non-academic)
22.05.18 → 22.05.18
Project: Scientific event
LegRO: Sources and Consequences of Legitimation Strategies of Regional Organizations
Lenz, T. (Project manager, academic)
01.06.18 → 30.06.24
Project: Research
Souver@nes digitales Lehren und Lernen
Hörl, E. (Project manager, academic) & Webersik, J. (Project manager, academic)
German Foundation for Innovation in Higher Education
01.08.21 → 31.07.24
Project: Teaching
Soziale Gerechtigkeit und Anerkennung in der medialen Klimakommunikation aus kosmopolitischer Perspektive
Grittmann, E. (Project manager, academic)
01.05.13 → …
Project: Research
Soziale Netzwerkanalyse von Kunst und Kultur in der Region Lüneburg
Kirchberg, V. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.08 → 25.05.13
Project: Research
Spitzenfrauen im Fokus der Medien - die mediale Repräsentation von weiblichen und männlichen Führungskräften in Politik, Wirtschaft und Wissenschaft. Teilprojekt 2: Rezeption, quantitative Textanalyse, Bildanalyse
Röser, J. (Project manager, academic), Müller, K. (Project staff), Lünenborg, M. (Project manager, academic), Maier, T. (Project staff) & Grittmann, E. (Project manager, academic)
Federal Ministry of Education and Research
01.04.08 → 17.03.11
Project: Research
SaM: Stadt als Möglichkeitsraum
Kirchberg, V. (Project manager, academic), Stoltenberg, U. (Project manager, academic), Weisenfeld, U. (Project manager, academic), Kagan, S. (Project manager, academic), Holz, V. (Project staff) & Hauerwaas, A. (Project staff)
Ministry of Science and Culture of the State of Lower Saxony
01.02.15 → 31.01.19
Project: Research
Städte des Willkommens, der Zuflucht und der Solidarität: Wie auf der kommunalen Ebene globale Verantwortung übernommen wird
Jantzer, L. (Project manager, academic)
12.10.20 → 31.01.21
Project: Teaching
"Stalingrad": Krieg und Medienkultur am Beispiel des Zweiten Weltkriegs - Beziehungen, Formen, Funktionen
Faulstich, W. (Project manager, academic)
01.01.09 → 31.12.11
Project: Teaching
Stanford-Leuphana Summer Academy
Beyes, T. (Project manager, academic) & Pias, C. (Project manager, academic)
24.06.19 → …
Project: Research
Stanford-Leuphana Summer Academy 2022-2024 (Fritz Thyssen Stiftung)
Beyes, T. (Project manager, academic) & Pias, C. (Project manager, academic)
01.01.22 → 21.06.24
Project: Scientific event
Strategic policy making in research and innovation policy (working titel)
Hufnagl, M. (Project manager, academic)
10.10.11 → 01.04.15
Project: Dissertation project
Strategiebildung in der subnationalen Klimaanpassungspolitik (Arbeitstitel)
Ebermann, V. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.11 → 30.09.14
Project: Dissertation project
Strategische Steuerung in Party-Government-Systemen
Tils, R. (Project staff), Müller-Rommel, F. (Project manager, academic) & Saretzki, T. (Project manager, academic)
01.04.06 → 30.09.10
Project: Research
Strategische Steuerung in Party-Government-Systemen (II)
Tils, R. (Project staff), Müller-Rommel, F. (Project manager, academic) & Saretzki, T. (Project manager, academic)
01.04.08 → 23.11.11
Project: Research
Strukturen und Kontexte rechtskonformen Polizeihandelns Eine qualitative Untersuchung zur Rechtsbindung am Beispiel des Streifendienstes der Polizei Niedersachsen
Kretschmann, A. (Project manager, academic)
15.11.21 → 15.07.22
Project: Research
Studienergänzung Public Relations 5
Bekmeier-Feuerhahn, S. (Project manager, academic) & Adam, U. (Project staff)
01.03.12 → 31.07.13
Project: Transfer (professional training)
Subnationale Demokratiemuster in Asien und Lateinamerika
Böttcher, F. (Project manager, academic)
01.02.12 → …
Project: Dissertation project
Summer School: Activist Sense and Urban Ecologies of Care
Brunner, C. (Project manager, academic)
01.01.18 → 31.12.19
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
Sustainable Creative Cities: The role of the arts in globalized urban context
Kagan, S. (Project manager, academic), Sasaki, M. (Project manager, academic) & Verstraete, K. (Partner, non-academic)
05.07.10 → 08.02.11
Project: Research
Symposion: Soziale Medien - Neue Massen?
Pias, C. (Project manager, academic)
01.09.11 → 03.02.15
Project: Scientific event
Tagungsreihe "Der Einfluss des Idealismus. Das Vermächtnis des nachkantianischen deutschen Denkens in Ästhetik, Literatur und Literaturtheorie"
Jamme, C. (Project manager, academic)
01.09.10 → 15.11.12
Project: Scientific event
“Teaching the Crisis. Geographies, Methodologies, Perspectives”, International Summer School
Bojadzijev, M. (Project manager, academic)
01.09.13 → 15.09.13
Project: Scientific event
Technoecologies of Participation: New Perspectives from Media Philosophy and Anthropology
Hörl, E. (Project manager, academic)
01.08.15 → 31.08.18
Project: Research
DigiTaL: Teilprojekt „Skills for a Digital Future“ im Projekt "Leuphana: Digital Transformation Lab for Teaching and Learning" (DigiTaL)
Köllner, G. (Project staff), Hörl, E. (Project manager, academic) & Webersik, J. (Project manager, academic)
01.08.21 → 31.07.24
Project: Teaching
The Authenticity of the Event: On the Testimony of Web Videos
Simons, S. (Project manager, academic)
01.11.09 → 12.10.17
Project: Dissertation project
The Authority of International Organizations and Institutional Overlap
Lenz, T. (Project manager, academic) & Haftel, Y. Z. (Project manager, academic)
Ministry of Science and Culture of the State of Lower Saxony
01.03.20 → 28.02.23
Project: Research
SaM: The City as Space of Possibility (subproject)
Kagan, S. (Project manager, academic)
Ministry of Science and Culture of the State of Lower Saxony
01.02.15 → 30.04.19
Project: Research
The construction of national identity in ABC books and picturebooks from the 19th century to the present
O'Sullivan, E. (Project manager, academic), Immel, A. (Partner), Lathey, G. (Partner), Morgado, M. (Partner), Rutschmann, V. (Partner) & Renonciat, A. (Partner)
04.12.09 → …
Project: Research
The Contagion Effect of New Populist Actors on Mainstream Parties' Communication
Schwörer, J. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.17 → …
Project: Research
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
The Determinants of Political Corruption in Comparative Perspective
Kubbe, I. (Project manager, academic)
01.04.10 → 09.12.14
Project: Dissertation project
The Domestication of the Internet. Reconstruction of Domestic Appropriation Processes of a New Medium (1997-2007)
Röser, J. (Project manager, academic) & Peil, C. (Project staff)
01.03.08 → 30.04.11
Project: Research
The Ecotechnical Community: Hospitality and the Organisation of Locality
Stewart, D. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.22 → …
Project: Dissertation project
LIR: The exhibition Les Immatériaux: Interdisciplinarity, Epistemology, Curatorial Subjects
Broeckmann, A. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.21 → 30.09.24
Project: Research
The Gender-Governance Link: Gender equality and public goods provision
Welzel, C. (Project manager, academic), Alexander, A. (Partner) & Klasen, S. (Partner)
Ministry of Science and Culture of the State of Lower Saxony
01.02.15 → 31.07.18
Project: Research
The Image of Politics and Politicians
Oeftering, T. (Project manager, academic), Kuhn, H.-W. (Project manager, academic) & Gloe, M. (Project manager, academic)
05.03.08 → 17.03.10
Project: Scientific event
The Logistical Museum – Circulation and Connectivity in Contemporary Museum Practice
Ruhkopf, M. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.22 → …
Project: Dissertation project
The Mediatized Home: Changes of Domestic Communication Cultures
Röser, J. (Project manager, academic) & Peil, C. (Project staff)
01.11.10 → 28.09.12
Project: Research
The Political Careers of Prime Ministers in Europe, 1945-2019
Müller-Rommel, F. (Project manager, academic) & Vercesi, M. (Project manager, academic)
01.05.17 → 31.12.20
Project: Research
TSoSS: The Sound of Sound Studies. Was bewegt Klangforschung und Soundkultur?
Großmann, R. (Project manager, academic) & Pelleter, M. (Project staff)
04.03.21 → 06.03.21
Project: Scientific event
“The Word for World is Forest”: Art and Human Ecological Restoration
Daibert , R. (Project manager, academic)
17.10.23 → 01.02.24
Project: Teaching
Chronotope: Time has come today. Special time patterns of pop-musical chronotopes and their impact on the temporal differentiation of life worlds since the 1960s
Schrage, D. (Project manager, academic), Respondek, L. (Project staff) & Schwetter, H. (Project staff)
01.03.14 → 20.10.15
Project: Research
Timing of Affect
Angerer, M.-L. (Project manager, academic), Großmann, R. (Project manager, academic), Ott, M. (Project manager, academic) & Trogemann, G. (Partner)
05.07.12 → 01.06.13
Project: Research
Tischszenen: Der Tisch als Versammlungsort, Denkraum und Instrument der Ordnung.
Berroth, E. (Project manager, academic)
01.04.15 → …
Project: Dissertation project
Tourismusregionen als lernende Regionen: Organisation und Kooperation für wissensintensive Dienstleistungen im Tourismus
Wöhler, K. (Project manager, academic) & Saretzki, A. (Project manager, academic)
01.09.00 → 28.02.01
Project: Transfer (R&D project)
Touristische Potenziale der Samtgemeinde Horneburg
Pries, M. (Project manager, academic)
10.03.12 → 11.07.12
Project: Research
Transform: Transform
Wuggenig, U. (Project manager, academic) & Steinbrügge, B. (Project staff)
01.10.05 → 06.04.09
Project: Research
TKG: Transformation - Kultur - Geschlecht
Hobuß, S. (Project manager, academic)
01.01.16 → 27.06.19
Project: Research
Transkulturalität der europäischen Literatur. Zwischen islamischer Aufklärung und jüdischem Exil (DFG Heisenbergförderung)
Meyzaud, M. (Project manager, academic)
01.01.25 → 31.12.27
Project: Research
Translate: Translate
Wuggenig, U. (Project manager, academic) & Steinbrügge, B. (Project staff)
01.10.05 → 06.04.09
Project: Research
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)
Transmoderne Formationen – Die Gruppe H2SO4 in Georgien der 1920er
Tchelidze, K. (Project manager, academic)
Project: Dissertation project