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.
- Teilmaßnahme 1.1 KT 12: Grundversorgung 2.0 - Internet-TV für die neue Mediengeneration- Graßmuck, V. (Project manager, academic), Beyes, T. (Project manager, academic) & Pias, C. (Project manager, academic) - Investitions- und Förderbank Niedersachsen – NBank - 19.08.09 → 31.01.16 - Project: Research 
- Hermann Bahr: Ein österreichischer Kritiker der europäischen Avantgarden- Pias, C. (Project manager, academic) - 01.02.11 → 05.02.14 - Project: Research 
- Hör.Spiel.Gut H A S S E L B U R G – Mehr als ein Museum- Bekmeier-Feuerhahn, S. (Project manager, academic), Flach, A. (Project staff) & Brinker, H. C. (Partner, non-academic) - 01.07.11 → 02.02.12 - Project: Practical Project 
- How to attract visitors with strategic, value-based experience design - A review and analysis of customer experience and visitor segmentation research for cultural organisations- Bekmeier-Feuerhahn, S. (Project manager, academic), Ober-Heilig, N. (Project manager, academic) & Sikkenga, J. (Project staff) - 01.10.11 → 31.01.13 - Project: Research 
- Teilmaßnahme 1.1 KT 11: Hybrid Publishing- Warnke, M. (Project manager, academic), Beyes, T. (Project manager, academic), Beverungen, A. (Project staff), Bunz, M. (Project manager, academic), Heise, C. (Project staff), Kuper, H.-G. (Project staff), Loebel, J.-M. (Project staff), Worthington, S. (Project staff), Hall, G. (Partner), Levin, T. (Partner), Lovink, G. (Partner), Shah, N. N. (Project staff), Amorosa, J. (Project staff), Burkhardt, M. (Project staff), Dieter, M. (Project staff), Gollner, U. (Project staff), Hui, Y. (Project staff), Kirchner, A. (Project staff), Kral, C. (Project staff), Le, M. (Project staff) & Peters, H. (Project staff) - Investitions- und Förderbank Niedersachsen – NBank - 01.05.12 → 31.03.16 - Project: Research 
- HyperImage - Bildorientierte e-Science Netzwerke- Warnke, M. (Project manager, academic), Schirmbacher, P. (Project manager, academic), Wedemeyer, C. (Project staff), Terstegge, C. (Project staff), Kuper, H.-G. (Project manager, academic) & Loebel, J.-M. (Project staff) - Federal Ministry of Education and Research - 01.06.06 → 31.05.09 - Project: Research 
- Hypothetizität. Kernkraft, Computersimulation und das ›German Manhattan Project‹- Vehlken, S. (Project manager, academic) - 01.10.14 → 20.08.20 - Project: Research 
- Identity as Deportability: On ‘Identitatsklärung’ as a Contested Practice of Control within the German-European Deportation Regime- Bescherer, K. (Project manager, academic) - 01.10.22 → … - Project: Dissertation project 
- Imaginäre Identitätsmythen der exotischen Stadt. Kulturpolitik und Musikvermittlung im postmigrantischen Prozess- Gaupp, L. (Project manager, academic) - 01.02.07 → 29.09.14 - Project: Dissertation project 
- Immediations: Art, Media, Event- Brunner, C. (Project manager, academic), Massumi, B. (Project manager, academic) & Manning, E. (Project manager, academic) - 01.06.13 → 31.12.19 - Project: Research 
- Impact of Idealism. The Legacy of Post-Kantian German Thought- Jamme (✝), C. (Project manager, academic) - 18.02.09 → 01.10.11 - Project: Research 
- In der Schwebe. Zu Tisch bei Edouard Manet- Berroth, E. (Project manager, academic) - 01.11.14 → 31.03.15 - Project: Other 
- Individuelle und systemische Belastungen im flexiblen Kapitalismus. Demokratietheoretische Implikationen einer kritischen Theorie sozialen Stresses- Schottdorf, T. (Project manager, academic) - 01.10.16 → … - Project: Dissertation project 
- Industriekultur im Leinebergland- Pries, M. (Project manager, academic) - 01.07.08 → 15.10.09 - Project: Research 
- Informationsorientierte Kommunikationsmodi im Internet.- Hölig, S. (Project manager, academic) - 01.04.07 → … - Project: Dissertation project 
- InnoPlus: Digitale Barrierefreiheit im BA Digital Media- Wiechern, A.-L. (Project manager, academic) - 01.07.22 → 31.12.23 - Project: Practical Project 
- ISTME: In Search of Transcultural Memory in Europe- Hobuß, S. (Partner) - 30.10.12 → 29.10.16 - Project: Research 
- Instrumentality meets Materiality- Großmann, R. (Project manager, academic) & Wolf, R. (Project manager, academic) - 01.09.19 → 31.10.19 - Project: Scientific event 
- IniVPol: Instrumente in der Verbraucherpolitik- Leipold, A. (Project staff) & Loer, K. (Project manager, academic) - 01.01.17 → 31.12.19 - Project: Research 
- Integration Through Trust- Sandermann, P. (Project manager, academic), Friedrichs-Liesenkötter, H. (Project manager, academic), Henkel, A. (Project manager, academic), Münch, S. (Project manager, academic), Husen, O. (Project manager, academic), Kakar, H. (Project staff), Siede, A. (Project staff), Schwenker, V. S. (Project staff), Wenzel, L. (Project staff) & Winkel, M. (Project staff) - Ministry of Science and Culture of the State of Lower Saxony - 01.02.19 → 31.05.22 - Project: Research 
- International Conference: Judgement Practices in the Artistic Field.- Marchal, S. (Project staff) & Söntgen, B. (Project manager, academic) - 29.11.17 → 01.12.17 - Project: Scientific event 
- Internationales Symposium "Narrating Culture(s) in Museums and Exhibitions"- Söntgen, B. (Project manager, academic) & Leeb, S. (Project manager, academic) - 18.01.18 → 19.01.18 - Project: Scientific event 
- Internationale Tagung "Gustave Courbet und die Narrative der modernen Malerei“- Marchal, S. (Project manager, academic) - 27.03.19 → 29.03.19 - Project: Scientific event 
- Internationale Tagung: Julius Meier-Graefe - Grenzgänger der Künste- Marchal, S. (Project manager, academic) - 05.03.15 → 07.03.15 - Project: Scientific event 
- International Research Group: The Impact of Idealism- Jamme (✝), C. (Project manager, academic) & Boyle, N. (Coordination) - 01.10.09 → 01.11.13 - Project: Research 
- ASSiST: International Summer School of Arts and Sciences for Sustainability in Social Transformation- Kagan, S. (Project manager, academic), Koefoed, O. (Partner), Savova, N. D. (Partner), Cozzolino, F. (Partner), Radhika, P. N. (Partner) & Sanguinetti, I. (Partner) - 15.08.10 → 29.08.10 - Project: Teaching 
- IP TM 1.1 KT 11: Internes Projektbudget KT 11 - Hybrid Publishing- Warnke, M. (Project manager, academic) & Beyes, T. (Project manager, academic) - Investitions- und Förderbank Niedersachsen – NBank - 01.05.12 → 31.03.16 - Project: Other 
- Intra-party Competition: District Nomination of the Candidates for the Federal Elections 2009- Reiser, M. (Project manager, academic) - 01.07.08 → … - Project: Research 
- Investigating Logistics: Lifestyles, Migration and the Common(s)- Bojadzijev, M. (Project manager, academic) - 01.09.15 → 31.12.16 - Project: Scientific event 
- Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft 2013- Pias, C. (Project manager, academic) - 03.10.13 → 03.07.14 - Project: Scientific event 
- Jahrestagung des Fachverbands Kulturmanagement: Jahrestagung Fachverband Kulturmanagement- Bekmeier-Feuerhahn, S. (Coordination), Mandel, B. (Coordination), Kirchberg, V. (Coordination) & Ober-Heilig, N. (Project staff) - 01.06.11 → 30.06.12 - Project: Scientific event 
- Jameson 2.0. Cognitive Mapping in Contemporary Art- Leeb, S. (Project manager, academic) & Nachtigall, J. (Project staff) - 01.04.20 → 31.07.24 - Project: Research 
- Jugend und Politik - ein schwieriges Verhältnis? Schüler als Jugendforscher- Friedrich, D. (Project manager, academic) & Lutter, A. (Project manager, academic) - 01.09.12 → 31.03.15 - Project: Practical Project 
- KHI-Project "Artistic Practices as Logistical Inversions"- Neugärtner, S. (Project manager, academic) - 01.10.24 → 31.03.25 - Project: Research 
- Klang (ohne) Körper I- Großmann, R. (Project manager, academic), Harenberg, M. (Project manager, academic), Weissberg, D. (Project manager, academic), Köpp, K. (Project manager, academic) & Saxer, M. (Project manager, academic) - 01.09.12 → 01.09.13 - Project: Research 
- Klimafolgenanpassung: Klimafolgenanpassung - Analyse der Entwicklung einer Klimaanpassungsstrategie für Niedersachsen- Striegnitz, M. (Project manager, academic), Saretzki, T. (Project manager, academic) & Ebermann, V. (Project staff) - Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Umwelt, Energie und Klimaschutz - 01.04.11 → 30.06.18 - Project: Research 
- Knowledge in the Arts and the Transformation of Theory- Brunner, C. (Partner), Bippus, E. (Project manager, academic) & Busch, K. (Project manager, academic) - 01.05.10 → 01.05.11 - Project: Research 
- Kommunale Wählergemeinschaften in Ost- und Westdeutschland- Reiser, M. (Coordination) & Holtmann, E. (Project manager, academic) - 15.09.04 → 31.07.12 - Project: Research 
- Kommunikative Vermittlungsstrategien des Imaginären- Herbrik, R. (Project staff) & Soeffner, H.-G. (Project manager, academic) - 15.10.06 → 15.09.09 - Project: Research 
- Konferenzmanagement und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit zur Konferenzwoche 2020- Jantzer, L. (Project manager, academic) & Prien-Ribcke, S. (Project manager, academic) - 14.10.19 → 02.02.20 - Project: Teaching 
- ANTIRA: Konflikte um Antisemitismus und Rassismus. Aktuelle Kontroversen zwischen Solidarität und Instrumentalisierung in Deutschland- Karakayali, S. (Project manager, academic) & Opratko, B. (Project manager, academic) - 01.05.25 → 31.10.25 - Project: Research 
- KOSMOS Workshop "Cataloging Logistics 1: Migration, Humanitarism, Borders"- Bojadzijev, M. (Project manager, academic) - 25.05.16 → 27.05.16 - Project: Scientific event 
- KOSMOS Workshop "Cataloging Logistics 2: Migration, Digitalisation, Forms of Life"- Bojadzijev, M. (Project manager, academic) - 16.06.16 → 17.06.16 - Project: Scientific event 
- Kulturelle Diversität als kuratorisches Konzept. Strategien und Narrative der Inszenierung und Dekonstruktion auf transkulturellen PerformingArts- und Musik-Festivals- Kirchberg, V. (Project manager, academic) & Gaupp, L. (Partner) - Ministry of Science and Culture of the State of Lower Saxony - 01.10.14 → 10.01.22 - Project: Research 
- 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 
