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.
SaM: Die Stadt als Möglichkeitsraum
Kirchberg, V. (Project manager, academic), Kagan, S. (Project manager, academic), Weisenfeld, U. (Project manager, academic), Stoltenberg, U. (Project manager, academic), Holz, V. (Project staff), Hauerwaas, A. (Project staff), Grigoleit, A. (Project staff) & Wedler, P. (Project staff)
Ministry of Science and Culture of the State of Lower Saxony
01.02.15 → 31.01.18
Project: Research
Die wirtschaftlich-kulturelle Bedeutung des Rohstoffs Ton für die Backsteinstadt Lüneburg
Pries, M. (Project manager, academic), Herdeg, U. (Partner) & Seidel, A. (Project staff)
01.01.10 → 26.01.16
Project: Research
Diffusing the EU Model? The European Union’s Influence on Regional Organizations
Lenz, T. (Project manager, academic)
01.01.15 → 31.12.17
Project: Research
DCRL: Digital Cultures Research Lab (2013 - 2016)
Bachmann, G. (Project manager, academic), Pias, C. (Project manager, academic), Beyes, T. (Project manager, academic), Leeker, M. (Project manager, academic), Beverungen, A. (Project staff), Bialski, P. (Project manager, academic), Kaldrack, I. (Project manager, academic), Simons, S. (Project manager, academic), Sprenger, F. (Project manager, academic), Sander, N. (Partner), Gupta, S. (Coordination) & Feigelfeld, P. (Project manager, academic)
Ministry of Science and Culture of the State of Lower Saxony
21.02.13 → 30.06.19
Project: Research
DCRL (2017 - 2022): Digital Cultures Research Lab (2017 - 2022)
Bachmann, G. (Project manager, academic), Bernard, A. (Project manager, academic), Hörl, E. (Project manager, academic), Pias, C. (Project manager, academic), Beverungen, A. (Project manager, academic), Beyes, T. (Project manager, academic) & Leeker, M. (Project staff)
Ministry of Science and Culture of the State of Lower Saxony
01.10.16 → 31.07.22
Project: Research
DigiTaL - Digital Transformation Lab for Teaching and Learning
Hörl, E. (Project manager, academic) & Webersik, J. (Project manager, academic)
German Foundation for Innovation in Higher Education
01.08.21 → 31.12.25
Project: Teaching
Digitisation of Labour: Configurations of Real and Virtual Migration
Bojadzijev, M. (Project manager, academic), Altenried, M. (Project staff) & Wallis, M. (Project staff)
01.05.18 → 30.04.21
Project: Research
Directly Elected Mayors: Impact on the Local Party System
Reiser, M. (Project manager, academic) & Bottom, K. (Project manager, academic)
01.06.13 → …
Project: Research
Dis/connectivity. Imaginaries, Media Technologies, Politics
Beyes, T. (Project manager, academic) & Stäheli, U. (Project manager, academic)
01.11.18 → 30.04.22
Project: Research
Diversität in Kreativnetzwerken als Bedingung nachhaltiger Stadtentwicklung
Kirchberg, V. (Project manager, academic) & Dollereder, L. (Project staff)
01.09.15 → 31.12.16
Project: Research
DigID: Doing Digital Identities
Scheel, S. (Project manager, academic), El-Kahil, S. (Project staff), O'Brien, O. (Project staff), Lambert, L. (Project staff) & Hargyono, S. (Project staff)
01.02.23 → 31.01.28
Project: Research
DoktorandInnen-Workshop Sektion Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft (2011)
Müller-Rommel, F. (Project manager, academic)
17.06.11 → 18.06.11
Project: Scientific event
Dourgouti Island Hotel Project
Genidogan, K. (Partner, non-academic)
01.08.15 → 31.10.16
Project: Practical Project
Duke University - Leuphana University Gender, Queer and Transgender Studies Workshop for Doctoral Candidates
Trott, B. (Project manager, academic) & Rosenberg, G. (Project manager, academic)
01.11.23 → …
Project: Teaching
Dynamik, Gründe und Folgen des postindustriellen Wertewandels: Deutschlands Werteentwicklung im internationalen Vergleich
Welzel, C. (Project manager, academic)
01.09.10 → 30.06.11
Project: Research
Ecologies, Collections, and Contested Heritage: (Un-)Natural History and Italian Colonial Ambitions in Africa
Schulz, V.-S. (Project manager, academic) & Gabriel, J. M. (Project manager, academic)
Project: Scientific event
Ehrenamt durch Qualifizierung stärken
Oeftering, T. (Project manager, academic)
01.12.16 → 31.05.17
Project: Transfer (Scientific Services)
Einfluss der Vertrauensentwicklung, unternehmerischer Wandel
Bekmeier-Feuerhahn, S. (Project manager, academic) & Eichenlaub, A. (Project staff)
01.05.09 → 30.08.11
Project: Research
Einfluss impliziter Motive auf die Weiterempfehlungsabgabe in Kulturinstitutionen - eine quantitative Studie
Bekmeier-Feuerhahn, S. (Project manager, academic) & Sikkenga, J. (Project manager, academic)
15.01.09 → 31.05.13
Project: Research
Einsatz von Architektur bei der Markenbildung von Kulturunternehmen
Bekmeier-Feuerhahn, S. (Project manager, academic) & Ober-Heilig, N. (Project manager, academic)
01.04.09 → 23.06.14
Project: Dissertation project