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.
Einwanderungsland Europa - Wie begegnet Lüneburg der Welt?
Prien-Ribcke, S. (Project manager, academic) & Müller, A. (Partner)
01.10.15 → 31.07.17
Project: Scientific event
Einzelhandelsstrukturen in Soltau und seinem Umfeld
Pez, P. (Project manager, academic)
14.11.07 → 31.08.09
Project: Transfer (R&D project)
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