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.
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 → 01.09.17
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 algorithmic co-constitution of dis/ability
Rönsch, A.-M. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.25 → …
Project: Dissertation project
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 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 → 31.12.26
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
Think Dress! Fashion as Art
Förster-Beuthan, Y. (Project manager, academic)
01.03.14 → …
Project: Research
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
Treueschwur und Realitätsverlust. Phasen und Dispositive auditiver Medienkultur
Großmann, R. (Project manager, academic) & Pelleter, M. (Project manager, academic)
19.02.15 → 20.02.15
Project: Scientific event
TrICo Subprojekt - Community Art and Culture
Beyes, T. (Project manager, academic), Cnossen, B. (Project manager, academic), Kuchar, R. (Project staff), Bartusch, L. (Project manager, academic), Schellmann, M. (Project staff) & Börner, S. (Project staff)
01.04.23 → 31.12.27
Project: Transfer (R&D project)
Unfinished Business: Zum Stand der industriepolitischen Interventionen in der Halbleiter- und Batterie(zell)produktion
Karakayali, S. (Project manager, academic) & Bouali, C. (Project staff)
01.08.25 → 31.01.26
Project: Research
(Un)Mapping Infrastructures: Transnational Perspectives in Modern and Contemporary Art
Dogramaci, B. (Partner), Esner, R. (Partner), Küster, B. (Partner), Langfeld, G. M. (Partner), Lerm-Hayes, C.-M. (Partner), Rother, L. (Partner), Ruckdeschel, A. (Partner), Smolińska, M. (Partner) & Ströbele, U. (Partner)
01.01.19 → 31.12.25
Project: Research
Until Covid-19 do us apart. Music Scenes in Lockdown
Kuchar, R. (Project staff), Barber-Kersovan, A. (Project staff) & Kirchberg, V. (Project staff)
01.03.21 → 01.03.22
Project: Research
Urbane Kreativitätsimpulse durch 2-3 Straßen?
Kirchberg, V. (Project manager, academic), Behnke, C. (Project staff), Grigoleit, A. (Project staff), Hahn, J. (Project staff), Körs, A. (Project staff) & Nerlich, M. R. (Project staff)
14.09.10 → 31.05.11
Project: Research