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.
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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