School of Culture and Society

Organisational unit: Faculty

Organisation profile

The School of Culture and Society continues an almost thirty-year tradition of teaching and research in cultural studies at Leuphana University of Lüneburg.  At the faculty, more than one hundred scholars from disciplines such as art history, literary studies, media studies, philosophy, sociology, geography and history teach and conduct research in a total of five institutes. The faculty currently offers three majors ("Cultural Studies," "Studium Individuale", and "Digital Media") and four minors ("Philosophy," "Digital Media / Information Technology and Culture", and "Studium Individuale") at Leuphana College and four master's degrees ("Critical Studies - Arts - Theory - History", "Media and Digital Cultures", "Culture and Organization" and "Theory and History of Modernity").

Topics

Die Wissenschaftsinitiative Kulturforschung fragt nach den historischen und kulturellen Grundlagen, Praktiken und Werten der Zivilgesellschaft im 21. Jahrhundert. Aus der Perspektive der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften verbindet die Initiative zwei anwendungsorientierte Forschungsschwerpunkte (Kunst & visuelle Kultur, Medienkultur & Kommunikation) mit einem starken Kernbereich Integrativer Kulturforschung. Beteiligt sind derzeit etwa 20 Professuren aus den Disziplinen Kunst, Medien, Philosophie, Geschichte, Literatur, Soziologie, Politik, Informatik und Geographie/Raumwissenschaft.

  1. 2019
  2. Published

    Elevator as a mediating technology of organization

    Bernard, A., 12.12.2019, Oxford Handbook of Media, Technology and Organization Studies . Beyes, T., Holt, R. & Pias, C. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 214-224 11 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearch

  3. Published

    Executive Dashboard

    Beverungen, A., 12.12.2019, The Oxford Handbook of Media, Technology, and Organization Studies. Beyes, T., Pias, C. & Holt, R. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 225-237 13 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearch

  4. Published

    La Germania sospesa, by Silvia Bolgherini and Gabriele D'Ottavio, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2019

    Vercesi, M., 12.12.2019, In: Contemporary Italian Politics . 11, 4, p. 465-467 3 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsCritical reviewsResearch

  5. Published

    Overhead Projector

    Pias, C., 12.12.2019, The Oxford Handbook of Media, Technology, and Organization Studies. Beyes, T., Pias, C. & Holt, R. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 286-300 15 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearch

  6. Published

    The Oxford Handbook on Media, Technology and Organization Studies

    Beyes, T. (ed.), Holt, R. (ed.) & Pias, C. (ed.), 12.12.2019, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 560 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesTransfer

  7. Published

    Polyphone Ästhetik. Eine kritische Situierung.

    Bempeza, S., Brunner, C., Hausladen, K., Kleesattel, I. & Sonderegger, R., 16.12.2019, Wien: Transversal Texts. 178 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearchpeer-review

  8. Published
  9. Published

    Do Populists Govern Differently? The Management of the Italian M5S-League Coalition in Comparative Perspective

    Vercesi, M., 20.12.2019, In: Perspectivas - Journal of Political Science. 21, p. 9-24 16 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  10. Published

    Battery as a mediating technology of organization

    Müggenburg, J. K., 24.12.2019, The Oxford Handbook of Media, Technology, and Organization Studies. Beyes, T., Pias, C. & Holt, R. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 26–33 8 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearch

  11. 2020
  12. Published

    Assistenz

    Müggenburg, J. K., 2020, Technikanthropologie: Handbuch für Wissenschaft und Studium. Heßler, M. & Liggieri, K. (eds.). Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, p. 411-415 5 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearch