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. Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › Peer-reviewed
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    Auch Langsamkeit findet Stadt: Tourismus und Touristen in Städten

    Wöhler, K., 2011, Slow Tourism: Reisen zwischen Langsamkeit und Sinnlichkeit. Antz, C., Eisenstein, B. & Eilzer, C. (eds.). 1. ed. München: Meidenbauer Verlagsbuchhandlung, p. 175-200 26 p. (Schriftenreihe des IMT; vol. 6).

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    Aufgeklärte Mythologie: Thomas Mann und der Mythos

    Jamme, C., 2013, Mythos und Kulturtransfer: Neue Figurationen in Literatur, Kunst und modernen Medien. Krüger, B. & Stillmark, H-C. (eds.). Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, p. 143-153 11 p. (Metabasis; no. 14).

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  4. Accepted/In press

    Automatisiertes Verhalten? Regierungskünste bei Amazon

    Beverungen, A., 12.2024, (Accepted/In press) Wissensgeschichte des Verhaltens.: Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven. Toepfer, G. & Gräfe, S. (eds.). Berlin: Walter de Gruyter GmbH

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    Beating Time: Futuristische Geschichten und vergangene Zukünfte der Drum-Machine

    Pelleter, M., 2017, Good Vibrations: Eine Geschichte der elektronischen Musikinstrumente. Restle, C., Brillmaier, B. & Hardjowirogo, S-I. (eds.). Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag, p. 41-45 5 p.

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    Becoming-Environmental: Toward a Critique of Environmentality as Power-Form, World-Form, and Capital-Form

    Hörl, E., 2020, Hybrid Ecologies. Witzgall, S., Kesting, M., Muhle, M. & Nachtigall, J. (eds.). Zürich: Diaphanes Verlag, p. 197-208 12 p.

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    Bei sich sein: Szenen des Privaten in den Fotografien von Richard Billingham und Nan Goldin

    Söntgen, B., 2012, Hold it !: Zur Pose zwischen Bild und Performance. Brandl-Risi, B., Brandstetter, G. & Diekmann, S. (eds.). Berlin: Verlag Theater der Zeit, p. 96-111 16 p. (Theater der Zeit, Recherchen; no. 89).

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    Bemächtigung, Entnaturalisierung oder Renaturierung? Naturbegriffe in der Philosophie und den Kulturwissenschaften

    Hobuß, S., 07.2015, Neue Naturverhältnisse in der Gegenwartsliteratur?. Kramer, S. & Schierbaum, M. (eds.). Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag, p. 43-72 30 p. (Philologische Studien und Quellen; vol. 250).

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  9. Published

    Between Recognition and Abstraction: Early Vocational Training Films

    Hoof, F., 22.03.2018, The Image in Early Cinema: Form and Material. Curtis, S., Gunning, T., Gauthier, P. & Yumibe, J. (eds.). Indiana University Press, p. 111-119 9 p. (The Image in Early Cinema).

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    Between Risk, Beauty and the Sublime: The Visualization of Climate Change in Media Coverage during COP 15 in Copenhagen 2009

    Grittmann, E., 03.2014, Image politics of climate change: visualizations, imaginations, documentations. Schneider, B. & Noske, T. (eds.). Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, p. 127-153 27 p. ( Image; vol. 55).

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    Between the Front Lines: Vocational Training Films, Machine Guns and the Great War

    Hoof, F., 09.2018, Cinema's Military Industrial Complex. Wasson, H. & Grieveson, L. (eds.). Berkeley: University of California Press, p. 177-191 15 p.

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