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").

  1. Chapter › Research › Peer-reviewed
  2. Published

    The revolution will not be televised: Youtube auf dem Weg zum Nachrichtenmedium?

    Novy, L., 2014, Medienwandel kompakt 2011 - 2013: Netzveröffentlichungen zu Medienökonomie, Medienpolitik & Journalismus. Kappes, C., Krone, J. & Novy, L. (eds.). Wiesbaden: Springer VS, p. 233-234 2 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksChapterpeer-review

  3. Published

    The social impact of online games: The case of Germany

    Quandt, T. & Wimmer, J., 16.07.2009, Virtual social networks: mediated, massive and multiplayer sites. Panteli, N. (ed.). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 75-97 23 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksChapterpeer-review

  4. Published

    "The spirit of Europe" differential migration, labour and logistification

    Bojadžijev, M., 20.05.2021, Migration and the Contested Politics of Justice: Europe and the Global Dimension. Grappi, G. (ed.). Taylor and Francis Inc., p. 162-183 22 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksChapterpeer-review

  5. Published

    Throwing Bombs in the Consciousness of the Masses: The Red Army Faction and Its Mediality

    Balz, H., 15.01.2014, Media and Revolt: Strategies and Performances from the 1960s to the Present. Fahlenbach, K., Sivertsen, E. & Werebskjold, R. (eds.). New York: Berghahn Books, p. 267-282 16 p. (Protest, culture and society; no. 11).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksChapterpeer-review

  6. Accepted/In press

    Topologies of Judgement: Arendt, Schürmann, and Shell on the Politics of Kantian sensus communis

    Schneider, N., 2024, (Accepted/In press) Possibilities of Place in Continental Thought: Critique, Politics, Philosophy. Palmusaari, J. & Schneider, N. (eds.). Bloomsbury Academic

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksChapterpeer-review

  7. Published

    Transformation as Differentiation: The Diversity of Representation in the European Union

    Friedrich, D. & Kröger, S., 2012, The Challenge of Democratic Representation in the European Union. Friedrich, D. & Kröger, S. (eds.). 1 ed. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 259-273 15 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksChapterpeer-review

  8. Published

    Two languages, two children’s literatures: Translation in Ireland today

    O'Sullivan, E., 01.09.2020, Children's Literature in Translation: Texts and contexts. van Coillie, J. & McMartin, J. (eds.). Leuven: Leuven University Press, p. 55-70 16 p. (Translation, Interpreting and Transfer; vol. 2).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksChapterpeer-review

  9. Published

    (Urban) Sacred Places and Profane Spaces—Theological Topography in T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land

    Keidel, V., 2020, Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies: Narrating Spaces, Reading Urbanity. Kindermann, M. & Rohleder, R. (eds.). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 45-64 20 p. (Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksChapterpeer-review

  10. Published

    Walt O’Disney and the Little People: Playing to the Irish-American Diaspora

    O'Sullivan, E., 01.01.2022, On Disney: Deconstructing Images, Tropes and Narratives. Dettmar, U. & Tomkowiak, I. (eds.). Berlin, Heidelberg: J.B. Metzler, p. 115-129 15 p. (Studien zu Kinder- und Jugendliteratur und -medien; vol. 9).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksChapterpeer-review

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    Water, rivers and wetlands: Governance paradigms and principles

    Challies, E. & Newig, J., 25.03.2022, Routledge Handbook of Global Environmental Politics, Second Edition. Harris, P. G. (ed.). Taylor and Francis Inc., p. 512-525 14 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksChapterpeer-review