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. Published abstract in conference proceedings › Research › Peer-reviewed
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    Changing Identities of DIY based Music Venues? Clubs between Scene-Traditionalism, Assimilation and ‘Subcultural Institutionalization’

    Kuchar, R., 07.2018, Keep it Simple, Make it Fast! Gender, differences, identities and DIY cultures Book of Abstracts. Guerra, P. & Bennett, A. (eds.). Porto: Universidade Porto, p. 157-157 1 p.

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    Local scenes, urban development and the commercialization of live music: Three fields of tension for scene based performing spaces

    Kuchar, R., 07.2016, KISMIF - Keep it simple make it fast : DIY Cultures, Spaces & Places. Book of Abstracts. Bennett, A. & Guerra, P. (eds.). Universidade Porto, p. 113 1 p.

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    Music Spaces in Conflict: Local Scenes, Live-Music Industry, and the 'Urban Growth Machine' in Hamburg

    Kuchar, R., 2016, Arts and Creativity: Working on Identity and Difference: 9th Midterm Conference of the RN Sociology of the Arts, Book of Abstracts. Guerra, P. & Kagan, S. (eds.). Universidade Porto, p. 107 1 p.

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    Operational Images: Agent-Based Computer Simulation and the Epistemic Impact of Dynamic Vizualisation

    Vehlken, S., 07.2011, Proceedings IACAP 2011: The Computational Turn: Past, Presents, Futures ?. Ess, C. & Hagengruber, R. (eds.). MV Wissenschaft, p. 320-323 4 p.

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    PDC Place Germany: Participatory Design in Cities

    Hilmer, L., 19.08.2022, PDC 2022 Embracing Cosmologies: Expanding Worlds of Participatory Design - Proceedings of the 17th Participatory Design Conference: Volime 2: Exploratory Papers, Workshops, Places, Situated Actions and Doctoral Colloquium. Vlachokyriakos, V., Yee, J., Frauenberger, C., Hurtado, M. D., Hansen, N., Strohmayer, A., Van Zyl, I., Dearden, A., Talhouk, R., Gatehouse, C., Leishman, D., Agid, S., Sciannamblo, M., Taylor, J., Botero, A., Del Gaudio, C., Akama, Y., Clarke, R. & Vines, J. (eds.). New York: Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, p. 267-268 2 p. (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series; vol. 2).

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    Politischer Parallelismus in Mittel- und Osteuropa: Ergebnisse einer statistisch-vergleichenden Analyse

    Buß, B., 2011, Rückkehr zum Autoritarismus? Vormoderne, Moderne und Postmoderne im postsozialistischen Europa: Beiträge für die 19. Tagung Junger Osteuropa-Experten. Apelt, B. & Hahn, I. (eds.). 1 ed. Bremen: Forschungsstelle Osteuropa an der Universität Bremen, Vol. 115. p. 12-13 2 p. (Arbeitspapiere und Materialien; vol. 115).

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    Transculturality in Top Model: An Analysis of a Global Television Format and its Audiences in Different Cultural Contexts

    Stehling, M., 2010, Media and Communication Studies, Interventions and Intersections: The Intellectual Work of the 2010 ECREA European Media and Communication Doctoral Summer School. Carpentier, N., Tomanic Trivundza, I., Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt, P., Sundin, E., Olsson, T., Kilborn, R., Nieminen, H. & Cammaerts, B. (eds.). Tartu University Press, p. 334-335 2 p. (The researching and Teaching communicaTion series).

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    Vielfältige Partizipation oder Repräsentation von Vielfalt in der Occupy-Bewegung?

    Knappe, H., 2012, Vielfalt und Zusammenhalt: 36. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie. Pries, L. (ed.). Frankfurt am Main: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie, p. 325 1 p.

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  10. Articles for encyclopedia › Research
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    131er-Gesetzgebung

    Fischer, T., 2007, Lexikon der "Vergangenheitsbewältigung" in Deutschland: Debatten- und Diskursgeschichte des Nationalsozialismus nach 1945. Fischer, T. & Lorenz, M. N. (eds.). Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, p. 94-96 3 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksArticles for encyclopediaResearch

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    Alltag

    Beyes, T., 2010, Lexikon zur zeitgenössischen Kunst von Com & Com: [anläßlich der Ausstellung "La Realite Depasse la Fiction" im CentrePasquArt in Biel/Bienne vom 17. Januar bis 14. März 2010. Hedinger, J. M. & Gossolt, M. (eds.). Sulgen und Zürich: Niggli Verlag , p. 12-13 2 p. (Binding Selection d´Artistes; no. 31).

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