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

    Mit allem rechnen: Zur Philosophie der Computersimulation

    Lenhard, J., 03.2015, Berlin/Boston: Walter de Gruyter GmbH. 222 p. (Ideen & Argumente)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearch

  2. Published

    A geology of media

    Parikka, J., 01.01.2015, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 224 p. (Electronic mediations; vol. 46)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesBook

  3. Published

    Medium, messenger, transmission: an approach to media philosophy

    Krämer, S., 20.03.2015, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. 270 p. (Recursions : theories of media, materiality, and cultural techniques)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearchpeer-review

  4. Published

    Ada Lovelace: die Pionierin der Computertechnik und ihre Nachfolgerinnen

    Krämer, S. (ed.), 2015, 1 ed. Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink Verlag. 221 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

  5. Published

    Zum Lachen in den Keller: Die Heimbar als Heterotopie

    Vehlken, S., 2015, In: Figurationen. Gender, Literatur, Kultur. 16, 2, p. 45-61 17 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  6. Published

    Der Sinn der Lehre: Ethnographie, Affekt, sensemaking

    Beyes, T. & Steyaert, C., 2015, Vom Sinn der Soziologie: Festschrift für Thomas S. Eberle . Maeder, C., Brosziewski, A. & Nentwich, J. (eds.). Wiesbaden: Springer, p. 197-211 15 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearchpeer-review

  7. Published

    A preliminary study on similarity-preserving digital book identifiers

    Vladimir, K., Silic, M., Romic, N., Delac, G. & Srbljic, S., 2015, Proceedings of the 9th SIGHUM Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities: LaTeCH 2015. Zervanou, K. A., van Erp, M. & Alex, B. (eds.). Beijing: Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), p. 78-83 6 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksArticle in conference proceedingsResearchpeer-review

  8. Published

    Fictions of the Possible: Art, the City and Public Entrepreneurship

    Beyes, T., 27.10.2015, In: Journal of Management Inquiry. 24, 4, p. 445-449 5 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  9. Published

    'Summoning art to save the city': A Note: 'Saving' the city: Collective low-budget organizing and urban practice

    Beyes, T., 2015, In: Journal of Management Inquiry. 15, 1, p. 207-220 13 p., 15.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  10. Published

    Diversity of Play

    Fuchs, M. (ed.), 01.06.2015, Lüneburg: meson press. 111 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch