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.

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    Kleiner Versuch über das Selfie und sein Subjekt

    von Xylander, C., 12.2022, In: Argument. 63, 4, p. 569-572 4 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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    Imagination and imaginaries of sustainability in cultural and artistic practices

    Kagan, S., 05.08.2022, Culture and Sustainable Development in the City: Urban Spaces of Possibilities. Kagan, S. (ed.). Taylor and Francis Inc., p. 24-48 25 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksChapterpeer-review

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    Entrepreneurship in conventions, place-making, and spaces of creativity

    Kagan, S., 05.08.2022, Culture and Sustainable Development in the City: Urban Spaces of Possibilities. Kagan, S. (ed.). Taylor and Francis Inc., p. 65-88 24 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksChapter

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    Culture and sustainable development in the city: Urban spaces of possibilities

    Kagan, S. (ed.), 05.08.2022, Taylor and Francis Inc. 268 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesBook

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    Spaces for challenging experiences, indeterminacy, and experimentation

    Kagan, S., 05.08.2022, Culture and Sustainable Development in the City: Urban Spaces of Possibilities. Kagan, S. (ed.). Taylor and Francis Inc., p. 99-114 16 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksChapter

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    Chicago's embedded artist as double agent: An interview with Frances Whitehead

    Whitehead, F. & Kagan, S., 05.08.2022, Culture and Sustainable Development in the City: Urban Spaces of Possibilities. Kagan, S. (ed.). Taylor and Francis Inc., p. 89-98 10 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksChapterpeer-review

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    Genealogia e critica della soggettività neoliberale

    Nigro, R., 12.09.2022, In: Studia Philosophica: Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Philosophie. 2022, 81, p. 101-113 13 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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    Noticing Colour: Shades of a Chromatic Empiricism

    Beyes, T., 22.09.2022, Doing Process Research in Organizations: Noticing Differently. Simpson, B. & Revsbæk, L. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 127-152 26 p.

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

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    »Was wäre, wenn?« Zum Nutzen kontrafaktischer Analyse in der (historischen) Soziologie am Beispiel 1989

    Böcker, J. & Leistner, A., 04.10.2022, Verstehen als Zugang zur Welt: Soziologische Perspektiven . Karstein, U., Burchart, M. & Schmidt-Lux, T. (eds.). Campus Verlag, p. 277-298 22 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksChapter

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    4/ Queering Death in the Medical and Health Humanities

    Böcker, J., Kirey-Sitnikova, Y., Werner, A., Tzouva, P. & Clay, S., 30.06.2021, In: Whatever. 4, p. 653–682 30 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearch