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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    On the Existence of Digital Objects

    Hui, Y., 29.02.2016, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 314 p. (Electronic Mediations; no. 4)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesBook

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    On the Epistemology of Computer Simulation

    Pias, C., 2011, In: Zeitschrift für Medien- und Kulturforschung. 2, 1, p. 29-54 26 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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    On the Difficulty of Forgetting: Recollections of the Basel Symposium on Chantal Akerman

    Kuhn, E. & Holl, U., 01.05.2019, In: Camera Obscura. 34, 1, p. 163-183 21 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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    On Repetition and Endurance

    Sieber, J., 2019, Eva Funk: HELP ME TO BE A SPOON. Berlin: Goldrausch Frauennetzwerk Berlin e.V., 16 p. (Goldrausch Künstlerinnen Projekt).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksOtherTransfer

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    On “Nationology”: The Gravitational Field of National Culture

    Akaliyski, P., Welzel, C., Bond, M. H. & Minkov, M., 10.2021, In: Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. 52, 8-9, p. 771-793 23 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsScientific review articlesResearch

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    Online-Verstrickungen: Immanenzen und Ambivalenzen

    Spreen, D. (ed.), 1997, 1 ed. Berlin: Ästhetik & Kommunikation e.V. 125 p. (Ästhetik & Kommunikation; vol. 26, no. 96)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesSpecial Journal issueResearch

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    Online to offline social networking: contextualising sociality today through Couchsurfing.org

    Bialski, P., 2013, Couchsurfing cosmopolitanisms: Can tourism make a better world?. Picard, D. & Buchberger, S. (eds.). Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, p. 161-172 11 p.

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

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    Online-Spieler in Deutschland 2007: Befunde einer repräsentativen Befragungsstudie

    Quandt, T. & Wimmer, J., 2009, Die Computerspieler: Studien zur Nutzung von Computer- und Videogames. Quandt, T., Wimmer, J. & Wolling, J. (eds.). 2 ed. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, p. 169-192 24 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearch

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    On Knowing Too Much: Technologists´Discourses Around Online Anonymity

    Bialski, P., 2018, Non-Knowledge and Digital Cultures . Bernard, A., Koch, M. & Leeker, M. (eds.). Lüneburg: meson press, p. 143-157 15 p. (Digital Culture Series ).

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