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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    Front, Field, Line, Plane: Researching the Militant Image

    Wuggenig, U. (ed.), Loichinger, H. C. (ed.), Kastelan, C., Derksen, J., Milevska, S., Bitter, S. & Weber, H., 06.2016, Hamburg: adocs. 120 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesExhibition cataloguesResearch

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    'From the tobacco road of Cuba' - Alula Records ALU 1011

    Schormann, C., 01.2005, In: Ethnomusicology. 49, 1, p. 169-171 3 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsCritical reviewsResearch

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    From the Precariat to the Multitude

    Trott, B., 2015, Precariat: Labour, Work and Politics. Johnson, M. (ed.). London: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, p. 22-45 24 p.

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

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    From the precariat to the multitude

    Trott, B., 12.2013, In: Global Discourse: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Current Affairs and Applied Contemporary Thought. 3, 3-4, p. 406-425 20 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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    From the particular to the universal (and back again?): Irish children's literature in Germany

    O'Sullivan, E., 2014, Ireland and the Irish in Germany – Reception and Perception. O’Reilly, C. & O’Regan, V. (eds.). Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, p. 103-124 22 p.

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

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    From the open road to the high seas? Piracy, damnation and resistance in academic consumption of publishing

    Beverungen, A., Böhm, S. & Land, C., 09.2013, In: Prometheus: Critical Studies in Innovation. 31, 3, p. 241-247 7 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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    From the Love of Art to a Passion for Investment? Shifts and Classification Struggles around the Global Elite of Art Collectors

    Wuggenig, U. & Buchholz, L., 2023, Judgement Practices in the Artistic Field. Söntgen, B., Heymer, E., Locher, H., Marchal, S. & Sachs-Resch, M. (eds.). München: edition metzel, p. 392-412 21 p. (Praktiken der Kritik; vol. 3).

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

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    From the Household of the Soul to the Economy of Money: What Are Sixteenth-Century Merchants Doing in the Virgin Mary's Interior?

    Kuhn, H., 2015, Interiors and Interiority. Lajer-Burcharth, E. & Söntgen, B. (eds.). Berlin: Walter de Gruyter GmbH, p. 229-246 18 p.

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

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    From the ''end of art'' to historical accountability + Aesthetic ethic, philosophy, Germany

    Heidbrink, L., 1997, In: Deutsche Zeitschrift fur Philosophie. 45, 5, p. 745-757 13 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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    From Social Data to Body Data to Psy Data: Tap, Tap, Tap

    Leistert, O., 2020, Affective Transformations : Politics-Algorithms-Media. Bösel, B. & Wiemer, S. (eds.). Lüneburg: meson press, p. 73-85 12 p.

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