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

    Thinking and Diagrams - An Introduction

    Krämer, S. & Ljungberg, C., 11.07.2016, Thinking with Diagrams : The Semiotic Basis of Human Cognition. Krämer, S. & Ljungberg, C. (eds.). Boston: Walter de Gruyter GmbH, p. 1-19 19 p. (Semiotics, communication and cognition; vol. 17).

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    Thinking Against Nature: Nature, Ideation, and Realism between Lovecraft and Shelling

    Woodard, B., 01.01.2022, In: Logos (Russian Federation). 32, 2, p. 43-64 22 p.

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    Thinking about "scenes": a new view of visitors' influence on museums

    Kirchberg, V., 01.04.2007, In: Curator. 50, 2, p. 239-254 16 p.

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    Thilo H. G. Westermann, Die Rezeption der Pan-Mythen in der bildenden Kunst zwischen Klassizismus und Moderne

    Koss, M., 24.07.2020, In: Jahrbuch der Raabe-Gesellschaft. 60, 1, p. 233-238 6 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsCritical reviewsResearch

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    “They Are Stumbling Around Quite Helplessly”: How Supporters of Refugee Families Frame Vulnerability and Agency Relating to Childcare

    Siede, A., 2021, Power in Vulnerability: a multi-dimensional review of migrants’ vulnerabilities. Fromm, N., Jünemann, A. & Safouane, H. (eds.). Wiesbaden: Springer VS, p. 199-227 29 p. (Studien zur Migrations- und Integrationspolitik).

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    ’... the world was becomming numerical.’: Informationsgrafik und Kunst in Dierk Schmidts ‚Die Teilung der Erde’

    Leeb, S. A., 2010, Dierk Schmidt. The Division of the Earth: Tableaux on the Legal Synopses of the Berlin Africa Conference. 1 ed. Köln: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, p. 112-121 10 p.

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

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    The wonderfully organized and mediated endurance of ephemera

    Beverungen, A., 12.2021, In: Ephemera: Theory & Politics in Organization. 21, 4, p. 289-306 18 p.

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    The 'West' versus 'the Rest'? Festival Curators as Gatekeepers for Sociocultural Diversity

    Gaupp, L., 2020, Managing Culture: Reflecting on exchange in global times. Durrer, V. & Henze, R. (eds.). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 127-153 27 p. (Sociology of the Arts).

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

  9. Published

    The well- and unwell-being of a child

    Schües, C. & Rehmann-Sutter, C., 10.2013, In: Topoi. An International Review of Philosophy. 32, 2, p. 197-205 9 p.

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    The Weird and the Eerie

    Woodard, B. G., 2017, In: Textual Practice. 31, 6, p. 1181-1183 3 p.

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