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. Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › Peer-reviewed
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    New Perspectives on the Socialist Past: Notes on the Potential of Generational Experiences in Dialog

    Bogdanovic, A. & Gerhardt, U., 05.2015, Art in the Periphery of the Center. Behnke, C., Kastelan, C., Knoll, V. & Wuggenig, U. (eds.). Berlin: Sternberg Press, p. 198 - 208 11 p.

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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.

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    Ohne Ambition ist alle Strategie nichts

    Tils, R., 2013, Zwischen Macht und Ohnmacht: Facetten erfolgreicher Politik. Eckert, G., Novy, L. & Schwickert, D. (eds.). Wiesbaden: Springer VS, p. 173-179 7 p. (Politik als Beruf).

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    Ökologien des Machens: Zur allgemein-ökologischen Kritik der Welterzeugung bei Tim Ingold

    Hörl, E. H., 2016, +ultra. gestaltung schafft wissen. Doll, N., Bredekamp, H. & Schäffner, W. (eds.). 1 ed. Leipzig: E.A. Seemann, p. 49-58 10 p.

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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 ).

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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.

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    On the Synthesis of Social Memories

    Hui, Y., 11.2016, Memory in Motion : Archives, Technology and the Social. Blom, I., Lundemo, T. & Røssaak, E. (eds.). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, p. 307-325 19 p.

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    "Opponieren aus Einsicht und Gründen": Hermann Schweppenhäuser und die Kritische Theorie in Lüneburg

    Wessely, C., 09.2019, Im Vorraum. : Lebenswelten Kritischer Theorie um 1969. Göttel, D. & Wessely, C. (eds.). Berlin: Kulturverlag Kadmos , p. 99-112 13 p. (Kaleidogramme; vol. 181).

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    Organisation der Kraft: Kunst-Arbeit im Zeitalter der Thermodynamik

    Schnödl, G., 2013, Repräsentationen von Arbeit: Transdisziplinäre Analysen und künstlerische Produktionen. Brogi, S., Freier, C., Freier-Otten, U. & Hartosch, K. (eds.). Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, p. 101-114 14 p. (Gesellschaft der Unterschiede; vol. 11).

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    Organizing Media: Security and Entertainment

    Beyes, T., 10.2019, Organize. Beyes, T., Conrad, L. & Martin, R. (eds.). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, p. 29-62 34 p. (In Search of Media).

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