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. Article in conference proceedings › Research › Peer-reviewed
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    Aesthetic Design of Masonry Arch Bridges

    Ohler, A. & Kirschner, U., 2010, Proceedings of the Eight International Masonry Conference 2010. Jäger, W., Haseltine, B. & Fried, A. (eds.). The Masonry Society, p. 383-392 9 p. (Masonry : Proceedings of the British Masonry Society; vol. 11).

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    A Hermeneutic Interpretation of Concepts in a Cooperative Multicultural Working Project

    Kirschner, U., 01.11.2017, SIGraDi 2017: XXI Congreso de la Sociedad Ibero-americana de Gráfica Digital. Ibaceta, M. R. (ed.). Blucher, p. 610-615 6 p. (Blucher Design Proceedings; vol. 3, no. 12).

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    Albert Renger-Patzsch und sein Bildband Das Münster in Essen: der Meister des Einzelbildes widmet sich einem architektonischen Komplex

    Kemp, W. K., 2016, Architektur Fotografie : Darstellung - Verwendung - Gestaltung . Locher, H. & Sachsse, R. (eds.). Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag, Vol. 3. p. 56-71 15 p. (Transformationen des Visuellen ; vol. 3).

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    A preliminary study on similarity-preserving digital book identifiers

    Vladimir, K., Silic, M., Romic, N., Delac, G. & Srbljic, S., 2015, Proceedings of the 9th SIGHUM Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities: LaTeCH 2015. Zervanou, K. A., van Erp, M. & Alex, B. (eds.). Beijing: Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), p. 78-83 6 p.

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    Aspekte der Kultur- und Bildungspolitik in institutionellen transkulturellen Kontexten

    Gaupp, L., 2012, Transkulturelle Musikvermittlung: Möglichkeiten und Herausforderungen in Forschung, Kulturpolitik und musikpädagogischer Praxis. Binas-Preisendörfer, S. & Unseld, M. (eds.). Peter Lang Verlag, p. 153-170 18 p. (Musik und Gesellschaft; vol. 33).

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    Behind the Scenes of Automation: Ghostly Care-Work, Maintenance, and Interferences: Exploring participatory practices and methods to uncover the ghostly presence of humans and human labor in automation

    Boeva, Y., Berger, A., Bischof, A., Doggett, O., Heuer, H., Jarke, J., Treusch, P., Søraa, R. A., Tacheva, Z. & Voigt, M. L., 19.04.2023, CHI 2023 - Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Schmidt, A., Väänänen, K., Goyal, T., Kristensson, P. O. & Peters, A. (eds.). Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, p. 1-5 5 p. 332. (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings).

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    Between Art and Promotion: Digital Self-Representation on Artists’ Instagram Profiles

    Fölsche, L. & Jürgens, A., 2017, 6th Annual International Conference on Journalism & Mass Communications. Allen, L. (ed.). Singapur: Global Science and Technology Forum, p. 146-150 5 p. (Annual International Conference on Journalism & Mass Communications; vol. 6).

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    Big Drama - Small Spaces: Keren Cytters Theater

    Söntgen, B., 2015, Sowohl als auch dazwischen: Erfahrungsräume der Kunst. Schafaff, J. & Wihstutz, B. (eds.). 1 ed. Wilhelm Fink Verlag, p. 183 - 194 12 p.

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    Biological Computer Laboratory: Zu Organisation und Selbstorganisation eines Labors

    Müggenburg, J., 2011, Jenseits des Labors: Transformationen von Wissen zwischen Entstehungs- und Anwendungskontext. Hoof, F., Jung, E-M. & Salaschek, U. (eds.). transcript Verlag, p. 23-44 21 p. (Science Studies).

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    Can Art Save The Ethnological Museum?

    Leeb, S. A., 2013, The Challenge of the Object: 33rd congress of the International Committee of the History of Art, Nuremberg, 15th - 20th July 2012; Congress Proceedings. Großmann, G. U. (ed.). Verlag des Germanischen Nationalmuseums, Vol. 2. p. 556-560 5 p. (Wissenschaftlicher Beiband zum Anzeiger des Germanischen Nationalmuseums; no. 32,2).

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