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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    Taktilität des Blickens in Portrait de la jeune fille en feu (Céline Sciamma, 2019)

    Kuhn, E., 31.05.2023, Ins Bild kommen : Spielräume der Kunstkritik. Hosseini, A., Kipke, A., Kuhn, H. & Woisnitza, M. (eds.). Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, p. 204-209 6 p.

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

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    Border plants: globalisation as shown to us by the women living at its leading edge

    Kuhn, E., 25.01.2024, Coercion and Wage Labour: Exploring Work Relations through History and Art. Batista, A., Müller, V. F. & Peres, C. (eds.). London: UCL Press, p. 225-245 21 p. 10. (Work around the world: studies in global labour history).

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

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    Sicht von oben: Powers of Ten und Bildpolitiken der Vertikalität

    Tollmann, V., 03.2022, Leipzig: Spector Books. 358 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearch

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    Exploding Images

    Tollmann, V., 2014, Every Whisper is a crash on my ears. Missa, A. (ed.). London: Arcadia Missa, p. 190-204 15 p.

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

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    A Single Swing of the Shovel: Former West Proxies

    Levin, B. & Tollmann, V., 2016, Former West: Art and the Contemporary after 1989. Hlavajova, M. & Sheikh, S. (eds.). Cambridge MA: The MIT Press, p. 519-534 16 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksChapterpeer-review

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    Proxies

    Kyong Chun, W. H., Levin, B. & Tollmann, V., 02.02.2021, Uncertain Archives: Critical Keywords for Big Data. Tylstrup, N. B., Agostinho, D., Ring, A., D'Ignazio, C. & Veel, K. (eds.). Cambridge MA: The MIT Press, p. 419-425 7 p.

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

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    Beweismaterial: Fotografie und ihr Rohstoffverbrauch

    Tollmann, V., 2022, In: Springerin : Hefte für Gegenwartskunst. 28, 3, p. 10-11 2 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesTransfer

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    In the Making: In the Desert of Modernity: Colonial Planning and After ; Traversing a Project Exhibition

    von Osten, M., Buchmann, S. (ed.), Leeb, S. (ed.) & Spillmann, P. (ed.), 2023, Berlin: b-books. 236 p. (PoLYpeN)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearchpeer-review

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    Hidden Value: Provenance as a Source for Economic and Social History

    Rother, L., Mariani, F. & Koss, M., 25.05.2023, In: Jahrbuch fur Wirtschaftsgeschichte. 64, 1, p. 111-142 32 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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    Kinder, Küche, Krise der Reproduktion. Ein Mailwechsel über Konstellationen von Sorge-, Lohn- und Schreibarbeit in Romanen von Caroline Muhr bis Anke Stelling

    Mattutat, L. & Niehaus, J., 29.10.2023, In: Undercurrents - Forum für linke Literaturwissenschaft. 2023, Literatur und Care, p. 61-80 20 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesTransferpeer-review