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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    Migrantische Repräsentation und Partizipation in der Vereinten Dienstleistungsgewerkschaft (ver.di)

    Karakayali, S. & Albrecht, Y., 27.06.2022, Organisationaler Wandel durch Migration?: Zur Diversität in der Zivilgesellschaft. Karakayali, S., von Unger, H., Baykara-Krumme, H. & Schönwälder, K. (eds.). 1 ed. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, p. 141-168 28 p. (Arbeit und Organisation; vol. 7).

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

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    Beyond pandemic populism: COVID-related cultures of rejection in digital environments, a case study of two Austrian online spaces

    Opratko, B., 2022, In: Patterns of Prejudice. 56, 4-5, p. 297-314 18 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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    Introducing ‘cultures of rejection’: an investigation of the conditions of acceptability of right-wing politics in Europe

    Bojadžijev, M. & Opratko, B., 20.10.2022, In: Patterns of Prejudice. 56, 4-5, p. 205-218 14 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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    Uncanny Provenance: Art History and its Double

    Rother, L., 12.2022, In: Texte zur Kunst. 2022, 128, p. 84-97 14 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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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.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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    Erinnerung Redux: Méandre mémoriel du port et critique post-coloniale

    Pinder, J. Y., 01.12.2022, In: Critical Stages. 2022, 26, 6 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsComments / Debate / ReportsResearch

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    1. A Secular Age? The ‘Modern World’ and the Beginnings of the Sociology of Religion

    Knöbl, W., 2019, Negotiating the Secular and the Religious in the German Empire: Transnational Approaches. Habermas, R. (ed.). Berghahn Books Inc., p. 31-55 25 p. (New German Historical Perspectives; vol. 10).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksChapter

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    History of Embryology: Visualizations Through Series and Animation

    Wellmann, J., 27.08.2022, The Palgrave Handbook of the History of Human Sciences. McCallum, D. (ed.). Palgrave Macmillan, p. 259-290 32 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksChapter

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    »HOW TO MAKE YOUR OWN SAMPLES«: Beat-Bildung, Zeit-Maschinen und Phonographizität zweiter Ordnung

    Pelleter, M., 11.10.2022, HipHop im 21. Jahrhundert: Medialität, Tradierung, Gesellschaftskritik und Bildungsaspekte einer (Jugend-)Kultur. Wilke, T. & Rappe, M. (eds.). Wiesbaden: Springer, p. 331-346 16 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksChapter