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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    Kunst- und Kulturproduktion im Bezugsrahmen von Pierre Bourdieus Theorie und die kultursoziologische Analyse sozialer Bewegungen

    Kastner, J., 26.06.2017, Lüneburg. 469 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesPost-doctoral dissertations

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    Games und Gamification: Kulturhistorische, medienwissenschaftliche, politische und ästhetische Dimensionen

    Fuchs, M., 23.11.2020, Lüneburg. 318 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesPost-doctoral dissertations

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    Meme Therapy: Auf der Suche nach Heilung in Geisterzeichnungen, Therapie-Notizbüchern und Trauma-Tagebüchern

    Kipke, A., 2022, In: Kunstforum international. 279, p. 104-111 8 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesTransfer

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    Culture and Capital: Claire Bishop: Place in Plunderland: Claire Bishop on the Shed

    Kipke, A., 2022, Why Art Criticism? : A Reader. Söntgen, B. & Voss, J. (eds.). 1. Auflage ed. Berlin: Hatje Cantz Verlag, p. 428-437 10 p. (Zeitgenössische Kunst).

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

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    Hamburg Maschine_revisited: Artistic and Critical Investigations into Our Digital Condition

    Kohlhuber, I. (ed.) & Leistert, O. (ed.), 04.2022, Hamburg: adocs. 436 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

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    Environmental governance of a Belt and Road project in Montenegro – National agency and external influences

    Coenen, J., Newig, J. & Meyfroidt, P., 01.08.2022, In: Land Use Policy. 119, 14 p., 106136.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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    Locating the Impolitical in American Theatre: Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Schechner's Dionysus in 69

    Pinder, J. Y., 01.05.2022, In: New Theatre Quarterly. 38, 2, p. 172-185 14 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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    Afghanistan's energy sociotechnical imaginaries: Alternative visions in a conflict zone.

    Fahimi, A., Upham, P. & Münch, S., 01.10.2022, In: Political Geography. 98, 102657.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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    Von Delfinhaut bis Wolfskin: Kleine Epistemologie der Funktionskleidung

    Müggenburg, J., 2021, Hautlichkeit: Oberflächen in Wissenschaft und Design. Schnödl, G. & Windgätter, C. (eds.). Berlin: Kulturverlag Kadmos , p. 37-55 19 p. ( DesignWissen; vol. 3).

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

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