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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    Schematism, Imagination, and Pure Intuition in Kant

    Krämer, S., 28.06.2018, Image, Imagination, and Cognition.: Medieval and Early Modern Theory and Practice. Lüthy, C., C. S., Bakker, P. & Zittel, C. (eds.). Brill, p. 300-320

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    Medialität und Heteronomie. Reflexionen über das Botenmodell als Ansatz einer Medienphilosophie

    Krämer, S., 26.02.2018, Handbuch der Medienphilosophie. Schweppenhäuser, G. (ed.). Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft - WBG, p. 33-44 12 p.

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    Gerhard Rühm oder: Vom Eigensinn der Medien

    Krämer, S., 2017, Gerhard Rühm. Brugger, I. & Eipeldauer, H. (eds.). Berlin: Hatje Cantz Verlag, p. 27-32 6 p.

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    Flattening As Cultural Technique: Epistemic and Aesthetic Functions of Inscribed Surfaces

    Krämer, S., 01.04.2017, In: Journal of the American Musicological Society. 70, 1, p. 239-244 6 p.

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    Sprechen, Schreiben, Programmieren. Digitalisierung alter Kulturtechniken oder digitale Kultur?

    Krämer, S., 2017, In: Der Blaue Reiter - Journal für Philosophie. 41, p. 16-20 5 p.

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    Die Rettung des Ontologischen durch das Ontische? Ein Kommentar zu 'operativen Ontologien'

    Krämer, S., 2017, In: Zeitschrift für Medien- und Kulturforschung. 8, 2, p. 125-142 18 p.

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    Why Notational Iconicity is a Form of Operational Iconicity

    Krämer, S., 2017, Dimensions of Iconicity. Zirker, A., Bauer, M., Fischer, O. & Ljungberg, C. (eds.). Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, p. 303-320 18 p. (Iconicity in language and literature; vol. 15).

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    Epistemic Dependence and Trust: On witnessing in the first, second and third-person perspectives

    Krämer, S., 08.2017, Testimony/Bearing Witness: Epistemology, Ethics, History and Culture. Krämer, S. & Weigel, S. (eds.). London: Rowman & Littlefield International, p. 247-259 13 p.

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    Introduction: Converging the Yet-Separate Theoretical Discourses of Testimony Studies

    Krämer, S. & Weigel, S., 2017, Testimony/Bearing Witness: Epistemology, Ethics, History, and Culture. Krämer, S. & Weigel, S. (eds.). London: Rowman & Littlefield International, p. IX-XII 4 p.

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