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. 2023
  2. Published

    "How Bad Was He? Let Me Count the Ways": Auguste Renoir and His Critics of the 1980s

    Mehl, I. & Söntgen, B., 2023, Judgement Practices in the Artistic Field. Söntgen, B., Heymer, E., Locher, H., Marchal, S. & Sachs-Resch, M. (eds.). München: edition metzel, p. 226-250 25 p. (Praktiken der Kritik; vol. 3).

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

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    Ins Bild kommen: Spielräume der Kunstkritik

    Hosseini, A. (ed.), Kipke, A. (ed.), Kuhn, H. (ed.) & Woisnitza, M. (ed.), 2023, Paderborn: Brill | Fink. 234 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

  4. Published

    Ins Bild kommen: Spielräume der Kunstkritik

    Hosseini, A., Kipke, A., Kuhn, H. & Woisnitza, M., 2023, Ins Bild kommen : Spielräume der Kunstkritik . Kipke, A., Woisnitza, M., Hosseini, A. & Kuhn, H. (eds.). Paderborn: Brill | Fink, p. xv-xxi 7 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksOtherResearch

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    "Instrumentalität": der Begriff des Musikinstruments zwischen Klangerzeuger, Kultgerät und Körper-Technik

    Hardjowirogo, S-I., 2023, Baden-Baden: Georg Olms Verlag AG. 302 p. (MusikmachDinge ((audio)) ästhetische Strategien und Sound-Kulturen; vol. 7)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearch

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    In the Aftermath of Violence. On Being Present and Calling Into Presence: Diana Taylor with Sebastián Eduardo Dávila and Ulrike Jordan

    Eduardo Dávila, S., Jordan, U. & Taylor, D., 2023, On Withdrawal: Scenes of Refusal, Disappearance, and Resilience in Art and Cultural Practices. Eduardo Dávila, S., John, R. H., Jordan, U., Sieber, J. & Schneider, T. (eds.). Diaphanes Verlag, p. 159 176 p.

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

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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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    Introducing VISU: Vagueness, Incompleteness, Subjectivity, and Uncertainty in Art Provenance Data

    Mariani, F., 2023, Computational Methods in the Humanities 2022 : Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Methods in the Humanities 2022 Lausanne, Switzerland, June 9–10, 2022.. Rochat, Y., Metrailler, C. & Piotrowski, M. (eds.). Aachen: Sun Site Central Europe (RWTH Aachen University), Vol. 3602. p. 63-84 22 p. (CEUR Workshop Proceedings; vol. 3602).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksArticle in conference proceedingsResearchpeer-review

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    Is Code Law? Kritik in Zeiten algorithmischer Gouvernementalität

    Mattutat, L., Stubenrauch, H. & Warnsholdt, C. L., 2023, Kritik postdigital. Hille, L. & Wentz, D. (eds.). Lüneburg: meson press, p. 21-42 22 p. (Digital Cultures Series).

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

  10. Published

    Judgement Practices in the Artistic Field

    Heymer, E. (ed.), Locher, H. (ed.), Marchal, S. (ed.), Sachs-Resch, M. (ed.) & Söntgen, B. (ed.), 2023, München: edition metzel. 504 p. (Praktiken der Kritik; vol. 3)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

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    Kritik in digitalen Kulturen: Begegnungen zwischen Entsagung, Revolution und Affirmation

    Leeker, M., 2023, Kritik postdigital. Hille, L. & Wentz, D. (eds.). Lüneburg: meson press, p. 83-102 20 p. (Digital Cultures Series).

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