School of Culture and Society

Organisational unit: Research School

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. 2015
  2. Published

    Agricultural Sector as crucial for the Sahel zone

    Wienkoop, N-K., 2015, In: Etudes internationales. 128/129, p. 141-153 13 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsConference article in journalTransferpeer-review

  3. Published

    Alexander und Margarete Mitscherlich: "Die Unfähigkeit zu trauern"

    Hobuß, S., 2015, Lexikon der "Vergangenheitsbewältigung" in Deutschland: Debatten- und Diskursgeschichte des Nationalsozialismus nach 1945. Fischer, T. & Lorenz, M. N. (eds.). 3. ed. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, p. 193-195 3 p. IV.A2. (Histoire; vol. 53).

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

  4. Published

    Antisemitismus im deutschen Mediendiskurs: Eine Analyse des Falls Jakob Augstein

    Betzler, L. & Glittenberg, M., 2015, 1. Aufl. ed. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG. 318 p. (Interdisziplinäre Antisemitismusforschung; vol. 5)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesBook

  5. Published

    Antworten

    Beyes, T., 2015, Das bewegte Buch. Ein Katalog der gelesenen Bücher: mit 104 Beispielen aus dem Deutschen Literaturmuseum Marbach. Gfrereis, H. & Pias, C. (eds.). Marbach am Neckar: Deutsche Schillergesellschaft e.V.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksChapterpeer-review

  6. Published

    A preliminary study on similarity-preserving digital book identifiers

    Vladimir, K., Silic, M., Romic, N., Delac, G. & Srbljic, S., 2015, Proceedings of the 9th SIGHUM Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities: LaTeCH 2015. Zervanou, K. A., van Erp, M. & Alex, B. (eds.). Beijing: Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), p. 78-83 6 p.

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

  7. Published

    Architekturen des "environment": Reyner Banham und das Dritte Maschinenzeitalter

    Sprenger, F., 2015, In: Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft. 12, 1, p. 55-67 13 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  8. Published

    Arne Till Bense, Musik und Virtualität: Digitale Virtualität im Kontext computerbasierter Musikproduktion

    Großmann, R., 2015, In: Die Musikforschung. 68, 3, p. 330-332 3 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsCritical reviewsResearch

  9. Published

    Art and the Economy of Attention: On the 1% - the 100 Most Expensive Works of Art

    Rudolph, S., 2015, Art in the Periphery of the Center. Behnke, C., Kastelan, C., Knoll, V. & Wuggenig, U. (eds.). 1 ed. Berlin: Sternberg Press, p. 478 - 491 14 p.

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

  10. Published

    Art, Ecology, and Sustainability - An Exchange between Christoph Behnke, Cornelia Kastelan, and Ulf Wuggenig

    Behnke, C., Kastelan, C. & Wuggenig, U., 2015, Art in the Periphery of the Center. Behnke, C., Kastelan, C., Knoll, V. & Wuggenig, U. (eds.). Berlin: Sternberg Press, p. 280-301 22 p.

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

  11. Published

    Art in the Periphery of the Center

    Behnke, C. (ed.), Kastelan, C. (ed.), Knoll, V. (ed.) & Wuggenig, U. (ed.), 2015, Berlin: Sternberg Press. 629 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesTransfer