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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    Visiting the Colección Poyón, or Indigeneity and the Nation-State in Guatemala: Performing the Nation for Two Hundred Years

    Eduardo, S., 27.05.2022, Museums, Transculturality, and the Nation-State : Case Studies from a Global Context. Leeb, S. & Samuel, N. (eds.). Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, p. 213-240 28 p. (Edition Museum; vol. 52).

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    Vom kritischen Geist der Literatur: Sprachwissen und Sprachkritik in Franz Fühmanns "Die dampfenden Hälse der Pferde im Turm von Babel"

    Betzler, L., 23.05.2022, Die DDR-Literatur und die Wissenschaften. Gencarelli, A. (ed.). Berlin: Walter de Gruyter GmbH, p. 105-140 36 p. (Studien und Texte zur Sozialgeschichte der Literatur; vol. 158).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksChapter

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    A community of shared values? Dimensions and dynamics of cultural integration in the European Union

    Akaliyski, P., Welzel, C. & Hien, J., 19.05.2022, In: Journal of European Integration. 44, 4, p. 569-590 22 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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    M. R. Kukrit Pramoj’s theory of good governance and political change: the dialectics of Farang Sakdina

    Waters, T., 05.05.2022, In: Humanities & social sciences communications. 9, 1, 11 p., 156.

    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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    Every single word: A New Data Set Including All Parliamentary Materials Published in Germany

    Remschel, T. & Kröber, C., 22.04.2022, In: Government and Opposition. 57, 2, p. 276-295 20 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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    ARE WE THE BADDIES? Audience development, cultural policy and ideological precarity

    Hadley, S., 06.04.2022, Routledge Companion to Audiences and the Performing Arts. Reason, M., Conner, L., Johanson, K. & Walmsley, B. (eds.). Taylor and Francis Inc., p. 143-158 16 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksChapterpeer-review

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    An interpretive perspective on co-production in supporting refugee families’ access to childcare in Germany

    Siede, A. & Münch, S., 01.04.2022, In: Policy and Politics. 50, 2, p. 283-300 18 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review