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.

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    Urban artistic interventions: A typology of artistic political actions in the city

    Hoop, M., Kirchberg, V., Kaddar, M., Barak, N. & de-Shalit, A., 01.06.2022, In: City, Culture and Society. 29, 10 p., 100449.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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    Cutting Across Lines: Lil Picard and the Reorienting Effects of Collage

    Lochner, O., 06.2022, Compressed Utterances : Collage in a Germanic Context after 1912. Collins, C. (ed.). Oxford, Bern, Berlin ua.: Peter Lang Verlag, p. 221-252 (German Visual Culture; vol. 12).

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

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    Verkehrswissenschaftliche Arbeiten 12: Modal-Split-Verkehrszählung im Stadtbereich Lüneburgs Juni 2021

    Pez, P., 06.2022, 43 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

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    Artistic City-zenship: How artists perceive and practice political agency in their cities

    Kaddar, M., Kirchberg, V., Barak, N., Seidl, M., Wedler, P. & de Shalit, A., 28.05.2022, In: Journal of Urban Affairs. 44, 4-5, p. 471-489 19 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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    Museums, Transculturality and the Nation-State: Case Studies from a Global Context

    Leeb, S. (ed.) & Samuel, N. (ed.), 27.05.2022, Bielefeld: transcript Verlag. 248 p. (Edition Museum; vol. 52)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

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    Museums, Transculturality, and the Nation-State: Some Remarks on their Entanglement

    Leeb, 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. 7-16 10 p. (Museum; vol. 52).

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

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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).

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

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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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