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. 2020
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    Relating to water, spaces, and other agents. On the journey behind Juliane Tübke’s project Weathering

    John, R., 01.11.2020, Sirene – Goldrausch 2020. Dell, K. & Kruse, H. (eds.). Berlin: Goldrausch Frauennetzwerk Berlin e.V.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksOtherTransfer

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    The Power to Resist: Mobilization and the Logic of Terrorist Attacks in Civil War

    Polo, S. M. T. & González, B., 01.11.2020, In: Comparative Political Studies. 53, 13, p. 2029-2060 32 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  4. Published

    Rezension zu: Georges Bataille (Hrgs.): Hegel, der Mensch und die Geschichte, Hamburg 2018, Verlag Matthes & Seit.

    Rauch, M. F., 11.2020, In: Hegel-Studien. 53/54, p. 338-341 4 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsCritical reviewsResearch

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    Shifting Immediations: Fields of Experience across Media Art and Design

    Brunner, C. & Fritsch, J., 11.2020, Proceedings of the 26th International Symposium of Electronic Arts - ISEA 2020: Why Sentience?. ISEA (ed.). Montreal (Quebec): Printemps Numerique Canada, p. 91-97 7 p.

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

  6. Published

    Deep time Heimat: Die prähistorischen Landschaften des Deutschen Reichs

    Stoffel, P., 31.10.2020, In: Kulturwissenschaftliche Zeitschrift. 5, 1, p. 31-42 12 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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    Atomic Animals: Tiere als Medien nuklearer Forschung

    Vehlken, S., 26.10.2020, In: Tierstudien. 18, p. 45-56 12 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearch

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    Thinking the Problematic: Genealogies and Explorations between Philosophy and the Sciences

    Leistert, O. (ed.) & Schrickel, I. (ed.), 26.10.2020, Bielefeld: transcript Verlag. 197 p. (Philosophy)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

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    Absorbing the gaze, scattering looks: Klimt’s distinctive style and its two-fold effect on the eye of the beholder

    Miscenà, A., Arato, J. & Rosenberg, R., 06.10.2020, In: Journal of Eye Movement Research. 13, 2, 13 p., 8.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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    From Critique to Problems and the Politics of the In-act with Bergson, Deleuze and James

    Brunner, C., 06.10.2020, Thinking the Problematic: Genealogies and Explorations between Philosophy and the Sciences. Leistert, O. & Schrickel, I. (eds.). Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, p. 153-178 26 p.

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

  11. Published

    Introduction to Thinking the Problematic: Decentring as Method and Ethos

    Leistert, O. & Schrickel, I., 06.10.2020, Thinking the problematic: genealogies and explorations between philosophy and the sciences. Leistert, O. & Schrickel, I. (eds.). Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, p. 9-34 26 p. (Philosophy).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksArticle in conference proceedingsResearch