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. 2021
  2. Published

    The Grime of Critique

    Warnsholdt, C. L., 2021, Critique and the Digital. Hörl, E., Pinkrah, N. Y. & Warnsholdt, L. (eds.). Zürich/Berlin: Diaphanes Verlag, p. 205-228 24 p.

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

  3. Published

    The Importance of Expertise: Political Careers, Personnel Turnover, and Throughput Legitimacy in the European Parliament

    Salvati, E. & Vercesi, M., 2021, Personnel Turnover and the Legitimacy of the EU. Scherpereel, J. A. (ed.). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 137-165 29 p. (Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksChapterpeer-review

  4. Published

    The Instrument

    Großmann, R., 2021, The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Anthropology of Sound. Schulze, H. (ed.). 1 ed. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, p. 59-76 18 p. 3

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

  5. Published

    The Italian Parliament in the European Union, edited by Nicola Lupo and Giovanni Piccirilli, Portland, Hart Publishing, 2017.

    Vercesi, M., 2021, In: Contemporary Italian Politics . 13, 1, p. 121-122 2 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsCritical reviewsResearch

  6. Published

    The organizational a priori: Critique of the digital as critique of organization

    Beyes, T., 2021, Critique and the Digital. Hörl, E., Pinkrah, N. Y. & Warnholdt, C. L. (eds.). Zürich/Berlin: Diaphanes Verlag, p. 229-248 20 p.

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

  7. Published

    “They Are Stumbling Around Quite Helplessly”: How Supporters of Refugee Families Frame Vulnerability and Agency Relating to Childcare

    Siede, A., 2021, Power in Vulnerability: a multi-dimensional review of migrants’ vulnerabilities. Fromm, N., Jünemann, A. & Safouane, H. (eds.). Wiesbaden: Springer VS, p. 199-227 29 p. (Studien zur Migrations- und Integrationspolitik).

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

  8. Published

    Transcultural Music Studies

    Gaupp, L., 2021, Diggin' Up Music: Musikethnologie als Baustelle, Festschrift für Raimund Vogels zum 65. Geburtstag. Fuhr, M., Klenke, K. & Mendívil, J. (eds.). Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag AG, p. 178-198 21 p.

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

  9. Published

    Transindividuality: The affective continuity of the social in Spinoza

    Andermann, K., 2021, Critical theory and New Materialism. Rosa, H., Henning, C. & Bueno, A. (eds.). London: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, p. 84-94 11 p. (Routledge studies in social and political thought; vol. 161).

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

  10. Published

    Vollendete Tatsachen: Vom endgültig Vorläufigen und vorläufig Endgültigen in der Wissenschaft

    von Xylander, C. (ed.) & Nordmann, A. (ed.), 2021, Bielefeld: transcript Verlag. 469 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

  11. Published

    Von Delfinhaut bis Wolfskin: Kleine Epistemologie der Funktionskleidung

    Müggenburg, J., 2021, Hautlichkeit: Oberflächen in Wissenschaft und Design. Schnödl, G. & Windgätter, C. (eds.). Berlin: Kulturverlag Kadmos , p. 37-55 19 p. ( DesignWissen; vol. 3).

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