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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    Burkina Faso - A history of power, protest, and revolution

    Wienkoop, N-K., 04.03.2019, In: Social Movement Studies. 18, 2, p. 263-264 2 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsCritical reviewsResearch

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    Schelling's Naturalism: Motion, Space and the Volition of thought

    Woodard, B., 01.03.2019, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 254 p. (New Perspectives in Ontology )

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearchpeer-review

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    Ian White – Cinema as a Live Art / Becoming Object

    Breimaier, A. (ed.), 03.2019, Berlin: Edition Living Archive. 63 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesExhibition cataloguesTransfer

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    Sustainability through institutional failure and decline? Archetypes of productive pathways

    Newig, J., Derwort, P. & Jager, N. W., 03.2019, In: Ecology and Society. 24, 1, 14 p., 18.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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    Using Large N Longitudinal Comparison to Explain Political Recruitment in Changing Democracies

    Vercesi, M. & Grimaldi, S., 03.2019, SAGE Research Methods Cases (Politics & International Relations) ed., SAGE Publications Inc., 11 p.

    Research output: Working paperResearch communication reportsResearch

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    Filmische Moderne: 60 Fragmente

    Fahle, O. (ed.), Gotto, L. (ed.), Neitzel, B. (ed.), Nowak, L. (ed.), Wagner, H. (ed.), Wendler, A. (ed.) & Wentz, D. (ed.), 27.02.2019, Bielefeld: transcript Verlag. 462 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

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    Stranger Things (2016)

    Wentz, D., 27.02.2019, Filmische Moderne: 60 Fragmente. Fahle, O., Gotto, L., Neitzel, B., Nowak, L., Wagner, H., Wendler, A. & Wentz, D. (eds.). transcript Verlag, p. 439-444 5 p.

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

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    Stranger Things II (2017)

    Wentz, D., 27.02.2019, Filmische Moderne: 60 Fragmente. Fahle, O., Gotto, L., Neitzel, B., Nowak, L., Wagner, H., Wendler, A. & Wentz, D. (eds.). transcript Verlag, p. 445-450 6 p.

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