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. 2018
  2. Published

    Between the Front Lines: Vocational Training Films, Machine Guns and the Great War

    Hoof, F., 09.2018, Cinema's Military Industrial Complex. Wasson, H. & Grieveson, L. (eds.). Berkeley: University of California Press, p. 177-191 15 p.

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

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    Die environmentalitäre Situation: Überlegungen zum Umweltlich-Werden von Denken, Macht und Kapital

    Hörl, E., 09.2018, Internationales Jahrbuch für Medienphilosophie: Ökonomie / Ökologie. Mersch, D. & Mayer, M. (eds.). Berlin, München, Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Vol. 4. p. 221-250 29 p. (Internationales Jahrbuch für Medienphilosophie; vol. 4, no. 1).

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

  4. Published

    Visions of Process—Swarm Intelligence and Swarm Robotics in Architectural Design and Construction

    Vehlken, S., 30.08.2018, Robotic Building. Bier, H. (ed.). Springer, p. 1-23 24 p. (Adaptive Environments; vol. 1, no. 1).

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

  5. Published

    Pervasive Intelligence: The Tempo-Spatiality of Drone Swarms

    Vehlken, S., 22.08.2018, In: Digital Culture & Society. 4, 1, p. 107-132 26 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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    Digital Natives - eine Generation des Übergangs: Zur Gestaltungsmacht digitaler Kultur

    Großmann, R., 01.08.2018, In: Positionen. 116, p. 4-8 5 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  8. Published

    Got Milk? How Freedoms Evolved From Dairying Climates

    Van de Vliert, E., Welzel, C., Shcherbak, A., Fischer, R. & Alexander, A., 01.08.2018, In: Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. 49, 7, p. 1048-1065 18 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  9. Published

    Palaces, Stars and Abeceda. The Body as Indexical Reader in Post-Socialist Art by CORO Collective, Cooltūristės and Paulina Olowska

    Gerhardt, U., 01.08.2018, Moving Images, Mobile Bodies : The Poetics and Practice of Corporeality in Visual and Performing Arts. Avram, H. (ed.). Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, p. 161-180 20 p.

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

  10. Published

    Working with Research Integrity—Guidance for Research Performing Organisations: The Bonn PRINTEGER Statement

    Forsberg, E-M., Anthun, F. O., Bailey, S., Birchley, G., Bout, H., Casonato, C., Fuster, G. G., Heinrichs, B., Horbach, S., Jacobsen, I. S., Janssen, J., Kaiser, M., Lerouge, I., van der Meulen, B., de Rijcke, S., Saretzki, T., Sutrop, M., Tazewell, M., Varantola, K., Vie, K. J., Zwart, H. & Zoeller, M., 01.08.2018, In: Science and Engineering Ethics. 24, 4, p. 1023-1034 12 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  11. Published

    Technökologien

    Brunner, C. (ed.), Minichbauer, R. (ed.), Mulvaney, K. (ed.) & Raunig, G. (ed.), 08.2018, Wien: Transversal Texts. 157 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesTransfer