Academic Initiative on Culture
Three thematic priorities deserve special mention in view of their profile-forming effect and their recognisably strong integrating power for the research activities of the Academic initiative on culture:
- research on historical, epistemological and application-oriented issues of interdisciplinary aspects of culture and media studies, not least from a historico-technological viewpoint, pooled together at the Centre for Digital Cultures (CDC)
- the interdisciplinary research alliance “Cultures of Critique”, in which the subjects philosophy, art, media, literature and political science, as well as sociology, all concur. The Institute of Philosophy and Art Studies is responsible for the coordination.
- the new research alliance “Cultures of Conflict”
The interacted approaches of humanities and social sciences constitute the characteristic feature of Lüneburg cultural research. All three profile priorities share a high degree of institutionalisation by institutes and inter-faculty research centres. Larger third-party funding projects are available in all faculties or are at an advanced application stage.
Click here for the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
The DFG Research Group “Media Cultures of Computer Simulation” (MECS) is investigating which new kinds of knowledge arises from computer simulations and how their use shifts the understanding of science.
The aim of the Cultures of Critique DFG Research Training Group is to use concrete cases of art, media and social criticism to re-examine the connection between criticism and culture in the history of modernity up to the present day and to develop an updated understanding of criticism based on cultural studies.
You will find an overview of the research projects carried out at the Faculty of Cultural Studies in our research database.