Research profiles in the department of cultural studies

Research topics:

• cultural studies research on digitality,
• media studies research on gaming culture,
• media aesthetics and knowledge culture,
• media technology and history.

Our research activities relate to a wide range of interculturally relevant issues. The focus is on development and negotiation processes through intercultural interaction. We focus on cross-cultural and constructive intercultural management, expanded organisational research from a cultural and social science perspective, and individual aspects of migration research.

Our daily work deals fundamentally with all aspects of European integration. Among other things, the chair holder works on issues relating to the Common Foreign, Security and Defence Policy, the political system of the EU, including institutional reform issues, and the legitimacy and acceptance of European regulation. We also deal with issues relating to relations between the European Union and the countries of the Western Balkans and Central Asia, the democratic legitimacy of the European Union, and strategic culture in European countries. Our work and our main topics are international in nature, which is why international academic networking with colleagues from various regions of the world is particularly important to us. We are especially proud to have been awarded the ‘Jean Monnet Chair’ distinction since 2011. This award, presented by the European Commission, requires not only excellent teaching but also outstanding research activities.

Research at the chair is characterised by an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary orientation. The professorship deals with phenomena of cultural exchange, transfer and change, including from a cultural-historical perspective. The focus is on the socio-cultural dimensions of digital and analogue everyday practices, collective and individual identity constructions in different media, multiple cultural affiliations, language ideologies and international academic cultures.