Mareike zum Felde
Scientific employee (PhD candidate)
Contact:
Klagenfurter Straße 8
D-28359 Bremen Building OEG,
Room 3730
Phone: 0421 218 66645
mareike.zum.felde[at]uni-bremen.de
Person
Since May 2019, Mareike zum Felde is a scientific employee and PhD Candidate in the working group of Prof. Dr. Jutta Günther at the University Bremen. Before she finished the Elite Graduate Program for East European Studies at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich with a major in comparative political systems (M.A. 2019). In her dissertation Mareike zum Felde deals with post socialist elites in Poland and a case study on debates about higher education policies since 1989. She is an active member of the German Association for East European Studies (DGO).
Academic education and degrees
since 09/2023 | PhD comnpletion grant provided by the FAZIT foundation |
since 09/2019 | Affiliated Fellow at the Bremen International Graduate School of Scoial Sciences (BIGSSS). |
since 05/2019 | Doctoral Researcher, Chair of Economics of Innovation and Structural Change / Research Centre for East European Studies (University of Bremen), BMBF- Research Project „Obstacles to modernization in the Economy and Science of the GDR“ (Head: Prof. Dr. Jutta Günther, University of Bremen) |
| 04-06/2018 | Cooperation on the “German-Polish Barometer 2018“ at the Instytut Spraw Publicznych (Institute of Public Affairs), Warsaw |
11/2017 - 01/2020 | Research Assistant at the Collegium Carolinum – Research Institute for the History of the Czech Lands and Slovakia (Dr. Jana Osterkamp) |
| 10/2016 - 04/2019 | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich Elite Graduate Program for East European Studies Major: Comparative Political Systems with a Focus on Eastern and Central Eastern Europe Minor: East and Central East European History Title of MA Thesis: Between Government Requirements and Individual Decisions: Analysis of the Development of Selected Curricula and Textbooks for History Lessons with regard to the Presentation of Poland Degree: Master of Arts |
| 08-11/2015 | Internship at the German Embassy in Warsaw |
| 09/2014 - 01/2015 | Semester abroad at the University of Southern Denmark, Department for Border Region Studies |
| 02-05/2014 | Internship at the German Public-Service Television (ZDF), Warsaw |
| 09/2012 - 10/2016 | Bachelor in European Administrative Management Hochschule Harz (University of Applied Sciences) Degree: Bachelor of Arts |
Projects
Since 05/ 2019 |
Obstacles to Modernization in the Economy and Science of the GDR Project lead:: Prof. Dr. Jutta Günther (University of Bremen) Sub-project 7: Strategies and Actors of Economic Transformation Duration: 48 months Project start: 01.12.2018 Founded by: BMBF Project consortium: University of Bremen, Technical University of Berlin, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Europauniversität Viadrina |
Academic Presentations
2021 | |
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30/09 - 02/10 | 28. Tagung der Jungen Osteuropa-Expert*innen, University of Zurich, Switzerland Presentation: Zwischen Humboldtschen Idealen und Innovationsstrategien: Parteipolitische |
23/09 - 24/09 | Conference “Transformationsforschung: Polen und Ostdeutschland im Vergleich”, European Solidarity Center, Gdansk, Poland Presentation: Zwischen Humboldtschen Idealen und Innovationsstrategien: Parteipositionen zur Hochschulpolitik in Polen |
31/08 - 03/09 | General Conference of the European Consortium for Political Research (Online) Presentation: Party positions on higher education in a state with a fluid party system |
28/01 | Research colloquium of the Center for Interdisciplinary Polish Studies (Frankfurt/Oder) Presentation: Higher education policies in Poland 1989-2020: Pursuing economic policies, satisfying social needs and strengthening national independence? |
2020 | |
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05/03 - 08/03 | 5. Kongress Polenforschung, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle/Wittenberg Presentation: Zwischen staatlichen Vorgaben und individuellen Entscheidungen. |
2019 | |
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26/08 - 30/08 | 4th International Summer School for Russian and Eurasian Studies des FRESH (The Finnish-Russian Network in Russian and Eurasaian Studies in Scoial Science and Humanities), Orilampi, Finland Presentation: Ideas and Actors in Innovation Policies in Poland: Catching up after socialism? |
Publications
- Cordes, Charlotta/ zum Felde, Mareike/ Pleines, Heiko (forthcoming in 2023): The question of legacies: Socialist elites in post-socialist transformations. East Germany's elites from a comparative perspective (1990-2020). In: Roadblocks to the Socialist Modernization Path and Transition. Evidence from East Germany and Poland. Palgrave Macmillan.
- zum Felde, Mareike (2023): Polish debates on higher education in the Sejm and party manifestos. Data set available online in the repository Discuss Data: https://discuss-data.net/dataset/0938ce83-e530-4db2-8da1-387b92797364/
- zum Felde, Mareike/ Großehabig, Kristina (2017): Dem einen fließt sie links, dem anderen rechts. In: Grenzen im Fluss. Magazin des 13. Jahrgangs des Elitestudiengangs Osteuropastudien der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München und der Universität Regensburg, 24-28.
Further Information
Member of the German Association for East European Studies (DGO)
06/2020-02/2022 Speaker of "Junge DGO - regional group Bremen"
Regionalgruppe
since 06/2020 founding member of the "Junge DGO - regional group Bremen" (local DGO section)
07/2019-02/2022 Member of the working group communications of the DGO