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Dr Maciej Kowalewski
Institute of Sociology
University of Szczecin
Ul. Krakowska 71-79
71-017 Szczecin. Poland
Tel. 0048914443239
[email protected]
www.kowalewski.whus.pl
CURRICULUM VITAE
Date of birth:
12.02.1977
Current position:
Assistant Professor/Adjunct (Ph.D. hold), at Institute of
Sociology, University of Szczecin (Poland)
FIELDS OF INTEREST
urban sociology, urban studies, maritime sociology, sacred space of the city, politics of urban protest
EDUCATION
2001, MA in sociology
University of Szczecin (Uniwersytet Szczecioski), Institute of Sociology
Dissertation: Monument in Social Space of the City. Monument to the Deed of Poles in the
Perception of Inhabitants of Szczecin
2008, Ph. D. in sociology
University of Wrocław (Uniwersytet Wrocławski), Faculty of Social Sciences,
Dissertation: Social Environment of Social Housing Associations Tenants
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2001Institute of Sociology, University of Szczecin
Teaching courses: Urban Sociology, Introduction to Sociology, Contemporary Sociological Theories,
Maritime Sociology
Scientific activity: research management, carrying out field research, participating in research
implementation, data collecting and data processing
SCHOLARSHIPS
DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Fellowship for work stays for scientists and university
teachers (Forschungs- und Arbeitsaufenthalte ausländischer Hochschullehrer und Wissenschaftler),
Institut für Soziologie, Hamburg Universität). Fellowship tutor: prof. Rolf von Luede, UH, February
2012
Foundation for Polish Science Fellowship (Programme KWERENDA- Grants for Archive Search
Abroad), Research topic: The protest in the urban space. The repertoire of social movements in the
Federal Republic of Germany in the years 1945-1990, Archiv des Hamburger Instituts für
Sozialforschung, February 2013
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GUEST LECTURES / ERASMUS VISITS
LLP/Erasmus Programme, Teaching Staff Mobility, Glasgow Caledonian University, School of Law and
Social, September 2009
INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH PROJECTS
2007
Leibniz Institut für ökologische Raumentwicklung e. V, Dresden. "Revitalization of the downtown
areas of Szczecin". Project Coordinator: Dr Patrycja Bielawska-Roepke
Research tasks: Coordination of questionnaire interviews of residents of selected areas of Szczecin
2003-2006
“Symbolkirchen in religiösen und politischen Umbrüchen im Ostseeraum. Rekonstruktion und
Analyse ihrer religiosen und urbanen Nutzungen und Funktionen in Luebeck, Kiel, Wismar, Stralsund,
Szczecin, Gdansk, Kaliningrad" (Symbol churches in radical religious and political changes in the Baltic
Sea region. Reconstruction and analysis of their religious and urban uses and functions in Luebeck,
Kiel, Wismar, Stralsund, Szczecin, Gdansk, Kaliningrad). Volkswagen-Stiftung. Project coordinator:
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Grünberg, Institut für Praktische Theologie, Universität Hamburg.
Research tasks: Coordination of questionnaire interviews in Szczecin.
SEMINARS, WORKSHOPS (IN ENGLISH ONLY)
„Narrating Spaces, Reading Urbanity” (Fakultät 5: Sprache, Literatur, Medien II. Institut für Anglistik
und Amerikanistik), paper presented: Postcards as visual narrations. Visual Discourse of the
HafenCity in Hamburg, 7-9. September 2012
“CCELSI BSR 2012” (Climate Change, Economy, Law and Society - Interactions in Baltic Sea Region,
2012), paper presented: Landscapes, sunsets and women. Visual discourse of postcards from West
Pomeranian seaside resorts, 28-30. May 2012
“Second International Conference of Young Urban Researchers” , Instituto Universitário de Lisboa
(ISCTE-IUL), CIES-IUL, paper presented: Preserving Life Style, Reproducing the City. Urban Allotment
Gardening in Poland, 11-14. October 2011
“10th Conference of the European Sociological Association. Social relations in turbulent times (ESA
2011 Conference)”, paper presented: Producing the space, contesting the city: urban wild swimming,
Geneva, 7-10. September 2011
“9th Conference of the European Sociological Association. European Society or European Societies?
(ESA 2009 Conference), paper presented: History and future perspectives of Maritime Sociology,
Lisbon, 2-5 September 2009
“International Conference on Climate Change. The environmental and socio-economc response in
the southern Baltic Region”, poster presented: Coastal communities and climate change: discussing
environmental risk and perspectives of tourism development in sociological terms; (with S.
Kołodziejczak) Szczecin, 25-28 May 2009
„Symbolkirchen in religiösen und politischen Umbrüchen im Ostseeraum“, University of Hamburg,
paper presented: The St. Jacob's Cathedral in Szczecin. Church on the borderland (with A.
Królikowska) Hamburg, 8-10 October 2006
„Power over Time-Space. The Inaugural Nordic Geographers Meeting”, University of Lund. Paper
presented: Temporal neighbourhood actions and permanent conflicts in postsocialist cities? Lesson
from "The Green Yards" project in Szczecin, 10-14 May 2005
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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Kowalewski M. (2014), Producing the Space, Contesting the City: Urban Wild Swimming [in:]
Understanding the City: Henri Lefebvre and Urban Studies, ed. Gulcin Lelandais, Newcastle, CSP
(forthcoming)
Kowalewski M., Krolikowska AM. (2011) (eds), Miasto i sacrum (City and Sacred, book in Polish),
Kraków: NOMOS
Kowalewski M. (2011), Visual discourse of HafenCity in Hamburg. Preliminary results of the research
Project, „Annuals of Marine Sociology. Roczniki Socjologii Morskiej”, 2011, no. 1(20) pp. 56-63
Kowalewski M. (2011), 'Tam, gdzie kiedys byl Komitet Wojewodzki'. Czy istnieje wspolna pamiec o
miescie?, ('Where There Was Once The Party's Regional Committee'. Is There A Common Memory Of
The City?), “Przeglad Socjologiczny”, no. 2-3 (60), pp. 343-365
Kowalewski M., Herrmann J., Królikowska A. et. al. (2008), Gotteshäuser sind keine Museen.
Symbolkirchen in Szczecin und Gdansk aus der Perspektive der Kirchenbesucher [in:] Wie roter
Berrnstein. Backsteinkirchen von Kiel bis Kaliningrad. Ihre Kraft in Zeiten religiöser und politischer
Umbrüche, red. W. Grünberg, A. Höner, Dölling und Galitz Verlag, Hamburg, s. 319-335
Kowalewski M., Kowalewski J. (2008), Auf der Suche nach einer neue Definition der Multikulturalität.
Eine qualitative Diagnose zur Differenzierung der gesellchaftlischen Probleme in Stettin [in:] Formen
des sozialen Lebens im multikulturellen Europa. Polnische und deutsche Introspektionen, eds. I.
Kollak, A. Kołodziej-Durnaś, Schibri-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 79-95
Kowalewski M., Królikowska A. (2008), Methodologische Dilemmata von interkultureller
Forschungsprojekte in der Grenzregion. Eine oder mehrere Methodologien? [in:] Flussverbindung.
Polnische Sozialwissenschafter zu den Perspektiven der Oderregion, eds. A. Michalak, J. V.Wedel,
Schibri-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 32-41
MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL BODIES
European Sociological Association (ESA)
Polish Sociological Association (section: urban sociology)
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