International Center for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities (IZEW)

Maria Pawelec

Society, Culture and Technological Change

Maria Pawelec studied Politics and Public Administration and Contemporary European Studies in Konstanz, Istanbul, Bath and Berlin. She then worked for the Robert Bosch Foundation. In 2016, she joined the IZEW as a Research Associate. She is currently working on the project "Technological Innovation: Social Science and Ethical Analyses on Governance (TANGO) ".

Career

Maria Pawelec studied Politics and Public Administration and Contemporary European Studies in Konstanz, Istanbul, Bath and Berlin. In 2014, she completed her Master's degree in Contemporary European Studies with a thesis on the EU military operation at sea to counter piracy off the coast of Somalia (Operation Atalanta). She then worked in the department for “International Relations Europe and its Neighbors” of the Robert Bosch Foundation in Stuttgart. From 2016-2019, she worked as a Research Associate at the IZEW on the project "Ethical implications of IT-export to sub-Saharan Africa (ELISA)". Additionally, she supported the project Privacy-Arena in 2016 and coordinated the preparation of an expert report on behalf of the German Bundestag on the social and psychological impact of technological surveillance in 2017. From 2020, she is working on the project "Technological Innovation: Social Science and Ethical Analyses on Governance (TANGO) ".

Publications

Journal Article
  • Schopp, Kerstin; Schelenz, Laura; Heesen, Jessica; Pawelec, Maria (2019): Ethical Questions of Digitalization in the Global South. Perspectives on Justice and Equality. In: Zeitschrift für Technikfolgenabschätzung in Theorie und Praxis TATuP 28 (2), pp. 11-16.
  • Pawelec, Maria; Grimm, Sonja (2015): Does National Identity Matter? Political Conditionality and the crucial case of Serbia's (Non) Co-operation with the ICTY. In: Journal of Common Market Studies 52 (6), pp. 1290-1306.
Book chapters
  • Baur-Ahrens, Andreas; Hagendorff, Thilo; Pawelec, Maria (2017): Kryptografie. In: Joel Baumann und Jörn Lamla (ed.): Privacy Arena. Kontroversen um Privatheit im digitalen Zeitalter. Kassel: Kassel University Press, pp. 40-55.
  • Baur-Ahrens, Andreas; Hagendorff, Thilo; Pawelec, Maria (2017): Big Data. In: Joel Baumann und Jörn Lamla (ed.): Privacy Arena. Kontroversen um Privatheit im digitalen Zeitalter. Kassel: Kassel University Press, pp. 96-113.
  • Upadhyay, Dinoj Kumar; Pawelec, Maria (2016): State-building and police reform in Afghanistan: EU and US engagement in comparative perspective. In: Ingo Peters (Hg.): The European Union's Foreign Policy in Comparative Perspective: Beyond the "Actorness" and "Power" Debate. London: Routledge, pp. 165-186.
Further contributions

Interviews and media appearances

Audio-Deepfakes: Was, wenn wir unseren Ohren nicht mehr trauen können? (Audio Deepfakes: What happens if we can no longer trust our ears?) Feature by Julius Stucke in Deutschlandfunk Kultur, 3 Dezember 2020 (with Cora Bieß).

Talks and presentations

  • Encouraging the Development of Ethically and Societally ‘Desirable’ Technologies Through Innovation Governance, ECPR Virtual General Conference 2020 (European Consortium for Political Research), virtual event, 27 August 2020 (with Cora Bieß and Alexander Orlowski).
     
  • Governing technology innovation processes for ethically “desirable” societal transformation EASST/4S 2020 conference (European Association for the Study of Science and Technology), Prague/virtual, 18 August 2020 (with Cora Bieß and Alexander Orlowski).

Completed projects

  • ELISA (2016-2019): ‘Ethical Implications of IT-Exports to Sub-Sahara Africa‘
  • Expert report on behalf of the German Bundestag on the social and psychological impact of technological surveillance (2017)
  • Privacy-Arena (2016, BMBF): ‘Research Project for a Cartography and Analysis of the Privacy-Arena’