Frau Maria del Carmen Mayer

Positions

Since 2019 Research Associate in Conflict Sociology, Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University

Education

Since 2020 PhD Candidate at Bielefeld Graduate School in Sociology & History (BGHS)

2018 Master of Arts in Political Science, Johann Wolfgang Goethe- Universität, Frankfurt am Main

2013 Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, Freie Universität, Berlin

Teaching

WS 19/20: 'Crisis and Social Movements' (MA- Course)
SoSe 20: 'The City and Social Movements' (MA- Course)
WS 20/21: 'Crisis and Social Movements' (MA- Course); 'Introduction to Political Science' (BA- Course, Exercise)

Conference Presentations

2020

Co- Host and Discussant: Panel on 'Political Mobilization in Times of Growing Polarization', Section
'Current Research and Challenges on Political Participation and Mobilization' at ECPR General Conference, Innsbruck

'Strategies of Transformation - Selforganization & Solidaritynetworks in the Covid-19 pandemic in Milan' Selected Paper at PhD mentoring session, ECPR/ESA midterm conference on social movements 'Democratic struggles: contention, social movements and democracy' at University of Tartu, Tartu

2019

'A Reflection on Marginality, Localised Political Organisation and Class Consciousness for the Praxis of a Neighborhood Committee in Milan' Paper for the International Conference 'Class without consciousness - Politics of fragmented class identities' at Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence

2018

'Resistant Territories. Activist Research and Reflection on the Practice of a Neigbourhood Comittee in Milan' Presentation at the Annual Conference 'Context of local Protest' of the Institut für Protest- und Bewegungsforschung (IPB), Berlin

'Resistant Territories - Reflections on Activist Research' Presentation at the DAAD- Workhshop 'Everyday Practices of Solidarity. Relational Learning Under Conditions of Multiple Crises' at the HafenCity University, Hamburg