Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - RMZ

Researcher

Current project	Matters of Research Assessment and its Implementation (MAI)
Email	moawadli@hu-berlin.de
Phone number	030-2093-65884
Mailing address	Unter den Linden 6 10099 Berlin
Office address	Schönhauser Allee 10-11 Room 4.32		Abb.: Sarah Wiltschek

Vita

Lise Moawad studied Politics and Public Administration (M.A.) at the Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) and the University of Konstanz and German Studies (M.A.) at the Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV). Both her master theses were devoted to the question of federalism - as a state organisational principle or as a historical fact - using the example of German cultural and educational policy. She then worked for two years for the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MEAE) as a policy officer for language and education cooperation at the French Embassy in Berlin. Since November 2020, Lise Moawad has been working at the Robert K. Merton Centre at HU, first for the project “Diversity and Adaptability of Peer Review”, and then for the project “Matters of Research Assessment and its Implementation (MAI)”. She also started working on her PhD in April 2022 on the question of the recent political uses of social science knowledge in France, Germany, and the UK.

Research interests

• Political sociology
• (Higher) education policies
• Conceptual history
• Literature and politics
• Qualitative methods (discourse and content analysis)

Publications

• Moawad, L. (2022). "A l'ombre du poltergeist. Peeves, de personnage fantôme à ghost character dans la série Harry Potter." Pagaille, 2.
• Moawad, L. & Schenzielorz, C. (2022). "Metamorphoses and performativity. Transformative R&I policies and the norm(alis)ing effect of societal impact." fteval Journal for Research and Technology Policy Evaluation, 53:85-96. ISSN 1726-6629.

Lectures

• Moawad, L. (2023, September). “Wissenschaftsfreiheit” debated: German parliamentary discourses on an essentially contested concept. Talk at the ECPR General Conference, Charles University, Prague.
• Moawad, L. (2023, June). Social Sciences, Societal impact and Agonistic Democracy. Talk at the RMZ Kolloquium, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin.
• Moawad, L., Schendzielorz, C. & Reinhart, M. (2023, June). Societal impact, Language and Ideology. Talk at the Eu-SPRI Annual Conference, University of Sussex, Brighton.
• Moawad, L. (2023, May). Social sciences, their societal impact and the agonistic democracy. Talk at the STS Conference Graz, Hotel Weitzer, Graz.
• Moawad, L. (2023, March). If Prometheus Were a Scholar... Understanding Today’s STS Practices While Rereading Yesterday’s Ancient Myths. Talk at the Literature and Science 1922-2022, Sapienza – Università di Roma, Rom.
• Moawad, L. (2022, November). What do parliaments do to social sciences? A comparative analysis of three PTA offices (France, Germany, UK). Talk at the IParl-Forschungskolloquiums, Institute for Parliamentary Research, Berlin.
• Moawad, L., Schendzielorz, C. & Reinhart, M. (2022, September). Commanding both excellence and impact. A totalitarian attempt to reshape research quality? Talk at the workshop “Unsettling Research Quality” organised by R-QUEST, NIFU, Oslo.
• Moawad, L. (2022, August). Addressing power: from Prince's tutor to political advisor. Talk at the ECPR General Conference 2022, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck.
• Moawad, L. (2022, July). If Prometheus were a scholar... Understanding today’s STS practices while rereading yesterday’s ancient myths. Talk at the EASST conference 2022 | Politics of technoscientific futures, IFEMA North Convention Center, Madrid.
• Moawad, L. (2022, July). When MPs met brainies. A comparative analysis of parliamentarian dispositives towards social sciences produced knowledge (UK, Germany, France). Talk at the 7th ECPR SG Parliaments Conference, Sciences Po, Paris.
• Moawad, L. & Schendzielorz, C. (2022, May). Societal impact: a transformative criterion for transformative policies? Talk at the REvaluation21|22 Conference | Anticipation – Transition – Resilience, Tech Gate Vienna, Vienna.
• Schendzielorz, C. & Moawad, L. (2021, September). "I am no bird; and no net ensnares me". Rearticulating digitalization, academic integrity and research governance agendas. Panel hosted at the EAIR 43rd Annual Forum 2021 | "Transformation Fast and Slow: Quality, Trust and Digitalisation in Higher Education", Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin (online).
• Flink, T., Moawad, L., Reinhart, M., & Schendzielorz, C. (2021, May). When novelty needs nostalgia: 21st century rhetorics in science and policy. Talk at the Nordic STS conference 2021 | STS and the Future as a Matter of Collective Concern, Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen (online).
• Moawad, L. (2016, May). Self-perception and perception of the Other in Franco-German relations: A Comparative Analysis of the Creation of the Office of the Federal Commissioner for Cultural Affairs and Media (BKM) in Germany in 1998. Talk at the Doctoral college "Power and Public Spheres in Germany, France and Europe in a Comparative Perspective", Universität des Saarlandes and IHA, Saarbrucken and Paris.

University courses

SoSe 2022