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Dr. Sebastian Bischoff

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Sebastian Bischoff is leading the project The West German Right and the 'Sexual Revolution' since the 1960s at Bielefeld University. Lecturer at the University of the Bundeswehr Munich (teaching about right-wing extremism and racism). He studied Modern History, Sociology, Philosophy at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin and the Freie Universität Berlin. PhD in history, 'summa cum laude', published in 2018 as Kriegsziel Belgien. Annexionsdebatten und nationale Feindbilder in der deutschen Öffentlichkeit, 1914-1918. 2014-2023 he was Research fellow at the University of Paderborn, 2016-2018 Executive Director of the Institute of History at the University of Paderborn, 2017 EVZ project Beyond Binaries and opposing remembrance?, 2018 DAAD Visiting Lecturer at the University of Rwanda, Huye Campus (CASS-UR), 2018-2021 BMBF project Histories in Motion. Remembrance Practices, Cultures of History and Historical Learning in German Migration Society.

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Co-founder and member of the Association Right-Wing Extremism in Contemporary History
Co-founder and member of the Executive Board of the Association Sexualities in History
Co-founder and member of the Executive Board of the Association for Belgian Historical Studies
Cooperation partner of the Research Institut Social Cohesion, TU Berlin, in the project BER_F_03 - Project of the FGZ Berlin Between Anti-Semitism, Racism and Flight - Multiperspective Approaches to Jews/Judaism, the Middle East Conflict and the Holocaust in the Post-Migrant Society

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Teaching (selected)

A Global History of Nationalism and Post-national Ideas since the 19th Century (Master course)
The History of the Extreme Right in Germany since the Mid-1960s (Bachelor course)
Antisemitism and Sexuality – The gender of an ideology (Bachelor course)
History of sexuality in the U.S. and West-Germany since the Sixties (Bachelor course)
Liberalization Movements and their Counterparts in West Germany in the Second Half of the 20th Century (Bachelor course)
Paderborn postcolonial – a search for traces (Master course)
Introduction to (Digital) Modern and Contemporary History (Bachelor course)
Karl Marx, the formation of the capitalist mode of production and the formation of the socialist movement (Bachelor course)(Bachelor course)
Global history of normativity and misfits (Bachelor course)
Debates on eugenics in Germany and the history of the Nazi "Euthanasia" program (Bachelor course)
German Colonialism (Bachelor course)
City as a Site of Remembrance and Politics of Remembrance (Bachelor course)
For what? Pour quoi? Wofür? Для чего? National war aims in WWI. A comparison (Bachelor course)
West and East Germany's New Social Movements after 1970 (Bachelor course)

Research focus: History of the (far-)right and history of sexualities

Post-Doc project: The West German Right and the 'Sexual Revolution' since the 1960s, abstract.
Co-Editor of the series Sexualities in History - Interdisciplinary Studies, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
Co-Founding of the Association Sexualities in History, the first conference at FU Berlin, May 2019 (program, conference report (in English)), the second annual conference at Mainz University, April 2021 (program, conference report (in German)), the third annual conference at Vienna University, April 2022 (program, conference report (in German)), the forth annual conference at IPU Berlin, April 2023 (program, conference reports (in German):] H-Soz-Kult, Zeitschrift für Sexualforschung, Y - Zeitschrift für atopisches Denken), the fifth annual conference will take place at Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg, April 19/20, 2024, program.
Member of the Zeitgeschichte der Rechten editorial team at Zeitgeschichte Online.
Co-Founding of the Contemporary Historical Working Group Extreme Right.
Conference Antisemitism and Sexuality Reconsidered, December 13-15, 2021, Berlin. Co-Convener in cooperation with the German Historical Institute, Washington DC (GHI) and the Center for Research on Antisemitism, TU Berlin. Conference report (in English) GHI Bulletin 70.

Research focus: Memory politics and practices in postmigrant and postcolonial societies

2018-2021: Federal Ministry of Education and Research network project Histories in Motion. Remembrance Practices, Cultures of History and Historical Learning in German Migration Society
2016-2021: Colonial Worlds in Westphalia - Cooperation project with Bielefeld postcolonial; Lippisches Landesmuseum Detmold, Stadtmuseum Paderborn. The project arose from my seminar "Paderborn Postcolonial" in the winter semester 2016/17, the conference took place in April 2019 at the University of Paderborn (conference report in German). The anthology is published by Schöningh in 2021.