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Sprechstunden während der vorlesungsfreien Zeit (via Zoom)
23. Juli 2024
19. August 2024
3. und 17. September 2024
jeweils 17.00-18.30 Uhr
Member of the Steering Committee
since 10/2023 Acting Professor for 19th and 20th Century History
since 4/2021 Spokesperson of the profile area Global and Interdependence History
since 4/2020 Associate member of the SFB 1288 "Practices of Comparison"
since 1/2020 Academic Senior Councillor at the Department of History, Bielefeld University
4-12/2019 Research Associate at the Institute for the History of Medicine and Medical Ethics, Charité Berlin
10/2017-3/2019 Acting Professor of Modern and Contemporary History, University of Bremen
10/2015-9/2016 Research Fellow of the Gerda Henkel Foundation
4/2008-2/2016 Editorial director of the journal Neue Politische Literatur
04/2008-9/2017 Research assistant at the Institute for History, TU Darmstadt
02/2008 Doctorate/PhD studies at the University of Giessen
Birte Förster's current research interests are in the fields of African decolonisation, the global history of water energy production, the cultural history of the political, and media and gender history. She is also interested in fictional constructions of the past.
Member of the advisory board of the International Archive for the Social History of German Literature IASL
Member of the Centre for Uncertainty Studies CeUS
Member of the steering committee of Bielefeld University Press
Association of Historians in Germany
Working Group for Historical Gender Studies