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Dr. Birte Förster

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1. Faculty of History, Philosophy and Theology / Department of History / Geschichte des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts / Arbeitsbereich

E-Mail
birte.foerster@uni-bielefeld.de  
Phone
+49 521 106-12933  
Phone No. of Secretary
+49 521 106-3221 − Secretary's Details
Office
Gebäude X A3-236 − Locations Map
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Sprechstunden im Sommersemester in der Regel dienstags, 13.30-14:30 Uhr
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30. April und 14. Mai, 16-17 Uhr
29. Mai, 10-12 Uhr
13. Juni, 11-12 Uhr

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2. Faculty of History, Philosophy and Theology / Department of History

3. Faculty of History, Philosophy and Theology / Department of History / Global History, History of Entanglements / Mitglieder

4. Faculty of History, Philosophy and Theology / Department of History / Gesellschaft - Wissen - Umwelt / Mitglieder

5. SFB 1288 "Practices of comparing. Ordering and changing the world"

Associated Member

6. BiSEd-Mitglieder / BiSEd-Mitglieder der Fakultät für Geschichtswissenschaft, Philosophie und Theologie

7. Faculty of History, Philosophy and Theology / Department of History / Global History, History of Entanglements / Speaker

8. Bielefeld University Press BiUP / Steering Committee

Member of the Steering Committee

Office
Gebäude X A3-248 − Locations Map

9. Center for Uncertainty Studies (CeUS)

Curriculum Vitae

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

Current research topics

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.

Memberships and Functions

Member of the Advisory Board of the Internationales Archiv für Sozialgeschichte der deutschen Literatur IASL
Member of the Centre for Uncertainty Studies CeUS
Member of the steering committee of Bielefeld University Press
Association of German Historians
Working Group on Historical Women's and Gender Studies

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