Dr. Sebastian Bischoff

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

• PI of the DFG-funded research project The West German Right and the 'Sexual Revolution', abstract.
• Co-Editor of the series Sexualities in History - Interdisciplinary Studies, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
• Co-Founding of the Association Sexualities in History, the first conference 2019 at FU Berlin (program, conference report (in English)), the second annual conference 2021 at Mainz University (program, conference report (in German)), the third annual conference 2022 at Vienna University (program, conference report (in German)), the forth annual conference 2023 at IPU Berlin (program, conference reports (in German):] H-Soz-Kult, Zeitschrift für Sexualforschung, Y - Zeitschrift für atopisches Denken), the fifth annual conference 2024 at the University Bamberg (program, conference report), the sixth annual conference 2025 at the Research Centre for Contemporary History in Hamburg (FZH) in cooperation with the Institute for Sex Research, Sexual Medicine and Forensic Psychiatry UKE Hamburg-Eppendorf and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sexualforschung (DGfS) (program (in German), conference report (in German)), the seventh annual conference, April 24-25 2026, at the Department of the History, Philosophy and Ethics of Medicine at Dusseldorf University, in cooperation with the Institute of Forensic Psychiatry and Sex Research at University Duisburg-Essen (CfP (in German)
• 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 GHI Washington DC and the Center for Research on Antisemitism Berlin. Special Issue/Forum on “Antisemitism and Sexualities Reconsidered” (with Kristoff Kerl, Anna-Carolin Augustin, contributions by Dagmar Herzog, Sander Gilman et al.), in: Bulletin of the German Historical Institute (2024) 73: 87-158.

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.