Dr. Sebastian Bischoff

Fakultät für Kulturwissenschaften > Historisches Institut > Zeitgeschichte
Former
- Current Projects
Research focus: History of the (far-)right and history of sexualities
- Post-Doc project: Attempts at sexual counterrevolution. Conservative und right-wing perspectives on the Sexual Revolution in West-Germany since1960. An outline of the project can be found here (in German).
- Co-Founding of the Association Sexualities in History, First Conference FU Berlin, May 2019 (program, conference report (in English)), the second annual conference (program, conference report in German) at Mainz University, April 2021, the third annual conference at Vienna University, April 2022 (program, conference report, in German). The forth annual conference will take place at IPU Berlin, 21./22. April 2023. Co-Editor Series "Sexualities in History - Interdisciplinary Studies", Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
- Co-Founding of the Contemporary Historical Working Group Extreme Right. Conferences in February 2019 and February 2020 at the ZZF Potsdam, in July 2022 at the Fritz Bauer Institute Frankfurt. Member of the Zeitgeschichte der Rechten editorial team at Zeitgeschichte Online.
- 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. Funded by DFG, GHI and TU Berlin
Research focus: Memory politics and practices in postmigrant and postcolonial societies
- Scientific researcher, Federal Ministry of Education and Research network project "Histories in Motion. Remembrance Practices, Cultures of History and Historical Learning in German Migration Society"
- 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 (see conference report in German).The anthology is published by Schöningh in 2021.
- Main research fields
- History of right-wing politics, nationalism and post-national ideas
- History of sexualities
- Memory practices and politics in postmigrant and postcolonial societies
- Research on self-perception, images of enemies, stereotypes
- History of the First World War, the German Kaiserreich
- History of German and Belgian Colonialism
- Academic Conferences Organizer
Berlin 4/2023: Forth Annual Meeting of the Association Sexualities in History - in cooperation with Cultural Studies Program at International Psychoanalytic University (IPU) Berlin.
Berlin 9/2022: Belgien, Deutschland und die ‚Anderen‘. Bilder, Diskurse und Praktiken von Diskriminierung, Ausgrenzung und Verfolgung. Sixth Workshop of the Association for Belgian Historical Studies - in cooperation with Langerman Foundation (ALF) / Arthur Langerman Archiv (ALAVA) at the Center for Research on Antisemitism, TU Berlin.
Vienna (Austria) 4/2022: Sozioökonomie der Sexualitäten. Third Annual Meeting of the Association Sexualities in History - in cooperation with the Department of Economic and Social History of Vienna University.
Berlin 12/2021: Antisemitism and Sexuality Reconsidered - in cooperation with the German Historical Institute, Washington DC (GHI) and the Center for Research on Antisemitism, TU Berlin. Convener: Stefanie Schüler-Springorum (Center for Research on Antisemitism, TU Berlin), Anna-Carolin Augustin (GHI Washington), Sebastian Bischoff (Paderborn University), Kristoff Kerl (Feodor Lynen-Fellow, University of Copenhagen). Funded by DFG, GHI, ZfA.
Mainz/Online 4/2021: Theorize this! Second Annual Meeting of the Association Sexualities in History - in cooperation with TOYTOYTOY and the HERA-JRP-project: Disentangling European HIV/AIDS Policies: Activism, Citizenship and Health. Conference report.
Online 9/2020: Historical Research Benelux and Digital History - Workshop of the Association for Belgian Historical Studies together with: Association Netherland-German Studies and Specialised Information Service Benelux / Low Countries Studies (Fachinformationsdienst Benelux / Low Countries). Conference report.
Eupen (Belgium) 10/2019: Fifth Workshop of the Association for Belgian Historical Studies (in cooperation with the Ministry of the German-speaking Community, centre for East-Belgian History (ZOG) and the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History, Université du Luxembourg (C2DH). Conference report.
Paderborn 6/2019: Second Workshop "Histories in Motion. Remembrance Practices, Cultures of History and Historical Learning in German Migration Society".
Berlin 5/2019: First Annual Meeting of the Association Sexualities in History, FU Berlin - in cooperation with FU Berlin and HU Berlin. Conference report.
Paderborn 4/2019: Colonial worlds in Westphalia - Cooperation project with the Verein für Geschichte und Altertumskunde Westfalen, Abt. Paderborn e.V.; Bielefeld postcolonial; Lippisches Landesmuseum Detmold, Museum Hexenbürgermeisterhaus Lemgo, Stadtmuseum Paderborn. The project arose from my main seminar "Paderborn Postkolonial" in the winter semester 2016/17. Conference report. The anthology was published by Schöningh in 2021.
Potsdam 2/2019: Right-wing extremism as a subject of contemporary history and foundation of a working group with Yves Müller, Dr. Dominik Rigoll, Dr. Anke Hoffstadt and Dr. Christoph Schulze, in cooperation with Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam, Moses Mendelssohn Zentrum Potsdam, Forschungsschwerpunkt Rechtsextremismus/Neonazismus at Fachhochschule Düsseldorf and Historischen Seminar der Universität Hamburg. Conference report, see also the coverage in Tageszeitung (taz).
Paderborn 5/2017: "Beyond Binaries and opposing remembrance?". Expert workshop on historical culture and remembrance in a postmigrant society. Funded by the Foundation Remembrance, Responsibility and Future (EVZ).
Paderborn 11/2016: Forth workshop of the working group Belgian Historical Studies (in cooperation with Belgienzentrum (BELZ) and Fakultät für Kulturwissenschaften der Universität Paderborn, sponsored by Universitätsgesellschaft Paderborn and Arbeitsbereich Zeitgeschichte der Universität Paderborn). Conference report.
Berlin 06/2015: "Waterloo liegt in Belgien". Third workshop of the working group Belgian Historical Studies (in cooperation with Centre Marc Bloch)
Cologne 07/2014: "Geheimfavorit Belgien?". Second workshop of the working group Belgian Historical Studies (in cooperation with Universitäts- und Stadtbibliothek Köln, sponsored by Universität zu Köln, Verein KölnAlumni - Freunde und Förderer der Universität e.V., Belgische Generalkonsulat, Vertretungen der Deutschsprachigen Gemeinschaft, der Wallonie und der Föderation Wallonie-Brüssel). Conference report.
Dusseldorf, 7/2013: belgica - terra incognita? Resultate und Perspektiven der historischen Belgienforschung im deutschsprachigen Raum. First workshop of the working group Belgian Historical Studies (in cooperation with Institut für Geschichtswissenschaften II der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, sponsored by Hans-Böckler-Stiftung, Freundeskreis des Historischen Seminars der Universität Düsseldorf, Gesellschaft von Freunden und Förderern der Universität Düsseldorf)
- Göttingen 04/2013: Subjekte in Bewegung, Organisationen in Bewegung? Gewerkschaften und Migration (Hans-Böckler-Stiftung in cooperation with Göttinger Graduiertenschule Gesellschaftswissenschaften, sponsored by Hans-Böckler-Stiftung)
- 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)
- Board and other Memberships
Scientific Advisory Board/Board memberships
- 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
- Cooperation partner of the Forschungsinstitut Gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt, 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" (Project Director: Dr. Sina Arnold)
- Scientific Advisory Board member of the Digital History Project IDEA - INKLUSIVES DIGITALES ERINNERUNGSARCHIV. Migrantinnengeschichte als Teilhabe
- Co-founder and member of Executive Board of the Association Belgian Historical Studies
- Until 2019: Scientific Advisory Board member of the Digital History Project "1919-2019 Le Mans-Paderborn" (Prof. Dr. Stéphane Tison, Université du Maine, Le Mans - Laval - Prof. Dr. Stefan Schreckenberg, University of Paderborn)
- Until 2018: Executive board member of the Center for Belgian Studies, Faculty of Cultural Studies Paderborn (2015-2018)
Academic peer reviews for
- German Federal Ministry of Education and Research
- Belgian Science Policy, BRAIN-be
- Federal Agency for Civic Education
- Jewish Social Studies
- ZRex – Zeitschrift für Rechtsextremismusforschung
Memberships
- Member of the German Historical Association (VHD)
- Member of Villigst Research Forum on National Socialism, Racism and Anti-Semitism

Miscellaneous |
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Since 02/2023 |
Bielefeld University Sebastian Bischoff is leading the project Conservative and (extreme) right-wing perspectives on the sexual revolution in West Germany since the 1960s at Bielefeld University. |
2021 - 02/2023 |
Paderborn University Post-Doctoral Research Fellow and Lecturer in Modern History |
2018 - 2021 |
Paderborn University Research Fellow, BMBF network project "Histories in Motion. Remembrance Practices, Cultures of History and Historical Learning in German Migration Society", the project is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. The University of Hildesheim with Viola Georgi, the Free University Berlin with Martin Lücke, the Georg Eckert Institute Leibniz Institute for International Textbook Research with Riem Spielhaus and Paderborn University with Johannes Meyer-Hamme are involved. |
2018 |
University of Rwanda, Huye Campus (CASS-UR) Winter trimester 2018 DAAD-Guest Lecturer, University of Rwanda, main teaching fields: Memorial Practices, German and Belgian Colonialismus and their Legacies (Working Group: Human remains), Introduction to Comparative Politics |
2016 - 2018 |
Paderborn University Scientific Managing Director of the Department of History and Research Fellow in Modern History April-June 2017 - "Beyond Binaries and opposing remembrance?". Workshop with experts (refugees and non-refugees) on historical culture and remembrance in a postmigrant society. Funded by Foundation Remembrance, Responsibility and Future (EVZ) |
2016 |
Paderborn University PhD in history (with the highest distinction, "summa cum laude"), dissertation on how anti-Belgian imagery in Germany during WWI was used to legitimise the German annexation of Belgium. Hans Böckler Foundation's scholarship, Dusseldorf/German Federal Ministry of Education and Research |
2014 - 2016 |
Paderborn University Research Fellow in Modern history |
2010 - 2014 |
PhD in Modern History, scholarship Hans Böckler Foundation War Aim Belgium. Annexation Debates and National Enemy Images in the German Public Sphere, 1914-1918 |
2008 - 2010 |
Freelance lecturer and publisher Lectures, workshops and seminars for different NGO's and unions |
1999 - 2008 |
Heidelberg University, Humboldt University Berlin and Free University of Berlin Student of Modern History, Sociology, Philosophy and Social Anthropology (absence 2002-2004, Office Director and Research Assistant in the European Parliament). Magister Artium in Modern History, Sociology and Philosophie (Free University of Berlin), overall grade 1,0 |
2002 - 2004 |
European Parliament in Strasbourg, France and Brussels, Belgium Office Director and Research Fellow |
Since 02/2023 |
Bielefeld University Sebastian Bischoff is leading the project Conservative and (extreme) right-wing perspectives on the sexual revolution in West Germany since the 1960s at Bielefeld University. |
2021 - 02/2023 |
Paderborn University Post-Doctoral Research Fellow and Lecturer in Modern History |
2018 - 2021 |
Paderborn University Research Fellow, BMBF network project "Histories in Motion. Remembrance Practices, Cultures of History and Historical Learning in German Migration Society", the project is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. The University of Hildesheim with Viola Georgi, the Free University Berlin with Martin Lücke, the Georg Eckert Institute Leibniz Institute for International Textbook Research with Riem Spielhaus and Paderborn University with Johannes Meyer-Hamme are involved. |
2018 |
University of Rwanda, Huye Campus (CASS-UR) Winter trimester 2018 DAAD-Guest Lecturer, University of Rwanda, main teaching fields: Memorial Practices, German and Belgian Colonialismus and their Legacies (Working Group: Human remains), Introduction to Comparative Politics |
2016 - 2018 |
Paderborn University Scientific Managing Director of the Department of History and Research Fellow in Modern History April-June 2017 - "Beyond Binaries and opposing remembrance?". Workshop with experts (refugees and non-refugees) on historical culture and remembrance in a postmigrant society. Funded by Foundation Remembrance, Responsibility and Future (EVZ) |
2016 |
Paderborn University PhD in history (with the highest distinction, "summa cum laude"), dissertation on how anti-Belgian imagery in Germany during WWI was used to legitimise the German annexation of Belgium. Hans Böckler Foundation's scholarship, Dusseldorf/German Federal Ministry of Education and Research |
2014 - 2016 |
Paderborn University Research Fellow in Modern history |
2010 - 2014 |
PhD in Modern History, scholarship Hans Böckler Foundation War Aim Belgium. Annexation Debates and National Enemy Images in the German Public Sphere, 1914-1918 |
2008 - 2010 |
Freelance lecturer and publisher Lectures, workshops and seminars for different NGO's and unions |
1999 - 2008 |
Heidelberg University, Humboldt University Berlin and Free University of Berlin Student of Modern History, Sociology, Philosophy and Social Anthropology (absence 2002-2004, Office Director and Research Assistant in the European Parliament). Magister Artium in Modern History, Sociology and Philosophie (Free University of Berlin), overall grade 1,0 |
2002 - 2004 |
European Parliament in Strasbourg, France and Brussels, Belgium Office Director and Research Fellow |
- 1. Monographs
Kriegsziel Belgien. Annexionsdebatten und nationale Feindbilder in der deutschen Öffentlichkeit, 1914-1918 [War target Belgium. Debates on annexation and national enemy images in the German public, 1914-1918], Münster/New York: Waxmann Publishing Co., 2018 (= Historische Belgienforschung, 5) (Link) (Table of Contents). Reviews in: Journal of Belgian History XLVIII (2018) 1/2 (in English); Francia-Recensio (2018) 4 (in French); Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire 97 (2019) 2 (in Dutch); Low Countries Historical Review 136 (2021) (in Dutch); Contemporanea. Bulletin d’information de l’Association belge d’histoire contemporaine, XXXVIII (2019) 3 (in French); H-Soz-Kult, 12.03.2019 (in German); sehepunkte 18 (2018), Nr. 7/8 (in German); Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft 66 (2018) 9 (in German); Sozial.Geschichte 25 (2019) (in German); Historische Zeitschrift 310 (2020) 1 (in German); WT. Tijdschrift over de geschiedenis van de Vlaamse beweging 1 (2022) (in Dutch).
Feinde werden. Zur nationalen Konstruktion existenzieller Gegnerschaft: Drei Fallstudien [Becoming enemies. On the National Construction of Existential Enmity: Three Case Studies (with Frank Oliver Sobich), Berlin: Metropol 2015 (Link) (Table of Contents). Reviews in: Journal of Belgian History, XLVI, 2016, 3/4; H-Soz-Kult, 23.07.2018; Contemporanea. Bulletin d’information de l’Association belge d’histoire contemporaine, XXXVIII (2016) 1.
- 2. Editor journal and Edited special issue in peer-reviewed journal
Editor "Contemporary History of the Political Right" of Zeitgeschichte Online (ZOL) - a portal for contemporary historical research. Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam and Humboldt University Berlin (with Dominik Rigoll and Cornelia Siebeck)
Edited special issue in peer-reviewed journal "Body Politics": Mädchen und Sexualität. Fremd- und Selbstentwürfe zwischen Selbstbestimmung und Verletzlichkeit (with Julia König und Dagmar Lieske), forthc. 2022.
- 3. Editor Series
Editor Series "Sexualities in History - Interdisciplinary Studies", Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen (with Dagmar Lieske and Julia König)
Editor Series "Belgian Historical Studies", Waxmann, New York/Münster (with Christoph Jahr, Tatjana Mrowka & Jens Thiel)
- 4. Editor Special Issues and Anthologies
Editor Special Issue
Body Politics, Heft 13 - Jahrgang 9 (2021) Zwischen Autonomie und Verletzlichkeit (with Julia König and Dagmar Lieske) (full-text).
Editor Anthologies
Koloniale Welten in Westfalen (=Studien und Quellen zur Westfälischen Geschichte, Vol. 89), Paderborn: Schöningh 2021 (with Barbara Frey and Andreas Neuwöhner) (Link). Review by Andreas Eckert in Historische Zeitschrift 315 (2022) 1, pp. 253-254; Stephan Conermann in Sehepunkte 23 (2023) 2 [15.02.2023].
„…mit Belgien ist das so eine Sache“. Resultate und Perspektiven der Historischen Belgienforschung (=Historische Belgienforschung, Vol. 9), Münster/New York: Waxmann 2021 (with Christoph Jahr, Tatjana Mrowka & Jens Thiel) (Link).(Table of Content).
"Belgium is a beautiful city"? Resultate und Perspektiven der Historischen Belgienforschung (=Historische Belgienforschung, Vol. 5), Münster: Waxmann 2018 (with Christoph Jahr, Tatjana Mrowka & Jens Thiel) (Link) (Table of Content). Reviews in Journal of Belgian History, XLIX, 2019, 2/3; Revue belge de Philologie et d'Histoire 97 (2019) 2; Francia-Recensio (2018) 3; Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis/Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History 15 (2018) 4.
Belgica - terra incognita? Resultate und Perspektiven der Historischen Belgienforschung (=Historische Belgienforschung, Vol. 1), Münster: Waxmann 2016 (with Christoph Jahr, Tatjana Mrowka & Jens Thiel). (Link) (Table of Content), Reviews: Journal of Belgian History, XLVII, 2017, 2/3; Rheinische Vierteljahrsblätter, 81/2017.
- 5. Journal articles, Anthology contributions and minor works
Journal Articles
Nation und Perversion. Der „Anti-Porno-Anwalt“ Manfred Roeder und sein Übergang in die völkisch-radikalnationalistische Rechte, 1969-1975, in: Geschichte und Gesellschaft (Accepted).
Wa(h)re Sexualität. Antikapitalismus von rechts in den bundesrepublikanischen Pornografie-Debatten um 1970, in: Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft 70 (2022) 11, pp. 928-945.
Marginal(ized) Plurality: An Empirical Conceptualisation of Michael Rothberg’s ‘Multidirectional Memory’ in German Educational Settings (mit Sina Arnold), in: Memory Studies 17 (2024) 4, OnlineFirst: https://doi.org/10.1177/17506980231155562
Historische Fremd- und Selbstentwürfe weiblicher Adoleszenter zwischen Autonomie und Verletzlichkeit (with Julia König and Dagmar Lieske), in: Body Politics 9 (2021) 13: Zwischen Autonomie und Verletzlichkeit, pp. 5-20 (full-text, English abstract).
Pornografie, Sexualität und Antisemitismus. Extrem rechte Traditionslinien des Sexualantisemitismus in den USA (with Kristoff Kerl and Anna-Carolin Augustin), in: Zeitgeschichte-online, November 2021 (full-text).
wie sich ein Jude in der Bundesrepublik im Jahre 1970 verhalten müsse…“ Auseinandersetzungen um „Pornographie“ im Melzer Verlag – ein vergessener Antisemitismusstreit wird 50 (with Kristoff Kerl), in: Jahrbuch für Antisemitismusforschung 29 (2020), pp. 396-421 (full-text).
Sexualitäten in der Geschichte (with Julia König and Dagmar Lieske), in: Sexuologie 27 (2020) 1-2.
‘The independence of Belgium is forfeited...’ Narratives of legitimation in the annexation debates of the German war public, 1914–1918, in: First World War Studies 11 (2020) 2, pp. 161-176, DOI: 10.1080/19475020.2021.1903964.
Spy fever 1914, in: 1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War, ed. by Ute Daniel, Peter Gatrell, Oliver Janz, Heather Jones, Jennifer Keene, Alan Kramer, and Bill Nasson, issued by Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin 2019-03-25, DOI: 10.15463/ie1418.11355
Undoing Nation? Postnationale Zugänge und Praxen in Geschichte und Gegenwart (with Sina Arnold and Jana König), in: Das Argument - Zeitschrift für Philosophie und Sozialwissenschaften 330 (2019), pp. 859-872 (The Argument: Journal for Philosophy and Social Sciences, 2019) (link).
"Guter Genosse, welscher Feind". Die SPD, die Internationale und die Personifizierung der „belgischen Gefahr“ im Ersten Weltkrieg, in: Arbeit – Bewegung – Geschichte. Zeitschrift für historische Studien 17 (2018) 1, pp. 9-26 (link).
Postnationale Potenziale. Praktiken jenseits der Nation (with Sina Arnold and Jana König), in: Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte 68 (2018) 48, pp. 27-33 (full-text).
Wer sind wir denn wieder? Nationale Identität in Krisenzeiten (mit Sina Arnold), in: Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte 66 (2016) 14-15, S. 28-34 (full-text).
Anthology contributions
…von einer Vielzahl von Anläufen, Versuchen und Versuchungen. Vorwort (with Julia König and Dagmar Lieske), in: Elisa Heinrich, Intim und respektabel. Homosexualität und Freundinnenschaft in der deutschen Frauenbewegung um 1900 (Sexualities in History – Sexualitäten in der Geschichte, Bd. 1), Göttingen: Vandenhoeck&Ruprecht 2022, pp. 9-11.
Einführung: Koloniale Welten in Westfalen (with Barbara Frey and Andreas Neuwöhner), in: Sebastian Bischoff, Barbara Frey & Andreas Neuwöhner (Eds.), Koloniale Welten in Westfalen, Paderborn: Schöningh 2021, pp. IX-XXII.
(Niemals) Zurück in die 1950er Jahre. Gender und Sexualität in rechter Geschichtspolitik (with Anna Schiff), in: Anke Hoffstadt, Yves Müller & Anna Schiff (Eds.), Gegenwartsgestrige. Rechte Geschichtspolitik heute, Berlin 2021, pp. 25-33 (full-text).
„Das Leben unserer Kampfgenossen steht uns unbedingt höher als die alte Bibliothek von Löwen“. Die sozialdemokratische Presse Deutschlands und der vermeintliche belgische Franktireur-Krieg, 1914 bis 1918, in: Sebastian Bischoff, Christoph Jahr, Tatjana Mrowka & Jens Thiel (Eds.), Resultate und Perspektiven der Historischen Belgienforschung III, Münster/New York: Waxmann 2021, pp. 87-97.
"…mit Belgien ist das so eine Sache“. Zur Einleitung (with Christoph Jahr, Tatjana Mrowka and Jens Thiel), in: Sebastian Bischoff, Christoph Jahr, Tatjana Mrowka & Jens Thiel (Eds.), Resultate und Perspektiven der Historischen Belgienforschung III, Münster/New York: Waxmann 2021, pp. 7-13.
Experience and Memory of the First World War in Belgium: Comparative and Interdisciplinary Insights (with Christoph Jahr, Tatjana Mrowka & Jens Thiel), Preface of: Geneviève Warland (Ed.), Experience and Memory of the First World War in Belgium. Comparative and Interdisciplinary Insights, Münster/New York: Waxmann 2019, pp. 9-10.
"Furies, spies and fallen women". Gender in German public discourse about Belgium, 1914-1918, in: Felicity Rash, Christophe Declercq (Eds.), The Great War in Belgium and the Netherlands. Beyond Flanders Fields, Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan 2018, pp. 49-64 (link).
„Die größte Summe von Lügen unserer Feinde knüpft sich an das Wort Belgien“. Die deutsche Presse und die Gräuel-Vorwürfe der Entente, 1914-1918, in: Sebastian Bischoff, Christoph Jahr, Tatjana Mrowka & Jens Thiel (Eds.), "Belgium is a beautiful city"? Resultate und Perspektiven der Historischen Belgienforschung, Münster/New York: Waxmann 2018, pp. 55-66 (link).
„Belgium is a beautiful city“ und andere Missverständnisse über Belgien (with Christoph Jahr, Tatjana Mrowka und Jens Thiel), in: Sebastian Bischoff, Christoph Jahr, Tatjana Mrowka & Jens Thiel (Eds.), "Belgium is a beautiful city"? Resultate und Perspektiven der Historischen Belgienforschung, Münster/New York: Waxmann 2018, pp. 7-15 (link) (Table of Content).
Ein Wir geht immer. Nationale Ursprungsmythen im Rechtspopulismus und in der Neuen Rechten (with Sina Arnold), in: Ansgar Drücker, Sebastian Seng (Eds. for IDA e. V.), Made in Germany. Zur Kritik des Nationalismus, Düsseldorf 2017, pp. 79-84 (link).
Als wir noch Wir waren. Die „homogene“ Nation des Rechtspopulismus und der Neuen Rechten in Deutschland (with Sina Arnold), in: Wolfgang Benz (Ed.), Fremdenfeinde und Wutbürger. Verliert die demokratische Gesellschaft ihre Mitte?, Berlin: Metropol 2016, pp. 45-68 (link).
Feindbilder für das Volk. Anti-belgische Motive in deutschen Trivialromanen und Volkstheaterstücken, 1914 bis 1918, in: Sebastian Bischoff, Christoph Jahr, Tatjana Mrowka & Jens Thiel (Eds.), Belgica - terra incognita? Resultate und Perspektiven der Historischen Belgienforschung, Münster/New York: Waxmann 2016, pp. 107-116 (link).
Belgien: Von der "terra incognita" zum "Geheimfavouriten". Eine Einleitung (with Christoph Jahr, Tatjana Mrowka and Jens Thiel), in: Sebastian Bischoff, Christoph Jahr, Tatjana Mrowka & Jens Thiel (Eds.), Belgica - terra incognita? Resultate und Perspektiven der Historischen Belgienforschung, Münster/New York: Waxmann 2016, pp. 9-13 (link).
Griff nach Belgien. Annexionsdebatten der deutschen Kriegsöffentlichkeit, 1914-1918, in: Philipp Siegert, Bérénice Zunino (Eds.), Den Krieg neu denken? Der Erste Weltkrieg im Spiegel neuer Quellen und Methoden. Penser la guerre autrement? Nouvelles sources et méthodes pour écrire l'histoire de la Première Guerre mondiale, Münster: Lit Verlag 2016, pp. 55-65 (link).
Vom "Kulturvolk" zum "Abschaum der Menschheit". Belgien in der deutschen Kriegsöffentlichkeit 1914-1918, in: Krijn Thijs, Rüdiger Haude (Eds.), Grenzfälle. Transfer und Konflikt zwischen Deutschland, Belgien und den Niederlanden im 20. Jahrhundert, Heidelberg: Synchron 2013, pp. 15-39 (link).
"Union Check" - Über rechte Einstellungen bei Gewerkschaftsmitgliedern und emanzipatorische Gegenbestrebungen in der gewerkschaftlichen (Bildungs-) Arbeit, in: Janne Mende, Stefan Müller (Eds.): Emanzipation in der politischen Bildung. Theorien - Konzepte - Möglichkeiten. Schwalbach/Ts: Wochenschau Verlag 2009, pp. 354-378 (link).
"Chinesenpest" in Ostpreußen: Wie die Sozialdemokraten bei den "Hottentotten-Wahlen" 1907 in den östlichen Provinzen um Stimmen warben (with Frank Oliver Sobich). In: Joachim Zeller, Ulrich van der Heyden (Eds.): Kolonialismus hierzulande. Eine Spurensuche in Deutschland. Erfurt: Sutton 2008, pp. 190-194.
„Antiamerikanismus", in: Schröder, I. (Hg.): Weltmacht EU – Ein Handbuch. Hamburg 2005, pp. 169-190.
Ex invidiis unum. Geschichte, Institutionen und politische Kultur der EU (with I. Schröder, F. O. Sobich), in: Schröder, I. (Eds.): Weltmacht EU – Ein Handbuch. Hamburg 2005, pp.. 21-35.
Minor works
Kontinuitäten des Kolonialismus. Was die Geschichte der Wilhelminischen Zeit mit Westfalen zu tun hat (with Barbara Frey and Andreas Neuwöhner), in: Landschaft Westfalen, December 2021, p. 22 (full-text).
Der kurze Sommer des Postnationalen. Über die drohende Rückkehr der Linksliberalen in den Schoß der Nation und Aleida Assmanns Forderung, sie nicht den Rechten zu überlassen (with Sina Arnold), in: taz.am Wochenende, 17.4.2021, p. 15 (full-text).
Wie sich der Blick auf Asien in den letzten vier Jahrhunderten veränderte, in: Belltower News, 5.5.2020 (full-text).
Anti-Asiatischer Rassismus – Was ist das?, in: Amadeu Antonio Foundation, 30.4.2020 (full-text).
„Imagine there’s no countries“ - Nationale Identität in den Flüchtlingsdebatten (with Sina Arnold), in: Die Demokratische Schule. Zeitschrift der Gewerkschaft Erziehung und Wissenschaft Landesverband Bayern Juli/August 2016, pp. 3-4.
"Germany after 1945: A society confronts antisemitism, racism and neo-nazism" [Contribution for the exhibition of the Amadeu Antonio Foundation, 2012].
Die Welt der Lager: Ausgrenzung, soziale Kontrolle und Gewalt in transnationaler Perspektive. June 9th 2011, HSozKult (Humanities - Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte) (full-text).
"Der Mensch als Material". Auch im Südpazifik gaben die deutschen Kolonialtruppen kein Pardon. Review in tageszeitung, January 29./30. 2011 (full-text).
Vom Gelehrtenvolk zur Gelben Gefahr. Deutsche Imaginationen von ChinesInnen bis 1919 (with Frank Oliver Sobich), in: iz3w 305 (2008), pp. 42-45.
„Achtzig Millionen Freunde müsst ihr sein" (mit Kevin Vennemann), in: Ballesterer FM, Heft 21, Wien 2006.