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| Semester | Herbstsemester 2024 |
| Angebotsmuster | einmalig |
| Dozierende | Elizabeth Mesok (elizabeth.mesok@unibas.ch, BeurteilerIn) |
| Inhalt | This course examines the role of race and gender in imperial wars beginning in the mid-19th century. Rather than a comprehensive overview of imperialism and empire, the course focuses on specific wars that illustrate the value and utility of race and gender to particular tactics prominently used in maintaining empire, including but not limited to counterinsurgency, counterterrorism, counterrevolution, and imperial policing. We will read scholarly literature, memoirs, and prose that fit within a postcolonial framework of “writing back,” offering alternative accounts of both well- and lesser-known conflicts from the perspective of the subjects of imperialism and through the analytics of race and gender. The course is intended to be an advanced course meant to stimulate intellectual and theoretical curiosities in how to think differently about war. Rather than a lecture-format, the course should be discussion-based with all students participating in the days’ conversation. The course is not meant foster debates about the wars, necessarily, but to ask critical questions about what role race and gender play in the enactment and memorialization of imperial war. Possible wars that will be discussed include, but are not limited to: the Battle of Little Bighorn (1864); the Spanish American War (1898); the Boer War (1899-1902); Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905); Nazi Germany’s invasion and occupation of Poland (1939); the Jewish insurgency in mandatory Palestine (1944-1948); the Malayan Emergency (1948-1960); the Mau Mau uprising (1952-1960); the Algerian War (1954-1962); the Vietnam War (1955-1975); the Falkland Islands War (1982); and the U.S. led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan (2001-2021). Ultimately, this course is intended to interrogate concepts such as imperialism, empire, and decolonization, and what counts as an imperial war? And, how do empires end and how do they live on? |
| Teilnahmebedingungen | The number of students in the course cannot exceed 30 students. In the event that more than 30 students register, decisions about admission will be made on the basis of discipline and whether the student is a BA or an MA student. Priority will be given to students in Gender Studies (MA and BA) Changing Societies, and European Global Studies, respectively. BA students from disciplines other than Gender Studies will only be permitted if space allows. |
| Unterrichtssprache | Englisch |
| Einsatz digitaler Medien | kein spezifischer Einsatz |
| Intervall | Wochentag | Zeit | Raum |
|---|---|---|---|
| wöchentlich | Donnerstag | 14.15-16.00 | Rheinsprung 21, Seminarraum 00.004 |
| Datum | Zeit | Raum |
|---|---|---|
| Donnerstag 19.09.2024 | 14.15-16.00 Uhr | Rheinsprung 21, Seminarraum 00.004 |
| Donnerstag 26.09.2024 | 14.15-16.00 Uhr | Rheinsprung 21, Seminarraum 00.004 |
| Donnerstag 03.10.2024 | 14.15-16.00 Uhr | Rheinsprung 21, Seminarraum 00.004 |
| Donnerstag 10.10.2024 | 14.15-16.00 Uhr | Rheinsprung 21, Seminarraum 00.004 |
| Donnerstag 17.10.2024 | 14.15-16.00 Uhr | Rheinsprung 21, Seminarraum 00.004 |
| Donnerstag 24.10.2024 | 14.15-16.00 Uhr | Rheinsprung 21, Seminarraum 00.004 |
| Donnerstag 31.10.2024 | 14.15-16.00 Uhr | Rheinsprung 21, Seminarraum 00.004 |
| Donnerstag 07.11.2024 | 14.15-16.00 Uhr | Rheinsprung 21, Seminarraum 00.004 |
| Donnerstag 14.11.2024 | 14.15-16.00 Uhr | Rheinsprung 21, Seminarraum 00.004 |
| Donnerstag 21.11.2024 | 14.15-16.00 Uhr | Rheinsprung 21, Seminarraum 00.004 |
| Donnerstag 28.11.2024 | 14.15-16.00 Uhr | Rheinsprung 21, Seminarraum 00.004 |
| Donnerstag 05.12.2024 | 14.15-16.00 Uhr | Rheinsprung 21, Seminarraum 00.004 |
| Donnerstag 12.12.2024 | 14.15-16.00 Uhr | Rheinsprung 21, Seminarraum 00.004 |
| Donnerstag 19.12.2024 | 14.15-16.00 Uhr | Rheinsprung 21, Seminarraum 00.004 |
| Module |
Modul: Conflicts and Peacebuilding (Master Studiengang: Changing Societies: Migration – Conflicts – Resources ) Modul: Theorien der Geschlechterforschung (Master Studienfach: Geschlechterforschung) Modul: Transfer: Europa interdisziplinär (Master Studiengang: Europäische Geschichte in globaler Perspektive ) Modul: Vertiefung Themenfelder der Geschlechterforschung (Master Studienfach: Geschlechterforschung) Vertiefungsmodul Global Europe: Friedens- und Konfliktforschung (Masterstudium: European Global Studies) |
| Leistungsüberprüfung | Lehrveranst.-begleitend |
| An-/Abmeldung zur Leistungsüberprüfung | Anmelden: Belegen; Abmelden: nicht erforderlich |
| Wiederholungsprüfung | keine Wiederholungsprüfung |
| Skala | Pass / Fail |
| Wiederholtes Belegen | nicht wiederholbar |
| Zuständige Fakultät | Philosophisch-Historische Fakultät, studadmin-philhist@unibas.ch |
| Anbietende Organisationseinheit | Fachbereich Gender Studies |