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77906-01 - Kurs: Ways of Seeing: What Do Pictures Want (3 KP)
| Semester | Frühjahrsemester 2026 |
| Angebotsmuster | unregelmässig |
| Dozierende | Peter Burleigh (p.burleigh@unibas.ch, BeurteilerIn) |
| Inhalt | This course is intended to get you thinking about images and through practice develop an approach to reading images. We will consider closely how images can be seen to reveal not only their visual properties but also see and be seen to reflect and inflect the social and the political. We will start by following 4 lectures given by John Berger in the TV series "Ways of Seeing". Berger’s 25-minute broadcasts are seminal (1972) in practising how to read paintings in particular, but his tools are not exclusive to fine art and are broadly applicable. A second focus will follow picture theory of WTJ Mitchell, especially his book "What do Pictures Want" (2005), as well as his more recent monograph "Image Science" (2015). Finally, we will read writers who address reading images from their affect to the economy of their circulation: Annette Kuhn, Kathleen Stewart, and Sara Ahmed. Each week there will a shared reading of your own short writing in response to these scholarly inputs. You can expect to write about 200 words per week. Overall, we will also be considering how images themselves seem to have agency and determine the ways they can be seen and circulated. To this end, we follow Mitchell’s question of “what do pictures want?”. |
| Lernziele | The course is designed to discuss ways to read images, and then in a second step of this reflection to write about images, encouraging the following specific aspects: making a statement of your own position; drawing out a relation between your own ideas and a scholarly environment; developing your position in relation to the scholarly discourse. |
| Literatur | A list of readings will be offered at the beginning of the course, including John Berger, Annette Kuhn, Kathleen Stewart, Sara Ahmed, WTJ Mitchell. |
| Teilnahmevoraussetzungen | None |
| Anmeldung zur Lehrveranstaltung | Please register on https://services.unibas.ch by February 6th. |
| Unterrichtssprache | Englisch |
| Einsatz digitaler Medien | kein spezifischer Einsatz |
| Intervall | Wochentag | Zeit | Raum |
|---|---|---|---|
| wöchentlich | Mittwoch | 10.15-12.00 | Kollegienhaus, Seminarraum 107 |
Einzeltermine
| Datum | Zeit | Raum |
|---|---|---|
| Mittwoch 18.02.2026 | 10.15-12.00 Uhr | Kollegienhaus, Seminarraum 107 |
| Mittwoch 25.02.2026 | 10.15-12.00 Uhr | Fasnachtsferien |
| Mittwoch 04.03.2026 | 10.15-12.00 Uhr | Kollegienhaus, Seminarraum 107 |
| Mittwoch 11.03.2026 | 10.15-12.00 Uhr | Kollegienhaus, Seminarraum 107 |
| Mittwoch 18.03.2026 | 10.15-12.00 Uhr | Kollegienhaus, Seminarraum 107 |
| Mittwoch 25.03.2026 | 10.15-12.00 Uhr | Kollegienhaus, Seminarraum 107 |
| Mittwoch 01.04.2026 | 10.15-12.00 Uhr | Kollegienhaus, Seminarraum 107 |
| Mittwoch 08.04.2026 | 10.15-12.00 Uhr | Kollegienhaus, Seminarraum 107 |
| Mittwoch 15.04.2026 | 10.15-12.00 Uhr | Kollegienhaus, Seminarraum 107 |
| Mittwoch 22.04.2026 | 10.15-12.00 Uhr | Kollegienhaus, Seminarraum 107 |
| Mittwoch 29.04.2026 | 10.15-12.00 Uhr | Kollegienhaus, Seminarraum 107 |
| Mittwoch 06.05.2026 | 10.15-12.00 Uhr | Kollegienhaus, Seminarraum 107 |
| Mittwoch 13.05.2026 | 10.15-12.00 Uhr | Kollegienhaus, Seminarraum 107 |
| Mittwoch 20.05.2026 | 10.15-12.00 Uhr | Kollegienhaus, Seminarraum 107 |
| Mittwoch 27.05.2026 | 10.15-12.00 Uhr | Kollegienhaus, Seminarraum 107 |
| Module |
Modul: Introduction to Academic Communication in English (Bachelor Studienfach: Englisch) |
| Prüfung | Lehrveranst.-begleitend |
| Hinweise zur Prüfung | Weekly writing assignments of circa 200 words |
| An-/Abmeldung zur Prüfung | Anmelden: Belegen; Abmelden: nicht erforderlich |
| Wiederholungsprüfung | keine Wiederholungsprüfung |
| Skala | Pass / Fail |
| Belegen bei Nichtbestehen | beliebig wiederholbar |
| Zuständige Fakultät | Philosophisch-Historische Fakultät, studadmin-philhist@unibas.ch |
| Anbietende Organisationseinheit | Fachbereich Englische Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft |