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74197-01 - Colloquium: Basler Renaissancekolloquium (2 CP)
| Semester | spring semester 2025 |
| Course frequency | Once only |
| Lecturers | Lucas Burkart (lucas.burkart@unibas.ch, Assessor) |
| Content | The 56th Basel Renaissance Colloquium (April 4) focuses upon war in the Renaissance as a phenomenon, a practice, and a cultural formation with powerful implications that extended far beyond the battlefield. Inquiring further into the political, institutional, and aesthetic dynamics and consequences of warfare, we propose to examine war as an explicit feature of the Renaissance, both in the sense of an epochal framework of European history and as a potentially transferable historiographical model. Examining war in this light, a series of questions arise: was there a specificity of ‘Renaissance war’, and, if so, what was its impact on subsequent social, economic, technological, and/or and artistic trends? How might the destructive dynamics of warfare have also served as a vector of social transformation? What can be learned from Renaissance ethical and moral regimes that tolerated or even advanced warfare as a political tool while simultaneously pointing to its dangers? How can we tell histories of organized violence as it was experienced by non-combatants and former combatants: persons displaced and dispossessed by warfare; women who traveled with armies as sex-workers, laundresses, and porters; disabled ex-soldiers, whose bodies testified to the brutality of past military campaigns? |
| Bibliography | The following speakers have confirmed their participation. Prof. Dr. Stephen Bowd (Edinburgh) Prof. Dr. Catherine Fletcher (Manchester) Prof. Dr. Alllison Stielau (London) Details zum Programm unter: https://dg.philhist.unibas.ch/de/forschung/forschungskolloquien/basler-renaissancekolloquium/ |
| Language of instruction | German |
| Use of digital media | No specific media used |
| Interval | Weekday | Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
| unregelmässig | See individual dates | ||
Dates
| Date | Time | Room |
|---|---|---|
| Friday 04.04.2025 | 14.15-19.00 | Kunstgeschichte, Seminarraum 1. Stock 131 |
| Modules |
Doktorat Kunstgeschichte: Empfehlungen (PhD subject: Art History) Doktorat Osteuropäische Geschichte: Empfehlungen (PhD subject: East European History) History: Recommendations (PhD subject: History) Modul: Forschung (Master's degree subject: History) Modul: Forschung (Master's degree program: European History in Global Perspective) |
| Assessment format | continuous assessment |
| Assessment details | Für den Erwerb von Kreditpunkten ist ein Essay zu verfassen, der die drei Referate im Licht des Veranstaltungsthemas sowie der Diskussionen reflektiert und eigene kritische Überlegungen formuliert. Diese sind bis zum 31. Mai 2025 für Studierende der Geschichte zu schicken an wahlweise: Lucas Burkart (lucas.burkart@unibas.ch) Pascal Firges (pascal.firges@unibas.ch) oder Julius Marche (franzjulius.morche@unibas.ch) für Studierende der Kunstgeschichte an wahlweise: Aaron Hyman (aaron.hyman@unibas.ch) oder Aden Kummer (aden.kumler@unibas.ch) |
| Assessment registration/deregistration | Reg.: course registration; dereg.: not required |
| Repeat examination | no repeat examination |
| Scale | Pass / Fail |
| Repeated registration | no repetition |
| Responsible faculty | Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, studadmin-philhist@unibas.ch |
| Offered by | Departement Geschichte |