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73097-01 - Seminar: The Politics of Restitution in Europe and Africa (3 CP)
| Semester | fall semester 2024 |
| Course frequency | Once only |
| Lecturers | Henri-Michel Yéré (h.yere@unibas.ch, Assessor) |
| Content | This course will focus on the restitution of artefacts taken from Africa and disseminated throughout Europe and North America. We would like to understand the ways in which collections came to be constituted in the first place. We will consider the history and context of restitutions from Europe to Africa; and how they took place (or not) within Europe itself. We will consider the field of provenance research, and situate its role in the context of contemporary restitutions. We will think about restitution as a gesture of reparation and analyse reparation within the wider context of the debate opened by the historians of the Transatlantic Slave Trade. We will consider the case of the Benin Bronzes as a paradigmatic instance for the question of restitutions. |
| Bibliography | Felwine Sarr and Bénédicte Savoy, The Restitution of African Cultural Heritage. Toward a New Relational Ethics at https://web.archive.org/web/20190328181703/http://restitutionreport2018.com/sarr_savoy_en.pdf Dan Hicks, The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence, and Cultural Restitution (London: Pluto Press, 2020) |
| Language of instruction | English |
| Use of digital media | No specific media used |
| Interval | Weekday | Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14-täglich | Tuesday | 10.15-14.00 | Missionsstrasse 64a, Seminarraum 00.008 |
Dates
| Date | Time | Room |
|---|---|---|
| Tuesday 24.09.2024 | 10.15-14.00 | Missionsstrasse 64a, Seminarraum 00.008 |
| Tuesday 08.10.2024 | 10.15-14.00 | Verschoben |
| Tuesday 15.10.2024 | 10.15-14.00 | Missionsstrasse 62a, Seminarraum 00.006 |
| Tuesday 22.10.2024 | 10.15-14.00 | Missionsstrasse 64a, Seminarraum 00.008 |
| Tuesday 05.11.2024 | 10.15-14.00 | Missionsstrasse 64a, Seminarraum 00.008 |
| Tuesday 19.11.2024 | 10.15-14.00 | Missionsstrasse 64a, Seminarraum 00.008 |
| Tuesday 03.12.2024 | 10.15-14.00 | Missionsstrasse 64a, Seminarraum 00.008 |
| Tuesday 17.12.2024 | 10.15-14.00 | Missionsstrasse 64a, Seminarraum 00.008 |
| Modules |
Electives Bachelor History: Recommendations (Bachelor's degree subject: History) Modul: Areas: Europa Global (Master's degree program: European History in Global Perspective) Modul: Erweiterung Gesellschaftswissenschaften M.A. (Master's degree subject: Political Science) Modul: Sachthemen der Ethnologie (Bachelor's degree subject: Anthropology) Modul: Theory and General Anthropology (Master's degree subject: Anthropology) Modul: Ungleichheit, Konflikt, Kultur (Master's degree subject: Sociology) Modul: Werk und Kontext (Master's degree program: Art History and Image Theory) Modul: Werk und Kontext (Master's degree subject: Art History) Modul: Wirtschaft, Wissen und Kultur (Bachelor's degree subject: Sociology) Module: Europeanization and Globalization (Master's Studies: European Global Studies) Module: Fields: Governance and Politics (Master's degree program: African Studies) Module: Fields: Knowledge Production and Transfer (Master's degree program: African Studies) Wahlbereich Master Geschichte: Empfehlungen (Master's degree subject: History) |
| Assessment format | continuous assessment |
| 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 | Fachbereich Soziologie |