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74374-01 - Colloquium: Anthropological Crossroads (2 CP)
| Semester | spring semester 2025 |
| Course frequency | Once only |
| Lecturers | George-Paul Meiu (gp.meiu@unibas.ch, Assessor) |
| Content | The weekly colloquium in social anthropology explores ways of using the ethnographic imagination to better understand the contemporary world order and its shifting cultural, political, and economic trends. Recent ethnographies of late capitalism depict the intersection of main road arteries in urban landscapes as key sites for the imagination, contestation, and actualization of various kinds of new worlds. Our colloquium borrows this idea of the “crossroad” as a locus of myriad actual and virtual possibilities to build a space dedicated to emerging forms of ethnographic imagination. Located on a tri-state boarder, where Anglophone, Francophone, German and other anthropological communities of debate intersect, the colloquium of the Basel Institute of Social Anthropology sets in dialogue scholarship from the global North and the global South, scholarly and public settings, the discipline’s core and its margins. |
| Admission requirements | It is possible to attend individual sessions without being enrolled for this course. |
| Language of instruction | English |
| Use of digital media | No specific media used |
| Interval | Weekday | Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
| wöchentlich | Wednesday | 16.15-18.00 | Pharmaziemuseum, Grosser Hörsaal |
Dates
| Date | Time | Room |
|---|---|---|
| Wednesday 19.02.2025 | 16.15-18.00 | Pharmaziemuseum, Grosser Hörsaal |
| Wednesday 26.02.2025 | 16.15-18.00 | Pharmaziemuseum, Cancelled! |
| Wednesday 26.03.2025 | 16.15-18.00 | Pharmaziemuseum, Grosser Hörsaal |
| Wednesday 02.04.2025 | 16.15-18.00 | Pharmaziemuseum, Grosser Hörsaal |
| Wednesday 09.04.2025 | 16.15-18.00 | Pharmaziemuseum, Grosser Hörsaal |
| Wednesday 23.04.2025 | 16.15-18.00 | Pharmaziemuseum, Grosser Hörsaal |
| Wednesday 30.04.2025 | 16.15-18.00 | Pharmaziemuseum, Grosser Hörsaal |
| Wednesday 07.05.2025 | 16.15-18.00 | Pharmaziemuseum, Grosser Hörsaal |
| Wednesday 14.05.2025 | 16.15-18.00 | Pharmaziemuseum, Grosser Hörsaal |
| Wednesday 21.05.2025 | 16.15-18.00 | Pharmaziemuseum, Grosser Hörsaal |
| Modules |
African Studies: Recommendations (PhD subject: African Studies) History: Recommendations (PhD subject: History) Modul: Ethnographic Research with Field Trip (Master's degree subject: Anthropology) Modul: Forschung (Master's degree program: European History in Global Perspective) Modul: Research Lab Kulturanthropologie (Master's degree subject: Cultural Anthropology) Modul: Theorien und Methodologien der Kulturanthropologie (Master's degree subject: Cultural Anthropology) Module: Changing Societies Lab (Master's degree program: Changing Societies: Migration – Conflicts – Resources) Module: Europeanization and Globalization (Master's Studies: European Global Studies) Module: Research Skills (Master's degree program: African Studies) Module: The Urban across Disciplines (Master's degree program: Critical Urbanisms) |
| Assessment format | continuous assessment |
| Assessment details | Regular attendance. |
| 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 Ethnologie |