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71092-01 - Lecture: Bodies that matter: menschliche Überreste und deren Nachleben (2 CP)
| Semester | spring semester 2025 |
| Course frequency | Once only |
| Lecturers |
Aden Kumler (aden.kumler@unibas.ch)
Lorenza Mondada (lorenza.mondada@unibas.ch, Assessor) Lorena Rizzo (lorena.rizzo@unibas.ch) |
| Content | Human remains have long attracted scholarly and public interest. Today, we encounter human remains in the most diverse settings, from battle fields and graveyards to museum storage rooms and exhibition spaces. Accordingly, to establish their status as dead persons, unidentified victims, relics, generic bodies for scientific research, trophies or museum exhibits is a contentious matter, both in the past and in the present. This Ringvorlesung explores, questions, and problematizes the multiple ways in which human remains figure in the material, discursive and representational practices of academic disciplines (among them medicine, forensic science, archaeology, anatomy, history – to name but a few), public institutions (including museums and mortuaries), as well as in cultural and religious practice, memory work, and various fora of conflict resolution. The Ringvorlesung consists of a series of lectures by scholars from diverse areas of specialization within the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, each one offering a specific disciplinary, empirical and conceptual perspective on how to think with and about human remains. |
| Comments | The Ringvorlesung will begin the first week of the semester: 17.2. The languages will be English and German. Each session will be presented by a different scholar; the week after each session will be further discussed in the practical course of Lorena Rizzo, on Monday 14h-16h. see (https://vorlesungsverzeichnis.unibas.ch/en/course-directory?id=292102), Students who want to go deeper on the topic can register there too (this is fully optional). |
| Language of instruction | English |
| Use of digital media | No specific media used |
| Course auditors welcome |
| Interval | Weekday | Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
| wöchentlich | Monday | 18.15-20.00 | Kollegienhaus, Hörsaal 102 |
Dates
| Date | Time | Room |
|---|---|---|
| Monday 17.02.2025 | 18.15-20.00 | Kollegienhaus, Hörsaal 102 |
| Monday 24.02.2025 | 18.15-20.00 | Kollegienhaus, Hörsaal 102 |
| Monday 03.03.2025 | 18.15-20.00 | Kollegienhaus, Hörsaal 102 |
| Monday 10.03.2025 | 18.15-20.00 | Fasnachstferien |
| Monday 17.03.2025 | 18.15-20.00 | Kollegienhaus, Hörsaal 102 |
| Monday 24.03.2025 | 18.15-20.00 | Kollegienhaus, Hörsaal 102 |
| Monday 31.03.2025 | 18.15-20.00 | Kollegienhaus, Hörsaal 102 |
| Monday 07.04.2025 | 18.15-20.00 | Kollegienhaus, Hörsaal 102 |
| Monday 14.04.2025 | 18.15-20.00 | Kollegienhaus, Hörsaal 102 |
| Monday 21.04.2025 | 18.15-20.00 | Ostern |
| Monday 28.04.2025 | 18.15-20.00 | Kollegienhaus, Hörsaal 102 |
| Monday 05.05.2025 | 18.15-20.00 | Kollegienhaus, Hörsaal 102 |
| Monday 12.05.2025 | 18.15-20.00 | Kollegienhaus, Hörsaal 102 |
| Monday 19.05.2025 | 18.15-20.00 | Kollegienhaus, Hörsaal 102 |
| Monday 26.05.2025 | 18.15-20.00 | Kollegienhaus, Hörsaal 102 |
| Modules |
Aufbaumodul (Teil C) (Transfakultäre Querschnittsprogramme im freien Kreditpunkte-Bereich) Basismodul (Teil A) (Transfakultäre Querschnittsprogramme im freien Kreditpunkte-Bereich) Doctorate Biomedical Ethics: Recommendations (PhD subject: Biomedical Ethics) Electives Bachelor History: Recommendations (Bachelor's degree subject: History) Modul: Du système linguistique à la parole situèe: Contextes (Bachelor's degree subject: French Language and Literature) Modul: Epochenübergreifende Fragestellungen (Bachelor's degree subject: Art History) Modul: Forschungspraxis und Vertiefung (Master's degree program: Language and Communication) Modul: Interphilologie: Sprachwissenschaft BA (Bachelor's degree subject: English) Modul: Interphilologie: Sprachwissenschaft BA (Bachelor's degree subject: German Language and Literature) Modul: Interphilologie: Sprachwissenschaft BA (Bachelor's degree subject: French Language and Literature) Modul: Interphilologie: Sprachwissenschaft BA (Bachelor's degree subject: Spanish Language and Literature) Modul: Interphilologie: Sprachwissenschaft BA (Bachelor's degree subject: Italian Language and Literature) Modul: Interphilologie: Sprachwissenschaft BA (Bachelor's degree subject: Nordic Philology (Start of studies before 01.08.2022)) Modul: Interphilologie: Sprachwissenschaft BA (Bachelor's degree subject: Nordic Philology) Modul: Interphilologie: Sprachwissenschaft MA (Master's degree subject: Slavic Studies) Modul: Interphilologie: Sprachwissenschaft MA (Master's degree subject: English) Modul: Interphilologie: Sprachwissenschaft MA (Master's degree subject: German Language and Literature) Modul: Interphilologie: Sprachwissenschaft MA (Master's degree subject: French Language and Literature) Modul: Interphilologie: Sprachwissenschaft MA (Master's degree subject: Spanish Language and Literature) Modul: Interphilologie: Sprachwissenschaft MA (Master's degree subject: Italian Language and Literature) Modul: Interphilologie: Sprachwissenschaft MA (Master's degree subject: Latin Philology) Modul: Interphilologie: Sprachwissenschaft MA (Master's Studies - Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences) Modul: Sachthemen der Ethnologie (Bachelor's degree subject: Anthropology) Modul: Spécialisation en linguistique française (Master's degree subject: French Language and Literature) Modul: Sprache als Prozess (Master's degree program: Language and Communication) Modul: Sprache und Gesellschaft (Master's degree program: Language and Communication) Modul: Transfer: Europa interdisziplinär (Master's degree program: European History in Global Perspective) Modul: Vertiefung in Altertumswissenschaften (Bachelor's degree subject: Ancient Civilizations) Modul: Vertiefung in Altertumswissenschaften (Bachelor's degree program: Ancient Civilizations) Modul: Werk und Kontext (Master's degree subject: Art History) Modul: Werk und Kontext (Master's degree program: Art History and Image Theory) Module: Fields: Knowledge Production and Transfer (Master's degree program: African Studies) Module: Fields: Media and Imagination (Master's degree program: African Studies) Wahlbereich Master Geschichte: Empfehlungen (Master's degree subject: History) |
| Assessment format | record of achievement |
| Assessment details | On 26.5. there will be an exam during the time slot of the Ringvorlesung (18h15-20h). |
| Assessment registration/deregistration | Reg.: course registration; dereg.: not required |
| Repeat examination | one repetition, repetition counts |
| Scale | Pass / Fail |
| Repeated registration | no repetition |
| Responsible faculty | Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, studadmin-philhist@unibas.ch |
| Offered by | Fachbereich Französische Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft |