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74916-01 - Practical course: Bodies That Matter: Human Remains and Their Afterlives (3 CP)
| Semester | spring semester 2025 |
| Course frequency | Once only |
| Lecturers | Lorena Rizzo (lorena.rizzo@unibas.ch, Assessor) |
| 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. In this course, which complements the lecture with the same title (LV 71092) we will read and discuss texts proposed by the respective guests. |
| Admission requirements | Teilnahme an der gleichnamigen Vorlesung Bodies that Matter LV 71092 |
| Language of instruction | English |
| Use of digital media | No specific media used |
| Interval | Weekday | Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
| wöchentlich | Monday | 14.15-16.00 | Rheinsprung 21, Seminarraum 00.004 |
Dates
| Date | Time | Room |
|---|---|---|
| Monday 17.02.2025 | 14.15-16.00 | Rheinsprung 21, Seminarraum 00.004 |
| Monday 24.02.2025 | 14.15-16.00 | Rheinsprung 21, Seminarraum 00.004 |
| Monday 03.03.2025 | 14.15-16.00 | Rheinsprung 21, Seminarraum 00.004 |
| Monday 10.03.2025 | 14.15-16.00 | Fasnachstferien |
| Monday 17.03.2025 | 14.15-16.00 | Rheinsprung 21, Seminarraum 00.004 |
| Monday 24.03.2025 | 14.15-16.00 | Rheinsprung 21, Seminarraum 00.004 |
| Monday 31.03.2025 | 14.15-16.00 | Rheinsprung 21, Seminarraum 00.004 |
| Monday 07.04.2025 | 14.15-16.00 | Rheinsprung 21, Seminarraum 00.004 |
| Monday 14.04.2025 | 14.15-16.00 | Rheinsprung 21, Seminarraum 00.004 |
| Monday 21.04.2025 | 14.15-16.00 | Ostern |
| Monday 28.04.2025 | 14.15-16.00 | Rheinsprung 21, Seminarraum 00.004 |
| Monday 05.05.2025 | 14.15-16.00 | Rheinsprung 21, Seminarraum 00.004 |
| Monday 12.05.2025 | 14.15-16.00 | Rheinsprung 21, Seminarraum 00.004 |
| Monday 19.05.2025 | 14.15-16.00 | Rheinsprung 21, Seminarraum 00.004 |
| Monday 26.05.2025 | 14.15-16.00 | Rheinsprung 21, Seminarraum 00.004 |
| Modules |
Modul: Archive / Medien / Theorien (Bachelor's degree subject: History) Modul: Areas: Afrika (Master's degree program: European History in Global Perspective) 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: Theorie (Master's degree subject: History) Module: Fields: Knowledge Production and Transfer (Master's degree program: African Studies) Module: Fields: Media and Imagination (Master's degree program: African Studies) |
| 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 | Zentrum für Afrikastudien |