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| Semester | spring semester 2020 |
| Course frequency | Once only |
| Lecturers | Lorena Rizzo (lorena.rizzo@unibas.ch, Assessor) |
| Content | This course explores photography as a historical form and cultural practice for Southern African history and memory. The course investigates how we can value what historical photographs bring to the study of southern African pasts, while addressing the political, ethical and epistemological challenges posed by colonial photography to postcolonial research and scholarship. We will work with photographic archives on Southern Africa kept at the Basler Afrika Bibliographien and develop research projects on selected collections that include textual, visual and audio source material. The aim of the course is to write essays, co-authored by students, about particular photographs and assemble these essays in a small publication. Students will be given the opportunity to go through a careful editorial process, and conceptualise and assume responsibility for the production (layout, editing, review, etc.) of the publication. |
| Bibliography | Wolfram Hartmann, Patricia Hayes, Jeremy Silvester (eds.), The Colonising Camera. Photography in the Making of Namibian History. (Athens, Cape Town, 1999). Kylie Thomas, ‘History of Photography in Apartheid South Africa’, Oxford Reseach Encyclopedia (forthcoming) Christopher Morton & Darren Newbury (eds.), The African Photographic Archive. London, New York, Delhi, Sidney, 2015. |
| Comments | In collaboration with the Archives of the Basler Afrika Bibliographien |
| Language of instruction | English |
| Use of digital media | No specific media used |
| Interval | Weekday | Time | Room |
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No dates available. Please contact the lecturer.
| Modules |
Modul: Areas: Afrika (Master's degree program: European History in Global Perspective) Modul: Areas: aussereuropäisch (Master's degree program: European History (Start of studies before 01.08.2018)) Modul: Fields: Knowledge Production and Transfer (Master's degree program: African Studies) Modul: Fields: Media and Imagination (Master's degree program: African Studies) Modul: Profil: Geschichte Afrikas (Master's degree program: European History (Start of studies before 01.08.2018)) Modul: Sachthemen der Ethnologie (Bachelor's degree subject: Anthropology) Modul: Theorie (Master's degree subject: History) Modul: Theory and General Anthropology (Master's degree subject: Anthropology) |
| 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 |