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| Semester | fall semester 2020 |
| Course frequency | Once only |
| Lecturers |
Kadiatou Nenein Diallo (k.diallo@unibas.ch)
Giorgio Miescher (giorgio.miescher@unibas.ch) Lorena Rizzo (lorena.rizzo@unibas.ch, Assessor) |
| Content | The Visual History Lab (VHL) at the Centre for African Studies takes place yearly. It is a learning format, which allows students to spend one week working intensively on a particular topic. The lab ends with a public event, which students organise themselves. The Visual History Lab 2020 is concerned with the Ernst & Ruth Dammann Collection at the Basler Afrika Bibliographien. During their research in Namibia in the 1950s, the Dammanns made numerous sound recordings of African languages and numerous photographs. Given its material richness and its intermediality the Dammann collection is one of the most interesting and complex collection on Namibia in Basel. During the VHL we will use this collection to raise questions of colonial knowledge production, media and mediation, and disciplinary epistemology. We will explore how the collection of photographs and sound recordings raise questions about language, identity, land and colonial power, and configure some of the key concepts of African social, cultural and historical analysis, among them agency, voice, gender and embodiment. We will conclude our seminar with a public event, in which we present the results of our engagements with the photographs, sound recordings, and the written records in the Dammann collection. The students will develop the format of the event. |
| Bibliography | Elizabeth Edwards, Raw Histories. Photography, Anthropology, and Museums. Oxford, New York, 2001. Anette Hoffmann, ‘Introduction: Listening to Sound Archives’, Social Dynamics, 41, 1, 2015: 73-83. Wolfram Hartmann, Jeremy Silvester, Patricia Hayes, The Colonising Camera. Photographs in the Making of Namibian History. Cape Town, 1998. |
| Comments | The course is lectured by Kadiatou Diallo, Giorgio Miescher, Lorena Rizzo, in collaboration with Marcel Mayer (independent artist) |
| 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: Interdisciplinary and Applied African Studies (Master's degree program: African Studies) Modul: Profil: Geschichte Afrikas (Master's degree program: European History (Start of studies before 01.08.2018)) 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 | Zentrum für Afrikastudien |