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| Semester | fall semester 2020 |
| Course frequency | Once only |
| Lecturers | Laura Ritter (laura.ritter@unibas.ch, Assessor) |
| Content | This year's BGSH-Master Class entitled "Rethinking Key History Concepts in 2020: Modernity and Agency", will be held by Prof. Dr. Lynn M. Thomas (University of Washington). In 2009 and 2016, Thomas published two essays on the historical concepts of modernity and agency. This master class will reconsider these essays in light of writings on these two concepts by historians and anthropologists since then and in light of the global provocations posed by COVID-19. How have historians and anthropologists rethought modernity and agency over the past decade? In what ways is that rethinking useful for understanding our current pandemic as a historical episode and trans-regional process? In what ways might our current circumstances underscore the inadequacies of prior historical approaches? |
| Comments | Lynn M. Thomas is a Professor of History at the University of Washington, Seattle where she is also an adjunct faculty member in Anthropology and Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies. She is the author of Beneath the Surface: A Transnational History of Skin Lighteners (2020), Politics of the Womb: Women, Reproduction, and the State in Kenya (2003), co-editor of The Modern Girl Around the World: Consumption, Modernity, and Globalization (2008) and Love in Africa (2009), and a former co-editor of the Journal of African History (2010-15). All participants are kindly asked to also attend the Basel History Lecture by Lynn M. Thomas entitled "A Layered Approach: Skin Color and Race in African History”, which will take place via ZOOM as well. |
| Admission requirements | Mitglieder der BGSH und Doktorierende der Geschichte. |
| Course application | Anmeldung: neben MOnA zusätzlich über https://bgsh.geschichte.unibas.ch/registration Bitte beachten Sie die dort angegebenen Fristen, die von den Belegfristen abweichen können. |
| 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 |
Doktorat Osteuropäische Geschichte: Empfehlungen (PhD subject: East European History) History: Recommendations (PhD 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 | Departement Geschichte |