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| Semester | spring semester 2021 |
| Course frequency | Once only |
| Lecturers |
Kadiatou Nenein Diallo (k.diallo@unibas.ch)
Lorena Rizzo (lorena.rizzo@unibas.ch, Assessor) |
| Content | Africa is paradoxically posited as both an ‘insular and desperate place’ and as an auspicious site of ‘Africa rising’ or ‘African renaissance’. What stance might we assume in the face of such an ensemble of antagonist verdicts and diagnoses, which are rendered frequently as indisputable or even inescapable? How do we provide counterpoints to the pronouncements that dominate public discourse in the global North? These questions are at the heart of an edited volume entitled African Futures. Essays on Crisis, Emergence and Possibility. Therein, outstanding scholars of Africa explore how particular senses and experiences of time, potentiality and emergence, along with feelings of incapacity or impossibility come together to make certain futures actualisable and inhabitable – and others not at all. We will read a selection of essays from African Futures, which will serve as discussion basis for 3 thematic public events on • Crises & Futures • Mobilities & Futures • Possibilities & Futures For these events and the conversations we wish to stimulate, the students will select and invite contributors to African Futures and personalities who work in the arts and culture and/or activist and civil society groups or NGOs. Due to the Corona pandemic, these events will most probably take place online. |
| Bibliography | Brian Goldstone & Juan Obarrio (eds.), African Futures. Essays on Crisis, Emergence and Possibility. (Chicago & London, 2016) |
| Language of instruction | English |
| Use of digital media | No specific media used |
| Interval | Weekday | Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
| wöchentlich | Thursday | 10.00-12.00 | Alte Universität, Seminarraum -201 |
| Date | Time | Room |
|---|---|---|
| Thursday 04.03.2021 | 10.00-12.00 | --, -- |
| Thursday 11.03.2021 | 10.00-12.00 | --, -- |
| Thursday 18.03.2021 | 10.00-12.00 | --, -- |
| Thursday 25.03.2021 | 10.00-12.00 | --, -- |
| Thursday 01.04.2021 | 10.00-12.00 | Ostern |
| Thursday 08.04.2021 | 10.00-12.00 | - Online Präsenz -, -- |
| Thursday 15.04.2021 | 10.00-12.00 | - Online Präsenz -, -- |
| Thursday 22.04.2021 | 10.00-12.00 | - Online Präsenz -, -- |
| Thursday 29.04.2021 | 10.00-12.00 | - Online Präsenz -, -- |
| Thursday 06.05.2021 | 10.00-12.00 | - Online Präsenz -, -- |
| Thursday 13.05.2021 | 10.00-12.00 | Auffahrt |
| Thursday 20.05.2021 | 10.00-12.00 | - Online Präsenz -, -- |
| Thursday 27.05.2021 | 10.00-12.00 | Alte Universität, Seminarraum -201 |
| Thursday 03.06.2021 | 10.00-12.00 | Alte Universität, Seminarraum -201 |
| Modules |
Electives Bachelor History: Recommendations (Bachelor's degree subject: History) Modul: Areas: Afrika (Master's degree program: European History in Global Perspective) Modul: Erweiterung Gesellschaftswissenschaften M.A. (Master's degree subject: Political Science) Modul: Fields: Knowledge Production and Transfer (Master's degree program: African Studies) Modul: Fields: Media and Imagination (Master's degree program: African Studies) Modul: Sachthemen der Ethnologie (Bachelor's degree subject: Anthropology) Modul: Theory and General Anthropology (Master's degree subject: Anthropology) Module: Projects and Processes of Urbanization (Master's degree program: Critical Urbanisms (Start of studies before 01.08.2020)) Module: The Urban across Disciplines (Master's degree program: Critical Urbanisms) 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 |