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| Semester | spring semester 2023 |
| Course frequency | Every spring sem. |
| Lecturers | Shrey Kapoor (shrey.kapoor@unibas.ch, Assessor) |
| Content | This student-led, discussion-based seminar is geared towards understanding and incorporating interdisciplinary perspectives in ongoing research projects at doctoral level. Beyond merely bringing together theories, literatures, and methods, we will focus on excavating ontological and epistemological presuppositions across disciplinary formations, and engage with the frictions and challenges that emerge when we destabilize these very presuppositions. |
| Learning objectives | 1) Understand the theoretical underpinnings (and impossibilities) surrounding current debates on interdisciplinarity 2) Incorporate interdisciplinary perspectives in ongoing research and writing |
| Bibliography | Tentative readings: Augsburg, Tanya, Francine Navakas, and Joan Fiscella. 2006. “Uncertain Paths for Interdisciplinary Programs and Their Faculties: Critical Stakes to Claim.” Issues in Interdisciplinary Studies 24:150–58. Bleiker, Roland. 2020. “Multidisciplinarity.” Pp. 319–27 in Routledge handbook of international political sociology, edited by X. Guillaume and P. Bilgin. Burawoy, Michael. 2013. “Sociology and Interdisciplinarity: The Promise and the Perils.” Philippine Sociological Review 61(1):7–19. Cooper, Geoff. 2013. “A Disciplinary Matter: Critical Sociology, Academic Governance and Interdisciplinarity.” Sociology 47(1):74–89. doi: 10.1177/0038038512444812. Crane, Diana. 2010. “Cultural Sociology and Other Disciplines: Interdisciplinarity in the Cultural Sciences.” Sociology Compass 4(3):169–79. doi: 10.1111/j.1751-9020.2009.00273.x. Garforth, Lisa, and Anne Kerr. 2011. “Interdisciplinarity and the Social Sciences: Capital, Institutions and Autonomy: Interdisciplinarity and the Social Sciences.” The British Journal of Sociology 62(4):657–76. doi: 10.1111/j.1468-4446.2011.01385.x. Graff, Harvey J. 2016. “The ‘Problem’ of Interdisciplinarity in Theory, Practice, and History.” Social Science History 40(4):775–803. doi: 10.1017/ssh.2016.31. Nicolescu, Basarab. 2014. “Methodology of Transdisciplinarity.” World Futures 70(3–4):186–99. doi: 10.1080/02604027.2014.934631. O’Reilly, Karen. 2009. “For Interdisciplinarity and a Disciplined, Professional Sociology.” Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research 22(2):219–32. doi: 10.1080/13511610903075761. Peterson, Valerie V. 2008. “Against Interdisciplinarity.” Women and Language 31(2):42–50. Pollock, Griselda, and Mark Davis. 2020. “Thinking in Dark Times: Assessing the Transdisciplinary Legacies of Zygmunt Bauman.” Thesis Eleven 156(1):3–9. doi: 10.1177/0725513619898090. Rhoten, Diana, Erin O’Connor, and Edward J. Hackett. 2009. “The Act of Collaborative Creation and the Art of Integrative Creativity: Originality, Disciplinarity and Interdisciplinarity.” Thesis Eleven 96(1):83–108. doi: 10.1177/0725513608099121. Schmidt, Jan C. 2008. “Towards a Philosophy of Interdisciplinarity: An Attempt to Provide a Classification and Clarification.” Poiesis & Praxis 5(1):53–69. doi: 10.1007/s10202-007-0037-8. Shapin, Steven. 1992. “Discipline and Bounding: The History and Sociology of Science as Seen through the Externalism-Internalism Debate.” History of Science 30(4):333–69. doi: 10.1177/007327539203000401. Smelser, Neil J. 2003. “On Comparative Analysis, Interdisciplinarity and Internationalization in Sociology.” International Sociology 18(4):643–57. doi: 10.1177/0268580903184001. Steinmetz, George. 2007. “Transdisciplinarity as a Nonimperial Encounter: For an Open Sociology.” Thesis Eleven 91(1):48–65. doi: 10.1177/0725513607082002. VanAntwerpen, Jonathan. 2006. “Critical Sociology and the Interdisciplinary Imagination.” Thesis Eleven 84(1):60–72. doi: 10.1177/0725513606060520. |
| Weblink | Europainstitut |
| Admission requirements | Participants should be willing and able to share and discuss writings from their ongoing research project (preferably at doctoral level or at very advanced MA-level) |
| Course application | The seminar is limited to 15 participants to ensure time and space for discussion. Places will be provided on a first-come, first-served basis. |
| Language of instruction | English |
| Use of digital media | No specific media used |
| Interval | Weekday | Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
| wöchentlich | Tuesday | 10.00-12.00 | Riehenstrasse 154, Seminarraum 00.022 |
| Modules |
Doktorat Urban Studies: Empfehlungen (PhD subject: Urban Studies) European Studies: Recommendations (PhD subject: European Global Studies) Modul: Europäisierung und Globalisierung (Master's Studies: European Global Studies) Modul: Transfer: Europa interdisziplinär (Master's degree program: European History in Global Perspective) Module: The Urban across Disciplines (Master's degree program: Critical Urbanisms) |
| Assessment format | continuous assessment |
| Assessment details | Participants will be asked to attend sessions regularly, actively contribute to discussions, and work on an interdisciplinary writing project throughout the semester (e.g. journal article, dissertation chapter, research proposal). |
| Assessment registration/deregistration | Reg.: course registration; dereg.: not required |
| Repeat examination | no repeat examination |
| Scale | Pass / Fail |
| Repeated registration | as often as necessary |
| Responsible faculty | Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, studadmin-philhist@unibas.ch |
| Offered by | Europainstitut |