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| Semester | fall semester 2023 |
| Course frequency | Once only |
| Lecturers | George-Paul Meiu (gp.meiu@unibas.ch, Assessor) |
| Content | The weekly colloquium in social anthropology explores ways of using the ethnographic imagination to better understand the contemporary world order and its shifting cultural, political, and economic trends. Recent ethnographies of late capitalism depict the intersection of main road arteries in urban landscapes as key sites for the imagination, contestation, and actualization of various kinds of new worlds. Our colloquium borrows this idea of the “crossroad” as a locus of myriad actual and virtual possibilities to build a space dedicated to emerging forms of ethnographic imagination. Located on a tri-state boarder, where Anglophone, Francophone, German and other anthropological communities of debate intersect, the colloquium of the Basel Institute of Social Anthropology sets in dialogue scholarship from the global North and the global South, scholarly and public settings, the discipline’s core and its margins. |
| Admission requirements | It is possible to attend individual sessions without being enrolled for this course. |
| Language of instruction | English |
| Use of digital media | No specific media used |
| Course auditors welcome |
| Interval | Weekday | Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
| wöchentlich | Wednesday | 16.15-18.00 | Ethnologie, grosser Seminarraum |
| Date | Time | Room |
|---|---|---|
| Wednesday 04.10.2023 | 16.15-18.00 | Ethnologie, grosser Seminarraum |
| Wednesday 11.10.2023 | 16.15-18.00 | Ethnologie, grosser Seminarraum |
| Wednesday 18.10.2023 | 16.15-18.00 | Ethnologie, grosser Seminarraum |
| Wednesday 25.10.2023 | 16.15-18.00 | Ethnologie, grosser Seminarraum |
| Wednesday 01.11.2023 | 16.15-18.00 | Ethnologie, grosser Seminarraum |
| Wednesday 08.11.2023 | 16.15-18.00 | Bernoullistrasse 14/16, Seminarraum 02.004 |
| Wednesday 15.11.2023 | 16.15-18.00 | --, -- |
| Wednesday 22.11.2023 | 16.15-18.00 | Ethnologie, grosser Seminarraum |
| Wednesday 29.11.2023 | 16.15-18.00 | Ethnologie, grosser Seminarraum |
| Wednesday 06.12.2023 | 16.15-18.00 | Ethnologie, grosser Seminarraum |
| Wednesday 13.12.2023 | 16.15-18.00 | Ethnologie, grosser Seminarraum |
| Wednesday 20.12.2023 | 16.15-18.00 | Ethnologie, grosser Seminarraum |
| Modules |
African Studies: Recommendations (PhD subject: African Studies) Modul: Ethnographic Research with Field Trip (Master's degree subject: Anthropology) Module: Changing Societies Lab (Master's degree program: Changing Societies: Migration – Conflicts – Resources) Module: Research Skills (Master's degree program: African Studies) Module: The Urban across Disciplines (Master's degree program: Critical Urbanisms) |
| Assessment format | continuous assessment |
| Assessment details | Regular attendance. |
| 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 | Fachbereich Ethnologie |