Courses Spring Term 2013

Semester Apéro

A reception for newcomers and current students of the Centre takes place on Monday 25 February 2013, 12:15h at the Centre for African Studies Basel, Petersgraben 11, 2nd floor.

Module Introduction to African Studies

Lecture: A History of Africa Based on Twelve Objects (P. Harries)

Module Social Anthropology

Colloquium (Research Seminar): African Studies (Elísio Macamo)

Seminar: Anthropologies of Aids (Brigit Obrist)

Seminar: Citizenship, Land and Conflict (Lucy Koechlin)

Colloquium (Research Seminar): Current Debates and Research (Till Förster)

Seminar: On Participation (Till Förster)

Seminar: Quantitative Data Analysis in African Studies (Elísio Macamo)

Seminar: Staatlichkeit in Afrika: Vorkoloniale Herrschaft 3 ECTS, Axel Paul

Seminar: Theory Construction in African Studies (Elísio Macamo)

Module History

Seminar: Migration History: Africa (Patrick Harries)

Seminar: Staatlichkeit in Afrika: Vorkoloniale Herrschaft (Axel Paul)

Seminar: The African Diaspora (Patrick Harries)

Colloquium (Research Seminar): Zur Geschichte Afrikas / African History (Susann Baller, Patrick Harries, Cassandra Mark)

Excercise Course: Zur Reafrikanisierung der Geschichte Afrikas: Ein historiographischer Überblick (Giy Thomas)

Module Environment & Human Well-Being

Lecture with excercises: Advanced Statistical Methods in Biogeography and Ecology (Jan Beck)

Seminar: Advances in Swiss TPH Research (Marcel Tanner)

Lecture with excercises: Biostatistics II (Penelope Vounatsou)

Seminar: Current Topics in Environmental Sciences and Biogeography (Jan Beck, Simon Loader, Peter Nagel, Stefanie von Fumetti)

Seminar: Current Topics in Epidemiology and Public Health (Marcel Tanner)

Lecture: Environment and Biodiversity in Africa (Christian Körner, Nikolaus J. Kuhn, Simon Paul Loader, Peter Nagel, Eberhard Parlow, Walter Salzburger, Marcel Tanner)

Seminar: Gender, Health and Urbanization in Africa South of the Sahara (Marc Epprecht and Allison Goebel)

Seminar: Namibia (Preparatory Seminar to International Field Course) (Lena Bloemertz and Klaus Kuhn)

Seminar: Natur-, Landschafts- und Umweltschutz (Bruno Baur, Peter Nagel)

Lecture: Parasitologie und Parasitismus: Einführung in molekulare, epidemiologische und infektionsbiologische Grundlagen (Thomas Boller, Peter Odermatt, Gerd Pluschke, Marcel Tanner)

Module Culture & Society

Excercise Course: Angewandte Ethnologie Piet ven Eeuwijk

Excercise Course: Asian minorities in Africa. The case of Indians in Uganda and South Africa (Julia Büchele, Bobby Luthra Sinha)

Seminar: Business actors in peace processes: supporter or spoiler? (Andreas Iff)

Seminar: Capabilities and Sustainability (Paul Burger)

Lecture: Christentum in Afrika - eine historische Annäherung (Andreas Heusser)

Lecture with colloquium: Einführung in die Geschlechtertheorie(n) II (Andrea Maihofer)

Seminar: Environmental Ethics and Intergenerational Justice (Barbara Schmitz)

Seminar: Gender, Health and Urbanization in Africa South of the Sahara (Marc Epprecht, Allison Goebel)

Seminar: Governance, Sustainable Development and Democracy (Basil Bornemann)

Course with exam: Grundkurs: Geschichte und Theorien der Ethnologie (Till Förster)

Module Applied African Studies

Excercise course: Angewandte Ethnologie (Piet van Eeuwijk)

Regional course: Central Africa (part II) (Till Förster)

Excercise course: English Writing: From Start to Finish (Stephanie Bishop)

Excursion: Exkursionen NLU-Biogeographie (Jan Beck, Simon Loader, Peter Nagel, Stefanie von Fumetti)

Seminar: Namibia (Preparatory Seminar to International Field Course) (Lena Bloemertz and Klaus Kuhn)

Seminar: Quantitative Data Analysis in African Studies (Elísio Macamo)

Courses of free choice (Komplementärbereich)

Proseminar: Soziologie afrikanischer Gesellschaften (Elísio Macamo)

Proseminar: Jüdische Identität in Schwarzafrika: Geschichte und Kontext (Daniel Lis)

Proseminar: Jugendliche in Afrika als Akteure des Wandels (Michelle Engeler)

Proseminar: Arbeit und Wirtschaft in Westafrika (Cassandra Mark)

Jahreskurs Feldstudien: Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten im Feld im Bereich Zoologie und Evolution (Afrika), (Bernd Egger, Walter Salzburger)

Student counseling

New students are required to contact the Centre for African Studies for student counseling in order to establish their individual study-portfolio.

They are also required to join the mailing list of the Centre for African Studies whereby they will receive a weekly newsletter and event-calendar.

Furthermore they are encouraged to join the facebook group "Centre for African Studies Basel" which provides a platform for exchange for students and friends of the Centre.

Kontakt

Zentrum für Afrikastudien Basel
Petersgraben 11
CH-4051 Basel
Tel.: +41 (0)61 267 34 82
zasb-at-unibas.ch