BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Sabre//Sabre VObject 4.5.8//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Zurich X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Zurich TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/Europe/Zurich BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:19810329T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:19961027T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news5223@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260518T135919 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260618T000000 SUMMARY:Authors’ workshop: "Spirit matters: Exploring histories of spirit s and things" DESCRIPTION:This workshop explores the spiritual as a historical dimension. Modern historiography has rethought historical agency\, yet spiritual age ncy has proven more difficult to incorporate. Much political\, social\, an d environmental history operates with a broadly secular framework: the spi ritual is occasionally mentioned\, sometimes dismissed\, often rationalize d – but rarely taken seriously on its own terms.\\r\\nRecently\, however \, this “de-spiriting” of historiography has itself been criticized as a colonial academic practice\, with several scholars arguing that the bin ary between the secular and “religion” constitutes a European impositi on. How\, then\, can historians open themselves to broader notions of agen cy by taking spiritual agency seriously? What counts as evidence in such i nquiries? And how can we engage spiritual realities without slipping into exoticization or epistemological relativism?\\r\\nThe workshop addresses t hese questions by focusing on things – plants\, earth\, stones\, rivers\ , artifacts\, blood\, hair\, among many others – as sites through which spirits manifest\, operate\, and communicate with the living. In doing so\ , it critically interrogates modern distinctions between the “supernatur al” and the “physical”\, treating them as historically contingent ca tegories specific to particular geographies and social groups.\\r\\nThe wo rkshop will take place over two half-days and is conceived as an authors ’ meeting. Invited participants will discuss pre-circulated papers with the aim of publishing a special issue in a leading journal. External parti cipants are welcome and kindly asked to register: Julia.tischler@unibas.ch [mailto:Julia.tischler@unibas.ch] X-ALT-DESC:

This workshop explores the spiritual as a historical dimensio n. Modern historiography has rethought historical agency\, yet spiritual a gency has proven more difficult to incorporate. Much political\, social\, and environmental history operates with a broadly secular framework: the s piritual is occasionally mentioned\, sometimes dismissed\, often rationali zed – but rarely taken seriously on its own terms.

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Recently\, ho wever\, this “de-spiriting” of historiography has itself been criticiz ed as a colonial academic practice\, with several scholars arguing that th e binary between the secular and “religion” constitutes a European imp osition. How\, then\, can historians open themselves to broader notions of agency by taking spiritual agency seriously? What counts as evidence in s uch inquiries? And how can we engage spiritual realities without slipping into exoticization or epistemological relativism?

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The workshop add resses these questions by focusing on things – plants\, earth\, stones\, rivers\, artifacts\, blood\, hair\, among many others – as sites throug h which spirits manifest\, operate\, and communicate with the living. In d oing so\, it critically interrogates modern distinctions between the “su pernatural” and the “physical”\, treating them as historically conti ngent categories specific to particular geographies and social groups.

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The workshop will take place over two half-days and is conceived as a n authors’ meeting. Invited participants will discuss pre-circulated pap ers with the aim of publishing a special issue in a leading journal. Exter nal participants are welcome and kindly asked to register: Julia.tischler@unibas.ch

DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260619T000000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news5192@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260504T153447 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260621T140000 SUMMARY:Führung im Museum: "Alles kolonial?" DESCRIPTION:Wie prägt der Kolonialismus unsere Welt bis heute? Wir hören Stimmen aus ehemals kolonisierten Regionen und fragen\, wie Objekte in Mus een gelangten undwie Kolonialismus und Rassismus miteinander verbunden sin d. Welche Zukunft sollen diese Objekte haben? X-ALT-DESC:

Wie prägt der Kolonialismus unsere Welt bis heute? Wir höre n Stimmen aus ehemals kolonisierten Regionen und fragen\, wie Objekte in M useen gelangten und
wie Kolonialismus und Rassismus miteinander verbu nden sind. Welche Zukunft sollen diese Objekte haben?

DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260621T150000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news4980@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260330T112953 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260826 SUMMARY:Conference: "African Perspectives on Global Transformations" DESCRIPTION:From 26 to 28 August 2026\, the Swiss Society for African Studi es (SGAS/SSEA) and the Association for African Studies in Germany e.V. (VA D) will jointly hold their respective biennial conferences in Basel\, Swit zerland. The conference hosted by the ZASB Research Network Africa at the University of Basel connects scholars based in Europe\, Africa and beyond and welcomes participants from all career levels. Discussion and exchange will take place in 80+ panel\, workshop and roundtable sessions with 500+ paper presentations.\\r\\nThe conference theme “African Perspectives on Global Transformations” proposes a framework that responds to increasing ly urgent calls for decolonization\, epistemic justice\, reparations\, cli mate justice and restitution\, under the conceptual header of planetary he alth and cosmopolitan flourishing. Based on this framework\, the conferenc e brings together approaches to examine past\, present and future global t ransformations from a broad spectrum of disciplines and thematic areas.\\r \\nConference Keynote: “The Agrarian Structure and Contradictions of Soc ial Reproduction in Africa”\\r\\nLyn Ossome (Associate Professor and Dir ector of the Makerere Institute of Social Research\, Makerere University\, Uganda\\r\\nDistinguished Carl Schlettwein Lecture 2026 (title to be defi ned)\\r\\nNomusa Makhubu\, Professor of Art History at the University of C ape Town X-ALT-DESC:

From 26 to 28 August 2026\, the Swiss Society for African Stu dies (SGAS/SSEA) and the Association for African Studies in Germany e.V. ( VAD) will jointly hold their respective biennial conferences in Basel\, Sw itzerland. The conference hosted by the ZASB Research Network Africa at th e University of Basel connects scholars based in Europe\, Africa and beyon d and welcomes participants from all career levels. Discussion and exchang e will take place in 80+ panel\, workshop and roundtable sessions with 500 + paper presentations.

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The conference theme “African Perspective s on Global Transformations” proposes a framework that responds to incre asingly urgent calls for decolonization\, epistemic justice\, reparations\ , climate justice and restitution\, under the conceptual header of planeta ry health and cosmopolitan flourishing. Based on this framework\, the conf erence brings together approaches to examine past\, present and future glo bal transformations from a broad spectrum of disciplines and thematic area s.

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Conference Keynote: “The Agrarian Structure and Contra dictions of Social Reproduction in Africa”
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Lyn Ossome (A ssociate Professor and Director of the Makerere Institute of Social Resear ch\, Makerere University\, Uganda

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Distinguished Carl Schlettwein Lecture 2026 (title to be defined)
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Nomusa Makhubu\, Professor of Art History at the University of Cape Town

\n\n DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260828 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news5194@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260504T154302 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260905T133000 SUMMARY:Provenienzforschung in den Basler Museen: "Die ganze Geschichte" DESCRIPTION:Die fünf kantonalen Basler Museen berichten über aktuelle Pro jekte. X-ALT-DESC:

Die fünf kantonalen Basler Museen berichten über aktuelle P rojekte.

DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260905T173000 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR