Basel History Factory 2024
September 25, 2024 is the day! We are starting the semester with a new format!
The first Basel History Factory invites all researchers, whether doctoral students, postdocs or professors, to meet intellectually and socially at an all-day event, hosted at the Ostquai in Basel’s harbor district (http://www.ostquai.ch/). We have invited Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper (both NYU), distinguished historians of Russia and modern Africa respectively, and the event will be framed by their latest co-authored book, Post-Imperial Possibilities: Eurasia, Eurafrica, Afroasia (Princeton University Press, 2023).
We will combine input from our guests around their scholarship with small-group source work and discussions of ongoing research at the Department. This innovative format is designed to facilitate maximum interaction across research groups, areas, periods and themes. More detailed information on format and participation can be found below.
We’ll conclude the day with our customary “Semestereröffnungsapéro” and some music. Of course, your children are very welcome to attend!
We are looking forward to the first Basel History Factory and to your hopefully broad participation!
Organizers:
Julia Tischler, F. Benjamin Schenk, Max Hufschmidt, Danelle van Zyl-Hermann, Ettore Morelli, Kai Willms, Botakoz Kassymbekova, Olena Palko and Christina Panizzon
Join us at the Basel History Factory! Please register by 5 August 2024 (registration button below)
Basel History Factory 2024
September 25, 2024
Ostquai, Basel
Hafenstrasse 25, 4057 Basel
www.ostquai-events.ch
Achtung Industriegebiet!
Lastwagen und Zugsverkehr, auf den öffentlichen Wegen bleiben, Gleisanlagen nicht betreten. Eltern haften für ihre Kinder.
Attention industrial area!
Lorries and train traffic, stay on the public paths, do not enter the tracks. Parents are liable for their children.
It’s a factory, so be prepared to work!
Prof. Julia Tischler, Head of Department
The programme consists of two plenary sessions, which revolve around Jane Burbank and Fred Cooper’s Post-Imperial Possibilities and other aspects of their work. In addition, there are two small-group workshops, during which we will discuss sources (workshop session I) and engage with each other’s research (workshop session II).
Registered participants will be divided into small groups, in which students and lecturers of different areas of expertise and career stages will work together during the two workshop sessions. You will receive the sources to be discussed in your group prior to the event.
If you are interested to discuss (aspects of) your own research in your group, please tick the respective box in the registration form and prepare a short input (c. 10 minutes). Your input can be informal and engage with some of the central themes of the event, such as empire, nation-states, or other forms of statehood; notions of citizenship and belonging; colonialism/coloniality and decolonization; political imagination and alternatives; sovereignty and emancipation; race and ethnicity. Alternatively, you can focus on your own research and bring it into dialogue with the work of our guests.
You will receive a source and accompanying materials from your group moderator two weeks before the Basel History Factory.
To familiarize yourself with Burbank’s/ Cooper’s book Post-Imperial Possibilities, please visit this website:
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9780691251509/html#contents
Their previous work on Empires in World History is available here:
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781400834709/html#contents
Programme
Programme
10:00 – 10:15 Welcome
10:15 – 10:45 Plenary I – introduction
10:45 – 11.00 Divide into groups, re-arrange chairs
11:00 – 12:30 Workshop I – source discussion
12:30 – 13.30 Lunch
13.30 – 15:00 Workshop II – research presentations
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee break
15:30 – 17:00 Plenary II – book discussion Post-Imperial Possibilities
17:00 Drinks, semester opening, apéro riche
19:30 Party starts in central hall