Writing – and finishing writing! – a PhD is a very challe nging endeavor. This course faces this challenge head on and aims at suppo rting members of the Graduate School of Social Sciences (G3S) in finalizin g their PhD theses. Key topics include time management\, strategies and tr icks for the final revision process\, help with administrative issues and peer support. Additionally\, there will be room to reflect on individual p roblems\, practical and emotional challenges and solution strategies. Besi des the meetings in class throughout the semester\, participants have the possibility to meet the lecturers individually to get additional advice.\n
This course is open for G3S members aiming at finishing their thesi s in summer 2026! The number of participants will be limited to 10 persons .
\nIf you are interested in attending this course\, please write an email including your motivation and a short statement on the progress of your work (approx. 1 page) to Michelle Engeler (michelle.engeler@unibas.ch) until 8 February 2026. DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260505T120000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news1752@dgw.philhist.unibas.ch:443 DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260220T161638 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260420T121500 SUMMARY:Ask the Professor DESCRIPTION:with Prof. Janina Grabs X-ALT-DESC:with Prof. Janina Grabs DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260420T131500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news1794@dgw.philhist.unibas.ch:443 DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260313T162956 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260420T181500 SUMMARY:Lecture Series Forum Basiliense: Der Generationenkonflikt als Motor der Literaturgeschichte DESCRIPTION:Moderation: Alexander Honold\, Literaturwissenschaft\, Universi tät Basel) X-ALT-DESC:
Moderation: Alexander Honold\, Literaturwissenschaft\, Univer sität Basel)
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260420T194500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news1795@dgw.philhist.unibas.ch:443 DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260313T163301 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260421 SUMMARY:Colonialism in the North Atlantic DESCRIPTION: \\r\\nThis conference aims to reframe the North Atlantic as a region where the humanities can illuminate the entangled pasts and urgent futures of colonialism\, by bringing together historians\, literary schol ars\, cultural theorists\, Indigenous knowledge keepers\, and researchers from neighbouring disciplines. In tracing how conflict and cooperation hav e shaped both historical settlements and contemporary claims to land\, lan guage\, and identity\, we seek to foster critical conversations on the dec olonial responsibilities of scholarship – and on the transformative powe r of narrative\, memory\, and cultural expression in imagining more than j ust North Atlantic futures.\\r\\nBy situating medieval and early modern se ttlements within this continuum of conflict and co-operation\, we invite i nterdisciplinary dialogue – among historians\, archaeologists\, literary scholars\, and Indigenous knowledge holders – on how colonial encounter s have never been one-sided impositions but negotiated spaces of contestat ion and coexistence. X-ALT-DESC:\;
\nThis conference aims to reframe the North Atl antic as a region where the humanities can illuminate the entangled pasts and urgent futures of colonialism\, by bringing together historians\, lite rary scholars\, cultural theorists\, Indigenous knowledge keepers\, and re searchers from neighbouring disciplines. In tracing how conflict and coope ration have shaped both historical settlements and contemporary claims to land\, language\, and identity\, we seek to foster critical conversations on the decolonial responsibilities of scholarship – and on the transform ative power of narrative\, memory\, and cultural expression in imagining m ore than just North Atlantic futures.
\nBy situating medieval and ea rly modern settlements within this continuum of conflict and co-operation\ , we invite interdisciplinary dialogue – among historians\, archaeologis ts\, literary scholars\, and Indigenous knowledge holders – on how colon ial encounters have never been one-sided impositions but negotiated spaces of contestation and coexistence.
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260422 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news1814@dgw.philhist.unibas.ch:443 DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260403T180106 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260421T121500 SUMMARY:Colloquium Forum Basiliense: Marie Levant: A Third Actor in the Hum anitarian Field: The Catholic Church and Palestinian Refugees (1948–1967 ) DESCRIPTION:The colloquium of the Forum Basiliense welcomes Marie Levant X-ALT-DESC:The colloquium of the Forum Basiliense welcomes Marie Levant DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260421T144500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news1757@dgw.philhist.unibas.ch:443 DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260227T141355 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260421T181500 SUMMARY:Türkiye’de Post-Kemalizm: Açtıkları\, Kapattıkları\, Sını rları DESCRIPTION:Bu sunum\, Post-Kemalizm tartışmalarının Türkiye’de ac ̧tığı ve kapattığı alanları ele almayı amaçlamaktadır. 1990 ’lardan itibaren etkli olan Post-Kemalist eleştirel çerçeve\, devl et-merkezli modernleşme anlatısını sorgulayarak demokrasi\, kimlik ve çoğulluk tartışmalarının önünü açmış\; Kürt meseles i\, İslami kimlikler ve resmî tarih eleştirisi gibi başlıkları m eşru tartışma alanına taşımıştır. Bununla birlikte\, bu yakla şımın hangi soruları görünmezleştirdiği\, hangi toplumsal kes imlere seslendiği ve hangi siyasal ittifakları mümkün kıldığı da tartışmaya açıktır. Sunum\, Post-Kemalizmin Türkiye’de demok rasi\, kimlik ve devlet–toplum ilişkileri açısından yarattığı sonuçları\, eleştirel ve tarihsel bir perspektiften değerlendirmeyi hedeflemektedir.\\r\\nDaha fazla bilgi için lütfen iletişime geçi niz:Dr. Zeynep Sabancı\, Nahoststudien Basel (zeynep.sabanci@unibas.ch). X-ALT-DESC:Bu sunum\, Post-Kemalizm tartışmalarının Türkiye’de açtığı ve kapattığı alanları ele almayı amaçlamaktadır. 199 0’lardan itibaren etkli olan Post-Kemalist eleştirel çerçeve\, dev let-merkezli modernleşme anlatısını sorgulayarak demokrasi\, kimlik v e çoğulluk tartışmalarının önünü açmış\; Kürt mesele si\, İslami kimlikler ve resmî tarih eleştirisi gibi başlıkları meşru tartışma alanına taşımıştır. Bununla birlikte\, bu yakl aşımın hangi soruları görünmezleştirdiği\, hangi toplumsal ke simlere seslendiği ve hangi siyasal ittifakları mümkün kıldığı da tartışmaya açıktır. Sunum\, Post-Kemalizmin Türkiye’de demo krasi\, kimlik ve devlet–toplum ilişkileri açısından yarattığı sonuçları\, eleştirel ve tarihsel bir perspektiften değerlendirmey i hedeflemektedir.
\nDaha fazla bilgi için lütfen iletis
̧ime geçiniz:
Dr. Zeynep Sabancı\, Nahoststudien
Basel (zeynep.sabanci@unibas.ch).
Over the past two decades\, metaphors of stasis\, such as “
waithood”\, “being stuck”\, or “waiting”\, have been mobilized t
o describe the conditions of prolonged youth that many Africans experience
in the face of economic instability. As urban centers across the continen
t grow with youthful populations that cannot be absorbed by job markets\,
there is a lingering sense that young Africans must put their futures on h
old. Yet the overwhelming attention to deferred futures often leaves under
explored\, what lives these young people make in the present. Residents in
Lagos – Nigeria’s capital – constantly navigate urban precarities t
o constitute alternative visions and practices of space\, intimacy\, and b
elonging in the growing absence of the more normative routes to stability.
Drawing on two years of ethnographic field research\, this talk examines
youth subjectivity in the contemporary urban landscape of Lagos as emergen
t through everyday practices of negotiating space and re-constituting inti
macy. It follows scenes of youth sociality on a street bar\, university ca
mpus\, and church\, to discuss how young Lagosians inhabit the tight and p
rovisional infrastructures of the city to make a life. By tracing the ques
tion of “intimacy” through these seemingly contradictory but co-eval s
ites\, I ask\, what intimate encounters and practices emerge under the con
ditions of spatial tightness and provisionality\, and how do these interse
ct with more normative imaginaries of intimate life? How do young Lagosian
s use the body to make stable that which is uncertain and how do these bod
ily/intimate practices elicit discourses about youth as a ‘problem-categ
ory’. \;The talk argues that while practices of making space on a ma
terial and affective level ensure new pathways to intimacy\, they also bec
ome the very processes by which youth is recognized and disciplined by the
state. \;
\;
Diekara Oloruntoba-Oju is a doctoral student in the Department of African and African American
Studies with a primary field in Anthropology. \; She did her undergrad
uate degree in German and French at Obafemi Awolowo University\, Ile-Ife a
nd her Masters in African Studies at Cambridge University.
Her resear
ch interests are around contemporary urban youth cultures and subcultures
in Nigeria with specific attention to themes of resistance\, textuality\,
embodiment\, and intimacy. \; She has done research around the paradox
es of compliance and resistance in West Africa popular music as well as fi
gurations of the queer self in contemporary Nigerian youth texts in which
she examines how temporal texts and everyday performances of the body (poi
ntedly\, the young body) intimately and/or precariously relate with broade
r institutions of power such as the State\, religion\, and the economy.
Also interested in literature\, Diekara writes fiction and works (now r
emotely) as an organiser for the Cambridge University African Literature B
ook Club\, run by the Center of African Studies\, Cambridge.
The Sustainable Future Research Lunch offers our PhD students and PostDocs a good opportunity to present their research. But also profe ssors are welcome to give a presentation or invite external guests to the Research Lunch. In the subsequent discussion with the other researchers\, the presenters receive valuable input for their further research.
\nPresentation: \;
\nThis talk is based on a book project on the ways in which ind
ustrial enclaves and largescale commercial agricultural projects establish
ed in the midst of rural landscapes affect agrarian livelihoods. In areas
previously occupied by peasant communities of subsistence farmers\, whose
experience of spacetime was shaped by the seasonal alternation of manually
cultivated and rotated food crops\, and the longer periodicity of fallows
that produced a mosaic of cultivated plots and secondary forest growth\,
and farming was supplemented by hunting and gathering\, “new enclosures
” are dramatically reshaping relations with time and place\, including r
emoval of ancient villages to new locations\, and abandoning ancestral gra
ves and sacred ritual forest groves. Local peasants have adopted a number
of different strategies to accommodate\, modify\, or resist these changes\
, and several cases from Sierra Leone and Liberia will be examined here.&n
bsp\;
Mariane C. Ferme is a sociocultural anth
ropologist whose current research focuses on the political imagination\, v
iolence and conflict\, and access to justice in West Africa\, particularly
Sierra Leone. She received her PhD in Anthropology from the University of
Chicago\, after studying Political Science at the University of Milano\,
Italy\, and majoring in anthropology at Wellesley College.
AI tools have become ubiquitous in scientific writing\, and i t is difficult to keep up with the pace of change. This hands-on workshop equips you with up-to-date\, effective methods for revising your scientifi c texts with AI tools.
\nThe workshop will provide:
- step-by-s
tep techniques and prompts for effectively revising scientific texts with
AI
- comparisons of the strengths and weaknesses of leading AI tools
for scientific writing
- troubleshooting common problems and limitati
ons of AI tools
- guidance on ethical and legal aspects around AI in
academic writing and publishing
The collaborative sessions will in
clude time to share experiences with fellow researchers\, and in the secon
d session participants will demo different tools for the workshop and eval
uate in groups how they applied the tools to revise their own
texts.&
nbsp\;
Learning Objectives
Through examples and hands-on prac
tice\, you will learn how to use AI tools to:
- restructure complex i
nformation for improved logical flow
- transform rough passages into
crisp\, persuasive arguments
- avoid common mistakes before submissio
n
This workshop is led by Dr. Anthony Mahler. He is an academic copyeditor a
nd writing consultant at the University of Basel Language Center. Based on
a critical AI
approach\, Anthony is collaborating on university proj
ects that train effective and responsible methods of employing natural lan
guage generation in academic writing\, such as the 2024 lecture series Aca
demic Writing with Digital Tools and the 2025
SciLib Forum: AI Meets
Scientific Writing.
This workshop has two parts:
\nPart I: Thursday\, 16.04.2026\, 14:15-19:15
\nPart II: Thursday\, 30.04.2026\, 14:15-15:45
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260430T154500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news1798@dgw.philhist.unibas.ch:443 DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260313T165918 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260504T181500 SUMMARY:Lecture Series Forum Basiliense: Integration und Antirassismus – Herausforderungen und Lösungsansätze aus der kommunalen Praxis. DESCRIPTION:Moderation: Julia Büchele\, Geschäftsführerin Forum Basilien se X-ALT-DESC:Moderation: Julia Büchele\, Geschäftsführerin Forum Basili ense
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260504T194500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news1705@dgw.philhist.unibas.ch:443 DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260208T123922 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260506T161500 SUMMARY:Writing to someone who cannot respond. On address and beginning DESCRIPTION:The chapter began as an attempt to write from a photograph take n in a hospital room in Tehran shortly before the death of a friend. In th e process of writing\, the text shifted its own orientation\, moving towar d an address in the second person. What emerged was not a description of s cenes\, but a way of writing to someone who cannot answer. Beginning from this address raises a question about how an ethnographic book might begin – not with a field\, a problem\, or an argument\, but with the ethical f orce of a relation that resists response.\\r\\nMirco Göpfert is professor for social and cultural anthropology. He received his doctorate in anthro pology from the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in 2014 and taught at the University of Konstanz before coming to the Goethe University in 2018. X-ALT-DESC:The chapter began as an attempt to write from a photograph ta ken in a hospital room in Tehran shortly before the death of a friend. In the process of writing\, the text shifted its own orientation\, moving tow ard an address in the second person. What emerged was not a description of scenes\, but a way of writing to someone who cannot answer. Beginning fro m this address raises a question about how an ethnographic book might begi n – not with a field\, a problem\, or an argument\, but with the ethical force of a relation that resists response.
\nMirco Göpfert is professor for social and cultural anthropology. He received h is doctorate in anthropology from the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in 2014 and taught at the University of Konstanz before coming to the Goet he University in 2018.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260506T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news1723@dgw.philhist.unibas.ch:443 DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260208T140659 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260507T161500 SUMMARY:Im Schatten der Präsenz: Ein Denkstück über Erinnerung\, Verantw ortung und das Wagnis des Zusammenlebens DESCRIPTION:Vortrag von Sabine_ Hark (Berlin\, D)\\r\\nVortragsreihe «Imag ining Better Futures Together»\\r\\nKonzept & Organisation: Bianca Prietl \, Anna Kraft & Jasmin Schmidlin\\r\\nJubiläumsprogramm 25 Jahre Zentrum Gender Studies X-ALT-DESC:Vortrag von Sabine_ Hark (Berlin\, D)\nVortragsreihe «Imagining Better Futures Together»\nKonzept & Organisation: Bianca Prietl\, Anna K raft & Jasmin Schmidlin\nJubiläumsprogramm 25 Jahre Zentrum Gender Studie s DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260507T174500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news1755@dgw.philhist.unibas.ch:443 DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260220T162821 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260508T090000 SUMMARY:Writing 9 to 5 DESCRIPTION:There will be some snacks and all day for writing together!\\r\ \nAll the dates: Friday\, 13 March\, 10 April & 8 May 2026 X-ALT-DESC:There will be some snacks and all day for writing together!\n
All the dates: Friday\, 13 March\, 10 April &\; 8 May 2026
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260508T170000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news1781@dgw.philhist.unibas.ch:443 DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260311T144114 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260508T123000 SUMMARY:Sustainable Future Research Lunch DESCRIPTION:The Sustainable Future Research Lunch offers our PhD students a nd PostDocs a good opportunity to present their research. But also profess ors are welcome to give a presentation or invite external guests to the Re search Lunch. In the subsequent discussion with the other researchers\, th e presenters receive valuable input for their further research.\\r\\nPrese ntation\\r\\nAlejandro Nunez-Jimenez (ETHZ) X-ALT-DESC:The Sustainable Future Research Lunch offers our PhD students and PostDocs a good opportunity to present their research. But also profe ssors are welcome to give a presentation or invite external guests to the Research Lunch. In the subsequent discussion with the other researchers\, the presenters receive valuable input for their further research.
\nPresentation
\nRoundtable
\nKonzept &\; Organisation: Dominique Gri
sard &\; David Meier-Arendt
Jubiläumsprogramm 25 Jahre Zentrum Ge
nder Studies
Students of the fieldwork course "Neighbors" present their re search outcomes.
\nThe event will be followed by a end of semester a péro.
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260520T180000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news1726@dgw.philhist.unibas.ch:443 DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260208T141112 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260520T170000 SUMMARY:The Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever\, Basel DESCRIPTION:Konzept & Organisation: Dominique Grisard & Doris LeibetsederIn Kooperation mit art of intervention & FemtakJubiläumsprogramm 25 Jahre Z entrum Gender Studies X-ALT-DESC:Konzept &\; Organisation: Dominique Grisard &\; Doris L
eibetseder
In Kooperation mit art of intervention &\; Femtak
Jubiläumsprogramm 25 Jahre Zentrum Gender Studies
The City Collaboratory works to render visible the diversity of urban research in Switzerland – disciplinary\, institutional\, profes sional\, racial\, gender\, linguistic\, and beyond. We connect people and debates to foster a productive and critical dialogue on urban transformati ons. Rooted in Urban Studies\, the Collaboratory is multidisciplinary\, in cluding researchers in Geography\, Planning\, Anthropology\, and Sociology who are based at Swiss institutions.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news1803@dgw.philhist.unibas.ch:443 DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260313T172116 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260526T181500 SUMMARY:Lecture Series of the Forum Basiliense: Postdigital moral wars and reconciliation: Cancel culture\, degradation\, and moral repair in platfor med publics DESCRIPTION:The Lecture Series of the Forum Basiliense wecomes Pilar Blitvi tch X-ALT-DESC:The Lecture Series of the Forum Basiliense wecomes Pilar Blitvit ch DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260526T194500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news1739@dgw.philhist.unibas.ch:443 DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260401T090858 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260622T090000 SUMMARY:Storytelling für Human- und Geisteswissenschaften mit Jo Siegler DESCRIPTION:Und wie kann die öffentliche Wahrnehmung dazu beitragen\, die wissenschaftliche Reputation zu fördern? Der praktische Storytelling-Kurs des Graduate Center gibt (Post-) Doktorierenden das Handwerkszeug\, ihre eigene Forschung und sich selbst überzeugend zu präsentieren. Storytelli ng ist dabei der Schlüssel – ob für Präsentationen\, Podcasts\, Filme \, Social-Media-Posts oder andere audiovisuelle Formate. \\r\\nZusammen m it Dipl. Phil. Jo Siegler\, freier Autor\, Journalist und Produzent lernen (Post-) Doktorierende\, wie Sie Ihre Forschung durch wirkungsvolle Erzäh lstrategien und dramaturgische Grundlagen ansprechend und verständlich ve rmitteln. Anhand eines eigenen Projekts entwickeln Sie Schritt für Schrit t ein überzeugendes Kommunikationsprodukt.\\r\\n22-25.06.2026 als Block j e 9:00-13:00 Uhr\\r\\nUniversität Basel\, Steinengraben 5\, Seminarraum 3 02\\r\\nWorkshopsprache: Deutsch X-ALT-DESC:Und wie kann die öffentliche Wahrnehmung dazu beitragen\, di e wissenschaftliche Reputation zu fördern? Der praktische Storytelling-Ku rs des Graduate Center gibt (Post-) Doktorierenden das Handwerkszeug\, ihr e eigene Forschung und sich selbst überzeugend zu präsentieren. Storytel ling ist dabei der Schlüssel – ob für Präsentationen\, Podcasts\, Fil me\, Social-Media-Posts oder andere audiovisuelle Formate. \;
\nZusammen mit Dipl. Phil. Jo Siegler\, freier Autor\, Journalist und Produz ent lernen (Post-) Doktorierende\, wie Sie Ihre Forschung durch wirkungsvo lle Erzählstrategien und dramaturgische Grundlagen ansprechend und verst ändlich vermitteln. Anhand eines eigenen Projekts entwickeln Sie Schritt für Schritt ein überzeugendes Kommunikationsprodukt.
\n22-25.06.2026 als Block je 9:00-13:00 Uhr
\nUniversität Basel\, Steinengraben 5\, Seminarraum 302
\n< p>Workshopsprache: Deutsch DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260622T130000 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR