Basel meets Queen Mary - 2.-3.5.2019

Workshop der BGSH in Kooperation mit QMUL

Im Rahmen der Kooperation mit der Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) organisiert die Basel Graduate School of History am 2. und 3. Mai 2018 den jährlichen gemeinsamen Workshop, auf dem Doktorierende beider Universitäten ihre Projekte vorstellen. Der Workshop hat bewusst keinen thematischen, epochalen oder regionalen Schwerpunkt, da er zum Ziel hat, ungefilterte Einblicke in die aktuellen Forschungsdebatten an beiden Universität zu ermöglichen und eine Gelegenheit zu lockerem Networking zu bieten. Die Vorträge und die Diskussion finden auf Englisch statt.

Wann und wo?

Donnerstag, 2.5.2019, 13:00-18:00 Uhr inkl. Dinner; Freitag, 3.5.2019, 9:00-13:00 Uhr, inkl. Lunch.

Departement Geschichte, Hirschgässlein 21, 4051 Basel, Seminarraum 4.

Programm

Thursday 2 May

13:00 – 13:45 Arrival and Welcome Lunch (Common Room, 5^th Floor)

13:45 – 14:00 Welcome Address: Benjamin Schenk, Miri Rubin

14:00 – 16:00 Panel 1: Cultural Practices in Medieval and Early Modern History

Chair: Miri Rubin                  Discussant:     Linda Briggs

Markus Bardenheuer (Basel): Vocal Power. Songs, Ballads and Broadsheets as Vocal Media in Early Modern Germany and Switzerland

Janine Jakob (Basel): Women’s fashion of the social elite. Clothing, accessories and their regulations by Sumptuary Laws in the Old Swiss Confederation 1650-1790

Edward Caddy (London): Votive Obligation and the fideles Sancti Petri of Pope Gregory VII

16:00 – 16:30 Coffee Break (Common Room, 5^th Floor)

16:30 – 18:30 Panel 2: Self-Understanding, Agency and Dialogue in Jewish Studies

Chair: Jessika Nowak            Discussant:     Erik Petry

Carmel Heeley (London): The Germans, the Jews and the Alps: How Moral Values, Bavarian Traditions and Sport were central to German self-understanding and German-Jewish claims to ‘belonging’ between 1920-1950

Olga Pollack (Basel): Conflicts and Cooperation. The Significance of the Swiss Palestine Office towards the Jewish Refugee aid, 1932-1945 (working title)

Tabea Richardson (London): Christian-Jewish dialogue in West Germany after the Holocaust....farce or first?

19:00 Dinner: Restaurant Prima: Aeschenvorstadt 48, 4051 Basel, primabasel.ch

Friday 3 May

9:00 – 9:15     Coffee and Welcome (Common Room, 5^th Floor)

9:15 – 10:45   Panel 3: Media and Journalism

Chair: Laura Ritter               Discussant: Leslie James

Hesham Abdelbary (London): From ‘Deception’ to ‘Inception’: Social Media and the Changing Mode of Information Hegemony (Lessons from Egypt 2013)

Sophia Polek (Basel): Life Narratives or Rights Narratives? The Judicial in Journalism History

10:45 – 11:15 Coffee Break (Common Room, 5^th Floor)

11:15 – 12:45 Panel 4: Body History

Chair: Jane Freeland             Discussant:     Benjamin Schenk

Heidi Russenberger (London): Disability in fourteenth century canonisation inquests

Selina Bentsch (Basel): Sexually transmitted disease and/or female disorder? Discourses of Syphilis and Prostitution during late 18^th and 19^th century

12:45 – 13:30 Lunch (Common Room, 5^th Floor)

14:00 – 15:00 Sightseeing “Frauenstadtrundgang Basel: St. Johann in the Spotlight” (Optional)

Anmeldung

Bis zum 22. April 2019 via dieses Anmeldeformular.

Für Doktorierende der Universität Basel zusätzlich via MOnA bis spätestens 18. März 2019. 

Kontakt

laura.ritter(at)unibas.ch