<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Dear list members, see below this interesting workshop, best, Richard<div><br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';">Centre for African Studies Basel <<a href="mailto:zasb@unibas.ch">zasb@unibas.ch</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';"><b>CfP: Workshop: “Politics of Nature and Science in African History”, Basel</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';">23 Jan 2014 18:10:03 GMT+1<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';">Richard Rottenburg <<a href="mailto:richard.rottenburg@ethnologie.uni-halle.de">richard.rottenburg@ethnologie.uni-halle.de</a>><br></span></div><br><div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div id="content"><div class="content-element"><div id="c53415" class="csc-default"><h1 style="margin-top: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">CfP: Workshop: “Politics of Nature and Science in African History”, Basel</h1><p style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We would like to draw your attention to the following Call for Papers:</p><h3 style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Workshop: “Politics of Nature and Science in African History” organised by the Graduate School of History & Centre for African Studies Basel, 15-16 May 2014</h3><p style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nature, science and politics have been related and co-constitutive of each other in many ways. In the colonial era, European taxonomies and nomenclatures were applied to understand and appropriate colonial subjects and territorial resources. In the colonial and postcolonial period, scientists have implied objectively understanding and describing nature. Power relations have been naturalized through science and science-related institutions, such as museums, botanical gardens, zoos, parks and nature reserves. Nature conservation regulations have been concerned with the management of flora and fauna as much as with humans. Feminist and postcolonial critics have for some time argued that nature and culture are entangled and mutually reinforce one another. They speak of “naturecultures” that emerge through “material-semiotic worlds” (Haraway 1997, Goodeve 1998). Nature and science remain highly political subjects in Africa after independence. Questions relating to the ownership of land, biodiversity management or the iconic functioning of nature in tourism all imply that “naturecultures”, science and politics are interlinked. Legacies of colonial science and colonial government of nature influence the present.<br><b><br>Areas for consideration include:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b><br>* Knowledge production<br>* Science and technology<br>* Scientists’ biographies<br>* Biodiversity, conservation and heritage<br>* Transfrontier parks, national parks and nature reserves<br>* Natural history museums, botanical gardens and zoos<br>* Naturecultures<br>* Land and natural resources<br>* Climate change and the Anthropocene<br><br>The workshop invites PhD-students and interested scholars (history and other disciplines) to discuss work in progress as well as general questions. Among the latter are:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>Which theories and methods are useful in your field?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>Do you gain new perspectives on the disciplines you contribute to?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>What are the benefits of interdisciplinary fields such as Human-Plant Studies?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>And which ethical questions come up in your current research activities?<br><br>Senior scholars<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Prof. Patrick Harries</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(Chair in African History, University of Basel) and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Prof. Maano Ramutsindela</b>(Department of Environmental and Geographical Science, University of Cape Town) will take part in this workshop. Participants are asked to contribute pre-circulated material to provide a common ground for our discussion – this can be a chapter or draft (max. 20 pages), an archival record or source, an artwork, or a journal article that is particularly thought provoking.</p><p style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Download:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://zasb.unibas.ch/index.php?eID=tx_nawsecuredl&u=0&file=fileadmin/afrikakomp/redaktion/Dokumente/Veranstaltungen_2014/CfP_Workshop_Politics_of_Nature_and_Science_in_African_History.pdf&t=1390575074&hash=ff338f202d360aa84df31b1452042f96" title="CfP_Workshop_Politics_of_Nature_and_Science_in_African_History.pdf (1.7 MB)" target="_blank" class="_blank">CfP (PDF)</a><br><br><b>Inquiries, abstracts</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(c. 200 words, by February 28) and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>pre-circulated material<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>(April 30) to:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:melanie.boehi@unibas.ch">melanie.boehi@unibas.ch</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>or<a href="mailto:tanja.hammel@unibas.ch">tanja.hammel@unibas.ch</a><br><br><b>Workshop venue:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Basler Afrika Bibliographien, Klosterberg 23, 4051 Basel<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br><b>Contact:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Workshop convenors, Melanie Boehi & Tanja Hammel, Basel Graduate School of History, University of Basel, Email:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:melanie.boehi@unibas.ch">melanie.boehi@unibas.ch</a>,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:tanja.hammel@unibas.ch">tanja.hammel@unibas.ch</a></p><p style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br>--<br>Centre for African Studies Basel<br><a href="http://www.zasb.unibas.ch/" target="_blank">www.zasb.unibas.ch</a></p></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>