Universität Wien

143144 SE Health Humanities: Discourses on Public Health in Africa and its Diasporas (2023W)

8.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 14 - Orientalistik, Afrikanistik, Indologie und Tibetologie
Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung
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An/Abmeldung

Hinweis: Ihr Anmeldezeitpunkt innerhalb der Frist hat keine Auswirkungen auf die Platzvergabe (kein "first come, first served").

Details

max. 20 Teilnehmer*innen
Sprache: Englisch

Lehrende

Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert

Beginn: 05.10.2023

  • Donnerstag 05.10. 09:00 - 11:00 Inst. f. Afrikawissenschaften, Seminarraum 4 UniCampus Hof 5 2M-O1-10
  • Donnerstag 12.10. 09:00 - 11:00 Inst. f. Afrikawissenschaften, Seminarraum 4 UniCampus Hof 5 2M-O1-10
  • Donnerstag 19.10. 09:00 - 11:00 Inst. f. Afrikawissenschaften, Seminarraum 4 UniCampus Hof 5 2M-O1-10
  • Donnerstag 09.11. 09:00 - 11:00 Inst. f. Afrikawissenschaften, Seminarraum 4 UniCampus Hof 5 2M-O1-10
  • Donnerstag 16.11. 09:00 - 11:00 Inst. f. Afrikawissenschaften, Seminarraum 4 UniCampus Hof 5 2M-O1-10
  • Donnerstag 23.11. 09:00 - 11:00 Inst. f. Afrikawissenschaften, Seminarraum 4 UniCampus Hof 5 2M-O1-10
  • Donnerstag 30.11. 09:00 - 11:00 Inst. f. Afrikawissenschaften, Seminarraum 4 UniCampus Hof 5 2M-O1-10
  • Donnerstag 07.12. 09:00 - 11:00 Inst. f. Afrikawissenschaften, Seminarraum 4 UniCampus Hof 5 2M-O1-10
  • Donnerstag 14.12. 09:00 - 11:00 Inst. f. Afrikawissenschaften, Seminarraum 4 UniCampus Hof 5 2M-O1-10
  • Donnerstag 11.01. 09:00 - 11:00 Inst. f. Afrikawissenschaften, Seminarraum 4 UniCampus Hof 5 2M-O1-10
  • Donnerstag 18.01. 09:00 - 11:00 Inst. f. Afrikawissenschaften, Seminarraum 4 UniCampus Hof 5 2M-O1-10
  • Donnerstag 25.01. 09:00 - 11:00 Inst. f. Afrikawissenschaften, Seminarraum 4 UniCampus Hof 5 2M-O1-10

Information

Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung

In this advanced seminar course, participants will be given the opportunity to explore in-depth an emerging field of study called Health Humanities. Crowford et al (2020) define health humanities as follows: “The health humanities is a rapidly rising field, advancing an inclusive, democratizing, activist, applied, critical, and culturally diverse approach to delivering health and well-being through the arts and humanities. It has generated new kinds of interdisciplinary research, knowledge, and communities of practice globally.”

Method of teaching:
Lectures, guest appearances, discussions, debates – seminar presentations by course participants towards writing a term paper of up to 44,000 characters.

This course aims:
1. To enable students to survey contemporary interdisciplinary approaches to finding solutions to handling infectious diseases that develop into epidemics such as EBOLA and pandemics such as COVID-19.
2. To enable the student to be aware of the scope of Health Humanities, its distinctions from Medical Humanities, and its place in interdisciplinary Humanities, and Public Health disciplines; and
3. To train students to synthetize articles and other types of discourses produced in top-level Humanities and Public Health journals towards producing a publishable piece of their own oh Health Humanities.

Class interaction is in the form of lectures, student presentations, computer-based electronic communications.

A basic introductory course in African studies, or Humanities subjects or Public health is a pre-requisite.

ATTENTION: according to new COVID regulations, the Seminarraum 4 can host only 9 students. The other ones will have to follow the course online.

Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel

Active participation during all class sessions (both in person and online) will be the key. The course is assessed as follows:
o Attendance and active participation in class and online discussions, debates, and exercises: 20%
o Student presentation: 20%
o Term paper up to 44,000 characters: 60%

Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab

No previous study of the humanities or Africa is required.

Prüfungsstoff

Baaed on the topics covered students will propose their own term paper topics for approval by the instructor.

Literatur

Main Reference books:

o Crawford P, B Brown, A Charise (Eds.). 2020. The Routledge Companion to Health Humanities. London: Routledge.

o Crawford P, B Brown, C Baker, V Tischler and B Abrams. 2015. Health Humanities. London: Palgrave-Macmillan.

o Jones T, D Wear and LD Friedman (Eds.). 2014. Health Humanities Reader. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

Articles and Book Chapters:

o Bodomo, A. 2020. Historical and contemporary perspectives on inequalities and well-being of Africans in China, In: Asian Ethnicity, DOI: 10.1080/14631369.2020.1761246

o Bodomo AB, A Liem, L Lin, and BJ Hall. 2020. How African migrants in China cope with barriers to health care. Lancet Public Health Vol 5. Issue 4, PE 192, (https://doi.org/10.1016/S2468-2667(20)30048-7)

A selection of readings of from the latest articles on Health Humanities published in top-level journals like Lancet, African Studies, and other avenues of Humanities and Global Public Health are suggested after each lecture.

Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis

SAS.SE.1
SAS.SE.2

Letzte Änderung: Di 12.09.2023 10:07