Sumários

Tips about the annotated bibliography. Washignton DC and Identity through presidential portraits.

9 Abril 2025, 17:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato

Tips about annotated bibliography: https://usculturalgeography.blogspot.com/2025/04/what-does-annotated-bibliography-look.html

Washington DC and identity through presidential portraits - invited teacher Diana V. Almeida.

Presenation on New York through the art of Georgia O'Keefe and Agnes Denes. Writing the final paper (reviewing guidelines).

7 Abril 2025, 17:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato

Presentation on New York through the art of Georgia O'Keefe and Agnes Denes - invited teacher Susana Pomba.

How to go about writing the final paper / documentary review: https://usculturalgeography.blogspot.com/2025/04/how-to-go-about-writing-your.html

"New Netherland" (cont.) Documentary "MyBrooklyn" and How to Read Cultural Texts.

2 Abril 2025, 17:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato

New Netherland - front door for immigrants (through Emma Lazaru's poem "The New Colossus").

Documentary "MyBrooklyn" by Kelly Anderson (2012).
"How to read cultural texts" based on Marcus Doel (2010)

The New Netherland through the problem of (de)centralization of culture. Midterm

31 Março 2025, 17:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato

New Nehterland - see intro powerpoint on moodle.

Dicussion on Rebecca Solnit's text "The Walmart Bienal"
Revsions powerpoint on moodle.
Midterm evaluation - written exercise.

Dixie/The South (cont.). Migration from South to North and introduction to New Netherland

26 Março 2025, 17:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato

William Faulkner's speech to Virginians (cont.) and Nina Simone's song "Go Slow."

Internal migration of the African-American population. Langston Hughes' poem "The Negro Speaks of Rivers".
An excerpt from bell hooks, "Touchng the Earth".
STG - Stop, Turn, Go (teacher's midterm assessment)