Sumários

Nature and Wilderness in the American imagination (cont.) American Values and Regional Cultural Differences.

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

Nature and Wild(erness) in the American Imagination. the 1964 Wilderness Act, Gary Snyder's notion of wild, and Louis Owens's reflection on wilderness preservation (anthology, p, 52).

Topic sentences and keywords in Crèvecoeur's Letter III in Letters from an American Farmer (anthology pp. 63-67).
Joel Garreau and the "Nine Nations of America" (anthology, pp. 68-75).
See powerpoint on moodle.

America as Nature's Nation (?) - Native Americans' relation with "wilderness", ecological iimperialism, environmentalism.

24 Fevereiro 2025, 17:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato

America as Nature's Nation (?)

First Oral Presentation: The Ecological Indian. Native Americans in the NE, Plains Indians and SW Indians.
Discussion of the article by Peter Coates, "The Human and Natural Environment" - cont. see powerpoint on moodle.
The Lakotas and their resistance / cooption by American spectacle in the 19th Century: Sitting Bull (and Buffalo Bill).
Luther Standing Bear, "Nature" - anthology, p. 52.
See powerpoint on moole.

Genealogy and keywords of American Studies (concl.). America as Nature's Nation?

19 Fevereiro 2025, 17:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato

Keywords and notions of American Studies - see reference book(s) Keywords in American Cutural Studies by Burgett and Hendler in moodle (2007 and 2020), as well as this post:

Introduction to the article "The Human and Natural Environment" by Peter Coates (pp. 35-45)

Around the notion(s) of American Studies.

17 Fevereiro 2025, 17:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato

Conclusion of exposition of the entry "Cultural Geography" by Mark Paterson.

Discussing keywords and the interdisciplinary nature of American Studies, according to Campbell and Kean's first chapter of An Introduction to American Studies (2016). See powerpoint on moodle and blog post:https://usculturalgeography.blogspot.com/2025/02/hw-for-feb-17-american-studies-based-on.html

Discussing the basics of "cultural geography" (Paterson 2011).

12 Fevereiro 2025, 17:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato

Revising assignments for the course and content trajectory.

Exposition, wiht discusssion, of Paterson, Mark. "Cultural Geography" in The Encyclopedia of Literary and Cultural Theory. Wiley and Blackwell 2011 - see powerpoint on moodle.