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Introduction to New England and Puritanism. "Young Goodman Brown" by N. Hawthorne as an example of the Puritan conception of Nature and natives.

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

Introduction to New England and Puritanism - see powerpoint on moodle.

"Young Goodman Brown" by N. Hawthorne as an example of the Puritan conception of Nature and natives. The ecogothic and ecophobia.

"Mappings" by J. W. Crampton (2010); Cultural-geographic division of the US. Invited teacher on New England and the beachgrass found there.

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

Introduction to mappings and the geographic-cultural division of the US: see powerpoint on Moodle.

Invited teacher, Joana Freitas, and the coastal aspects of Cape Cod and their comparison with European dunes, namely on the importance of beachgrass to stabilize the sand.

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)