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Delivery and feedback on midterm papers. Instructions for final essays. Going West: the Lewis and Clark expedition (intro.)

22 Março 2022, 15:30 • Margarida Vale de Gato

Delivery and feedback on midterm papers. 

Instructions for final essays. 
Going West: the Lewis and Clark expedition (intro.)
Contacts with native Americans and a woman translator - watching a video from "Weird History";

Library Training on the Digital Resources of ULisboa and elibrary USA

17 Março 2022, 15:30 • Margarida Vale de Gato

Library Training on the Digital Resources of ULisboa and elibrary USA (zoom class held by Isabel Rebolho).

Waterfronts: from the South to the North, and the Urban East; Representing the landscape(s) of New York (with Rebecca Solnit)

15 Março 2022, 15:30 • Margarida Vale de Gato

Reading and commenting on Langston Hughes's poem "The Negro Speaks of Rivers."

The Urban East, rivers, watersheds, waterfronts (powerpoint on moodle).
Rebecca Solnit's take on the sale of Asher B. Durand's "Kindred Spirits" - "The Wal-Mart Biennale" (anthology pp. 165-166) - unexamined assumptions.


Oral presentation on "vessels, holds, containers"; midterm paper.

10 Março 2022, 15:30 • Margarida Vale de Gato

Oral presentation on "vessels, holds, containers":

Midterm paper: comparing and criticizing contrasting excerpts.

Dixie, or the Deep South. Exploring the Mississippi situation in the 1960's. William Faulkner's essay

8 Março 2022, 15:30 • Margarida Vale de Gato

Dixie, or the Deep South: powerpoint on moodle

Exploring the Mississippi situation in the 1960's: William Faulkner's essay "Mississippi"
vs. the narrative of African American migration from South to North (bell hooks).
Analysis of E. O. Wilson's text "Denial and its risks" - comparison with the current climate situation.