Sumários
20 Outubro 2023, 15:30
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Adelaide Victória Pereira Grandela Meira Serras
Oral presentation themes proposals by the students:
The analysis of themes, topics, authors in relation with the aims of the semniar. Basic bibliovraphy.
13 Outubro 2023, 15:30
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Adelaide Victória Pereira Grandela Meira Serras
Imagined cities
The rise of utopian writing. Reading of Thomas More’s Utopia and Francis Bqcon's New Atlantis.
Definitions of utopia based on the More's proposed strucuture,and its social, political, and philosophical goals.
Bacon's apology of science and the benefits of living in a scientifically and technologically based society.
6 Outubro 2023, 15:30
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Adelaide Victória Pereira Grandela Meira Serras
Uotpia as a literary genre.
The etymoloby of the word: its creation by Thomas More together with another neologism: eutopia.The influence of classical rethorical form of serio ludum and its close connection with speculative fiction. The later creation of uchronia and its realtionship with ore's concecpt.
The development of utopianism studies.
29 Setembro 2023, 15:30
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Adelaide Victória Pereira Grandela Meira Serras
The city: a diachronic perspectiveThe city.
Brief charactwfisation of the medieval city: ghe emphasis on safety and defrnse from invaders, the gathering around/in religious buildings, churches or cathedrals; the foundation of universities since the eleventh century and its impact on urban life.
The expansion and opening of the cities in the Renaissance period: the impact of the Discoveries and the consequent establishment of commercial routes on the rising of a more urban model.
Reading of excerpts from Ackroyd, London the Biography,
2000
22 Setembro 2023, 15:30
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Adelaide Victória Pereira Grandela Meira Serras
Exploration of the concept of city based on Malcolm Miles Cities and Cultures:
The geographic factor, demographics, dimension and limits; the activities -the weight of economy and its systems; political institutions.