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Unidade Curricular | Course Unit | |
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Topics of Culture: Real Cities, Imagined Cities | |
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Código da Unidade Curricular | Course ID | |
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921680 | |
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Créditos ECTS | ECTS Credits | |
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12 | |
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Ciclo de Estudos | Level | |
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Mestrado| MA | |
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Semestre | Semester | |
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S1 | |
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Docente(s) | Instructor(s) | |
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Adelaide Meira Serras | |
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Língua de ensino | Language of instruction | |
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English | |
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Programa (na língua de ensino) | Course description (in language of instruction) | |
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This seminar aims to introduce the students to the seminal concepts of city and culture. From a chronological perspective, it will focus on relevant cultural turning points in the English History and Culture, comparing it, whenever pertinent, with the Portuguese History and Culture. It will deal with factors such as the social, political, and economic construct, or the prevalence of science and technology, which participated in the building of new urban models, patent in the distinct aesthetic and functional material heritage. The reflection and discussion of urban and metropolitan examples will include examples of real, successful achievements as well as imagined projects, either utopias or dystopias.
Syllabus
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Avaliação (na língua de ensino) | Grading and Assessment (in language of instruction) | |
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Students are expected to do 20 minutes oral presentations on specific topics, followed by the group’s critical appreciation and debate. Each student prepares a final written essay on a theme of his/her choice within the scope of the programme and approved by the teacher. Students can attend a two hours tutorial session per week to receive individual guidance on their study and work in course. Assessment: Essay: 40%; oral work: 24%; review: 18%; participation: 18%. | |
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Bibliografia (selection) | Readings (selection) | |
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Ackroyd, P. (2000). London the Biography. London: Vintage. Baccolini, R., & T. Moylan, eds. Dark horizons: Science fiction and the dystopian imagination. Routledge, 2003. Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World. Harper Perennial, 2006 Lefebvre, Henri (2003). The Urban Revolution. Trans. R. Bononno. Forword by N. Smith. Univ. of Minnesota P. Martinotti, G. The new social morphology of cities. MOST. D.P.S.-16. http://www.unesco.org/most/martinot.htm. Miles, M. (2007). Cities and Cultures. Routledge critical introductions to urbanism and the city. London & New York: Routledge. Miles, M., T. Hall & I. Borden (2000). The City Cultures Reader. London & New York: Routledge. More, T. (1999). Utopia. Ed. Logan & Adams. Cambridge: C. U. P. Orwell. George. Nineteen Eighty-Four. Penguin Classics, 2021. Suvin, Darko. Metamorphoses of Science Fiction: On the Poetics and History of a Literary Genre (Ralahine Utopian Studies). Peter Lang, 2016. Harvey, David. "The Right to the City." from New Left, no. 53, September/October 2008, pp.23-40, newleftreview.org/issues/ii53/articles/david-harvey-the-right-to-the-city, Accessed: 03.11.2023 Miles, Malcolm. “Art and Urban Regeneration.” from Urban History, vol. 22, no. 2, 1995, pp. 238–52. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/44613951 Schipper, Imanuel. “City as Performance.” from TDR (1988-), vol. 58, no. 3, 2014, pp. 18–2
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Unidade Curricular | Course Unit |
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Topics of Culture: Urban Visions – the predominancy of dystopia |
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Código da Unidade Curricular | Course ID |
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921680 |
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Créditos ECTS | ECTS Credits |
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12 |
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Ciclo de Estudos | Level |
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Doutoramento | PhD] |
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Semestre | Semester |
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S1 |
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Docente(s) | Instructor(s) |
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Adelaide Meira Serras |
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Língua de ensino | Language of instruction |
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English |
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Programa (na língua de ensino) | Course description (in language of instruction) |
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This seminar aims to explore the concept of city as an interdisciplinary object of study, mainly its relationship with the concept of culture. From a chronological perspective, it will focus on relevant cultural Key points in the English/ British History and Culture, contemplating the binomial city/ nation and metropolis/ empire. Social, political and economic factors will be analysed, as well as the role of science and technology, as markers of the material, aesthetical or functional heritage of distinct urban models. Utopia and dystopia will be studied as imagined cities’ depictions from a conceptual perspective. Noteworthy examples of fundamental themes and forms, such as Thomas More’s Utopia, W. Morris’s News from Nowhere, in contrast with A. Huxley’s Brave New World, or G. Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, will allow the analysis of the relationship between the work of fiction and its context; utopian text and ideological document; its impact on past and current urban models.
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Avaliação (na língua de ensino) | Grading and Assessment (in language of instruction) |
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The work to be developed along the sessions is divided in theoretical and contextual presentations followed by a joint debate based on the scheduled readings. Each student will make a communication on a topic/ work of the programme. He/she will chair a debate on a concept/ theoretical point to draw out the students’ critical and argumentative abilities. He/she will write a review about an item of the recommended bibliography, and a final essay on a theme of his/her choice (previously approved by the seminar’s Supervisor) within the seminar’s scope and research goals. The students are invited to participate in initiatives (communications in conferences; round tables) fostered by Research Centres within the seminar’s field of studies. Assessment: essay (8.000 to 10.000 words): 36%; oral presentation: 24%; review: 18%; chairing a theoretical debate: 12%; assiduity: 10%. ferir os elementos de avaliação e o peso relativo de cada um na classificação final] |
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Bibliografia (selection) | Readings (selection) |
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Ackroyd, P. London the Biography. Vintage, 2000. Baccolini, R., & T. Moylan, eds. Dark horizons: Science fiction and the dystopian imagination. Routledge, 2003. Bauman, Zygmunt. Society under Siege. Polity, 2002 Claeys,G. & L. T. Sargent The Utopia Reader. N. Y. U. P. 2017. Gordin, M., H. Tilley et al., eds. Utopia/Dystopia: Conditions of Historical Possibility. Princeton U. P., 2010. Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World. Harper Perennial, 2006 Lefebvre, H. The Urban Revolution. U. Minnesota P., 2003. Levitas, Ruth. The Concept of Utopia. 1990. Peter Lang, 2010 Miles, M. Art, Space and the city: Public art and urban futures. Routledge, 2000. Miles, M.et al. The City Cultures Reader. Routledge, 2000. Orwell. George. Nineteen Eighty-Four. Penguin Classics, 2021. Sontag, Susan. “The Imagination of Disaster”. Against Interpretation and Other Essays. Picador, 1961, 1-12. Suvin, Darko. Metamorphoses of Science Fiction: On the Poetics and History of a Literary Genre (Ralahine Utopian Studies). Peter Lang, 2016. The Land of Cockaigne: A Utopian World on Earth Full of Meal and Pleasures.
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