Study Plan

1st year, 1st semester

Anglo-American Studies I – Poetics and Citizenship

Lecturer: Graça Capinha (FLUC/CES)

This seminar aims at undertaking a reflection on power and language. Its main study objectives are poetry//poetry theory, North-American L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E and poetry of the Portuguese emigrants in USA, seen as two examples of lower literature defined by the nomadism and deviation. These literary forms - respectively in their avant-garde and national decentralization – produce a reterritorialization of the word which is manifested in a radically formalistic anti-formalism seeking to deal with the impossibility of totalizing the perspective and, above all, with the impossibility of discursive totalization.

Bibliography:

- ANDREWS, Bruce & BERNSTEIN, Charles (eds.). 1984. The L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Book. Carbondale: Southeastern Illinois University Press.

- BERNSTEIN, Charles (ed.). 1990. The Politics of Poetic Form. Poetry and Public Policy. New York: Roof Books

Contemporary History I – Empire and Postcolonialism 3

Lecturers: Fernando Catroga (FLUC and CHSC of FLUC), Rui Cunha Martins (FLUC/CEIS20 of the UC) and João Paulo Avelãs Nunes (FLUC/CEIS20 of the UC)

The aim is to deepen the epistemological and theoretical reflection on the knowledge produced around the colonization and post colonization issues in the contemporary era. To deepen the analysis of the evolutions occurring towards the structuring and dismantling situations of domination, cooperation or post-domination. To analyse the philosophical, cultural, legal-political and socioeconomic aspects of colonization and post-colonization situations. To compare colonization and post-colonization situations in which Portugal, other European countries, other world countries were involved.

Bibliography:

- SPIVAK, Gayatri Chakravorty, Crítica de la razón poscolonial. Hacia una história del presente evanescente (translated from English), Madrid, Ediciones Akal, 2010.

- ZOLO, Danilo, Globalization: an overview, Colchester, European Consortium for Political Research Press, 2008.

Sociology I – Eurocentrism and (anti-)racism: theories, societies and policy(ies)

Lecturers: Silvia Rodríguez Maeso (CES) [coord.] & Marta Araújo (CES)

With this seminar it is expected that students acquire critical perspectives on racism and on Eurocentrism. Considering the long duration of the colonial processes and the specificities of the debates and the present controversies that have characterised the approaches and political intervention, we will pursue to establish a deeper reflection on the interactions between (anti)racism and public policy cultures. The overall objective is to provide critical and contextualized theoretical/ analytical tools on (anti)racism that dialogue with the associated historicity of the concepts and struggles.

1st year, 2nd semester

Anglo-American Studies II - Postcolonialisms in the English and American Studies

Lecturers– Maria José Canelo (FLUC/CES) and Jacinta Matos (FLUC).

This seminar is divided in two parts: English Studies and American Studies. The objective is to allow students to deepen their studies in one of these areas or the combination of both. From the postcolonialism theme, the seminar will seek to identify relevant theoretical concepts and problematise fundamental aspects of British culture and literature and/or from the USA, through the study of several kinds of materials, from literary texts to documentaries, films and photography. Keeping up with students in the reading and critical analysis of those materials, the seminars aims at preparing them for the writing exercise and research in these areas.

Bibliography:

- ASHCROFT, Bill. The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-colonial Literatures. London: Routledge, 2003.

- KAPLAN, Amy and Donald Pease eds. Cultures of United States Imperialism. Durham, N.C.: Duke UP, 1993.

Contemporary History II - Memories, Silences and Silencings

Lecturers: Rui Bebiano (FLUC/CES)

Three major training objectives are established in this seminar, presented from an approach that opens the history of ideas to a multidisciplinary perspective and oriented towards the launching of new researches. These objectives are: 1) an observation and study of the polysemic nature of the concept of memory; 2) fostering an understanding of the symbolic dimension of silence and of the unsaid as processes of contemporary manipulation of the past; 3) the development of the study of events and objective processes of silencing, from the acknowledgement of conflicts, tensions and disputes around memory.

Bibliography:

- GOLDBERG, David Theo (2009), The Threat of Race. Reflections on Racial Neoliberalism. Malden MA: Wiley-Blackwell
- QUIJANO, Aníbal (2000), 'Coloniality of Power, Eurocentrism and Latin America', Nepantla: Views from South, 1:3, 533-580.

Sociology II – Violence Representations

Lecturer: António Sousa Ribeiro (FLUC/CES)

The seminar aims at providing a broad and transdisciplinary perspective of the chosen theme to provide tools for the development of a first cartography of the complexity of the involved issues. Special attention will be given to the Holocaust issue and the representation of the Holocaust. The methodology to be used is based on the reading and debate of fundamental texts.

Bibliography:

- BUTLER, Judith (2004), Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence. London: Verso.

- SCHINKEL, Willem (2010), Aspects of Violence: A Critical Theory. Basingstoke / New York: Palgrave Macmillan.