A documentary telling the story of indigenous journalists’ fight for a free press Join us on Monday, February 26 at 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. for the free documentary screening of “Bad Press,” which shows the story of indigenous journalists on an Oklahoma tribal reservation that pushed back against censorship and convinced their community …
Boarding Schools and American Indian Dispossession Professor Brenda Child, University of Minnesota and Guggenheim Fellow Government boarding schools went hand in hand with the American Indian land dispossession policies of the United States. Professor Child's grandparents were among the thousands who attended the schools. She draws on her own family story to humanize the broader …
THE ENSLAVEMENT OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLE AND AFRICANS IN CUBA: CONTRIBUTIONS FROM ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH ROBERTO VALCÁRCEL ROJAS MUSEO DEL HOMBRE DOMINICANO, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC Room 1208A Turlington Hall, Thursday, April 11, 2024, 3:00 pm In recent years, archaeological research has brought us closer to a form of slavery that is almost unknown or considered unimportant: that of …
The Royal Inca Tunic: A Biography of an Ancient Andean Masterpiece Andrew James Hamilton, Associate Curator of Arts of the Americas, Art Institute of Chicago, and Lecturer, Department of Art History, University of Chicago
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Color, Catholicism, and the Continuance of Maya Religiosity in Sixteenth-Century Yucatán Amara Solari, Samuel H. Kress Senior Fellow, National Gallery’s Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, 2024–2025, and Professor of Art History and Anthropology, Penn State University.
The Inaugural AIIS Lecture in Indigenous Knowledge Weaving Ways of Knowing Among the Trees Dr. Jesse Popp Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Environmental Science, University of Guelph A member of Wiikwemkoong Unceded Territory with Anishinaabe and mixed European heritage, Dr. Jesse Popp strives to promote inclusive science that embraces multiple ways of knowing while on …
Professor Patricia Murrieta-Flores explores her digital humanities undertaking Digging into Early Colonial Mexico.