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Indicative Weekly Topics
Week 1: Before Columbus: Indigenous Art before Europeans
Week 2: Resistance and Survival in the Colonial Americas
Week 3: Representing the Other: European Imaginaries
Week 4: Mutual Misunderstanding: Indigenous Representations of Europeans
Week 5: Theorizing Hybridity and Loss
Week 6: The Anthropological Eye: Nineteenth-Century Explorers and Race Science
Week 7: Collecting the “Pre-Columbian”: the Idea of the “Indian” in European and U.S. Museums
Week 8: Photographing the Nation: Martín Chambí and Indigenous Peru
Week 9: Indigenismo and Peruvian Modernism
Week 10: Indigenous Andean Artists Today: Reclaiming Folk Art, Challenging Modernist Aesthetics
Week 11: Nationalism and Indigeneity: Mexico’s National Museums and National Institute of Culture
Week 12: Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Indigenous Mexico
Week 13: Aztecs and the Maya at the Movies: Apocalypto, Indiana Jones, and Black Panther
Week 14: Cannibalism Part 1: The Colonial Period
Week 15: Cannibalism Part 2: Brazilian Film
Week 16: Cannibalism Part 3: Brazilian Modernism and Contemporary Artists
Week 17: Playing Indian: U.S. Nationalism and Whiteness
Week 18: Land Sovereignty and Protest
Week 19: Repatriation, Museums, and Memory
Week 20: Global Indigeneity