With Alanna Radlo-Dzur, art historian of Indigenous arts in the Americas and filmmaker, you’ll explore the culture of the Nahuatl-speaking people of central Mexico and gain an understanding of Nahua femininity in the contexts of gender and power, labor and knowledge, and sacrifice and sustenance.

“The history of Nahua art and culture is still taught and mostly studied with surprisingly rigid temporal boundaries between pre-Hispanic, colonial, modern, and contemporary periods that reinforce scholarly silos with quite different methodologies despite the field’s inherent interdisciplinarity. My hope (and expectation) is that by bridging these various lines of demarcation in our discussions, my students (and I) will form new and innovative approaches both to art history and indigenous studies.”  —Alanna Radlo-Dzur