Francisco A. Scarano (UW-Madison)
Chazen Museum Auditorium @ 5:30 pm
4:30pm Reception; 5:30pm Lecture
Past Events Category: Latin American and Caribbean History
“The Return of the Tupinambá Cloak: Indigenous Art, Memory, and Politics”
Elisa Frühauf Garcia (Fluminense Federal University – Brazil (UFF))
Auditorium, Chazen Museum of Art @ 5:00 pm
This talk will explore the recent return of the Tupinambá cloak to Brazil and the broader questions it raises around Indigenous identity, cultural repatriation, and historical memory. Prof. Frühauf Garcia is an expert on the …
Cape, Sword, and Dagger: Spanish Martial Nobility in Colonial Lima’s Black Militias
Sally Hayes
Curti Lounge (5233 Mosse Humanities) @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Seventeenth-century Lima, the Pacific gateway to the imperial silver of Potosí, was frequently threatened by Dutch and English ships seeking to seize its treasures. Lima’s Black citizens, who by the second decade of the century …