Oaxaca Ingobernable: Reflections from Oaxaca's Past for Our Shared Future

Name: Oaxaca Ingobernable: Reflections from Oaxaca's Past for Our Shared Future
Start: 2025-03-27T18:00:00-06:00
End: 2025-03-27T20:00:00-06:00
Location: Maxwell Museum of Anthropology

Schedule

Thu Mar 27 2025 at 06:00 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

Maxwell Museum of Anthropology | Albuquerque, NM

Exact location: UNM Maxwell Museum's Hibben Center for Archaeology Research, Rm 105 + ONLINE
* This in-person event will also be live streamed on Zoom, register here: https://unm.zoom.us/meeting/register/pqxbDk4KT2O5XbitIwEJMA#/registration
*Registration for the in-person event on our Eventbrite is not required but appreciated*
The Maxwell Museum is honored to welcome Dr. Alan Shane Dillingham (Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma), from Arizona State University. Event co-sponsored by the UNM Latin American & Iberian Institute.
OAXACA INGOBERNABLE: REFLECTIONS FROM OAXACA'S PAST FOR OUR SHARED FUTURE
Historian Dr. Dillingham will situate the Maxwell Museum's exhibit “Oaxaca Ingobernable: Aesthetics, Politics, and Art from Below” (set to close on March 14, 2025) within the broader context of Oaxacan history and politics. Tracing the prehistory of the 2006 Oaxacan teacher's strike and social movement, Dr. Dillingham will discuss the longstanding traditions of Indigenous self-governance and radical politics in the state. The lecture will reflect on the contested nature of Indigenous aesthetics in the Americas, how they at times serve state projects of tourism and folklorization while other times fuel insurgent politics for an emancipated future. Dr. Dillingham is the author of the award-winning book, Oaxaca Insurgente: Indigeneity, Development, and Inequality in Twentieth-Century Mexico (2021).