Tenochtitlán: Nuevo, nuevo mundoMaster ClassIn-Person
Friday, Apr 25, 2025
9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m
Location to be announced
Founded in 1969, El Museo del Barrio's mission is to present and preserve the art and culture of Puerto Ricans and all Latin Americans in the United States. Through its extensive collections, varied exhibitions and publications, bilingual public programs, educational activities, festivals and special events, El Museo educates its diverse public in the richness of Caribbean and Latin American arts and cultural history.
In Spanish*
En esta clase, discutiremos ideas y descubrimientos recientes sobre el primer contacto entre aztecas y españoles—a principios del siglo XVI. La modernidad, según este nuevo paradigma, comienza en Tenochtitlán y no podría haber sucedido sin las aportaciones materiales e intelectuales de los indígenas americanos. La conversación tendrá componentes visuales —deidades, mapas, representaciones artísticas—y está organizada sobre libros recientes y accesibles y traducciones recientes de fuentes indígenas.
*Open to teachers of all subjects and to Spanish teachers of all levels.
ESPAÑOL, ESTUDIOS SOCIALES, HISTORIA
In this class, which will be conducted in Spanish, we’ll discuss recent scholarship and discoveries related to the first contact between Aztecs and Spaniards in the early sixteenth-century. According to this new school of thought, the modern era begins in Tenochtitlán, and could not have happened without the material and intellectual contributions of the Indigenous people of the Americas. The conversation will be accompanied by visual support—gods, maps, works of art—and organized around excerpts from recent, accessible books, as well as translations of Indigenous sources. Spanish-speaking teachers of any subject are welcome to apply.
SPANISH, SOCIAL STUDIES, HISTORY
Álvaro Enrigue
Álvaro Enrigue is an associate professor of Romance languages and literatures at Hofstra University, specializing in baroque literatures. He was a Cullman Center Fellow and a fellow at the Princeton University Program in Latin American studies, and has taught at New York University, Princeton University, the University of Maryland, and Columbia University. His work has appeared in the New York Times, The Believer, The White Review, n+1, London Review of Books, and El País, among others. His novels have won the prestigious Herralde Prize in Spain, the Elena Poniatowska Ibero-American Novel Prize in Mexico, and the Barcelona Prize for Fiction, and have been translated into many languages. Enrigue was born in Mexico and lives in New York City.