This Works-in-Progress Seminar explores Indigenous tribute records created in the mid-sixteenth century by tlacuiloque (Indigenous artists) from towns in the Basin of Mexico. Painted on amatl (fig-bark paper), these long pictorial manuscripts (known as tiras) are part of the Spanish Colonial Manuscript Collection (Conway) at the Helmerich Center for American Research. The presentation examines how these […]
Project: "The Depictions of Injustice: Tribute Records from Culhuacan in the Conway Collection" Presenter(s): Dr. Ana Pulido Rull, Associate Professor of Latin American Art History (University of Arkansas) This Works-in-Progress […]
Procedural Hegemony: Adaptation, Assimilation and Legitimacy in the History of Tribal Courts with Assistant Professor of Law (The University of Tulsa), Alexandra Fay. This legal history project studies the imposition of Anglo-American legal procedure on tribal justice systems. It considers procedural assimilation as a product of both American imperialism and tribal self-preservation through strategic accommodation. The project is informed by […]
Project: "500 Years AGO" Presenters: Jessica Mehta (The University of Tulsa) Join us for a roundtable conversation about Jessica Mehta's visual series "500 Years AGO" a work-in-progress performance and poetic […]
Project Title: "The Klan, the White Mob, and the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre" Presenter: Dr. Aaron Schoenfeldt (Duane H. King Postdoctoral Fellow, HCAR) Explore how the Klan and the “culture […]
Project: "Transformative Cultural Materiality: Archaeologies of Displacement, Persistent Lifeways, & Identity" Presenters: Dr. Zachary Qualls (Gilcrease Museum) & Dr. Nkem Ike (University of Toronto) Join us for a roundtable conversation […]
Join us for a presentation by Dr. Lisa Barnett about her new book Peyote Politics: The Making of the Native American Church, 1880-1937 (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2025). Check back soon for more details to come!
About the Presenter: Join us for a brief presentation and roundtable conversation with Professor McLaughlin on his new research project. McLaughlin is an associate professor of 19th-century American literature at the University of Tulsa. He holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Pennsylvania and an M.A. in English from Villanova University. His forthcoming […]
Join us for a presentation by short-term fellow Russell Cobb, as he shares insights from his time in residence at the Helmerich Center for American Research. Drawing from research conducted […]
