{"id":26762,"date":"2025-05-12T11:11:35","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T15:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/?page_id=26762"},"modified":"2026-02-25T14:39:55","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T19:39:55","slug":"hist-5702w-towards-an-indigenous-museology-encounter-exchange-and-relational-practice","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/hist-5702w-towards-an-indigenous-museology-encounter-exchange-and-relational-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"HIST 5702W: Towards an Indigenous Museology: Encounter, Exchange and Relational Practice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        HIST 5702W: Towards an Indigenous Museology: Encounter, Exchange and Relational Practice\n\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>HIST 5702W: Special Topics<\/strong> &#8211; <strong>Towards an Indigenous&nbsp;Museology: Encounter, Exchange and Relational Practice<\/strong><br><strong>Winter 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Instructor: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/cu-people\/alex-nahwegahbow\/\">Alexandra Kahsenni:io Nahwegahbow<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Introduction: <\/strong>This course will present Indigenous history through careful examination of moments of encounter as they have been mediated through visual and material culture and display. In drawing from the work of Mary Louise Pratt and her understanding of \u201cthe contact zone,\u201d this course aims to foreground the interactive material dimensions of encounter and will seek to explore these cross-cultural exchanges by complicating simplified models of conquest\/domination and stimulus\/response, and instead will present a primary focus on the agency of Indigenous peoples in the ongoing interactions of the contact zone. Topics revisited throughout the term will include issues of trope and stereotype, histories of collecting, the politics of display, imposed systems of colonial control, cross-cultural understandings of value, and the movement towards Indigenous and decolonial museologies. Working from a pedagogical framework centered on visiting, relationality and \u201ckitchen table talk,\u201d this course will consider the ways in which Indigenous and decolonial practices have- and continue to- generate and mobilize epistemologies of resistance and liberation within and beyond the museum walls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Class Format<\/strong>: In-person seminar once per week in a three-hour block.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Assessment: <\/strong>Students will be<strong> <\/strong>evaluated based on<strong> <\/strong>a combination of in-class participation, leading class discussion, one written\/creative assignment, and a final essay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Text:&nbsp; <\/strong>Texts will be provided on Ares or the course site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HIST 5702W: Special Topics &#8211; Towards an Indigenous&nbsp;Museology: Encounter, Exchange and Relational PracticeWinter 2026 Instructor: Alexandra Kahsenni:io Nahwegahbow Introduction: This course will present Indigenous history through careful examination of moments of encounter as they have been mediated through visual and material culture and display. 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