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The Hemispheric Annual Course involves the co-teaching of a graduate level, interdisciplinary course (taught in 4 countries in 3 languages and at 6 institutions) that focuses on the 'performance' (as embodied action) as both object and mode of analysis. Faculty from six participating institutions co-develop the courses, and each teach it at their home institutions in a regular weekly seminar. Each of the participating faculty members lead 'workgroups' through the web in which members from any of the institutions can participate, and students are responsible for a collaborative project at the end of the semester. The current course is Performance and Conquest, which offers a comparative analysis of the role performance in the conquest of the Americas, focusing primarily on what are now Mexico, Brazil, Peru and the United States. During the annual Encuentro, students from the various institutions/countries meet to discuss the work they did together online. The annual web-based course allows students at member institutions to study the subject in depth, and enables us to make and locate key texts in that area, all available as part of the Institute's web-based archive. At present, participating institutions in the web course are: the Department of Performance Studies at New York University; the School of Drama at the University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; and the Department of Communications at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú in Lima, the Centro Regional de Investigaciones Multidisciplinarias (CRIM) at the Unversidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, and Yale University, and Trinity College in the United States.
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