Date: March 14, 2026
Time: 2 – 3 PM (PST)
Location: Museum of Anthropology at UBC
Admission: Free with museum admission
Join MOA for a special discussion about Entangled Territories: Tibet Through Images, with Tsering Yangzom Lama and Dr. Kabir Mansingh Heimsath, facilitated by Dr. Fuyubi Nakamura.
The panel will feature insight into Tibet and its culture as they respond to the exhibition by reflecting on their respective work as a writer and as an anthropologist.
MOA’s feature exhibition, Entangled Territories: Tibet Through Images was developed in collaboration with Tibetan Canadian community members and artists. Entangled Territories presents Tibet, its cultures and its communities in a different light. The exhibition also uplifts the efforts of the Tibetan-Canadian community to maintain their culture and history in the face of challenges associated with migration and the loss of their homeland.
Bios
Writer Tsering Yangzom Lama was born and raised in Nepal, and has lived in Toronto, New York City, and Vancouver, where she now resides. Lama holds an MFA in Writing from Columbia University and a BA in Creative Writing and International Relations from the University of British Columbia. Lama’s debut novel We Measure the Earth With Our Bodies (McClelland & Stewart, 2022) won the GLCA New Writers Award as well as t Banff Mountain Book Award for Fiction & Poetry.
Dr. Kabir Mansingh Heimsath is a socio-cultural anthropologist working on urban space, landscape and contemporary art in Tibet and the Himalayan region. He lived and worked between Kathmandu and Lhasa for fifteen years as a researcher, faculty and director for international academic programs. He teaches in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Lewis & Clark College, Portland, Oregon, where he is currently the Director of Asian Studies.
Read more: https://moa.ubc.ca/event/entangled-territories-a-panel-discussion/
Presented by the Museum of Anthropology, the Himalaya Program and the Department of Asian Studies, the University of British Columbia.
Supported in part by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.