Date: Thursday, January 22, 2026
Time: 5:30 – 7 PM (PST)
Location: The Community Lounge at Museum of Anthropology (MOA) at UBC, 6393 NW Marine Drive, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z2
Admission: Free admission to the event, but it does not include admission to the museum. Registration is required to attend the event.
RSVP here: https://ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_71aTmgLDbnTTOYK
Join this special talk event with Tibetologist Dr. Isabelle Henrion-Dourcy to gain a deeper insight into Tibetan culture as she responds to Entangled Territories: Tibet Through Images by reflecting on her research on Tibet and its popular culture. MOA’s feature exhibition, Entangled Territories: Tibet Through Images, reimagines Tibet by contrasting historical outsider representations with the ways Tibetans today present and speak about their culture. Developed in collaboration with Tibetan Canadian community members and artists, the exhibition highlights Tibet’s rich cultural heritage while engaging with its contemporary political realities—showcasing Tibet and Tibetans through their own voices and perspectives.
Dr. Isabelle Henrion-Dourcy is a Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Université Laval. She has investigated Tibetan popular culture over the last 30 years, looking at drama, pop music, dance, television, social media, cinema, and autobiographical writing. She seeks to understand cultural and political dynamics running through in the Himalayan region, namely shifts in aesthetic forms and identity occurring among Tibetan societies since the take-over of the People’s Republic of China, both inside Tibet and in the diaspora.
Read more here: https://moa.ubc.ca/event/entangled-territories-a-response-to-the-exhibition/
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 and the Himalaya Program at UBC.