Date: March 11, 2026
Time: 5:30 – 7 PM (PST)
Location: Liu Institute for Global Issues at UBC—6476 NW Marine Drive
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Join us at the Liu Institute at UBC for a special conversation with Dr. Dawa Lokyitsang, Dr. Tsering Dolkar Watermeyer, and Nawang Tsering Gurung as they reflect on what homeland means for diasporic Tibetan community members, in relation to MOA’s feature exhibition, Entangled Territories: Tibet Through Images.
Entangled Territories: Tibet Through Images was developed in collaboration with Tibetan Canadian community members and artists, showcasing Tibet and Tibetans through their own voices and perspectives. The location and status of the Tibetan homeland remain a central issue for Tibetans. Their lived experience in Canada and elsewhere is reshaping Tibetan identity and their self-image, and many are questioning not only their diasporic condition, but also reimagining what homeland means.
Bios
Dr. Dawa Lokyitsang is a Tibetan American anthropologist and postdoctoral fellow at Leiden University’s International Institute for Asian Studies. Her research examines Tibetan agency as anticolonial response to China’s settler colonialism in Tibet. She co-founded and edits Lhakar Diaries, shaping decolonial scholarship through Tibetan diasporic voices, oral histories, and critical thought.
Dr. Tsering Dolkar Watermeyer is an Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work, Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador. Born in Lhasa, she spent her formative years in exile in India before returning to Tibet from where she immigrated to Canada. Her work examines indigenous and diasporic social work practices and structural development.
Nawang Tsering Gurung is a multidisciplinary consultant, translator, speaker, and cultural advocate from Mustang, Nepal, based in New York City. He works to promote Himalayan arts and culture through initiatives such the oral history project Voices of the Himalayas: Language, Culture and Belonging in Immigrant New York.
Read more here: https://moa.ubc.ca/event/entangled-territories-conversations-on-home-diasporas/
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.