The Nettle Dress is a poetic 2023 documentary by Dylan Howitt that follows the seven-year activity of artist Allan Brown to glean, process, spin, weave, and sew a dress of local stinging nettles. We will be screening it as an opening to the Slow Fashion Show at the Museum of Anthropology (MOA), opening at 7 pm the […]
Abbas Akhavan, curtain call, variations on a folly, 2021/2023, barley straw, subsoil, lightweight leca, sharp sand, puddle clay, wood, chromakey green paint, pink noise, 390 x 650 x 1230 cm. Photo: David Stjernholm; courtesy of the artist. Join visual artist Abbas Akhavan as he discusses some of his most significant works to date, particularly those focused […]
Amidst the rising concern about a crisis of narration in global digital culture, this talk reclaims the work of narrative imagination, with a focus on civic storytelling on Chinese social media. In today’s platform society, social media platforms often obstruct the telling and sharing of some stories while promoting others. In response, social media users […]
14th Annual Richard V. Ericson Lecture Through the lens of an anthropologist of legal consciousness, we take an ethnographic journey to the elusive grail of Indigenous-determined justice in Canada—a journey from the Marshall Inquiry, to RCAP, to the TRC Calls to Action, to the Indigenous Justice Strategy, and beyond. Professor McMillan critically surveys both obstacles to […]
Four short talks. Four distinguished speakers working at the intersection of disciplines. Dr. annie ross (Indigenous Studies, Art), Dr. Helmut Weissert (Earth Sciences), Laurie D. Graham (Literature), and Dr. Derek […]
What is the relationship between comics and place? How can comics tie us to memory, history, and emotion? Join us for the panel talk “Places of Memory in Graphic Novels” to explore how graphic novels preserve memories through space and time. Co-organized by the UBC Hong Kong Studies Initiative and LunarFest Vancouver, the panel features […]
