Join MOA for a lecture and performance by Ainu Indigenous scholar/artist/dancer Dr. Kanako Uzawa.

MOA is honoured to welcome Sdahl Ḵ’awaas, Lucy Bell of the Haida Nation, who will reflect on the issues surrounding repatriation and museum practices, as well as the decisions and actions that led to successful repatriations and the ethical issues museums must face along the path to reconciliation.

British-Kenyan artist Grace Ndiritu has declared 2020 as the Year of Black Healing, to counterbalance the co-opting of Black Culture by politicians to promote their own agendas.

The Lévi-Strauss Lectures at the Museum of Anthropology at UBC honour the preeminent 20^th century French anthropologist, Claude Lévi-Strauss (b. 1908 – d. 2009)—one of the most influential thinkers on the subjects of myth, culture, religion and social organization.