|NEWS & EVENTS
The Bower Lectures
Dr Bérénice Guyot-Réchard, Reader (Associate Professor) in International and South Asian History at Kings College London, delivered the 12th Annual Ursula Graham Bower Lectures, titled: “Tangled Lands: Burma and India’s Unfinished Separation (1937-1948)”.
Fieldwork and Research
16th NEN Biodiversity Festival
6th – 7th March 2025
Theme: ” Nurturing Health , Wellbeing, and Resilience : Sustaining Our Future Together”.
Guest Lectures
Dr Edward Moon-Little, Social Anthropologist and Fellow of the Highland Institute, with the Tribal Design Forum, Session 209, talked on “Curating Indigenous Astrology Through Play”.
|PERSPECTIVES
|RESEARCH
“Has the Amazon rainforest’s destruction reached a tipping point?”
Prof. Luiz Marques, member of the Ekologos project funded by the Highland Institute and the Norwegian Directorate of Higher Education, investigates tipping points that could trigger cascading climate effects, such as shifting rainfall patterns, intensifying wildfires, and accelerating continental forest loss in the Amazon rainforest.
“MyCClimate: Community Responses to Climate Change in Highland Asia”
Funded by the Danish Institute of International Studies, the MyCClimate project at the Highland Institute explores community-driven strategies addressing climate impacts on local livelihoods and ecosystems in Highland Asia, emphasizing resilience, adaptation, and indigenous environmental knowledge.
“How can cultural heritage adapt to climate change through food and cuisine?”
Highland Institute researchers Tümüzo Katiry, Akumtong Imchen, and Saktum Wonti, for Tasting Tomorrow, investigated this question through an applied research methodology, namely preparing popular Naga dishes, but instead of adding all the usual ingredients, they exchanged some for food items that were likely to be available after 50 years of climate change.
“Entangled Medical Futures: Health in Climate-Altered Highland Asia”
Dr. Michael T. Heneise leads an international workshop at the University of Edinburgh exploring how indigenous and plural medical systems respond to climate-driven health challenges, highlighting sustainable care practices and innovative community health strategies.
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Highland Global
Highland Local
Rooted Collaborations, Community Knowledge
