March 2025

Alison Venetia Graham Betts

I have an outstanding international reputation for innovative archaeological research leadership in difficult areas. I have had a four-decade working life dedicated to opening new research pathways in the prehistory of the Middle East and Central Asia. Over the past two decades, I have been particularly concerned with the influence of Eurasian innovations on the […]

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Ketoukhrieü

Ketoukhrieü (Ph.D.) is currently working as an Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Kohima College, Kohima under Nagaland University, Nagaland.    She has obtained Ph.D in Political Science on the topic, “Society and Politics in the Borderlands: A Case Study of a Konyak Naga Village Located at the Indo-Myanmar Borderland” from Gauhati University Assam in 2015. Her academic

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Akumjung Pongen

Junior Fellow Akumjung Pongen is currently pursuing his postgraduate studies in Philosophy and Theology at the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. He holds an undergraduate degree in Philosophy from St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi. He studies and researches themes of metaphysics and epistemology as they concern topics in the philosophy of language and

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Bisakha Goswami

Dr Bisakha Goswami is an Assistant Professor of Musicology at Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata, where she has taught since 2012, and Founder Secretary of Muktabodha, a centre for Indological studies and research. Her main research interests are the historical musicology of South Asia as reflected in Sanskrit treatises, Tagore’s approach to music education, and the

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Wayne Talbot

Wayne, an environmental science graduate, is experienced in the creation of mass participation projects involving partnerships between academic, commercial and voluntary organisations. He also has a Master of Philosophy, obtained through research into education programme evaluation. Using a bespoke method to improve participation developed over the last 10 years, Wayne has provided logistics and support

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Kadiguang Panmei

Kadiguang Panmei is a researcher and musician studying the culture of northeast India and its people through various lenses, including culinary anthropology, migration, geopolitics, and the arts. During the academic year 2022-2023, he pursued his research as a Fulbright Scholar at UCLA’s Herb Alpert School of Music, in the Department of Ethnomusicology.He has varied experiences

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Tiatoshi Jamir

Since 1999, I have been engaged in teaching and research in the Department of History & Archaeology, Nagaland University, Kohima Campus with an administrative component where I was the former Head of Department (2018-2021).Under the German Research Foundation, I was also Mercator Fellow at the Institute of Pre-&-Protohistoric Archaeology, Kiel University, Germany (Aug-Oct, 2022). Over

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A. Sentiyula

A. Sentiyula has a PhD in English from Nagaland University. She is currently the Head of Department of English at Dimapur Government College, Nagaland. Her area of interest includes Naga Writings in English, Writings from the Northeast of India, and Indigenous Studies. She has co-authored a book titled Studies in Contemporary Naga Writings. Her creative nonfiction writing

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Nigel Shakespear

Holding an MSc in Development Management from the Open University, Nigel worked for over 8 years on projects in Romania, mostly focused on improving conditions for the Roma including institution building, policy development, and research. This spell in Eastern Europe followed time in the military working with Gurkha soldiers which took him to Nepal, Belize,

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Les Joynes

Les Joynes is a contemporary artist, curator, critic and Fulbright Senior Scholar at the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts in New Delhi examining art and performative cultures in South Asia. He teaches courses in Modern and Contemporary Art History, Experimental Practices and cultural entrepreneurship at Renmin University and Peking University and is Visiting

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