Acclaimed as a “poet of ideas” by The New Yorker and a “multimedia philosopher-prophet” by The Atlantic, Jonathon Keats is an artist, writer, and experimental philosopher based in the United States and Europe. His conceptually-driven transdisciplinary projects explore all aspects of society, adapting methods from the sciences and the humanities. He has exhibited and lectured at dozens of […]
Recirculating J. H. Hutton’s Cylinder Recordings in Nagaland The research project, funded by the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives and scheduled for January-March 2022, is a collaborative effort involving the Pitt Rivers Museum, the Archives and Research Center for Ethnomusicology (ARCE), and the Highland Institute, targeting the recirculation of the cylinder recordings of John Henry Hutton (1885-1968) in
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NAGA WOMEN’S HEALTH CHANNEL Funded by the Scottish Funding Council as part of their Global Challenges Research Fund, the University of Edinburgh for the Global Impact Accelerator 2020/2021, with the Highland Institute, worked by identifying rural women youth leaders on co-creating a prototype phone application for an online peer-support network for health matters, through series
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Through the agency of Oxford Policy Management, researchers from The Highland Institute were engaged as consultants in a World Bank-funded study on primary determinants of health and nutrition status and outcomes in Nagaland. The target groups for the project were pregnant mothers and mothers with children less than 2 years of age and the focus
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The Changing the Story (CTS) is an international, multi-disciplinary project which supports the building of inclusive civil societies with, and for, young people in post-conflict settings. The project is funded by the UK’s Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF), and coordinated by the University of Leeds, also in the UK.
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Conceived by the Global Health Research Group (GHRG), funded by the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR), UK, and led by the Nuffield Centre for International Health and Development at the University of Leeds, UK, this project aimed to examine the current state of surgical care in four states of North-Eastern India. Over a period
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A Highland Institute Initiative Directed by Jonathon Keats In Collaboration with Anna Ziya Geerling and Michael Heneise, PhD. Since time immemorial, proverbs have guided people, enlisting nature as a metaphor. In the past, references to the natural world helped to elucidate and reinforce behaviors and beliefs foundational to societies in which people knew nature intimately
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With the support of the Firebird Foundation for Anthropological Research (USA), ethnomusicologist Dr Christian Poske conducted a research project on the Naga recordings of the German ethnologist Thomas Kaiser in collaboration with the Ethnographic Museum Zurich and the Highland Institute between October 2022 and April 2023. Comprising over 2,000 sound recordings of songs and accounts
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The URBALTOUR project in Nagaland investigates the interplay between urbanization and tourism in South and Southeast Asia’s mountainous regions. Focusing on Kohima, Nagaland, the study explores the transformation of the city due to the surge in tourism, propelled by events like the Hornbill Festival. Supported by France’s National Agency for Research, the project delves into
By Kevide Lcho About Rüzaphema Rüzaphema is in the Chümoukedima District of Nagaland. The village has a population of around 2400 individuals, and the entire land holding is about 150 square kilometers. The settlement is approximately 200 years old. Oral history says that it was founded by four people; three were Angami—one from
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