Highlander Lectures

The annual Highland Fellowship Lectures, formerly known as the Hutton Lectures, were established in 2013 by the founders of the Highland Institute, with the stated mission: 

To foster and propagate the study of culture and society, aiming to deepen scholarly understanding and enhance the well-being of communities within the broader Eastern Himalayan region.

Today, the lectures are organized and sponsored by the Highland Fellowship and held annually at the Highland Institute, usually in the month of December. The Fellowship invites distinguished thinkers of local, national, and international renown to deliver public lectures, which when possible are published open access by Highlander Press. 

The lectures are often augmented by a wider symposium featuring local, national, and international postgraduate students, doctoral candidates, and early career researchers, all presenting their ongoing research. 

Co-sponsors have included the Department of Art and Culture, Government of Nagaland; the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge University, UK; the Centre for Karbi Studies, Karbi Anglong; the Ethnological Museum of Berlin; the University of Tübingen, Germany; the University of Oxford, UK; the Centre for South Asian Studies, University of Edinburgh; the North East Forum and Centre for Community Knowledge at Ambedkar University Delhi; the Google Cultural Institute; the UiT The Arctic University of Norway; and the British Academy.