We are surrounded by messages – glances, behaviours, sounds, texts, billboards, signs, structures… But how do we consciously (or unconsciously) navigate this space? Meaning lies just beneath our immediate gaze, and yet has everything to do with the way we…
Coming soon, on September 21, 2024, The Highland Institute is launching an exhibition and event series entitled Look Up! These activities will bring together diverse types of knowledge about the world above our heads: the birds and butterflies, canopies and…
Thanamir is a small, quaint village in the Kiphire district of Nagaland, India, located at an altitude of over 2000 m. It is one of the last villages on the Indian side of the Indo-Myanmar border, and residents speak the…
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…
The Myclimate Research Team in Nagaland is conducting a project to study the experiences of local communities with climate change in the border region between Burma and Nagaland in Northeast India. The research focuses on how these communities adapt and…
On Friday 17 May 2024, The Highland Institute hosted two eminent scholars in the field of oral literature. Dr Senganglu Thaimei, Associate Professor of English at Miranda House, Delhi University, an expert in the study of proverbs or paremiology, spoke…