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Recirculating J. H. Hutton’s Cylinder Recordings in Nagaland

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…

Hutton Lectures 2019

The 2019 Hutton Lectures saw another cohort of local and international speakers visit Kohima. The keynote was delivered by our long time friend and collaborator Dharam Singh Teron. He spoke about his work with Michael Heneise as they recorded and…

Blind Spots and Blank Spaces

Pictogram drawn by American Diplomat in wartime China on behalf of his crew to communicate with local inhabitants after their plane crashed in the ‘unadministered’ areas of Naga Hills overlapping India and Burma in 1943 (image provided to author by…

Global Impact Accelerator

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…

Hutton Lectures Tour of Zeliangrong

The Highland Institute, in coordination with the Government of Nagaland and Zeliangrong communities in Assam, Manipur and Nagaland went on a seven-day tour, from 8th to 15th December, for the purpose of sharing old photographs recently unearthed at the Cambridge…