Dr. Shisachila Imchen

BA Honours (St. Edmund’s College, North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong, Meghalaya, India).
MA (Gold Medalist) (Deccan College Post-Graduate and Research Institute, Pune, Maharashtra, India).
PhD (University College London (UCL), London, United Kingdom).

Committee Member, Intangible Heritage Network, Association of Critical Heritage Studies, Canada, July 2018 – present.

Imchen, Shisachila. 2024. “The Role of the Morung Age Groups in Expressing and Transmitting Agricultural Knowledge in Nagaland, with Particular Reference to Khonoma Village.” International Journal of Intangible Heritage 19: 143-153.

“Experience, Memory, and the Perpetuation of the Morung in Nagaland”, presented at the 40th Annual Conference of the Vernacular Architecture Forum, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America, May – June 2019.
“Heritage Displays at the Hornbill Festival and the Naga Heritage Village in Nagaland: How Ideas of Social Identity are Expressed and Derived”, presented at the 32nd Annual Conference of the Japanese Association for South Asian Studies, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, October 2019.
“A Study on Intangible Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Development in Nagaland”, presented at the 52nd Annual Conference of the Indian Anthropological Society and International Seminar on Sustainable Development Goals 2030: Role of Anthropology in Social Inclusion and Tribal Development, jointly organised by the Indian Anthropological Society, Centre for the Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy, Tripura University and Indira Gandhi National Open University, Regional Centre Agartala, Agartala, Tripura, India, November 2022.
“Sensory Perceptions of Megaliths in their Landscape in Nagaland”, presented at the 29th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists, Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, August – September 2023.