On 17 May, at 16:50, Aditi Dixit will defend her PhD thesis ‘Asian Divergence in an Age of Globalisation: Textile Manufacturing, Trade, and the State in India and Japan, ca. 1890-1940’ at Utrecht University. Promotors are Professor Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk (Utrecht University) and Professor Christina Moll-Murata (Ruhr University, Bochum). Attendance on location is on invitation only, but the defence will be live-streamed via the livestream of Utrecht University (URL button).