On 17 May, Aditi Dixit will defend her PhD dissertation at Utrecht University. Her thesis is titled: ‘Asian Divergence in an Age of Globalisation: Textile Manufacturing, Trade, and the State in India and Japan, ca. 1890-1940’. 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. You may access by clicking on the following URL. We are very proud of what Aditi has accomplished and wish her a successful defence!