INYA INSTITUTE

The Inya Institute is a Yangon-based higher learning institute dedicated to advancing the social sciences, arts and humanities as they are related to Myanmar. It is a non-political, non-religious, non-profit and non-degree granting organization. It seeks to build research and intellectual capacity for young local researchers, to foster scholarly exchange between local and international researchers, and to create original scholarship for international and local scholars. It further aims to raise the general public’s understanding of the country’s multi-faceted cultural, ethnic and linguistic legacy.