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COMMUNITY COLLEGE CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT GRANT COMPETITION

The American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies (AISLS) announces a new round in its Community College Curriculum Development Grants competition. AISLS seeks proposals for developing instructional materials that include Sri Lanka material, which are suitable for use in introductory classes in American

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AILS COLOMBO IS CLOSED DUE TO THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC

The AILS Centre and Library are closed because of the coronavirus pandemic. We expect to re-open by August. Staff are available on email.

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AISLS PRESIDENT SHARIKA THIRANAGAMA TO DELIVER LECTURES ON ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH METHODS

AISLS President Sharika Thiranagama will deliver two lectures on “Ethnography and Ethnographic Research Methods for Qualitative Research” on 31 August 2019, 9 am to 1 pm. Refreshments and lunch will be provided. The venue is the Post Graduate Institute of

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FORMER AISLS PRESIDENTS JEANNE MARECEK AND DENNIS McGILVRAY VISIT AILS COLOMBO CENTER

On August 20, 2019, former AISLS Presidents Jeanne Marecek (2001-2007) and Dennis McGilvray (2015-2017) visited the AILS Colombo Center. Pictured below (left to right) are Crystal Baines, Jeanne Marecek, Ramla Wahab-Salman, Sharmini Nagendran, Dennis McGilvray, Deepthi Guneratne, and Nilam Hameed.

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CFP: GRADUATE STUDENT WORKSHOP (29 MARCH 2019 DEADLINE)

American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies  CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS   GRADUATE STUDENT WORKSHOP ON RESEARCH ON SRI LANKA   Dissertation Writing Workshop Thursday, October 17, 2019 Madison, WI AISLSwill hold a small afternoon workshop for 4 or 5 graduate students in Sri

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CFP: AISLS COMMUNITY COLLEGE CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT GRANTS, OCT 1st 2018 DEADLINE

AISLS COMMUNITY COLLEGE CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT GRANTS   The American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies (AISLS) announces a new round in its Community College Curriculum Development Grant competition. AISLS seeks proposals for developing instructional materials that include Sri Lanka material, which are

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LECTURE ON LANDSCAPE, LITERATURE AND BUDDHISM: COLOMBO, AUGUST 29, 2018

Michael Charlesworth (Art History, University of Texas–Austin) will be delivering a lecture on “The Modern Culture of Reginald Farrer (1880-1920): Landscape, Literature and Buddhism.”  It will be held at the American Center on August 29, 2018 at 4:00 pm.  Please

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CFP: SRI LANKA GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE, NOV. 9-10, 2018

Borders: Real and Imagined 2018 Sri Lanka Graduate Student Conference November 9-10, Cornell University The 2018 Sri Lanka Graduate Conference will be held on November 9-10 at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. The conference is hosted by Cornell’s South

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BOOK LAUNCH FOR “POLITICAL PARTIES IN SRI LANKA: CHANGE AND CONTINUITY”, COLOMBO, JULY 17, 2018

AISLS is sponsoring a public book launch for the volume Political Parties in Sri Lanka: Change and Continuity, edited by Amita Shastri and Jayadeva Uyangoda, and published in 2018 by Oxford University Press, Delhi.  It is available in Sri Lanka through

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BOOK LAUNCH FOR SRI LANKA AT THE CROSSROADS OF HISTORY, COLOMBO, JULY 11, 2018

AISLS is sponsoring a public book launch for the volume Sri Lanka at the Crossroads of History, published by UCL Press in London.  The launch will feature the editors Alan Strathern (Oxford University) and Zoltán Biedermann (University College London), in conversation

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