The 2014 annual general meeting and reception of the American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies will be held on Saturday 18 October, at 6 PM, in University Rooms A/B at the Concourse Hotel, Madison WI, the site of the Annual…
AISLS has awarded four fellowships for scholars to carry out research in Sri Lanka. Catherine Becker (Art History, University of Illinois at Chicago), Miracle-performing Monks and Relocated Relics: Artistic Exchange between Buddhist Communities in Andhra Pradesh and Sri Lanka. Mythri…
AISLS has awarded a dissertation planning grant to Kalyani Ramnath (History, Princeton University) for her project on “Mrs. Senewiratne’s Suicide: Lawyers, Jurors and Medical Experts in the British Empire”.
On March 28, 2014, AISLS held a forum at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies in Philadelphia. The topic was the Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship, a transnational Sufi order established in Philadelphia in 1971. The Fellowship is based…
The AISLS center in Colombo held three workshops in 2013. “Sinhala Light-Classical Song, Sociopolitical Change, and Sinhala Literary Culture in 20th Century Sri Lanka,” convened by Garrett Field, Colombo, August 2013. This Sinhala-language workshop comprised two panels with papers, each followed…
Over fifty persons attended the 2013 AISLS Annual General Meeting and Reception at the Annual Conference on South Asia, Madison, Wisconsin. It was held on Saturday 19 October at 6 PM. The conference program included around 35 presentations related to Sri…
On 26 September 2013, AISLS sponsored a lecture by Dennis McGilvray on “A House for Every Daughter: Tamil and Muslim Marriage in Sri Lanka Today” at Heartland Community College, Normal, Illinois. About 80 students attended the talk. Partial funding for…
“Changing Gender Orders in Sri Lanka: Challenge, Backlash and Change,” convened by Jeanne Marecek, Colombo, December 2012. The workshop brought together 20 scholars, students and employees of NGOs to consider the different ways in which young women from different social…
The pre-conference to the Annual Conference on South Asia was held in Madison WI on Thursday, October 11, 2012. It featured the most recent manifestations of a film movement called the “third revolution”, whose concerns have revolved around the socio-political…
On 3 May 2012, Garrett Field, the holder of an AISLS language grant, was featured on the “100% A to Z in Youth” program on Derana TV. The filming was done at the American Institute for Lankan Studies center in…
