AISLS held a forum on “Tamil Toronto: Today and Tomorrow,” at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Toronto, 16 March 2012. Toronto is home to some 170,000 Tamils from Sri Lanka, the largest such community outside the…

This workshop, which was held in Siem Reap on 11-13 January 2012, was a joint project between AISLS and the Center for Khmer Studies. The goal was to compare the twentieth-century historical trajectories of the two countries, and consider how…

This symposium, which was held on 13-14 October 2011, was convened by Frank Korom (Boston University) and Sufia Uddin (Connecticut College). It was designed as a follow up to an earlier AISLS workshop held in Colombo in November 2010, where…

“Gender and Sexuality Studies in Sri Lanka,” 2011, convened by Jeanne Marecek and Monica Smith. The workshop juxtaposed the practical and experience-based knowledge of practitioners with the theoretically grounded knowledge of academics.

“Historical Methods,” convened by John Rogers, Colombo, 19-20 August 2010.  The workshop included presentations by Prachi Deshpande, Nirmal Dewasiri, Janaki Jayawardena, Liyanage Amarakeerthi, Bhavani Raman, Harshana Rambukwella, Ronit Ricci and John Rogers.  

“Perspectives on Sri Lanka’s Historiography,” convened by John Rogers, Colombo, September 10-11, 2009.  The workshop included presentations by Zoltan Biedermann, Alan Strathern, Premakumara de Silva, Sujit Sivasundaram, John Rogers, Mark Frost, Nira Wickramasinghe, Sandagomi Coperahewa and Nirmal Ranjith Dewasiri.