REGISTER FOR THE BOOK TALKS BY NEENA MAHADEV AND ALEXANDER McKINSTRY AT
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIscOqvqzkjGN08ltnLF3k1mn0Kl5OyGYCy#/registration
27th March 2024
Book: Karma and Grace: Religious Difference in Millennial Sri Lanka
Author: Neena Mahadev; Chair/Discussant: Charles Hallisey
3rd April 2024
Book: Mountain at a Center of the World: Pilgrimage and Pluralism in Sri Lanka
Author: Alexander McKinley; Chair/Discussant: Anne Blackburn
All sessions will be in following time slot:
9:00 — 10:00 PM in Colombo
4:30 — 5:30 PM in Amsterdam on 27th March, and 5:30–6:30 PM on 3rd April.
3:30 — 4:30 PM in London on 27th March, and 4:30 — 5:30 PM on 3rd April
11:30 AM — 12:30 PM in New York
10:30 — 11:30 AM in Chicago
9:30 — 10:30 AM in Denver
8:30 — 9:30 AM in San Francisco
REGISTER FOR V.V. GANESHANANTHAN’S SEPTEMBER 25 BOOK TALK ON “BROTHERLESS NIGHT” AT
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUuc-6vqjgvHNKjy3gm36e_TIHayzD_QlwF
Monday, September 25th, 2023.
9:00 PM — 10:00 PM in Colombo
5:30 PM — 6:30 PM in Amsterdam
4:30 PM — 5:30 PM in London
11:30 AM — 12:30 PM in New York
10:30 AM — 11:30 AM in Chicago
9:30 AM — 10:30 AM in Denver
8:30 AM — 9:30 AM in San Francisco
TO REGISTER FOR ONE OR MORE OF THE MARCH 2023 “NEW BOOK” SEMINARS BELOW, GO TO
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcoce2uqT8tE9Yu8tGy45QZxstqHe3gVG2J
Wednesdays, March 15th through March 29th, 2023.
9:00 PM — 10:00 PM in Colombo
4:30 PM — 5:30 PM in Amsterdam (5:30 PM — 6:30 PM on March 29th)
3:30 PM — 4:30 PM in London (4:30 PM — 5:30 PM on March 29th)
11:30 AM — 12:30 PM in New York
10:30 AM — 11:30 AM in Chicago
9:30 AM — 10:30 AM in Denver
8:30 AM — 9:30 AM in San Francisco
15th March 2023
Book: Negotiating Power and Constructing the Nation: Engineering in Sri Lanka
Speaker/Author: Dileepa Witharana (Open University of Sri Lanka)
Chair: Harshana Rambukwella (NYU Abu Dhabi)
22nd March 2023
Book: Brotherless Night
Speaker/Author: V. V. Ganeshananthan (University of Minnesota)
Chair: Dinidu Karunanayake (Elon University)
29th March 2023
Book: Ravana’s Kingdom: The Ramayana and Sri Lankan History from Below
Speaker/Author: Justin W. Henry (Georgia College)
Chair: Alex McKinley (Loyola University Chicago)
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TO REGISTER FOR ONE OR MORE OF THE “DISPERSED SRI LANKAN HERITAGE” SEMINARS BELOW, GO TO
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwtcOmgrjgpG9IkV0BdY6buadxypxx61jMr
Fridays, April 29th through May 13th 2022.
8:30 PM — 9:45 PM in Colombo
4:00 PM — 5:15 PM in London
5:00 PM — 6:15 PM in Amsterdam
11:00 AM — 12:15 PM in New York
10:00 AM — 11:15 AM in Chicago
9:00 AM — 10:15 AM in Denver
8:00 AM — 9:15 AM in San Francisco
Dispersed Sri Lankan Heritage: Ways of Accessing, Seeing and Working with Collections
Much material for the study of Sri Lanka’s past is dispersed around the world. What are the practicalities of accessing collections and conducting research in a field with such challenging conditions? May the broadening of knowledge about collections help decolonize and reconfigure museums and archives, and help to understand factors influencing ways material has been collected, organized and researched? This series of three seminars focuses on specific collections to examine the character of the material and strategies in accessing and studying Sri Lanka-related artefacts. Expert speakers discuss approaches for interpreting them in their current contexts.
April 29: John Falconer (Former Curator, British Library). Photographs from Sri Lanka in the British Library and other Selected Collections.
May 6: Sushma Jansari (Curator, British Museum). The Hugh Nevill Collection in the British Museum. Discussion with Janice Leoshko.
May 13: Alicia Schrikker (Leiden University). Provenance Research into Colonial Collections — the Rijksmuseum. Discussion with Zoltán Biedermann.
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TO REGISTER FOR THE DECEMBER 1st BOOK TALK ON MUSLIMS IN POST-WAR SRI LANKA (9 PM SRI LANKAN TIME), GO TO https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwtcumrrTIoHtIMioOukfoC8hF2t2qG08r6
Book Talk: Michele Gamburd, Linked Lives: Elder Care, Migration and Kinship in Sri Lanka (2020)
Wednesday, September 8:
9:00 PM – 10:00 PM (Colombo)
5:30 PM – 6:30 PM (Amsterdam)
4:30 PM – 5:30 PM (London)
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM (New York)
10:30 AM – 11:30 AM (Chicago)
9:30 AM – 10:30 AM (Denver)
8:30 AM – 9:30 AM (San Francisco)
PAST EVENTS
Wednesday, February 17: Christina Davis, The Struggle for a Multilingual Future: Youth and Eduction in Sri Lanka (2020)
• View this book talk on Youtube here.>>
• Download Chapter 1 of Davis’s book here. >>
Tuesday, March 9: Mythri Jegathesan, Tea and Solidarity: Tamil Women and Work in Postwar Sri Lanka (2019)
Chair: Sharika Thiranagama
• View this book talk on Youtube here. >>
• Download Chapter 1 of Tea and Solidarity here. >>
Monday, March 22: Sandya Hewamanne, Restitching Identities in Rural Sri Lanka: Gender, Neoliberalism and the Politics of Contentment (2020
Chair: Michele Gamburd
• Download Chapter 1 of Hewamanne’s book, “Global in the Village”, here. >>
• Download Chapter 5 of Hewamanne’s book, “Sex in the Village”, here. >>
