A Talk by Dr. Choman Hardi
7 January 2020 | 3.00pm | Department of English Dr. Choman Hardi delivered a talk titled “Poetry’s Power to Speak the Unspeakable” on Tuesday, 7th January 2020 at the University of Colombo. Her talk focused on the power of poetry to provide a safe space within which to tell stories that are complicated, and often […]
Corpora, Archives and Performance 2019
“Corpora, Archives and Performance: A Conference on Sri Lanka Languages and Literature” organised by the Department of English, University of Colombo, was recently held with the participation of Prof. Chandrika Wijeyaratne, Vice Chancellor, Prof. Premakumara de Silva, Dean, Faculty of Arts and Dr. Shermal Wijewardene, Head, Department of English. Day One included an address on […]
What Images Tell: A Talk by Dr. Carmen Aguilera-Carnerero
Dr. Carmen Aguilera-Carnerero, a visiting scholar at the Department of English, University of Colombo, delivered a talk titled “What Images Tell” on Tuesday, 10th December 2019 at the University of Colombo under the AHEAD-DOR Project. Her Talk focused on the application of tools in Critical Discourse Analysis to visual discourses, specifically, photographs, political posters and […]
MA in English Studies – 2020
The deadline for submission of applications has been extended to 31st October 2019.
Linguistics: Computation and Humanities
The Department of English hosted a panel discussion on Natural Language Processing on 29th July 2019 at 8.30am. During this discussion, the University of Colombo School of Computing (UCSC) and the University of Moratuwa discussed their work in the field. In Sri Lanka, two of the main bodies that work with NLP are the University of Colombo School […]
Talk by Prof. Ravi Vasudevan
Professor Ravi Vasudevan delivered a talk titled ‘Cinema-Going On the Railway Tracks: Transportation, Circulation and Exhibition of Information Film in Colonial India’ at the Department of English, University of Colombo on Monday 8 July 2019 at 3pm. Professor Ravi Vasudevan co-directs the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) media and urban studies programme Sarai […]
Talk by Dr. Priyanvada Abeywickrama
Dr. Priyanvada Abeywickrama delivered a talk titled ‘Directed Self-Placement for Multilingual Students in Writing Programs’ at the Department of English, University of Colombo on 25 June 2019 at 4pm. During the session, Dr. Abeywickrama examined the potential of Directed Self-Placement (DSP), which is a self-evaluation process that asks students to place themselves in writing courses, […]
Corpora, Archives & Performance: Sri Lankan Languages and Literature : 13-14 Nov.
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Fairway Galle Literary Festival 2019
As in previous years, the Department’s first-year students participated in the Fairway Galle Literary Festival 2019 under the North-South University Collaboration. Those who took part are Haadiyah Marikar, Husna Naleer, Kaumadi Jayaweera, Lara Wijesuriya, Rasudula Dissanayake, Shamika Kulasingham, Shamla Naleer, and Uvini Hettiarachchi. Student Testimonial: “None of us had experienced a full-stay at the Galle […]
