Guest Lecture on “The Datafication of Education: Designing for Alternative Futures” – 21st June
Zoom Meeting Details Title: The Datafication of Education: Designing for Alternative Futures Speaker: Prof. Rebecca Eynon Date and time: 21 June 2021 (Monday), 3 PM – 4 PM (IST) Link: https://bit.ly/3iW0mYq Meeting ID: 641 8264 1326 Passcode: ceXuB83@
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 […]
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, […]
Guest Lecture by Gerard H. Gaskin
Gerard H. Gaskin delivered a Lecture titled ‘Legendary: The Performative and Aesthetic History of the Queer African American and Latino House Ballroom Community’ at the Department of English on 23rd November 2018 at 4pm. The Lecture included the discussion of a series of photographs of the queer African American and Latino house ballroom community, both of the […]
A Talk by Nimanthi Rajasingham
Dr. Nimanthi Rajasingham delivered a talk titled ‘How Bodies Matter: Working-Class Women’s Theatre from Sri Lanka’s Free Trade Zones’ at the Department of English on 15th November 2018 at 4pm. Arguing that the contemporary working-class women’s theatres from within the Export Processing Zones in Sri Lanka are rich sites for documenting the development and nature of working-class, feminist […]
