Events in line with the Centenary Celebrations

 

 

 

 

 

  • Lecture by Shalini Abayasekara – February 2021

Shalini Abayasekara is a staff member of the Department of English and Department liaison with CEDREP. Her lecture will be conducted under the topic of “Inclusive assessment: Reflections on promoting equitable assessment in the higher education classroom”, a lecture promoting awareness about taking ability and disability into account when designing assessments. The lecture is expected to be organized by February 2021.

 

  • Lecture by Esther Surenthiraraj – March 2021

Esther Surenthiraraj is a staff member of the Department of English. Her lecture will be conducted under the topic of “Re-membering the North: Nostalgia and Northern Muslims in Sri Lanka’s post war conjuncture. Through theoretical engagement with the concept of nostalgia, this talk focuses on Northern Muslim recollections of a pre-expulsion North and their futures in the North, postwar and 30 years since expulsion. The lecture is expected to be organized by March 2021.

 

  • Lecture by Ruhanie Perera – April 2021. 

Ruhanie Perera is a staff member of the Department of English. She would conduct her lecture under the topic of “A ‘Museum in the Making’: Performativity, Praxis, Pedagogy”. This is a lecture/sharing that looks at knowledge frames, didactics and rethinking community/artefact in relation to museum practice- specifically the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Sri Lanka (and its launch that straddled the COVID-19 pandemic). The lecture is expected to be organized by April 2021.

 

  • Overseas conference participation

Dept of English academic staff will present papers at a conference that was co-conceptualised with Technical University Dresden (TU Dresden). The Conference will be held from 22-24 July 2021 in Dresden, Germany.

 

  • AHEAD/Development Oriented Research (DOR) project of the Dept of English

This would be a one-day seminar on the topic, “Digital Ethics”. It is expected to be organized in July 2021.

 

  • Overseas conference participation

Dept of English academic staff will present their collaborative research with a scholar from the University of Zurich at a session in the Royal Geographical Society (RGS-IBG) Annual International Conference.  The conference will be held from 31 August – 03 September 2021, United Kingdom.

 

  • Invitation as Distinguished Visiting Fellow

Senior Professor Neloufer de Mel has been invited as Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Centre for the Study of South Asia and the Indian Ocean World, University College London, UK. This would take place in the month of October 2021.

 

  • AHEAD/Development Oriented Research (DOR) project of the Dept of English

Launch of Sri Lankan English Newspaper Corpus (SLENC)

 

  • AHEAD/Development Oriented Research (DOR) project of the Dept of English

Launch of Digital Humanities Working Paper series

 

  • Co-edited publication

Elcheroth, Guy and Neloufer de Mel. (2021). In the shadow of transitional justice: Cross-national perspectives on the transformative potential of remembrance. Routledge