{"id":399,"date":"2016-01-13T05:29:59","date_gmt":"2016-01-13T05:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/history\/?p=399"},"modified":"2016-01-13T05:31:14","modified_gmt":"2016-01-13T05:31:14","slug":"mrs-a-k-c-sewwandi-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/history\/?p=399","title":{"rendered":"Mrs. A.K.C.Sewwandi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Lecturer)<\/p>\n<p>Qualifications<br \/>\nBA (houn) University of Colombo, 2005<br \/>\nMSSc (History) University of Kelaniya, 2010<\/p>\n<p>Teaching areas<br \/>\n&#8211; History of colonialism in Sri Lanka 1<br \/>\n&#8211; Themes in Indian History<br \/>\n&#8211; Themes in History of the Middle east<\/p>\n<p>Research interests<br \/>\n&#8211; Social &amp; Cultural History of Sri Lanka<br \/>\n&#8211; External Relations in Pre Modern History of Sri Lanka<br \/>\n&#8211; Migration of Sri Lanka (13-15 centuries)<br \/>\n&#8211; Wall Paintings in Sri Lanka<\/p>\n<p>Awards and grants<br \/>\n&#8211; Tikiri Abesinghe Memorial Prize for Best Student of History<\/p>\n<p>Involvement with other organizations<br \/>\n&#8211; Vice President of History Society , Department of History, University of Colombo in 2002\/2003<br \/>\n&#8211; Member of Organizing Committeeof History Society , Department of History, University of Colombo in 2003\/2004<\/p>\n<p>Executive and other positions on boards of international, national organizations<br \/>\n&#8211; Member of Review Committee for School History Syllabus in 2011 to the National Educational Publication,<br \/>\nIsurupaya, Baththaramulla.<\/p>\n<p>Conference papers<br \/>\n&#8211;<br \/>\n&#8211; Experience of Small Group Teaching Presented at Staff Development Center 2011<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Women, religiosity and colonialism in Sri Lanka,Religions,State and Society in South Asia:A Historical Perspective,Department of History,Panjabi University, Panjabi,2015 (co-authored)<\/p>\n<p>Unpublished theses<br \/>\n&#8211; Wall Paintings &amp; External Relations in Sri Lanka Period of Anuradhapura to Kandy<\/p>\n<p>Other responsibilities<br \/>\n&#8211; Student Councellor in Faculty of Arts , University of Colombo,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Lecturer)<\/p>\n<p>BA (Honours) University of Colombo, 2005<br \/>\nMSSc (History) University of Kelaniya, 2010<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":181,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/history\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":406,"href":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions\/406"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/history\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/history\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/history\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}