{"id":114,"date":"2018-10-17T17:40:35","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T17:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/sinhala\/?p=114"},"modified":"2019-03-31T16:59:58","modified_gmt":"2019-03-31T16:59:58","slug":"8th-annual-sinhala-studies-symposium-17th-oct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/sinhala\/index.php\/8th-annual-sinhala-studies-symposium-17th-oct\/","title":{"rendered":"8th Annual Sinhala Studies Symposium (\u0dc3\u0dd2\u0d82\u0dc4\u0dbd \u0d85\u0db0\u0dca\u200d\u0dba\u0dba\u0db1 \u0dc3\u0dd0\u0dc3\u0dd2\u0dba) \u2013 17th Oct. 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The<strong>\u00a08th Annual Sinhala Studies Symposium\u00a0<\/strong>organized by the\u00a0<strong>Department of Sinhala, University of Colombo<\/strong>, was held on\u00a0<strong>17th October 2018\u00a0<\/strong><strong>\u200b<\/strong><strong>from 9.00 am\u00a0<\/strong><strong>\u2013<\/strong><strong>\u00a06.00 pm at the Department of Sinhala<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This year, the conference theme was\u00a0<strong>\u201cSinhala Studies at Crossroads\u201d\u00a0<\/strong>and the event was extended through following sub-themes enabling a participation of wide range of scholars from both academic and non-academic research contexts across number of subject disciplines.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The conference accepted research proposals from socio-anthropological studies, political sciences, and other related study disciplines of humanities and social sciences.\u200b\u00a0Thus, our goal was to explore ways in which Sinhala Studies overlap across other disciplines.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Language and Linguistics\u00a0\u0db7\u0dcf\u0dc2\u0dcf\u0dc0 \u0dc4\u0dcf \u0dc0\u0dcf\u0d9c\u0dca\u0dc0\u0dd2\u0daf\u0dca\u200d\u0dba\u0dcf\u0dc0<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Literary Studies\u00a0 \u00a0 \u0dc3\u0dcf\u0dc4\u0dd2\u0dad\u0dca\u200d\u0dba \u0d85\u0db0\u0dca\u200d\u0dba\u0dba\u0db1<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Cultural Studies\u00a0 \u00a0 \u0dc3\u0d82\u0dc3\u0dca\u0d9a\u0dd8\u0dad\u0dd2\u0d9a \u0d85\u0db0\u0dca\u200d\u0dba\u0dba\u0db1<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Oriental Studies\u00a0 \u00a0\u0db4\u0dca\u200d\u0dbb\u0dcf\u0da0\u0dd3\u0db1 \u0d85\u0db0\u0dca\u200d\u0dba\u0dba\u0db1<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Socio-Anthropological Studies\u00a0 \u00a0 \u0dc3\u0db8\u0dcf\u0da2- \u0db8\u0dcf\u0db1\u0dc0\u0dc0\u0dd2\u0daf\u0dca\u200d\u0dba\u0dcf \u0d85\u0db0\u0dca\u200d\u0dba\u0dba\u0db1<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Literary Criticism\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u0dc3\u0dcf\u0dc4\u0dd2\u0dad\u0dca\u200d\u0dba\u00a0\u0dc0\u0dd2\u0da0\u0dcf\u0dbb<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Drama, Performing and Fine Arts\u00a0 \u00a0\u0db1\u0dcf\u0da7\u0dca\u200d\u0dba \u0dc3\u0dc4 \u0dbb\u0d82\u0d9c\u0d9a\u0dbd\u0dcf<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Translation Studies\u00a0 \u00a0 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