{"id":1412,"date":"2024-09-25T06:26:23","date_gmt":"2024-09-25T06:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/sinhala\/?p=1412"},"modified":"2024-09-26T06:35:38","modified_gmt":"2024-09-26T06:35:38","slug":"13th-annual-research-symposium-on-sinhala-studies-department-of-sinhala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/sinhala\/index.php\/13th-annual-research-symposium-on-sinhala-studies-department-of-sinhala\/","title":{"rendered":"13th Annual Research Symposium on Sinhala Studies &#8211; Department of Sinhala"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 13th Annual Research Symposium on Sinhala Studies, organized by the Department of Sinhala, \u00a0University of Colombo, took place on the\u00a0<b>11th\u00a0 of September 2024<\/b>\u00a0at 9:00 AM at the New Arts Theatre (NAT) \u00a0with the presence of the Vice Chancellor Senior Professor H.D. Karunaratne along with other invitees, scholars, and students. The technical sessions were held at the Faculty of Arts premises.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s symposium focused on the theme of &#8220;South Asian Perspectives in Sinhala Language, Literature and Cultural Studies.&#8221; (\u0dc3\u0dd2\u0d82\u0dc4\u0dbd \u0db7\u0dcf\u0dc2\u0dcf\u0dc0, \u0dc3\u0dcf\u0dc4\u0dd2\u0dad\u0dca\u200d\u0dba\u0dba \u0dc4\u0dcf \u0dc3\u0d82\u0dc3\u0dca\u0d9a\u0dd8\u0dad\u0dd2\u0d9a \u0d85\u0db0\u0dca\u200d\u0dba\u0dba\u0db1\u0dba\u0dd9\u0dc4\u0dd2 \u0daf\u0d9a\u0dd4\u0dab\u0dd4 \u0d86\u0dc3\u0dd2\u0dba\u0dcf\u0db1\u0dd4 \u0db4\u0dbb\u0dca\u0dba\u0dcf\u0dbd\u0ddd\u0d9a\u0dba). The keynote address was delivered by Professor Sasanka Perera,\u00a0Former Professor of Sociology, University of Colombo &amp; South Asian University, Delhi.<\/p>\n<p>The annual symposium serves as a platform for students and scholars in the field of Sinhala studies to share their research findings with a broader audience. In conjunction with this event, a Book Exhibition was held on the Faculty of Arts premises from 10th &amp; 11th\u00a0 September 2024.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1407 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/sinhala\/wp-content\/uploads\/459412494_10159776111296364_9109680932900997865_n-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1405 \" src=\"http:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/sinhala\/wp-content\/uploads\/459321476_560272829659831_5724602862788483766_n-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"268\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/sinhala\/wp-content\/uploads\/459321476_560272829659831_5724602862788483766_n-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/sinhala\/wp-content\/uploads\/459321476_560272829659831_5724602862788483766_n-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/sinhala\/wp-content\/uploads\/459321476_560272829659831_5724602862788483766_n-768x576.jpg 768w, 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Karunaratne along with other invitees, scholars, and students. The technical sessions were held [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1400,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/sinhala\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/sinhala\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/sinhala\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/sinhala\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/sinhala\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1412"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/sinhala\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1422,"href":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/sinhala\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412\/revisions\/1422"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/sinhala\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/sinhala\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/sinhala\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/sinhala\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}