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Regional Conference - Space, Identity and Representation: Reading Culture in Context
The Colombo Institute has been working for the last two years to organize a regional conference as part of its ‘Connecting South Asia Project.’ Its co-partner, Theertha International Artists’ Collective, will organize and curate an exhibition on South Asian Art in Colombo to coincide with the conference, which will broadly reflect the conference theme where [...]
CALL FOR PAPERS!
South Asia Journal for Culture Volume 4, 2010
Call for Papers, Reviews, Photo-essays and Opinion Essays
On behalf of the Editorial Board of the South Asia Journal for Culture, the Colombo Institute for the Advanced Study of Society and Culture would like to invite all interested individuals to submit papers, reviews, photo-essays and opinion essays [...]
Film Festival in Kandy
Colombo Institute has planned two Film Festivals in 2009 focused on youth. The idea is to show one feature film and four or five documentary films over a period of two days to groups of young people that would hopefully open avenues to discuss a number of issues that are centrally important in the region [...]
South Asia Journal Volume 2
The South Asia Journal for Culture, Volume 2, is now available. While it is only available in Colombo at the moment, we hope to make it available at a limited number of outlets in selected South Asian cities over the next few months. Due to the delay of SAJC Vol 2, the third issue of [...]
Panuwal Volume 5
The latest volume of the Tamil journal Panuwal is now available.
Contents:
Picture and Pedagogy: Modernity and Ambivalence in the Colonial Jaffna Painting - T.Sanathanan (Original Tamil language essay)
Temperance movement in North Sri Lanka: Political Leadership and Social Reality, 1900-1936 - Somesasundai Krishnakumar (Original Tamil language essay)
Brides as Bridges? Tamilness through Movements, Actors, Documents and [...]
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Publications of partners available at Colombo Institute
A selected number of publications-of-partners are also available at Colombo Institute.
Patitha Volume 6
The latest volume of the Sinhala journal Patitha is now available.
Contents:
1. The Poetics of Identity: Bakhtin’s Chronotope and the Tamil Concept of Tinai’ by Rudramurthi Cheran (Translated from English into Sinhala by Sasanka Perera)
2. ‘Problems of Ceylon History’ and the ‘Fear of History’ by Sudharshan Senevirthne (Translated into Sinhala from English by Samudrika Sylva)
3. The [...]
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South Asia Journal for Culture Volume 3
Call for Papers, Reviews, Photo-essays and Opinion Essays
On behalf of the Editorial Board of the South Asia Journal for Culture, the Colombo Institute for the Advanced Study of Society and Culture would like to invite all interested individuals to submit papers, reviews, photo-essays and opinion essays for consideration for [...]
Documentary Film Show
The Colombo Institute, in association with the German Cultural Institute, presented an initial screening of two documentary films produced by the institute on January 09th 2009. These films were produced by the Colombo Institute as part of a project of making three documentary films to explore themes of youth and multiculturalism in three selected locations in Sri [...]
