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 [...]

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 [...]

CALL FOR PAPERS!

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 [...]

South Asia Journal for Culture: Pakistan Launch

The South Asia Journal for Culture held its Pakistan launch on October 26 2008 at the Goethe Institut, Karachchi, organized by the Goethe Institut and Nukta Art. It was organized as part of the South Asia art critics seminar titled ‘The Anxious Century: Discourses Waiting to be Born.’

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Sasanka Perera addressed the audience. Following is an excerpt of [...]

Alternate Discourses on Development: Monograph Series

“Development has become the grand strategy through which the transformation of the not-yet-too-rational Latin-American/Third World subjectivity is to be achieved. In this way, longstanding cultural practices and meanings – as well as the social relations in which they are embedded – are altered. The consequences of this are enormous, to the extent that the very [...]

Alternate Space: Trivial Writings of an Academic

Alternate Space: Trivial Writings of an Academic
consists of 48 essays on different aspects of Sri Lankan society, culture and politics originally written to the Sri Lankan national daily The Island under the regular column Alternate Space by Sasanka Perera between January 2002 and January 2003, and less regularly between January and May 2004.  The book [...]

Frozen Tears: Political Violence, Women, Children and Problems of Trauma in Southern Sri Lanka

Based on extensive anthropological fieldwork in the Kandyan highlands and through a presentation of individuals’ personal narratives, this book (second edition, 2005) by Indika Bulankulame explores how individuals deal with and address a past filled with political violence and trauma with a focus on women and children (ISBN 955-1493-06-0).

 Reviews of the books:
“One of Bulankulame’s [...]

South Asia Journal for Culture: India Launch

The South Asia Journal for Culture held its India launch on September 8th 2008 at Ananth Art Gallery, New Delhi as part of the South Asia Exhibition ‘Six Degrees of Separation: Chaos, Congruence and Collaboration’ organized by Kohj International Artists’ Association.
 
Sasanka Perera addressed the gathering. 
 

South Asia Journal for Culture: Colombo Launch

South Asia Journal for Culture, Volume 1 was released at the book launch held at the Goethe Institute on 28th August 2008 with the collaboration of Colombo Institute and Theertha. The event was chaired by Prof. Jagath Weerasinghe and the keynote speech was delivered by Dr. Qadri Ismail, professor of English, University of Minnesota. 

South Asia Journal for Culture

The South Asia Journal is an annual refereed journal published jointly by the Colombo Institute and the Theertha International Artists’ Collective. It is open to scholarship and exchange of ideas across the region and beyond, on issues that are of central importance to the region that fall under the key term ‘culture’.
The idea of the [...]