The 2014 annual general meeting and reception of the American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies will be held on Saturday 18 October, at 6 PM, in University Rooms A/B at the Concourse Hotel, Madison WI, the site of the Annual…
AISLS has awarded four fellowships for scholars to carry out research in Sri Lanka. Catherine Becker (Art History, University of Illinois at Chicago), Miracle-performing Monks and Relocated Relics: Artistic Exchange between Buddhist Communities in Andhra Pradesh and Sri Lanka. Mythri…
AISLS has awarded a dissertation planning grant to Kalyani Ramnath (History, Princeton University) for her project on “Mrs. Senewiratne’s Suicide: Lawyers, Jurors and Medical Experts in the British Empire”.
On March 28, 2014, AISLS held a forum at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies in Philadelphia. The topic was the Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship, a transnational Sufi order established in Philadelphia in 1971. The Fellowship is based…
The AISLS center in Colombo held three workshops in 2013. “Sinhala Light-Classical Song, Sociopolitical Change, and Sinhala Literary Culture in 20th Century Sri Lanka,” convened by Garrett Field, Colombo, August 2013. This Sinhala-language workshop comprised two panels with papers, each followed…
