AISLS COMMUNITY COLLEGE CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT GRANTS The American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies (AISLS) announces a new round in its Community College Curriculum Development Grant competition. AISLS seeks proposals for developing instructional materials that include Sri Lanka material, which are…
Michael Charlesworth (Art History, University of Texas–Austin) will be delivering a lecture on “The Modern Culture of Reginald Farrer (1880-1920): Landscape, Literature and Buddhism.” It will be held at the American Center on August 29, 2018 at 4:00 pm. Please…
Borders: Real and Imagined 2018 Sri Lanka Graduate Student Conference November 9-10, Cornell University The 2018 Sri Lanka Graduate Conference will be held on November 9-10 at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. The conference is hosted by Cornell’s South…
AISLS is sponsoring a public book launch for the volume Political Parties in Sri Lanka: Change and Continuity, edited by Amita Shastri and Jayadeva Uyangoda, and published in 2018 by Oxford University Press, Delhi. It is available in Sri Lanka through…
AISLS is sponsoring a public book launch for the volume Sri Lanka at the Crossroads of History, published by UCL Press in London. The launch will feature the editors Alan Strathern (Oxford University) and Zoltán Biedermann (University College London), in conversation…
AISLS President Sharika Thiranagama (Stanford University) is giving a public talk on “In My Mother’s House: Reflections on the Civil War in Sri Lanka,” at 4.00 pm on Friday, July 6, 2018, at the Department of English, University of Colombo.…
The American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies announces the 2018 AISLS Curriculum Development Grant competition. AISLS seeks proposals for developing instructional materials that include Sri Lanka material, which are suitable for use in introductory classes in American community colleges. AISLS…
