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…
The AISLS Annual General Meeting and Reception is being held in the Capital Ballroom B, Concourse Hotel, Madison, Wisconsin, at 6 PM on Saturday, October 28. All persons interested in the academic study of Sri Lanka are welcome!
The 2017 Sri Lanka Graduate Conference will be held on October 13-14 at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Hosted for the first time by Cornell’s South Asia Program, the conference is co-sponsored by the American Institute for Sri Lanka…
It is with shock and sadness that I convey the news that Isabelle Clark-Decès, Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University and a member of the Board of Directors of the American Institute of Sri Lankan Studies, has died in an…
The American Institute for Lankan Studies (Colombo) has announced the launch of its new online library catalogue. Patrons will now be able to identify very easily the books held in our collection, and locate them on our shelves. The catalog…
Field’s presentation will explore the ways in which Sinhalese lyricists and poets sought to raise the standards of song and poetry between 1900 and 1960. Garrett Field is Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology/Musicology in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and School…
The AISLS Annual General Meeting and Reception will be held in the Capital Ballroom B, Concourse Hotel, Madison, Wisconsin, on Saturday, October 22, 2016, at 7:00 PM. All with an academic interest in Sri Lanka are very welcome to attend.
The 2016 Sri Lanka Graduate Student Conference will be held on November 4th and 5th at the Center for South Asia at Stanford University. The conference is co-funded by the American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies and the Center for…
Vagisha Gunasekara begins her tenure as the Executive Director of the American Institute for Lankan Studies (the AISLS Colombo Centre) on October 3, 2016. Vagisha studies particular entanglements of gender and conflict in rapidly changing situations in the South Asia…
