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DENNIS McGILVRAY ELECTED AISLS PRESIDENT

Dennis McGilvray, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at the University of Colorado at Boulder, has been elected AISLS President.  His term will run to October, 2016. McGilvray is the author of Crucible of Conflict: Tamil and Muslim Society on the East

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AISLS GRADUATE STUDENT WORKSHOP HOLDS SESSION ON THE LIFE AND WORK OF STANLEY TAMBIAH

The life of  the distinguished anthropologist Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah (1929-2014) was celebrated in a session at the 5th AISLS graduate student workshop, which was held at Stanford University on November 7th, 2014.  AISLS would like to thank Charles Hallisey, Thomas

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AISLS PUBLISHES GUIDE TO LOCATING PHOTOGRAPHS OF COLONIAL CEYLON

AISLS is very pleased to announce the publication of A Guide to Locating Photographs of Colonial Ceylon, compiled by Benita Stambler, Coordinator of Asian Art at the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, Florida.  This guide documents

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AISLS PUBLISHES ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS OF THE READING PASSAGES IN JAMES W. GAIR & W.S. KARUNATILAKA’S LITERARY SINHALA TEXTBOOK

AISLS is pleased to announce the publication of Theresa McGarry & Liyanage Amarakeerthi’s English Translations of the Reading Passages in James W. Gair & W.S. Karunatilaka, Literary Sinhala (Ithaca: Cornell University South Asia Program and Department of Modern Languages and

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AISLS MAKES M.W. SUGATHAPALA DE SILVA’S COLLOQUIAL SINHALESE READER AVAILABLE ON ITS WEBSITE

The linguist M.W. Sugathapala de Silva (1931-1980) was a leading figure in the study of South Asian linguistics, producing works on the Sinhala, Sanskrit, Telugu and Vedda languages.  AISLS is very grateful to his heirs for granting us permission to

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CFP: SRI LANKA GRADUATE STUDENT WORKSHOP, 7–8 NOVEMBER 2014

The 2014 Sri Lanka Graduate Conference will be held on November 7th and 8th 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 South

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WORKSHOP ON THE PRACTICE, PERFORMANCE AND POLITICS OF SUFI SHRINES IN SOUTH ASIA AND BEYOND

On August 1–4 2014, fourteen scholars from eight countries met near Aurangabad, Maharashtra in a workshop on Sufi shrines sponsored by six American Overseas Research Centers and organized and hosted by the American Institute of Indian Studies.  Participants included two

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JAMES GAIR AND W.S. KARUNATILLAKE — PHOTOS ILLUSTRATING DECADES OF COLLABORATION PROMOTING THE STUDY OF SINHALA

Two distinguished scholars, Professor James W. Gair of Cornell University and Professor W.S. Karunatillake of Kelaniya University, worked together to promote the understanding and study of Sinhala and South Asian linguistics for nearly five decades, from 1965 until Professor Karunatillake’s

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AISLS HOLDS COLOMBO WORKSHOP ON THE SIDAT SANGARA

On 14 July 2014, AISLS held a full day workshop in Colombo on the Sidat Sangara, a medieval Sri Lankan scholastic work written as a guide for the composition of Sinhala poetry. This text had a long-standing influence on Sinhala

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5TH SRI LANKA GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE SCHEDULED FOR NOVEMBER 7–8, 2014

The American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies and the Center for South Asia, Stanford University, announce that the 5th Sri Lanka Graduate Student Workshop will take place at Stanford University on November 7–8 , 2014.  The theme for this year’s

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