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In-house Talks:
1)
“Food Crisis”, by Dr Nimal Sandaratne, ICES
In-House Seminar on 25 July 2008. (chair: Dr Anoma
Ahbayaratne, Dept of Economics, UoP)
2) “Ramblings on the History and Sociology of
Sri Lankan Cricket”, by Prof Michael Roberts,
21 August 2008. (chair: Prof G H Peiris retired Prof of
Gegraphy UoP)
3) "Who Were the Veddahs? Multiple Veddah
Identities Revealed in Kandy Period Texts", by
Prof Gananath Obeyesekere, 18 September 2008. (chair: Mr
Ravana Wijayaratne, CEO Sinhaputhra Finance)
4) “World Heritage at Risk”, by Prof Nancy
C Wilkie , William H Laird Professor of Classics,
Anthropology and the Liberal Arts, Carleton College,
Northfield, MN, USA, 28 October 2008. (Chair: Prof
Sudharshan Seneviratne, Dept of Archeology UoP)
5) “Present Challenges of the Police
Department” by Mr Pujith Jayasundara, DIG Central
Range, 21 Nov 2008. (Chair: Dr Vijaya Samaraweera)
6) “Melamine: The Food
Scandal in China and Its Implications to Sri Lanka”,
by Prof Upali Samarajeewa,
Senior Professor of Food Science & Technology, Faculty
of Agriculture, 22 December 2008. (Chair: Prof S N
Arseculeratne, Emeritus Prof of Microbiology, Faculty of
Medcine, UoP)
7) “The Making of Ceylon
1837 – 41”, by Prof Patric Peebles, Emeritus
Professor, University of Missouri, Kansas City, 22
January 2009 (chair: Prof Thilaka Meththananda, Dept of
History UoP)
8) “Revealing Kandyan Dance”
by Mr Sudesh Manthilake, Lecturer, Department of Fine
Arts, UoP, 19 February 2009. (chair: Dr Liyanage
Amarakeerthi, Senior Lecturer, Dept of Sinhala, UoP)
9) “Ethnic
Elections: Myth or Reality?” by
Mr
Sebastian Gorenflo,
a senior student in Cultural Anthropology, Peace and
Conflict Studies and History at the University of
Marburg, Germany, 26 March 2009.
Mr Gorenflo was on a three-month internship at
ICES, Kandy office. (chair: Dr
Dhammika Herath, Research Fellow, ICES)
10) “The Right to Hire but Not to Fire: Can Sri
Lanka Cope with the Global Economic Crisis?” by Mrs
Shyamali Ranaraja, Practitioner in Employment and Labour
Laws and Human Resources Management Consultant, 27 May
2009. (chair: Dr Dileni Gunawardene, Senior Lecturer,
Dept of Economics, UoP)
11) “Does Religion Equate with Morality?”
by
Dr Douglas King,
an Educational Consultant who has a M.Ed. from
Cambridge, U.S.A. and a MA in Community Development
and has been working in Sri Lanka six years
specializing in Early Childhood Education and Teaching
English language, 18 June 2009.
(Chair: Prof S N Arseculeratne, Emeritus Prof of
Microbiology, Faculty of Medcine, UoP)
12)
“Role
of Mosques in Conflict and Peace Building in the Eastern
Province of Sri Lanka”,
by Dr S H Hasbullah,
senior lecturer Department of Geography UoP, 13 August
2009. (Chair: Dr Dhammika Herath, Research Fellow,
ICES).
13) “Electoral
Engineering in Sri Lanka: Consequences for the
Minorities”,
by Dr Evan
Liaras, BA Harvard University, PhD Massachusetts
Institute of Technology; currently Koc University,
Istanbul, 16 February 2010. (Chair: Sumith C Leelaratne,
Research Associate, ICES)
14) “Challenges
to Internal Security in South Asia: Political and
Institutional Responses”,
by Prof
Partha S Ghosh, Professor of South Asian Studies, School
of International Studies, JNU, New Delhi Editor, India
Quarterly (ICWA, New Delhi), 10 May 2010, (Chair: Prof
Tudor K Silva)
15) “Post-Colonial
Social Contract: Gender, Race, and Democracy in India”,
by Christine Keating, Assistant Professor in the
Department of Women’s Studies at the Ohio State
University and a member of the popular education
collective Escuela Popular Norteña. (Chair: Dr Nalini
Hennayake)
16)
“Dowries, Dupattas and Doorsteps: Insiders and Outsiders
of the Fort of Galle”,
by Nethra Samarawickrema. Ms Samarawickrema is
currently pursuing a Masters degree in Social
Anthropology at Dalhousie University after obtaining a
B.A in Politics from Ithaca College in 2008. Her
interests lie in social change in relation to
colonialism and globalization, with a focus on how
change is expressed in gendered landscapes and urban
spaces. Since November 2009 she has been working as an
independent researcher for ICES, conducting fieldwork in
the Dutch Fort of Galle. 21 July 2010, (Chair: Prof
Gananath Obeyesekere)
17)
“Migration for Employment – Whither Sri Lanka?”,
by
Shyamali
Ranaraja. Ms Ranaraja is
an Attorney-at-Law of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka.
She holds a Master’s Degree in Business Administration
from the University of Colombo and a
Diploma in
International Affairs from the Bandaranaike Centre for
International Studies, Colombo. 21
September 2010, (Chair: Prof Shantha Hennayake)
18)
The Sinhala Book of Five Hundred and Fifty Jataka
Stories and some comments on translation,by
Prof. Ranjini Obeyesekere. Prof. Ranjini Obeyesekere,
Ranjini Obeyesekere, presently retired, taught at the
University of Peradeniya, Department of English; at the
University of California San Diego, Department of
Literature; and for the last ten years at Princeton
University in the Anthropology Department.
She is the author of Sinhala Writing and the New Critics
(1974), Jewels of the Doctrine, Stories from the
Saddharmaratnāvaliya, (1991), Theatre in a time of
Terror: Satire in a Permitted Space, (1999), Portraits
of Buddhist Women: Stories from the Saddharmaratnāvaliya,
(2001). 25 February 2011. (Chair Dr Liyanage
Amarakeerthi)
19) The
Representation of ‘Ethnic Other/s’ in Modern Sinhala
Literature, by Dr Liyanage Amarakeerthi. Dr
Amarakeerthi received his MA and PhD from the University
of Wisconsin USA. He has specialised in Comparative
Literature. Among his publications are Pahana saha
Kedapatha (Essays on Literary Criticisms) and Atawaka
Puttu-a novel. He was presented the award for the Best
Novel (2008) for Atawaka Puttu and the award for the
Best Collection of Short Stories (2000) at the National
Literary Festival of Sri Lanka. 28 March 2011.
20) Counseling
in Sri Lanka: Challenges and Opportunities, by
Dr Danesh
Karunanayake. Dr Karunanayake
is a Counseling/Clinical Psychologist and a Senior
Lecturer attached to the Department of Philosophy and
Psychology, Faculty of Arts, University of Peradeniya.
He has a master’s degree in Clinical Psychology from
Illinois State University and a PhD in Counseling
Psychology from Purdue University. His research
interests include the impact
21)
The Securing of Development: Combating Poverty and
Violence in the Era of Fragile States,
by
Mr Timothy Fuller Hutchinson. Timothy is an American
graduate student studying International Development at
Clark University (MA, USA). He possesses a background in
economics, gender studies, international relations as
well as peace and conflict studies. In 2008, Mr.
Hutchinson and others worked together to found the
Center for Non-violent Solutions Inc, where he presently
assumes the role as Director. His MA thesis, “Between
Hard and Soft: COIN and Civil-Military Cooperation in
War-Torn Afghanistan”, endeavors to evaluate the
convergence of security and development in
conflict/post-conflict regions around the underdeveloped
world. 6 June 2011.
Dialogues on Democracy Series:
1)
“Theory and Practice of Democracy”. Key speakers:
Prof Arjuna Parakrama, Department of English, University
of Peradeniya and Prof. Sumanasiri Liyanage, Department
of Economics, University of Peradeniya. Chaired by Dr.
Nishan de Mel, Executive Director, ICES, 20 October
2009.
2) “Democracy
and Nationalism”. Key speakers: Prof Shantha K
Hennayake, Department of Geography, University of
Peradeniya and Dr Nirmal Ranjith Devasiri, Department of
History, University of Colombo. Chaired by Dr
Amarakeerthi Liyanage, Department of Sinhala, University
of Peradeniya. 25 November 2009.
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