Schedule
May 11, 2006 | May 12, 2006 | May 13, 2006 | May 14, 2006
Saturday,
May 13, 2006 | Venue:
William Doo Auditorium, New College
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9:00 - 11:00 EST: Precolonial History | Chair: Maithili Thayanithy
A Contested Past: Historiography in the Civil War in Sri Lanka | Peter Schalk
Palace Establishments in the Chola Empire... | Daud Ali
Drummers and Changing Images of Tamil Identity... | Katherine Young
Marching to a Different Beat... | Leslie Orr -
11:00 - 11:30 EST: Refreshments
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11:30 - 13:00 EST: Panel Discussion | Chair: Darshan Ambalavanar
Pursuing Tamil Studies in North America featuring Bernard Bate, Daud Ali, Martha Selby, Katherine Young, Parvathy Kanthasamy and Shanthela Easwarakumar. -
13:00 - 14:00 EST: Lunch
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14:00 - 16:00 EST: Colonial and Postcolonial History | Chair: Bhavani Raman
Textuality and Social Transformation in mid nineteenth-century Jaffna | Bernard Bate
Lovely, Recalcitrant Women... | Susan Schomburg
Revisiting the Sri Lankan Left in Relation to the Tamil National | Ravindiran Vaitheespara
"No More Nautches in Poodoocottah"... | Davesh Soneji -
16:00 - 16:30 EST: Refreshments
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16:30 - 18:30 EST: Anthropology | Chair: Raman Seylon
Coping with Displacement... | E. Valentine Daniel
Culture, Cultivation, and Civility in the Tamil Country | Anand Pandian
Duttugamani and Senguttuvan | Margaret Trawick
Racism and Terrorism: Old Fears as New Anxieties | Yamuna Sangarasivam
Batticaloa's Shadows: Violence and Recovery | Patricia Lawrence [Withdrawn]
Culture, Idealized Beliefs about Gender and ... | Ram Mahalingam [Withdrawn]