TALK "Violence and the Burden of Memory in Sinhala Consciousness" at Kamaladevi Complex, Main Building, India International Centre (IIC), 40 Max Mueller Marg, Lodhi Estate > 6:30pm on 23rd August 2016

Time : 6:30 pm Add to Calendar 23/08/2016 18:30 23/08/2016 20:00 Asia/Kolkata TALK "Violence and the Burden of Memory in Sinhala Consciousness" Event Page : http://www.delhievents.com/2016/08/talk-violence-and-burden-of-memory-in.html Seminar Rooms II & II, Kamaladevi Complex, Main Building, India International Centre (IIC), 40 Max Mueller Marg, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi-110003 DD/MM/YYYY

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Venue : Seminar Rooms II & II, Kamaladevi Complex, Main Building, India International Centre (IIC), 40 Max Mueller Marg, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi-110003
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Event Description : TALK "Violence and the Burden of Memory in Sinhala Consciousness"

Focus Sri Lanka : Contemporary Views

Post-1980s Sri Lanka has been wracked by decades of civil war and political violence. This has caused deaths and destructions of considerable magnitude. Some of this violence and their consequences have been documented while many remain undocumented. How is such extraordinary institutionalized violence remembered? This discussion based on Prof Sasanka Perera’s recent book, Violence and the Burden of Memory in Sinhala Consciousness (2016) delves into the details of violence, and more importantly the memories associated with this violence. While there may be manifold attempts to erase, there are also many evocative recapitulations and representations, merging political and personal, ordinary and extraordinary, civil and artistic which negotiate with the burden of memory.

Panelists: Dr.Jagath Weerasinghe, Postgraduate Institute of Archaeology, Colombo and Senior Artist; Prof. Roma Chatterjee, Department of Sociology, University of Delhi; Dr. Dev Pathak ,Department of Sociology, South Asian University; Dr. Susan Visvanathan, Centre for the Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University; Prof. Pradeep Jaganathan, Graduate Studies Advisor, Shiv Nadar University

With Prof. Sasanka Perera, Department of Sociology, South Asian University

Chair: Dr. Ravi Kumar, South Asian University

Collaboration :  Orient Blackswan

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