“A Translocal World?

Exploring the Postcolonial Today”

8th SLACLALS Conference, 29th - 30th October, 2016
The Royal Mall, 18/903 William Gopallawa Mawatha, Kandy

TIME 29th October 30th October

8.00 –
8.30
REGISTRATION

8. 30 –
9.00
Announcements and Memorial Tributes

CHAIR WALTER PERERA CHAIR MARLON ARIYASINGHE

~ Swati Pal
Janki Devi Memorial Bonding with the Bard in a Postcolonial World
9.00 – KEYNOTE College, University of Delhi
9.45 “ Every City Mine, All People Family”
N. M. “So Black, So Beautiful”: The Western Idea of Race in
G. J. V. PRASAD Kalugampitiya Peter Brook’s Reconceptualization of the Mahabharata
University of Peradeniya
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY
9.45 –
TEA TEA
10.00

CHAIR NIHAL FERNANDO CHAIR G. J. V. PRASAD

The Long Day‟s Journey Out of War: Undoing the Nation

Suddhaseel Is the World Turning Flat? Observations Sumathy in Koorvall Koorvallin by Thamizhini and A Long Watch:
Sen on Postcolonial Theory in a Post- Sivamohan War, Captivity and Return in Sri Lanka, as Told by Ajith
Presidency University, Kolkata Independence Context University of Peradeniya
Boyagoda to Sunila Galappatti
10.00 –
11.15 Anupama Harshana
Asian Transmodernities and the Ibis Rambukwella Standard English, Cricket, Nationalism and Language
Mohan Ideology in Sri Lanka
Trilogy: Reflections on the Postcolonial PGIE, Open University of
Presidency University, Kolkata Sri Lanka

Carmen Woolf‟s The Village in the Jungle and Vihanga Perera Silences in Post-Civil War Narratives of “History”: A
Wickramagamage Gunarathne‟s Beddegama: Which the University of Sri Study of the Memoirs of Thamalini Jeyakumaran and Ajith
University of Peradeniya Original, Which the Translation? Jayewardenepura Boyagoda

11.15 –
READINGS Jean Arasanayagam & Kamala Wijeratne READINGS Marlon Ariyasinghe & Sumathy Sivamohan
12.00

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 “A Translocal World? Exploring the Postcolonial Today”
8th SLACLALS Conference, 29th - 30th October, 2016
The Royal Mall, 18/903 William Gopallawa Mawatha, Kandy

12.00 –
1.00
LUNCH LUNCH

CHAIR CARMEN WICKRAMAGAMAGE CHAIR HARSHANA RAMBUKWELLA

N. Usha Translocal Female Spaces and Amirthanjali Translocality Dynamics in Ayathurai Santhan’s Novel
Krishna University, Multigenerational Realities in Oleander Sivapalan Rails Run Parallel
Andhra Pradesh Girl and When We Visit the Goddess University of Jaffna

1. 00 – Hashintha A Narrative of the “White Man‟s Marlon The Migrant Writer-Historian: A Glissantian Reading of
2. 15 Jayasinghe Burden”: A Postcolonial Critique of Willa Ariyasinghe the Construction of Sri Lankan History in Running In the
University of Arkansas, Cather’s My Antonia Formerly, University of Family, When Memory Dies and Cinnamon Gardens
Arkansas Geneva

Thakshala
Eco-Fantasies in Translocal Times:
Fathima M
Tissera Jawaharlal Nehru University, The Critique of „Identities‟ in Michael Ondaatje’s Writings
Radhika Philip’s Reyna’s Prophesy
Formerly, University of New Delhi
Colombo
2.15 –
3.00
READINGS T. Arasanayagam & Vihanga Perera TRIENNIAL GENERAL MEETING
3.00 –
TEA TEA
3.15
CHAIR CHANDANA DISSANAYAKE CHAIR VIHANGA PERERA

Tara Dinesh
Giving Voice to the Silenced, Or Dust in A Translocal World Within South Asia: Reading Kiran
Senanayake the Reader‟s Eyes: A Reading of A Little Kafle Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss and Nayomi Munaweera’s
Dust on the Eyes Jawaharlal Nehru University Island of a Thousand Mirrors
University of Peradeniya
New Delhi
3.15 –
4.30 Annemari Shashikala The Hungry Ghosts of Our Collective Pasts: Shyam
Folktales and National Identity: The Case
de Silva Assella Selvadurai’s The Hungry Ghosts and Cosmopolitan
of Sri Lanka
SOAS, University of London University of Kelaniya Rootlessness of Our Diasporic Affiliations

Samitha The Perspective of Buddhism and the Chamila

Buddhist Vision: The National and Somirathna Comparati ve Literary Theory of Martin
Senanayake Personal in Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Wickramasinghe: Coherence of Differences
Miami University, Ohio Colombo Institute of
Ghost Research and Psychology
4.45 –
OPENING RECEPTION 4. 30 – 5. 00 ROUND UP/ FAREWELLS
7.00