Invited Talks

2020

Keynote speech given at Deraniyagala Divisional Secretariat, at the Divisional Literary Festival, February 2020

2019

Professor Emeritus JB Dissanayake; The brand of the Modern Sinhala Studies; a special felicitation speech delivered at “Maheduru Uwasara” the Seminar organized to commemorate the legacy of Sinhala Professors of the Department of Sinhala, University of Colombo -December 2019

Disrupting Democracy; by dividing across languages, panelist at the ADRN South Asian Regional Symposium in Colombo organized by Verité Research (VR) and the Asia Democracy Research Network (ADRN) and the East Asia Institute (EAI), on 16 – 17 September 2019

A speech given at Princess of Wales Collage at the launch of Poetry collection written by Rishini Amanda

2018

Drama translations before Sinhala theater: a multidimensional critique (Lankeeya wedikawa abiyasa natya pariwarthana: bahumanika wimasumak) Panelist of the Sinhala Day Program of the Galle Literary Festival, December 2018

Keynote Speech given at the launch of ‘Ananthamaya Nimeshayaka’, a poetry collection written by Sumith Chaminda, Colombo, Sri Lanka, October 2018

 

Keynote Speech given at the launch of ‘Regan’, a novel written by Sanjeewani Rupasinghe, Colombo, Sri Lanka, January 2018

2016

Lost in Kallady: Identity, Survival and Future of Sri Lanka Creole Portuguese, A guest lecture delivered in ‘Perkumpulan’- ELTU Seminar Series, University of Kelaniya, June 28, 2016

 

Crossroads of Cultural Narratives: Along the valley of cultural colonialism, A speech delivered in ‘Wednesday Circle’ seminar series, Department of Drama Oriental Ballet and Contemporary Dance, University of Visual and Performing Arts, Colombo, June 08, 2016

2015

Digitizing Minority Languages; A Creole Example, Talk given at Symposium on Language Technology for South Asia 2015, Organized by Department of Computer Science Technology, University of Moratuwa, January 2015

2014

Universality of Human History; as traced in Sraccandra Drama- Hasthikantha Manthare- Speech Delivered in Birth Centenary Celebration of Late Prof. Ediriweera Sarachchandra, organized by Department of Sinhala and Colombo University Arts Council, 17th March 2014

 

Workshop on Sidat Sangara and Sinhala Grammatical Tradition, Organized by American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies- 14th July 2014, Galadari Hotel, Colombo Session Chaired by; Professor. Charles Hallisey- Univeristy of Harward, Yehan Numata Senior Lecturer on Buddhist Literatures, Harvard Divinity School, Harvard University, USA.

 

2013

Important of Vesak Festival; A new perspective– Appeared in ‘Windaneeya Udesana’, A Vesak Poya Day Special on Hiru TV (ABC Broadcasting Cooperation) May 2013

 

Workshop on ‘Teaching and Learning through the eyes of Japanese Volunteers, jointly organized by the Presidential Secretariat for a Tri Lingual Sri Lanka and Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) 24th January 2013

 

Sri Lanka Creole Portuguese; Luso- Asian diaspora in Eastern Shores; Guest Lecture delivered at Department of English, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Nugegoda, 6th June 2013

 

2012

Specifications and contextualization of Martin Wickramasinghe Children’s Literature- Presented at Panel Discussion on Martin Wickramasinghe Literature at Galle Literary Festival- 18- 22nd January 2012.

 

A Study of School Reading Books of Munidasa Cumaratunge– Speech Delivered in 125th Birth Anniversary Celebrations of Late Munidasa Cumaratunge, Organized by Department of Sinhala, University of Colombo, 12th November 2012

 

Environmental Facts and Figures Found in Martin Wickramasinghe Literature– Speech delivered in Environmental Campaign held at Martin Wickramasinghe Memorial Museum, Koggala.

2011

A Brief study of Children’s Literature written by Martin Wickramasinghe– A speech delivered at Department of Sinhala, University of Colombo, in the 121st Commemoration ceremony of Late authorMartin Wickramasinghe June 2011.

 

Why Wickramasinghe is a Dynamic Children’s Literature Personal? – Speech delivered in Koggala MartinWickramasinghe Memorial Museum, August 2011

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