The 21st Century Postcolonial: Issues and Challenges in Literature and Language Studies

6th SLACLALS Conference, 5th-7th August

Sri Lanka Foundation Institute, 100 Independence Square, Colombo 7

5th August

1.30-2.30 REGISTRATION

2.30-2.45 Opening Remarks Chair, SLACLALS

2.45-3pm TEA

CHAIR
3-3.30pm Felicitation
Tissa Jayatilaka

Plenary Ashley Halpé

3.30-4.15pm
Interrogating “Postcolonial”—Is the Concept Still Valid?

4.15-5.00 Readings Ashley Halpé and KS Sivakumaran

6.30-8.30 RECEPTION

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 The 21st Century Postcolonial: Issues and Challenges in Literature and Language Studies
6th SLACLALS Conference, 5th-7th August
Sri Lanka Foundation Institute, 100 Independence Square, Colombo 7

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TIME 6 August 7th August

8.00-8.45 REGISTRATION

CHAIR Walter Perera CHAIR Ashley Halpé

Plenary: Pramod Nayar Plenary: Edwin Thumboo & Thiru Kandiah

8.45-9.30
The Postcolonial Bildungsroman: Knowing Subalternity and the Re-cognizing the Linguistics of Post-colonial Literary Creativity in
Culture of Human Rights English

9.30-9.45 TEA TEA

9.45.-11.00 CHAIR Nihal Fernando CHAIR ViviMarie VanderPoorten

Vanished Trails: Issues and Challenges in Manique The 21st Century Postcolonial: Issues and Challenges in
Reinterpreting R.L. Spittel’s Text in The Gunesekera Syllabus Design
Chandana Dissanayake
21st Century

The 21st Century Postcolonial: Issues and Rukshan Deconstructing Language Standards for Effective Language
Carol Leon
Challenges Faced by the Diasporic Self Ibrahim Teaching
and Community

Mahendran Writing Jaffna: A. Santhan’s Presentation Maduranga The Need to Go Beyond Linguistics for an Effective and
Thiruvarangan of Histories and Identities in The Karlugampitiya Meaningful Study of Language: The Case of Veddah Language
Whirlwind Studies

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 The 21st Century Postcolonial: Issues and Challenges in Literature and Language Studies
6th SLACLALS Conference, 5th-7th August
Sri Lanka Foundation Institute, 100 Independence Square, Colombo 7
11.00-11.45 READINGS ViviMarie Vanderpoorten & Shelagh Goonewardene READINGS Rushda Rafeeke & Theena Kumaragurunathan

11.45-1.00 LUNCH
1.00-215 CHAIR Sumathy Sivamohan CHAIR Chandana Dissanayake
Maithree Readings from Afar: Methodologies for The “Real” Mark Wilde: Notes from a Quest for an
Wickramasinghe Feminist/Postcolonial Critiques Vihanga Perera “Absent” Writer

Migrant Writings from Down Under: Some Observations

Landscapes of Desire: The Problematic on Multicultural Writings in Australia
Kanchanakesi
Construction of Ceylon/ Sri Lanka As a Sunil Govinnage
Warnapala
Picturesque Site

Narayan Writes Back: The Anti-Imperial Lal Pumping Iron: The Question of Masculinity in Blue Stories
Semiotics of Order-Disorder-Order in The Meddawattegedera For Adults
Gayathri Hewagama
Painter of Signs

2.15-3.00 READINGS Marlon Ariyasinghe & Mike Masilamani READINGS Sunil Govinnage & Edwin Thumboo

3.00-315 TEA TEA

3.15-4.05 CHAIR Kanchanakesi Warnapala C

Radical Traditionalism: Alternative Modes
of Representation in the Modern Sinhala Thanks, Assessments, Farewell (3.15-3.30)
Amarakeerthi Liyanage
Short Story

“It Is Not About Race”: Reading Shehan

Karunatilaka’s Novel Chinaman Against
Sumathy Sivamohan the Grain

4.05-4.50
READINGS Sumathy Sivamohan &
Lal Medawattegedera