SHALLOW BLUE EMPIRE: PEARLING IN SRI LANKAN HISTORY BY TAMARA FERNANDO

Date: π–πžππ§πžπ¬ππšπ², 19 August πŸπŸŽπŸπŸ”
Time: πŸ“.𝟎𝟎𝐏𝐌 – πŸ”.πŸ‘πŸŽππŒ
Location: π’π¨πœπ’πšπ₯ π’πœπ’πžπ§π­π’π¬π­π¬’ π€π¬π¬π¨πœπ’πšπ­π’π¨π§, πŸ‘πŸ–πŸŽ/πŸ–πŸ”, π’πšπ«πšπ§πš π‘π¨πšπ, 𝐂𝐨π₯𝐨𝐦𝐛𝐨 πŸŽπŸ•

TOBACCO RΔ€αΉ†I: THE CASE FOR A JAFFNA SLAVE SOCIETY, 1784–1844 BY MARK E. BALMFORTH

Date: Tuesday, 25 August πŸπŸŽπŸπŸ”
Time: πŸ“.𝟎𝟎𝐏𝐌 – πŸ”.πŸ‘πŸŽππŒ
Location: π’π¨πœπ’πšπ₯ π’πœπ’πžπ§π­π’π¬π­π¬’ π€π¬π¬π¨πœπ’πšπ­π’π¨π§, πŸ‘πŸ–πŸŽ/πŸ–πŸ”, π’πšπ«πšπ§πš π‘π¨πšπ, 𝐂𝐨π₯𝐨𝐦𝐛𝐨 πŸŽπŸ•

Breaking the Spell of an Imperial Photo Album: The Unlikely Beginnings of β€˜Colombo Histories’ by Sujit Sivasundaram

Where one is based in the world, one’s own positionality, the perspective with which one is writing, is crucial to the way research and its politics takes shape. For me, the experience of having grown up in Colombo and in tumultuous times in the 1980s…

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Disaster Nationalism: Dispatches from the Shorelines of Sri Lanka to the Streets of Minneapolis by Vivian Choi

On the 4th of August 2026, the Social Scientists’ Association hosted a discussion with Vivian Choi, which focused on disaster nationalism, and how techniques of disaster management and reconstruction in Sri Lanka and Minneapolis created opportunities for new modes of statecraft, national restructuring, and militarization. Choi traces various occurrences in the two locations, in order to reflect on the ways in which disaster nationalism manifests in the legitimation of state violence against targeted and perceived threats to an exclusionary national imaginary.

Out Now! Vol. 13 No. 2 (July - December 2025).

148 pages.Β #SriLankaΒ . Politics. Cyclone Ditwah. Ecology. Feminism. Education. Justice. Domestic Violence Act. History. Culture. Work. Labour. Books. Cover PictureΒ Sakuna Miyasinadha Gamage. LKR1000 from the Social Scientists’ Association or Barefoot orΒ SLBOOKS.lk.

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