LECTURE 1
Painted Female Body
Tradition and Modernity in the Paintings of George Keyt

By T. Shanaathanan,
Senior Lecturer
Department of Fine Arts,
University of Jaffna

03rd February 2010
Medium - English

LECTURE 2
The Political Promise of the Apasras:
A Cultural and Political Reading of Sigirya

By Jagath Weerasinghe
Professor of Archeology,
Post Graduate Institute of Archeology

03rd March 2010
Medium - Sinhala

LECTURE 3
MEMORY, SOCIAL WORK AND SOCIAL CHANGE

By Darja Zavirsek
Professor of Social Work
Faculty of Social Work
University of Ljubljana Slovenia)

08th March 2010

LECTURE 4
APPROACHES TO DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKING:
A Discussion and Demonstration

Eline Jongsma & Kel O’ Neil
Independent Filmmakers

09th March 2010
Medium – English with summaries in Sinhala

LECTURE 5
Birth in the Age of AIDS:
Women, Reproduction, and HIV/AIDS in South India

By Cecilia Van Hollen
Associate Professor
Dept. of Anthropology
Maxwell School for Citizenship and Public Affairs,
Syracuse University, New York

23rd April 2010
Medium – English

LECTURE 6
‘Building Back Better’ after Disaster:
Ambiguities and Unexpected Results of a Popular Catchphrase

By Mara Benadusi
Professor of Cultural Anthropology
University of Catania, Italy

18th May 2010; 10.00 AM
Medium – English

LECTURE 7
Experiencing the Taste of Existence:
The Regenerative Practice of Food in Precarious Life Sustenance and Fragile Relationality

By Wim Van Daele
PhD Candidate
Interdisciplinary Center Leo Apostle,
Vrije Universiteit Brussels and The Center for Prospective Anthropology,
Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

17th June 2010; 04.00 PM
Medium – English

LECTURE 8
The Preventable Coming Tragedy of Climate Change:
What Should We Do?

By Satis Arnold
Team Leader,
ADB funded Education for Knowledge Project,
Ministry of Education, Sri Lanka
Director, Cambridge Partners: Education and Sustainability Consultants, Perth, Australia

19th July 2010, 10.00 AM
Medium – English