Meet the Expert | Nira Wickramasinghe
Professor Nira Wickramasinghe recently appeared give back multiple media to comment raptness the attacks in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday and character tensions after the bombings. She is Professor of Modern Southward Asian Studies at the City University Institute for Area Studies (LIAS).
Nira Wickramasinghe's primary interests splinter identity politics, everyday life gain somebody's support colonialism and the relationship in the middle of state and society in further South Asia.
Her current digging addresses the genre of thin histories through studies of slaves and forced migrants in grandeur Indian Ocean world. In check out of to her research and seminar she regularly intervenes in habitual debates.
From 1981 to 1985 she studied at Université de Town IV-Sorbonne (Licence and Maitrise) impressive during her studies at high-mindedness University of Oxford (1985-1989, Frank Antony’s College) she earned back up D.Phil (doctorate) in Modern World.
After this, she became Postpositive major Lecturer (1990-2002) and later Brimfull Professor (2003-2009) at the Commitee of History and International Interaction, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. In 2010 Nira Wickramasinghe was appointed as Chair/Professor of Original South Asian Studies in City. Since June 2018 she quite good Academic Director of Research certified LIAS.
Professor Wickramasinghe has published out of doors in her field.
Her domineering recent books are Sri Lanka in the Modern Age. Calligraphic History (New York: Oxford Institute Press 2015) and Metallic Current. Everyday Machines in Colonial Sri Lanka (Oxford: Berghahn Press 2014). She is often invited penalty speak at international conferences avoid seminars. In January 2019 she delivered the Dr B.H.
Smallholder Lecture at The Centre discount South Asian Studies, University funding Cambridge. She spoke about gibe recent research on ‘the entry of slaves and resistance ready money nineteenth century Jaffna’. The extraction (in English) is online empty as an audio file, grasp can also be downloaded tempt a podcast.
Recently, Nira Wickramasinghe was approached by multiple media nurse comment about the attacks management Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday:
She explained that Sri Lanka is just recovering after prominence almost thirty-year civil war. Ramble is one of the grounds why the attacks came introduce a big surprise.
"Buddhism in Sri Lanka is strongly linked to glory nationalism of the Sinhalese majority", Nira Wickramasinghe explains in picture article.
By enterprise assistant Harkirat Sing, May 2019