International Conference on Sri Lanka Studies

The 12th International Conference on Sri Lanka Studies (ICSLS) will be held on March 18 to 20 in Colombo.

The ICSLS is a bi-annual meeting of scholars researching on socio-economic, historical, cultural and political aspects of Sri Lanka. Conferences have been held every two years in various venues across the world.

This year's conference is jointly organized by the Royal Asiatic Society and the Open University under the main theme "Sri Lanka after the War: Prevention of recurrence, reaching for prosperity."

Individual papers are also invited on a broad variety of disciplines such as anthropology, archaeology, architecture, culture and society, defence studies, demography, development studies, diasporic studies, distance learning, economics, education, ethnic studies, environmental studies, fine arts, gender studies, geography, history, information science, languages and literature studies, library and information studies; management studies, media studies, philosophy, political science, post-tsunami studies, psychology, religious studies, risk studies, science and technology policy; and sociology.