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New Open Access Digital Archive: Dissidents and Activists in Sri Lanka, 1960s to 1990s
This collection documents the activity of a generation of Sri Lankan radical activists who, in their different ways, attempted to escape the claims of rival ethno-nationalisms and build alternative political and development projects, drawing on Marxism, Christian socialism, and feminism, among other inspirations.
Workshop: Futile Gestures
Instead of rooting for a comprehensive definition of futility, this workshop offered a space for comparative analysis and theorizing, from different perspectives, if allegedly futile, unnecessary, worthless and quixotic actions might point toward an alternative reading of the political per se.
Exhibition: Conscience Matters
This exhibition at the National War Museum explored the little-known story of British conscientious objectors of the Second World War through paintings, poems, letters, music and speeches.
Workshop: Translating Conscience
The workshop was a dialogue between academic researchers, interested in the history of activism and human rights in Sri Lanka, and creative artists and activists, who have had occasion to reflect on the issue of conscience, either in their daily practice or in public interventions.
Workshop: New Directions in Second World War Studies
This workshop explored, scrutinised and analyses the ways in which we discuss and commemorate the lived experience of the Second World War.
Workshop: Taking A Stand- Intimate Relations and Public Dissent
What are the conditions and possibilities of dissent? How can we understand those moments when people take a public stand, often at great personal risk?