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A lecture/Discussion on "Women Analyzing and Transforming Conflict:Lessons from Colombia for Sri Lanka" by Dr. Cristina Hoyos (Head of Conflict Prevention and Transformation Division,
Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation) was held on on Tuesday 6th of November from 6pm to 8pm
 
A lecture/Discussion on "Forms of Collective Violence" by Dr. Paul R. Brass (Professor, Emeritus Political Science and International Studies, University of Washington, Seattle) was held on Monday, March 19, 2007 at 5:30 p.m. at the ICES Auditorium, Colombo.
 
A Pannel Discussion on the Tissa Vitharana Report to the APRC was held on Tuesday, February 27, 2007 at 5:30 p.m. at the ICES Auditorium, Colombo. Participants: Dr. Jayampathy Wickremaratne, Dr. Lakshman Marasinghe,
Mr. N. Srikantha, M.P., Ms. Nimalka Fernando, Mr. M. Nizam Kariapper and Jeevan Thiagarajah
 
A lecture on "Canada - Quebec Relations: Debates on the Canadian Left" by Raghu Krishnan (Canadian Freelance Journalist, and Political Analyst) was held on Tuesday, February 20, 2007 at 5:30 p.m. at the ICES Auditorium, Colombo.
 
A lecture on "Nationalism and Other Memory Practices Following the Gujarat Earthquake of 2001" by Dr. Edward Simpson (Lecturer, Anthropology Department, Goldsmiths College, University of London) was held on Tuesday, January 16, 2007 at 5:30 p.m. at the ICES Auditorium, Colombo.
 

A lecture on "Bawa and Beyond: Reading Contemporary Sri Lankan Architecture" by Dr. Tariq Jazeel (Lecturer in Human Geography at The University of Sheffield) was held on Friday, September 15, 2006 at 5:30 p.m at the ICES Auditorium, Colombo.
 
A lecture on "Globalisation, Terror and the Shaming of the Nation: Local Masculinities in a Sri Lankan Village" by Dr. Jani de Silva (Research Fellow, International Centre for Ethnic Studies) was held on Thursday, September 14, 2006 at 5:30 p.m. at the ICES Auditorium, Colombo.
 
A lecture on "Can a Human Rights Culture Enable Emancipation?" by Michael Neocosmos (Professor of Sociology, University of Pretoria) was held on Monday, September 11, 2006 at 5:30 p.m. at the ICES Auditorium, Colombo.
 
A lecture on "Causes of the Maoist Insurgency in Nepal" by Dr. David N. Gellner (Lecturer in Anthropology of South Asia at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Oxford University) was held on Wednesday, August 16, 2006 at 5:30 p.m. at the ICES Auditorium, Colombo.
 
A lecture on "Human Rights and Development" by Prof. Stephen Marks (Professor of Health and Human Rights, Harvard University) was held on Tuesday, August 8, 2006 at 5:30 p.m. at the ICES Auditorium, Colombo.
 
A lecture on "The Iraq Intervention: What US Policy Makers Could Have Learned from Sri Lanka" by Dr. John M. Richardson, Jr. (Professor of International Development in American University’s School of International Service and Director of the University’s Center for Teaching Excellence) was held on Friday, July 21, 2006 at 5:30 p.m. at the ICES Auditorium, Colombo.
 
A lecture on "Ayubowan’s Aporia: Anti-Genealogy and the Future of the Political" by Dr. Ananda Abeysekara (Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Virginia Tech. USA) was held on Wednesday, July 5, 2006 at 5.30 p.m. at the ICES Auditorium, Colombo.
 
A lecture on "Past and Present Dispute Over Conversion in Sri Lanka" by Dr. Stephen C. Berkwitz (Professor of Religious Studies at Missouri State University, USA) was held on Friday, June 30, 2006 at 5:30 p.m. at the ICES Auditorium, Colombo.
 

A Literary Evening with Three Authors and their works:Gnana Goonesinghe – Build a Bridge
Pradeep Jeganathan – At the Water’s Edge
Jagath Kumarasinghe – Kider Chetty Street

Moderator: Kamini de Soysa
was held on Friday, June 23, 2006 at 5:30 p.m. at the ICES Auditorium, Colombo
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A Discussion on "Censorship and the Postmodern / Postcolonial / Theravada Society" by Pradeep Jeganathan and Krishantha Bagyadatta was held on Wednesday, June 7, 2006 at 3.00 p.m. at the ICES Auditorium, Colombo.

 

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