Many Roads: Women’s Personal Stories of Courage and Displacement in Wales
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Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya presentation on her chapter – “Intangible Cultural Heritage as Development in an Indian Ocean Island Creole Community”
Celebrating the work of Dr Violet Cuffy
Book title: “Creole Identity and Language Representations”
Editors: Morgan Dalphinis, Duane Edwards, Michael M Kretzer, Violet Cuffy
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year of Publication: 2024
Legacies of Trade and Empire: Breaking Silences
Legacies of Trade and Empire – book talk on Thursday 13 June 2024 (11 am to 12 noon UK time)
Featuring Prof. Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya, University of London, in conversation with Prof.
Dr. Ute Fendler, University of Bayreuth, on the book
Legacies of Trade and Empire: Breaking Silences
- Thursday, 13.06.2024 | 12-1pm (CEST)11am-12 noon (UK time)
- Zoom Meeting: https://uni-bayreuth.zoom.us/j/93141203142?pwd=NS9uTVhzWlBVTm1yYlFIOUJ3M0lxZz09 |
- Meeting ID: 931 4120 3142 | Passcode: 154421
About the book:
This book problematises established histories of slavery and indentured labour in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and South America, as carried out through European empires, to interpret the impact of trade, particularly in the region surrounding the Indian Ocean. The discourse within the chapters by Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya, Ute Fendler, Tom Hoogervorst, Xin Li, Frederick Noronha, Marie-Christine Parent and Beheroze Shroff explores the aesthetics of silence, the poetics of relation, creolisation, agency, knowledge transfers, decolonisation, and the afterlife of empire, as well as the assertion of identities, musical practices, and cuisines. These critical analyses utilise case studies from India, Indonesia, Seychelles, South Africa, Sri Lanka and Suriname. To break the silence on legacies of empire, the authors look through the prisms of history, politics, economics, sociology, linguistics, literature, anthropology and ethnomusicology. They search through the annals of history for ways of living harmoniously in an increasingly globalised world.
About the Authors
Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya, FRAS, is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies of the School of Advanced Study, University of London. She is also a Senior Associate, Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge, a Collaborative Researcher at the University of Colombo, and Chair of the ICOMOS National Committee on Intangible Cultural Heritage (Sri Lanka). Her scholarship focuses on Indian Ocean commerce, migration and cultural exchange within historical, linguistic, literary and ethnomusicological frameworks. Her publications include six monographs, one co-authored book, five edited books, seven guest edited special issues of journals, twenty-eight book chapters, sixty-one articles in academic journals, nine encyclopedia entries, and four essays.
Beheroze Shroff is Lecturer in the Department of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Irvine. A long-time scholar of Siddis, Indians of African descent in Gujarat, India, Shroff’s publications include three co-edited books, eight book chapters, seven journal articles and five essays, as well as 11 films screened internationally in various festivals and academic venues.
Legacies of Trade and Empire… book discussion (14 December 2023)
Book Talk Dr. Freddrick Noronha (Goa 1556) with Professor Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya and Professor Beheroze Shroff (September 2023)
Ceylon African Manja performing at BCIS December 2022
‘Sustaining Support for Intangible Cultural Heritage’ Book Talk Set for 9 December 2022
CHRC Panel Discussion – Sustaining Support for Intangible Cultural Heritage
Panel Discussion on the book: Sustaining Support for Intangible Cultural Heritage
