Keynote/Plenary Lectures

Keynote/Plenary Lectures by Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya

  • Intangible Cultural Heritage of Sri Lanka. Sri Jayawardenapura University, Sri Lanka.  21 September 2023.
  • Africans in Asia.  28th African Remembrance Day.  Museum of London, Docklands and the African Foundation for Development (AFFORD).  Museum of London, Docklands, 1 August 2022.
  • Emerging Afro-Asians:  Forgotten Identities.  Japan Society Regional Workshop, Japan Society for Afrasian Studies, Department of Economics, University of Kansai, Japan. 26 October 2019.
  • Os Portugueses no Este.  Faculty de Letras, Universidade de Porto, Portugal, 11 April 2019.
  • What is Baila?  Lecture/ Recital, Sooriya Village, Colombo.  April 2018.
  • African migrants in the Indian Ocean (Lecture, Film & Performance).  Kreol Festival, Ministry of Culture, Victoria, Mahe Island, Seychelles.  October 2017.
  • Indian Ocean Memories and African Migrants (Lecture, Film & Discussion).  AFRASO, Goethe Universität, Frankfurt.  13 June 2017.
  • African Community in Puttalam.  Sri Lanka Women’s Association (SLWA).  London.  15 October 2016.
  • Frances Bardsley Academy for Girls, Romakey International Education Empowerment Services Graduation Ceremony, Romford, 11 July 2015.
  • Legacies of Empire and Commerce:  Afro-Sri Lankans.  The Montague Barker Lecture at the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies, Oxford.  16 April 2013.
  • African Soldiers, Governors, Nawabs and Cultural Brokers in South Asia.  Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland.  11 April 2013.
  • Portuguese-speaking Communities in Sri Lanka.  National Trust, Colombo, Sri Lanka.  26 July 2012.
  • South Asia’s Africans:  Forgotten People.  The Montague Barker Lecture at the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies, Oxford.  11 February 2011.
  • Africans in Asia:  From the Periphery to the Core.  Annual Black & Minority Ethnic Groups Lecture at the University of Cambridge, 27 October 2010.
  • Changing Fates of Africans in India.  British Caribbean Association Annual General Meeting.  House of Commons, Parliament.  17 June 2013.
  • Portuguese Cultural Symbols in Asia.  The Anglo-Portuguese Society, Canning House, B London.  4 October 2012.
  • Luso-Asian Spaces: Portuguese-speaking Communities in Sri Lanka. The Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Council, Canning House, Belgrave Square, London.  14 June 2012.
  • From Invisibility to Visibility: Africans within Portuguese Space in Asia.  The Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Council, Canning House, Belgrave Square, London.  16 December 2011.
  • The African Diaspora in Asian Trade Routes and Cultural Memories.  Royal African Society, School of Oriental & African Studies, 6 April 2011.
  • Abolition and the East.  A public lecture delivered in the Wilberforce Lecture Theatre, Docklands Museum, London.  15 July 2010.
  • Africans in South Asia: A Forgotten People.  African Diaspora & Development Day: The African Diaspora within a Global Context.  The Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House, St James’s Square, London.  2 July 2010.
  • Malay Soldiers in the Ceylon Rifle Regiments. A Public Lecture at the National Army Museum, Chelsea, London, 24 June 2010.
  • Asia’s Africans: Forgotten Histories.  A Public Lecture at the Museum of London Docklands, 14 May 2009.
  • African Soldiers in the Ceylon Regiments. A Public Lecture at the National Army Museum, London, 26 March 2009.