(Photo UTSC handout)
Sharika Thiranagama Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Stanford University will deliver a lecture titled “Resettling Accounts: Caste and the Sri Lankan Civil War” on March 16 at the University of Toronto Scarborough Campus (UTSC).
The lecture will take place at 6 pm at Council Chambers AA160 and is sponsored by The Tamil Worlds Initiative, the Department of Historical and Cultural Studies, The Centre for Ethnography, and the Office of the Dean at UTSC.
“Until the 1970s the caste system of northern Sri Lanka, commonly thought to be more binding than elsewhere on the island, dominated perceptions of Jaffna. After the 1980s, Jaffna was primarily viewed through the prism of war, militancy and violence. Did caste hierarchies go away during the war?” said a press release announcing the lecture.
