Multiingual Sri Lanka III: Lanka and the Exilic Imagination
Key information
- Date
- Time
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3:15 pm to 5:00 pm
- Venue
- Russell Square: College Buildings
- Room
- L67
About this event
Professor Ronit Ricci
Lanka, also known as Sarandib, Ceylon, and Sri Lanka, has been “marked” as a land of banishment and exile for many centuries. Taking as its starting point the exile of royal families from the Indonesian Archipelago to Dutch Ceylon in the 18 th century, this talk explores geographies and stories of exile as they relate to the island of Lanka across languages, religions and sites, searching in the process for the common thread of the imagination that connects them.
Speaker Biography
Ronit Ricci is the Sternberg-Tamir Chair in Comparative Cultures and Associate Professor in the departments of Asian studies and comparative religion at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She holds a PhD in comparative literature from the University of Michigan. Her interests include translation studies, Javanese and Malay literature, multilingual manuscripts, the history and literary culture of the Sri Lankan Malays, and scripts. She is the author of Islam Translated: Literature, Conversion, and the Arabic Cosmopolis of South and Southeast Asia (University of Chicago, 2011), co-editor of Translation in Asia: Theories, Practices, Histories (St. Jerome, 2011), and editor of Exile in Colonial Asia: Kings, Convicts, Commemoration (University of Hawaii, 2016).
She is Visiting Fellow on the MULOSIGE Project in April 2016.
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