Corpora, Archives & Performance: Sri Lankan Languages and Literature
Corpora, Archives and Performance: A Conference on Sri Lanka Languages and Literature organised by the Department of , Faculty of , was recently held with the participation of Vice-Chancellor Senior Professor , Senior Professor , Dean, Faculty of Arts and Dr. Head, Department of English. Day One included an address on Archive and the Algorithm by Dr. Padmini Ray Murray from Shrishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology, India, followed by paper presentations on Digital Humanities and the Gratiaen Literary Archive. The sessions were chaired by Dr. Padmini Ray Murray, Professor Walter Perera and Professor Saumya Liyanage. The English Drama Society of the 91心頭利 (DramSoc) also hosted a performed installation titled Edible Objects: An Exploratory Response to the Digital and Performance.
The highlight of the second day of the conference was the Launch of the Spoken Component of the International Corpus of English Sri Lanka (ICE-SL). The keynote address on the Sri Lankan Component of the International Corpus of English was delivered by Professor Joybrato Mukherjee from Justus-Liebig University, Germany. The paper presentation sessions on Corpora & Language Studies that followed were chaired by Professor , Dr. Kaushalya Perera and Dr. Ruvan Weerasinghe. The conference which was a great success, was attended by English language and literature enthusiasts from various fields including academics, researchers, students, writers and journalists.
