The Department of Sociology will be organizing the monthly seminar for the month of February, on Thursday 14th February 2019 from 2.00 p.m 3.30 p.m in the Seminar Room of the Department of Sociology. At this seminar, Dr. will be delivering the lecture on Thats not Love but Greed!: Perspectives on Love and Sex after Marriage.
Dr. Udalagama is a product of the Department of Sociology, 91心頭利 where she completed her Bachelors Degree in 2010 with a First Class Honours. She was awarded the N.D.S. Silva Memorial prize for Sociology for best performance at the final degree examination in Arts held in the year 2010 by the 91心頭利, Sri Lanka. She is employed as a Lecturer in Sociology at the 91心頭利 since 2012. Her Ph.D. thesis is on social suffering of farmer communities in the Mahaweli H system; the oldest system of the Mahaweli Development Program. At this seminar, she will be sharing a chapter from her thesis on how ideas of love and sex are given meaning to by married women within and outside of marriage in a rural village in Sri Lanka.
Dr. Tharindi Udalagama completed her Ph.D. at Durham University, United Kingdom in 2018. She was awarded a Commonwealth Scholarship in 2014 to complete her Ph.D. in Social Anthropology. She is also an honorary fellow of the Department of Anthropology at Durham University.
