Category: Articles

Thirangie Jayatilake, Educational Arm, reporting from Sri Lanka Tambapanni Academic Publishers (TAP) was launched online on the 21 of August, 2021. TAP Founder Professor Sasanka Perera addressed the audience regarding his stance on the current state of the academic publishing industry, as well as the social…

Thirangie Jayatilake, Educational Arm Assistant, reporting from Sri Lanka Sri Lanka’s small publishing industry is limited to few publishers, but four book lovers have launched their own press to fill the gap. Tambapanni Academic Publishers, an academic publishing house named for the first Sinhalese kingdom in…

Thirangie Jayatilake, Asymptote Journal Educational Arm, reporting from Sri Lanka New Ink is a new forum that was created to engage in discussions regarding Sri Lankan literatur; in addition to panels on literature in Sri Lanka, New Ink pays a special interest to books published within the…

The 11th IPEd Editors Conference was packed with practical advice and food for thought and if I were to go into detail about everything that I found memorable, this article could fill a book! Instead, I’ll just share a few things that resonated with me…

*This is a fictitious conference review that emerged from a Heritage as Placemaking team discussion on decolonisation from the vantage point of various disciplinary backgrounds. As a creative experiment, we envisaged a future conference taking place in 2057, when decolonisation as an ongoing process might…

He used to smell like laundry detergent. Even with cologne, you could smell him underneath. Always the same smell. I would nuzzle my face into his chest and breathe it in. They didn’t tell me his smell would change.  Ella and Theo have just said…

I sat at my desk at home in Sri Lanka and stared into the black Zoom interface that read: ‘Please wait, the host will let you in soon.’ It was the last time I would feel those “first day of class” nerves, and I hoped…

TAP’s Thirangie Jayatilake met up with Nihal Perera in Colombo on 15 July 2020 to talk about his book Decolonizing Ceylon (OUP, 1999), especially its upcoming Sinhala translation and his ventures in the study of social space. As a young architecture student, a core question that piqued…