ZOOM EVENT: Sunday 18 May 2025 at 2pm (UK)/6.30 pm ISL): Leonard Woolf’s “The Village in the Jungle: New Perspectives”
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Sunday 18th May 2025 at
2.00 pm UK. 6:30 pm SL
The Village
in the Jungle LEONARD WOOLF
Topic: Leonard Woolf’s
The Village in the Jungle.
New Perspectives
Zoom Meeting: Meeting ID: 885 6721 2784 Passcode: SLLS
Speaker: Professor Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya, PhD, FRAS Professor Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya, PhD, FRAS is the winner of the prestigious Rama Watumull Center for South Asian Studies & Student Equity, Excellence and Diversity Award (University of Hawaii, Manoa).
Shihan has been honoured by Sri Lanka for her significant contributions to higher education and has been appointed as the First Sarath Amunugama Visiting Professor at the University of the Visual & Performing Arts, Colombo, a Visiting Research Fellow (National Centre for Advanced Research in Social Sciences and Humanities, Sri Lanka) and a Collaborative Researcher (University of Colombo). In the UK, Shihan is associated with three Universities: London, Cambridge and Oxford.
She is an elected Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland and also of the National Academy of Sciences of Sri Lanka.
Given her deep knowledge of the culture and history of People of African descent in Asia, she is recognised by the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (Geneva) as an Expert in this area.
She will enlighten us with the many aspects of Leonard Sidney Woolf* who was a British political theorist, author, publisher, and civil servant. There will be a Q&A after her presentation during which the Book “The Village in the Jungle” and the character of Leonard Woolf will be discussed
*Leonard Woolf was married to writer Virginia Woolf (née Stephen). In October 1904, Woolf moved to Ceylon to become a cadet in the Ceylon Civil Service in Jaffna, Kandy and finally AGA in Hambantota. The Village in the Jungle was written retrospectively after Leonard returned to England. His experience as a colonial administrator, empathy for the jungle dweller and political sentiments shape the novel.
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