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Galle: A Heritage city under threat– Interview with dr. Uditha Jinadasa-by Doreen van den Boogaart & Luc Bulten Aerial view of Galle, ©Uditha Jinadasa Source:Stichtingnederlandsrilanka In Spring 2020 Dr. Uditha Jinadasa defended her dissertation ‘Changes in the Cultural Landscape and their Impacts on Heritage Management: A Study of Dutch Fort at Galle, Sri Lanka’ and earned her PhD from the Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University. The fortified town of Galle is a living heritage city, but this status is threated by gentrification. Dr. Jinadasa researched what has happened to the architecture, demography, economy, and city culture since the Fort has become UNESCO World Heritage in 1988. Luc Bulten and Doreen van den Boogaart, young ambassadors of the Netherlands Sri Lanka Foundation, interviewed her about her thesis and her view on heritage management in Sri Lanka. Q: In your PhD thesis you note that on the one hand the current ...

Sir Ivor Jennings – “University is a community with a life and spirit of its own” Ivor Jennings “University is a community with a life and spirit of its own” Ivor Jennings Sir William Ivor Jennings, KBE, QC, FBA (1903 –1965) Prominent educator, Originator of University of Ceylon and Vice Chancellor (1942–54) was not an elitist. From humble beginnings he worked his way through scholarships to Cambridge, where he excelled first in mathematics and then in law, ending with first classes in both. He was a left leaning liberal, thus, it was not his objective, to build university of Ceylon for the sons and daughters of the elite class. It was an elite university that he dreamed of, a place to nurture people of moral and intellectual stature, a place to produce the future leaders, for the independent nation. Peradeniya had the ideal setting for Jennings’ aspiration. He concentrated on his ...