𝐊𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐢 𝐉𝐚𝐲𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐚 𝐅𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐀𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐯𝐞: 𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭

In celebration of the life, alignments, and commitments, of the political scientist and historian Kumari Jayawardena, the Social Scientists’ Association of Sri Lanka (SSA) of which she is a founder member and former Secretary, is creating a digital archive of her scholarship.

To publicise the Archive and promote engagement with the Kumari Jayawardena collectionthe SSA will host an all-day workshop in Colombo in late September 2026, supported by the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung (RLS) South Asia office. 

Short papers of under 4000 words in an accessible style and for a non-academic audience are anticipated, engaging with the continuing relevance of her multi-disciplinary scholarship; and generating fresh perspectives and insights to enrich socialist feminist organising and thought today, with a view to their online (www.polity.lk) and print publication (Polity Vol. 14, No. 2, July-December 2026).

Expressions of Interest are invited from activists, artists, and scholars, based in Sri Lanka. Send your pitch (under 300 words) to <ssa.femarchive@gmail.com> before 22 May 2026.

 

 

“Sri Lanka: Using Google Earth as a storytelling tool” by Sarah Marshall

The old adage says that a ‘picture tells a thousand words’. And by using just two satellite images from Google Earth, taken two months apart, a citizen journalist has been able to tell the story of the end of Sri Lanka’s 25-year civil war.

Via http://www.journalism.co.uk/news/sri-lanka-using-google-earth-as-a-storytelling-tool/s2/a553236/

source: journalist.co.uk