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SADIRN is pleased to announce that its 'Creative Lives' interview series will be published in book form in 2021 by Ibidem Verlag/Columbia University Press.

"A Sense of Viidu: The (Re)creation of home by the Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora in Australia"
Edited by Niro Kandasamy, Nirukshi Perera and Charishma Ratnam

The preconference aims to bring together ICA participants as well as scholars from around the world who are interested in digital culture in the Global South, with a particular focus on South Asia. Presentations and conversations at the

Dr. Maryam Mirza, Assistant Professor in World Literatures in English at Durham University, UK, will interview the Pakistani-American writer Sehba Sarwar for the Creative Lives Series (June 2020).

Along with Dr Meenakshi Bharat, SADIRN member Dr Sharon Rundle has co-edited Glass Walls, an anthology of stories from Australia and the Indian subcontinent.

Niru Perera of Monash University has been spending two months of 2019 at the University of Madison-Wisconsin in the US, attending their annual South Asia Summer Language Institute.

Abstracts due September 30, 2019. Full essays due January 15, 2020.

A highly successful and stimulating conference organized by SADIRN Partners Profs Klaus Stierstorfer and Annalisa Oboe, and sponsored by Villa Vigoni. Geman Italian Centre for Research Excellence, was held in March 2019.

After completing a law degree from Trinity College Cambridge University, Justin joined the Slade School of Art in London where he won many prizes. He then moved to the Acadamie Julian in Paris. He exhibited at the Leicester Galleries in London