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Richard Dawkins

Origins and evolution:

Richard Dawkins’ session

On Friday January 20, Richard Dawkins appeared for one hour at the Galle Literary festival. His talk was the first event for which all tickets had sold out online, in Colombo and in Galle a week before. There were people queueing outside the hall an hour before his session. Once the doors opened, the crowd’s attitude was one of focused determination, to secure the best seats in the house.

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Encounters

Literature and varieties of history

Last week I discussed the importance of the work of Michel Foucault as a historian and how he could inspire innovative thinking about literature. In today's column my focus will be on another distinguished French historian, although an unorthodox one, Michel de Certeau (1925-1986). He has been influenced by Foucault's writings, and at the same time has sought to go beyond them,

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Cultural Scene

HSBC GLF-2012:

Forgiveness, reconciliation and responsibility in literature

Perhaps, one of the intriguing sessions of the recently concluded HSBC Galle Literary Festival of 2012 was the session under the above title which was a fine amalgam of literature, politics, polemics, and responsibility in literature.

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