PROSE - POETRY

Reading on (Un) Civil Wars

International Centre for Ethnic Studies (ICES) will host a reading on (Un)Civil Wars by Dr. Yasmin Tambiah, an award-winning creative writer with work anthologised in publications in the USA, Sri Lanka and Australia, including Award Winning Australian Writing 2014, edited by Chioe Brien, at the ICES Auditorium, 2, Kynsey Terrace, Colombo 8, at 4.30 p.m. on Monday, February 8

Tambiah, who is a researcher, research manager and creative writer, will read from her work in progress, a collection of prose-poetry that records and responds to conflict both political and cultural. While informed by Sri Lanka's long war, settings for the writing include the USA, Europe, the Caribbean, and Australia.

Trained as a European medievalist, her subsequent published research has focused on sexuality, ethnicity and criminal law in post-colonial states; sexuality and militarisation; and gender and governance in South Asia. Tambiah was a senior research fellow at the International Centre for Ethnic Studies, Colombo, and a co-director of the Centre for Feminist Legal Research, New Delhi. She has also managed interdisciplinary research projects for the Australian Council of Learned Academies.