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Yasmine Gooneratne (1935 – 15 February 2024) was a Sri Lankan poet, short story writer, university professor and essayist. She was recognised in Sri Lanka, Australia, throughout Europe, and the United States, due to her substantial creative and critical publications in the field of English and post-colonial literature.
The University of Sri Lanka was a public university in Sri Lanka. Established in 1972 by amalgamating the four existing universities, it was the only university in Sri Lanka from 1972 until 1978. The university was based at six campuses in Colombo, Peradeniya, Sri Jayewardenepura, Kelaniya, Moratuwa and Jaffna.
Also: Sri Lanka: People: By occupation: Academics / Women educators: Women academics This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Sri Lankan academics . It includes academics that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.
Kumari Jayawardena (Sinhala: කුමාරි ජයවර්ධන; born 1931) is a Sri Lankan feminist activist and academic. Her work is part of the canon of Third-world feminism which conceptualizes feminist philosophies as indigenous and unique to non-Western societies and nations rather than offshoots of Western feminism.
Goonesekere returned to the University of Colombo in 1995 as Senior Professor of Law, and was the first woman Vice Chancellor of the University of Colombo from 1999 to 2002. Prof. Goonesekere was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Letters from the Open University of Sri Lanka and an honorary Doctorate of Law by the University of Colombo, in ...
Yamuna Sangarasivam is a Sri Lankan-American dancer, academic and writer. [1] She was well known for dancing with Michael Jackson during the shooting of the video song Black or White (1991). [ 2 ] [ 3 ] She works as a professor of Sociology & Anthropology at Nazareth University in New York . [ 4 ]
It was dissolved in 1972 to establish the University of Sri Lanka. In 1974 the Jaffna campus was added to the University of Sri Lanka. [5] [6] [7] The change of the government in July 1977 led to dismantling of the single university apparatus with the plan of establishing independent universities. With the promulgation of the Universities Act.
In March 2019, she was named as one of the most influential women, and among women change-makers in Sri Lanka, by the Parliament of Sri Lanka coinciding with International Women's Day. [21] [22] [23] In August 2019, she was one of the 66 recipients to receive national honors for 2019 from the Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena. [24] [25]