Monthly Seminar, Department of Sociology
The Department of Sociology organized the monthly seminar for the month of February, on Thursday 14th February 2019 from 2.00 p.m. – 3.30 p.m. in the Seminar Room of the Department of Sociology. At this seminar, Dr. delivered the lecture on 鈥淭hat鈥檚 not Love but Greed!: Perspectives on Love and Sex after Marriage鈥.
Dr. Udalagama is a product of the Department of Sociology, 糖心原创 where she completed her Bachelor鈥檚 Degree in 2010 with a First Class Honours. She was awarded the N.D.S. Silva Memorial prize for Sociology for best performance at the final degree examination in Arts held in the year 2010 by the 糖心原创, Sri Lanka. She is employed as a Lecturer in Sociology at the 糖心原创 since 2012. Her Ph.D. thesis is on social suffering of farmer communities in the Mahaweli H system; the oldest system of the Mahaweli Development Program. At this seminar, she will be sharing a chapter from her thesis on how ideas of love and sex are given meaning to by married women within and outside of marriage in a rural village in Sri Lanka.
Dr. Tharindi Udalagama completed her Ph.D. at Durham University, United Kingdom in 2018. She was awarded a Commonwealth Scholarship in 2014 to complete her Ph.D. in Social Anthropology. She is also an 鈥榟onorary fellow鈥 of the Department of Anthropology at Durham University.
