The fifth annual Tamil Studies Conference, “Constructing Tamil Worlds: Circulation, Marginality and Plurality”
organized by the University of Toronto & the University of Windsor May 13 – 15, 2010.
Conference dealing with Tamil culture particularly in a context of diaspora and displacement our ppl
“Turning to ‘Tamil Studies’ as an enlightened response is nothing new for Sri Lankan Tamil intelligentsia, given the peculiar existential conditions of Tamils even in their natal land. Culturally sharing the same language and religion with 60 million Tamils in Tamil Nadu, and politically conjoined with 20 million Sinhalese within Sri Lanka, the Sri Lankan Tamils numbering less than 2 million have from time to time felt out-of-place in both places and at home in neither place. They now have their ‘placelessness’ writ large all over the world.”
“Despite their small numbers and limited resources, or because of them, the Tamils in Jaffna and Batticaloa have established their own unique traditions of contributions to the study of Tamil language and literature and to the practice of Hinduism.”
Read more here
Rajan Phillips in: http://transcurrents.com/tc/2010/05/the_evolution_of_tamil_studies.html
