Speaker: Prof. Nihal Perera, Emeritus Professor of Urban Planning, Ball State University, USA. An original contributor to the field of postcolonial urban studies, and a leading scholar of Colombo, his research focuses on how ordinary people produce (lived) spaces for daily activities and cultural practices within the larger field of social production of space. His books include Decolonizing Ceylon, Transforming Asian Cities, and People’s Spaces

Discussant: Dr. Aveivey D. , Assistant Professor, Dept. of East Asian Studies, University of Delhi

Chair: Dr. Rajiv Ranjan, Associate Professor of Chinese Studies, Department of East Asian Studies, University of Delhi