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வித்தியாசம் Viththiyaasam
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C&W 2024 Keynote: perimortem (in [theoretical] rigor)
June 21, 2024
When I was invited to deliver one of the keynote addresses at Computers & Writing, "The planning committee was excited…
CCCC 2024: If to Move the Soul a Writer
April 5, 2024
Catch the Italo Calvino reference? This virtual presentation at 4C24 was complicated, as it involved designing and scripting a tiny…
CCCC 2023: Ocularcentrism, Intergenerational Trauma, and the Euro-American Composition of Eelam Tamil Pain
February 16, 2023
I presented as part of a panel on rhetoric, harm, and healing at CCCC 2023. I'm grateful to my co-panelists…
UAAC 2022: Cripping Chronic Pain the Tamil Way
November 4, 2022
At my advisor's suggestion, I presented at this art and aesthetics conference, developing material I'd written for my dissertation. More…
The Exclusions Always Matter
February 4, 2019
It's the anniversary of Sri Lanka's independence from British rule, thus also the kairotic moment prompting me to finally collect…
AWP 2017: Sri Lankan American Writers on Emerging Literary Identity
February 10, 2017
A combination of Winter Storm Niko and a resulting spike in chronic pain has left me housebound in New York…
War Without Witness – In Media Res
March 3, 2015
My shortform multimodal composition on mobile phone testimony and the Tamil genocide, "War without witness: Mobile phone testimony in preserving…
NNIV: Photography and Spectacle in Sri Lanka’s Ethnic Conflict
May 5, 2011
I co-authored and co-presented on war photography and the spectacle of Sri Lanka's ethnic conflict with my human rights lawyer…
One More Year of Bearing Witness
May 16, 2010
This month marks the first anniversary of the Tamil genocide, which culminated in the Mullivaikkal massacre. On May 18, 2009,…
The Bang-Bang Club: Snapshots from a Hidden War
May 11, 2010
Content note: Apartheid, famine, human rights atrocities, immolation Authors Greg Marinovich and Joao Silva were members of the so-called Bang-Bang…
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