{"id":1913,"date":"2022-08-21T17:16:15","date_gmt":"2022-08-21T17:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.far.jfn.ac.lk\/?page_id=1913"},"modified":"2024-02-08T03:47:30","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T03:47:30","slug":"seminar-conferences","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.far.jfn.ac.lk\/index.php\/seminar-conferences\/","title":{"rendered":"Seminar\/ Conferences"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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An International conference<\/span> “Tamil Christian Art Worlds”<\/span><\/h4>
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organized\u00a0by Department of Fine Arts, University of Jaffna, <\/span><\/span>and the Post Graduate & Research Department of Folklore and FRRC (Folklore Resources & Research Center), St. Xavier\u2019s College (Autonomous), Palayamkottai, Tamilnadu, South India.<\/span><\/em><\/p>

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Concept Note:<\/strong>\u00a0The Department of Fine Arts, University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka, and the Post Graduate & Research Department of Folklore and FRRC (Folklore Resources & Research Center), St. Xavier\u2019s College (<\/span>Autonomous), Palayamkottai, Tamilnadu, South India, will jointly organize an\u00a0International Conference\u00a0on Tamil Christian Art Worlds at the University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka from 29 – 31 January 2024.<\/span><\/p>

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Although the Palk Strait and the political boundaries created by the modern nation-state separate South India from Sri Lanka, the two regions form a composite cultural zone due to centuries of travel, migration, trade and connections. Religion has also provided an impetus for the production, consumption and exchange of various forms of culture in this region. The beginnings of Christianity in South Asia are generally traced back to the times of St. Thomas the apostle. The Christian religion was therefore, already present in this region, when the Portuguese arrived in Calicut in 1498, as the St. Thomas cult and Syrian Christians were widely populated in present-day Kerala. There was also a St. Thomas Church in Mylapore, Tamilnadu at that time.<\/p>

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  2. However, with \u00a0\u00a0colonial and missionary interventions that began in the sixteenth century, Christianity in South India was significantly transformed from what it was before 1498. The different orders, denominations and sects of the Catholic and Protestant missionaries brought about significant changes in the socio-cultural and religious lives of the diverse communities of South India. The impact of Christianity in S. India has a parallel history in Sri Lanka. The entry of Christianity into Sri Lanka significantly contributed to the transformation of the cultural dynamics of the region including even the revival of local religious institutions and practices. Christian missionaries, by connecting both different places within this region and faraway lands with this region, contributed to the creation of new Christian geographies which cut across the colonial and national boundaries of the time. These geographies were not confined to the linguistic zones of Malayalam, Tamil, Sinhala, Telugu or Marathi, since this period also saw significant trans-continental cultural interactions such as the ones between the court of Thanjavur and Europe mediated by the German Protestant Mission.These geographies emerged as new sites for artistic inventions, collaborations, alignments, competitions, appropriations and exchanges.<\/li><\/ol>

    With the establishment of printing facilities in Goa, Quilon, Cochin, Ambalakad, Chennai, Pondicherry and Punnaikkayal in South India, a new textual modernity emerged in colonial Tamilnadu. Batticotta Seminary and the print facilities available in Jaffna contributed to the modernization of Tamil and the expansion of the public sphere in Jaffna. Though printed materials were primarily used in training catechists and for spreading the message of gospel to newly converted Christians, both folkloric and literary texts were also published in Tamil in the nineteenth-century. These texts, in turn, produced a new of readership. Christian missionaries, colonial officers and native scholar-enthusiasts collected and published folklore items such as tales, songs, myths, ballads and legends. Ethnographic literatures with photographs and images of South Asian communities were also published. This new print culture facilitated inter-generic translations such as poetry to prose, text to performance and performance to art. Moreover, texts and artistic practices from the two regions have travelled across the Palk Strait even before the colonial period. These exchanges which were further spurred and facilitated by Christianity \u2013 be they in art, music or theatre – have not attracted sufficient scholarly attention in Sri Lanka or South India. As an attempt to fill this void, this conference attempts to probe the complex workings and impacts of Christianity on the artistic spheres associated with the Tamil communities inhabiting both sides of the Palk Strait.<\/p>

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    Read more:<\/strong> https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1U-_qDWZ1HOPucIDLNSr9EzSNBw0UGnXU\/view?usp=sharin<\/a><\/small><\/p>