{"id":19936,"date":"2017-09-26T06:58:02","date_gmt":"2017-09-26T06:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/?p=19936"},"modified":"2017-09-26T06:58:02","modified_gmt":"2017-09-26T06:58:02","slug":"ceylon-society-talk-talking-tamil-talking-saivism-australia-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/ceylon-society-talk-talking-tamil-talking-saivism-australia-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Ceylon Society Talk &#8211; Talking Tamil, Talking Saivism in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">CEYLON SOCIETY OF AUSTRALIA<br \/>\nMELBOURNE CHAPTER<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">At our next meeting<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 32px;\"><strong>DR NIRU PERERA<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nwill present an illustrated talk on<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 28px;\">\u201cTalking Tamil, Talking Saivism in Australia:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 28px;\">language and religious maintenance in the<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 28px;\">Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">When we talk about Sri Lankan languages in the Australian context, it is important to<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">recognise that language is in a constant state of change. Most of us will have<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">experiences of losing some language through migration and when it comes to<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">passing language on to the next generation, we can see that young people tend to<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">use their heritage languages in different ways to the first generation.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Based on Niru\u2019s research in a Tamil temple in Australia, this presentation will<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">highlight how Sri Lankan Tamil teenagers use the Tamil language in the temple<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">space. Niru will explore questions about what it means to keep a language alive in<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">the present day, how we might expect a language like Tamil to change in Australia,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">and how language maintenance intersects with religious and cultural maintenance for<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Sri Lankan Tamil Hindus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 28px;\"><strong>Dr Niru Perera<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">of Sinhalese and Sri Lankan Malay heritage grew up in Fiji and Australia and<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">currently lives in Cairns. Niru has completed a Masters and a PhD in Linguistics at<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Monash University. For her recently completed PhD, she conducted research on<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">language in a Tamil Hindu temple in Australia to look at the intersection between<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">language and religion for migrants. She continues to be a student of Sinhala and<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Tamil languages.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><strong>Date: Sunday 22 October 2017<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><strong>Time: 3:00 p.m.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">At<\/span><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Alvie Hall<\/span><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">314 High Street Road, Mount Waverley<\/span><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">(Melway 61 D11)<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">for enquiries contact Hemal 0427 725 740<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CEYLON SOCIETY OF AUSTRALIA MELBOURNE CHAPTER At our next meeting DR NIRU PERERA will present an illustrated talk on \u201cTalking Tamil, Talking Saivism in Australia: language and religious maintenance in the Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora\u201d When we talk about Sri Lankan languages in the Australian context, it is important to recognise that language is in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[2409,2410],"class_list":{"0":"post-19936","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-articles","7":"tag-ceylon-society-talk-talking-tamil","8":"tag-talking-saivism-in-australia"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.7.1 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ceylon Society Talk - Talking Tamil, Talking Saivism in Australia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Ceylon Society Talk - Talking Tamil, Talking Saivism in Australia\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ceylon Society Talk - Talking Tamil, Talking Saivism in Australia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Ceylon Society Talk - Talking Tamil, Talking Saivism in Australia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/ceylon-society-talk-talking-tamil-talking-saivism-australia-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"eLanka\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/eLanka.com.au\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-09-26T06:58:02+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/ceylon-society-talk-talking-tamil-talking-saivism-australia-2\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/ceylon-society-talk-talking-tamil-talking-saivism-australia-2\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"admin\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/#\/schema\/person\/1e0438dae29dfe87d52bbc17203fb6d9\"},\"headline\":\"Ceylon Society Talk &#8211; 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