The Professor H.A. de S. Gunasekera Memorial Oration 2025, under the topic, “Contingence, Conjuncture and Structure: The Economic Crisis in Sri Lanka: A Political Economy Critique” delivered by Sumanasiri Liyanage, former Associate Professor, Department of Economics and Statistics, University of Peradeniya, will be held on Friday January 10, 2025 at 3:00 p.m. at the, University of Peradeniya.
The oration will critically examine the validity of Prof. H.A. de S. Gunasekera’s vision of political and economic development of Sri Lanka.
Prof. H.A. de S. Gunasekera was Professor of Economics and Head of the Department of Economics & Political Science of the University of Ceylon, Peradeniya. He succeeded Prof. Das Gupta to become the second occupant of the Chair (and the first Sri Lankan) in the Department in 1961. He also served as the Dean of the Faculty of Arts at Peradeniya (1963-1969) and later on as the Secretary, Ministry of Planning (1970-1977) under Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike.
Sumanasiri Liyanage is a senior scholar and researcher in the areas of Political Economy, Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics and Development Economics and after his retirement served as the Dean of the Sanasa Campus, Kegalle, Sri Lanka. He is a writer, newspaper columnist, public speaker and economic and political analyst.
The Oration is organized jointly by the Department of Economics & Statistics, University of Peradeniya and the Prof. H.A. de S. Gunasekera Memorial Trust Fund, is free and open to the public and more details could be obtained from, hadesgunasekeraoration@gmail.com
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