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New Sri Lanka Guest Professorship at the South Asia Institute
The Government of Sri Lanka and Heidelberg University signed a "Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)" to establish a Sri Lanka Guest Professorship at the South Asia Institute.
On February 18, 2016 the President of Heidelberg University, Prof. Dr. Bernhard Eitel, the Sri Lankan Ambassador to Germany, Karunatilaka Amunugama, and on behalf of the South Asia Institute, Prof. William Sax, signed this agreement in Berlin. The German Foreign Minister Dr. Frank-Walter Steinmeier and his colleague Mangala Samaraweera also attended the signing of the MoU.
The holder of the Sri Lanka Chair will stay one semester at the South Asia Institute to hold lectures, participate in meetings and to pursue research work.
The reopening of the branch office in Colombo in March 2014 and the establishment of the Guest Professorship aims to intensify the collaborative research work and to build up new networks.

You will find further information in the press release of  Heidelberg University.



The President of Heidelberg University, Prof. Dr. Bernhard Eitel, and the Sri Lankan Ambassador to Germany, Karunatilaka Amunugama, signed the agreement in Berlin. The German Foreign Minister Dr. Frank-Walter Steinmeier and his colleague Mangala Samaraweera (center of the picture) also attended the signing of the MoU.



Prof. Dr. William Sax, Deputy Executive Director of the SAI and Head of the Department of Anthropology, also atteded the signing. 

25 Feb 2016
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