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Ganga R. Dissanayaka

General Research and Consultancy., Sri Lanka

Dr Ganga Rajinee Dissanayaka is an ethnographer and art historian who has researched and published books. She has studied and directed many documentary films on Temple art, architecture and culture in Sri Lanka (https://www.youtube.com/@istoria-/videos). She regularly writes one full-page research article for the ARUNA Sunday newspaper on the designs and temples. Ganga is also a visiting lecturer at the University of Visual and Performing Arts / the University of Kelaniya and a consultant on many development and art history projects. She specializes in participatory research methodology and touches on the multidisciplinary research dimensions of mass communication. Her new research focuses on Discourse Communities responsible for building and maintaining Image Houses in the 17th century in Sri Lanka. She has experience as a member of two World Bank-funded research projects since 2013. She is a member of the "PPROCE- Netherlands" research team to identify and repatriate six objects in the Rijksmuseum as Sri Lankan objects. Ganga published her research on LEWKE Cannon under the study (Lewke's Cannon: A Visual and Political Dialogue Captured in Gold and Silver | The Rijksmuseum Bulletin.) She is researching Cave Image Houses in Sri Lanka for an AHEAD-World Bank-funded project.

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