The 9th Annual Sinhala Studies Symposium organized by the Department of Sinhala, University of Colombo, is scheduled to be held on 17 – 18 October 2019 at the Department of Sinhala. This year the conference theme is “Sinhala Studies: Past, Present, and Future” and the event will be extended through following sub-themes enabling a participation of wide range of scholars from both academic and non-academic research contexts across number of subject disciplines. This year, the conference organized by the Department of Sinhala is entwined with the celebration of 75th anniversary of the establishment of the Department of Sinhala in 1944 at the University of Ceylon.