This RRP Guest Lecture Series (No. 26), held on 29 November 2024, featured Dr. P. Shanmugaswaran as the resource person. Titled “Representation of Imagined Past in Community Reconstruction in Post-war Jaffna, Sri Lanka,” the session explored how imagined histories and collective memory influence community reconstruction processes in post-war Jaffna, with a focus on identity, memory, and social rebuilding.