Events

NILIS Annual Research Symposium 2019

The Annual research symposium of the National Institute of Library and Information Sciences (NILIS) will be held on 30th November 2019 at the institution premises. This year’s theme will be ‘Information Literacy for Health & Wellbeing’. Abstracts and extended abstracts for paper presentations are invited on information management, ICT applications for information work, library and […]

Corpora, Archives & Performance: Sri Lankan Languages and Literature

Summer/ Winter Camp in China

Cultural Workshop on Chinese Tea

The Confucius Institute attached to University of Colombo, will be organizing a Cultural Workshop on Chinese Tea (The Taste of Chinese Tea from the Beautiful Yunnan Province) on 5th September 2019, from 10.00 am – 12.00 noon in the Green Table area, Faculty of Arts. Introduction to Chinese Tea, Ceremony show of Chinese Tea and […]

Call for Participation – International Conference on Advances in ICT for Emerging Regions

Ensuring Road Safety: A collective responsibility

Opening of the Postgraduate Institute of Medicine Academic Centre

Book Launch and Intellectual Discussion on Entrepreneurship

Panel Discussion on “Natural Language Processing”

The Department of English will be hosting a panel discussion on Natural Language Processing on 29th July 2019 at 8.30am. During this discussion, the University of Colombo School of Computing (UCSC) and the University of Moratuwa will discuss their work in the field. In Sri Lanka, two of the main bodies that work with NLP are the University of […]

Monthly Seminar – Moral Panics and Migrants: Rethinking Unemployment Insecurities

The Department of Sociology is organizing the monthly seminar for the month of June, on 10th June 2019 from 3.00 p.m. – 4.30 p.m. in the Seminar Room of the Department of Sociology. At this seminar, Professor Rafal Smoczynski will be delivering the lecture on “Moral Panics and Migrants: Rethinking Unemployment Insecurities”. Professor Rafal Smoczynski, […]

The “Coffee Table” Book Launch

In the history of Colombo University of Sri Lanka the first ever Coffee Table Book will be launched on April 7, 2019, at 11.30 am at the University of Colombo’s New Arts Theatre by the Alumni Unity of the 1960s of the University of Ceylon, Colombo. This Publication contains attractive photographs of the University and […]

International Women’s Day 2019

Dean’s Lecture Series –III

The 3rd  lecture of the of “Dean’s Lecture Series‘ will be held on 08th March 2019, from 3.00 pm onwards at the Board Room, Faculty of Arts. The topic of the lecture will be  “The Ambiguity of Voice: the role of ‘storeytelling’.  This will be a talk by Sarah Kabir based on her book ‘Voices of Peace’ (2018), along with photographer Munira Mutaher.

Green Talk | “Sustainable Construction Practices”

The Center for Environmental Initiatives (CEI) has planned to have its green talk event on 19th June 2018 at 3.00 p.m. to 4.00 p.m. at the Auditorium of the Main Library, University of Colombo. The Resource person of the green talk will be Eng. Shiromal Fernando and his speech will be on “Sustainable Construction Practices”. This is an open session for all who […]

Guest Lecture on “Arabic Language in the Business World”

The Arabic and Islamic Civilization Unit has organized a guest lecture on “Arabic language in the business world” on 19th January 2019 from 11.00 am to 1.00 pm at the Board Room, Faculty of Arts, University of Colombo. The lecture will be delivered by Assistant Professor Shuhaib Alam, Jamia Millia University, New Delhi, Editor in Arabic / Encyclopedia on Hajj […]

PGIM Oration 2019 – Call for applications