The Future and Relevancy of Patents: Asian Perspectives
Meeting ID: 660 5423 9017 Passcode: FRP4th@9
International Webinar on Media Literacy in the Digital Era
Meeting ID: 682 1458 5140 Passcode: MMweb@21
Webinar: Time And The Social Sciences: Studying The Future And Sustainability In The Anthropocene
Professor Felix Ringel is an Assistant Professor in Social Anthropology at Durham University. He obtained his PhD. from Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge and held a fixed-term lectureship at the University of Vienna (2012- 2016). He was awarded the Marie Curie Fellowship at Durham University from 2016 to 2019. He has authored a number of international […]
The Alumni Association of The University of Colombo Reaches 40 Years
Mobile Exhibition of History and Mobile Museum on Archive of Memory
Mobile exhibition on history of Sri Lanka from 13th century to post independence titled ලක් ඉතිහාසයට කවුළුවක් is organized by the Department of History at University of Colombo in collaboration with the GIZ, Colombo Office, Sri Lanka. The aim of the exhibition is to provide a historical explanation about the evolution of modern Sri Lanka. […]
Climate Change and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
Seminar on Researching Transgender Subjectivities in Contemporary Sri Lanka
The speaker will discuss her Ph.D. thesis which was a study of contemporary Sri Lankan transgender communities and their identity negotiation. Challenging the conventional dichotomies of private-public, everyday-spectacular, this study explores how transgender communities manoeuvre through the conventional and discriminative systems and craft political spaces in their everyday lives, and how these stories have remained […]
World Wetlands Day 2022 | Webinar on: Conservation of Endangered Species in Wetlands
Webinar: Operationalizing community-led housing practice in cities of the global south
Abstract: In developing countries, cities experience rapid urbanisation with increasing informality resulting in the urban poor having to live in slums and shanties subject to eviction. Abating the issue, current participatory planning and collaborative actions are becoming popular. The major challenge in contemporary pro-poor housing practices is to explore the best practices of community participation. […]