Events

Chinese Traditional Dragon Boat Festival 2022

The Dragon Boat Festival (Duanwu Festival) is a traditional Chinese festival to commemorate the famous Chinese loyal officer Qu Yuan (Chu Yuan). The festival occurs on the fifth day of the fifth month on the Chinese lunar calendar and it is also called the double fifth festival. Since Confucius Institute is providing opportunities to experience […]

Webinar: Disasters and Agricultural Vulnerability

Climate change has become one of the main catalysts of creating new hazards or intensifying existing hazards of hydro meteorological origin which cascade into many social, economic and environmental issues, where agriculture becomes one of the most vulnerable areas of impact. There are many anthropogenic activities which enhance the frequency and the intensity of hazards […]

Call for Papers: Colombo Law Review 2022

Asteroid Colombounilanka & Contributions to Astronomy By University of Colombo

The Launch of Coffee Table Book College House: The Cradle of Sri Lanka’s University Education

The launching ceremony of the Coffee Table Book College House – the Cradle of Sri Lanka’s University Education edited by Professor Sandagomi Coperahewa and Dr. Shravika Amarasekara will be held on Saturday, 9th April 2022 at 3.00 pm at Senate Hall, College House, University of Colombo. This illustrated volume seeks to bring forth the facts […]

Call for Papers – Colombo Journal for Chinese Studies

Webinar: ‘Let’s get to know our mind, mental health and mental ill health’

Webinar on the Economic Crisis of Sri Lanka and the possible solutions

Munidasa Cumaratunga Commemoration Lecture – 2022 | “Political Ideology of Cumaratunga”

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 […]