Events

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 […]

The Alumni Association of The University of Colombo Reaches 40 Years

Call for Papers: Colombo Law Review 2022

Call for Papers – Colombo Journal for Chinese Studies

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

Session on Parliamentary Control over Public Institutions

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

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 […]

International Webinar on Media Literacy in the Digital Era

Meeting ID: 682 1458 5140 Passcode: MMweb@21

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. […]

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 […]

Climate Change and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

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. […]