The role of Social Sciences and Humanities at a Time of Deep Social Crises | “කොළඹ කතිකා”
Meeting ID: 637 2409 1044 Passcode: arts@CMB22
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 […]
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 Extended Abstracts – 4th Annual Research Symposium 2017
The Department of Demography, Faculty of Arts, University of Colombo invites academic staff members, researchers and postgraduate students from the fields of Demography and Social Sciences to submit extended abstracts for the Annual Research Symposium 2017 under the following sub-themes: Fertility and Reproductive Health Population, Health and Poverty Migration and Urbanization Population Aging and Long […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
