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. […]
Multidisciplinary Research Seminar – Department of Demography, Faculty of Arts
Meeting ID: 665 8181 3955 Passcode: zZW@38?g
Guest Lecture on ‘Making a Disaster Resilient Built Environment : Role of Local Governments’
MAKING A DISASTER RESILIENT BUILT ENVIRONMENT: ROLE OF LOCAL GOVERNMENTS Dr. Chamindi Malalgoda Senior Lecturer, University of Huddersfield, UK Urban areas are growing rapidly all over the world, particularly in the developing regions. As a result of rapid urbanisation, cities are becoming extremely vulnerable to natural disasters. Thus, it has become necessary to make cities […]
Guest Lecture on ‘Reading and Writing; Improve your skills’
The eighth guest lecture organized by the Department of Geography, UOC has been conducted on 17th October 2021 at 5.00 pm. The guest speaker was Prof.Jayantha Lal Rathnasekara, the vice chancellor of Uva Wellassa University, Badulla and he conducted his talk on Reading and Writing for improving the Skills and it was very interactive and […]
Guest Lecture on ‘Buddhist and Western Philosophical Categories: How compatible are they?’
The Department of Buddhist Studies Department organizes a guest lecture on 18th October 2021 from 3.00 pm – 5.00 pm. The lecture will be delivered by Emeritus Professor Asanga Tilakerathne on ‘Buddhist and Western Philosophical Categories: How compatible are they?’
Guest Lecture on “Geopolitics of China in Africa with a special emphasis on Chinese development assistance Africa” – Faculty of Arts
The Department of Geography will be organizing the 5th guest lecture on ‘Geopolitics of China in Africa with a special emphasis on Chinese development assistance Africa’ on 17th July at 7.00 pm via zoom. The lecture will be delivered by Dr. Victor Owusu, Department of Geography and Education, University of Education, Winneba, Ghana.
Guest Lecture on ‘Everything that is happening now is beyond our capacity’
Already in 2012 GIZ highlighted the process of Societal Transformation (ST) as a ‘central paradigm of international cooperation’ (p. 3) to be followed by the IPPC report 2014, suggesting that ‘transformations in economic, social, technological, and political decisions and actions can enable climate-resilient pathways’ (p. 903). Ever since Prof. Troeger has challenged this enthusiastic and […]
