Educational Exhibition on World Environment Day – 14th June
The Department of Geography, University of Colombo commemorated this year’s World Environment Day on 14th June 2017 under the theme of “Connecting People to Nature” with a series of activities. The inauguration ceremony was held at the M. B. Ariyapala Auditorium, Faculty of Arts. The Chief Guest of this event was Senior Professor Lakshman Dissanayake […]
Inauguration Ceremony of Chinese Language Extension Courses – 10th June
The inauguration ceremony of the Chinese Language Extension Courses was held on 10th June 2017 in the Main Library Auditorium, University of Colombo at 10.00 am. The Chief Guest was the Vice Chancellor of the University of Colombo, Senior Professor Lakshman Dissanayake. The four courses are : Chinese Language for Beginners Chinese Language Proficiency for […]
22nd Meeting of Sri Lanka Forum of University Economists – 7th June
The Sri Lankan Forum of University Economists was established in February, 2012 with the intention of enabling closer cooperation, dialogue, research and academic enhancement among the professionals in Economics serving in the Sri Lankan Universities. The forum, an initiative of the Department of Economics of the University of Colombo, has now completed five years of […]
Donation for Flood Victims
The Academic staff together with the non-academic staff of the Faculty of Arts, under the guidance of Prof. Athula Ranasinghe – Dean, Faculty of Arts, donated essential items (water bottles, dry rations, instant food, sanitary items, stationary items for school children and new clothes) to be given to the victims affected by the landslides and […]
Guest Lecture – The Interaction of Confucianism, Buddhism & Taoism
The Department of Buddhist Studies and the Confucius Institute organized a guest lecture on ‘The Interaction of Confucianism, Buddhism & Taoism’ , on 16th May 2017 at 1.00 pm in the Faculty Boardroom, Faculty of Arts, University of Colombo. The lecture was delivered by Dr. Wang Fei (PhD: Assumption University, Thailand). Dr. Wang Fei is a lecturer at Politics […]
Election : Faculty of Arts Students’ Union
The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Colombo has nominated the Dean of the Faculty of Arts as the Election Officer for the purpose of conducting the election of Office-Bearers and the other members of the Faculty of Arts Students’ Union.
Invited Speaker – UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Prof. Ajantha Hapuarachchi of the Journalism Unit was invited as a speaker to the Multidisciplinary International Seminar on “UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Social Justice and Media” which was organized by the Dr. Babsaheb Ambedkar Marathawada University, India held on 28th – 29th April, 2017. Prof. Hapuarachchci discussed about the validity of the theme of […]
Passing away of Senior Professor Nimal Attanayake
Senior Professor Nimal Attanayake, Professor of Economics, former Head of the Department of Economics, passed away on 27th April 2017. The remains of the late professor, was brought to the University of Colombo (New Arts Theatre (NAT)) on 28th April, 2017 (Friday) at 10.00 a.m. . The cremation took place at Borella cemetery at 10.00 […]
Book Launch – නූතනත්වය, පශ්චාත් නූතනත්වය සහ නව සමාජ විද්යාත්මක න්යාය
Prominent Indian Sociologist, Professor S.L. Doshi’s ‘Modernity, Post-modernity and Neo-sociological Theories’ has been edited and translated into Sinhala by Premakumara de Silva and Abeyratne Attanayake as ‘nuthanathwaya, paschath nuthnathwaya and nava samaja vidyatmaka niyaya’ (නූතනත්වය, පශ්චාත් නූතනත්වය සහ නව සමාජ විද්යාත්මක න්යාය). It was published by Fast Publishing (private) Limited – Colombo. The Book contains […]
Inauguration Ceremony – MA in Sinhala 2017/2018
The Inauguration Ceremony of MA in Sinhala 2017/2018 was held on 11th March 2017 at the M. B. Ariyapala Auditorium of Department of Sinhala. Professor Premakumara De Silva, Department of Sociology delivered the Key note speech. Emeritus Professors J. B. Dissanayake, Kusuma Karunarathne, Rohini Paranavithana and Professor Athula Ranasinghe – Dean, Faculty of Arts, Senior […]
