International Symposium on ‘SOCIOLOGY FOR EVERYDAY LIFE’ : 3rd – 4th Sept.
The International Research Symposium of the Department of Sociology organized in celebration of its fiftieth milestone, with the theme ‘Sociology for everyday life‘ was held successfully on the 3rd and 4th of September 2019 at the University of Colombo premises. The inauguration ceremony was held on the 3rd of September at the College House Auditorium. The Chief […]
Monthly Seminar Series : “Moral Panics and Migrants: Rethinking Unemployment Insecurities”– 10th June
The Department of Sociology will be organizing the monthly seminar for the month of June, on 10th June 2019 from 3.00 p.m. – 4.30 p.m. in the Seminar Room of the Department of Sociology. At this seminar, Prof. Rafal Smoczynski delivered the lecture on “Moral Panics and Migrants: Rethinking Unemployment Insecurities”. Prof. Rafal Smoczynski, an Associate professor at Institute of Philosophy and […]
Community Outreach Programmes
The students of the Social Work Stream engage in various community outreach programmes to practice what they learn in classrooms. Linkages with the community in 2018 are as follows, Victoria Home for people with physical disabilities, Rajagiriya National Institute for Mental Health, Angoda and Mulleriyawa Positive Women’s Network (for people living with HIV), Rajagiriya Gamini […]
Awards and Prizes
Senior Professor Prof. Premakumara de Silva – Dean, Faculty of Arts with the co-author, Mr. Abeyratne Attanayaka, was awarded for the Best Translated Book (Academic) in the State Literary Awards Festival 2018, held on 11th September 2018, for the book titled ‘Modernity, Post-modernity and Neo-sociological Theories’ (නූතනත්වය, පශ්චාත් නූතනත්වය සහ නව සමාජ විද්යාත්මක න්යාය). This book was originally written by a Prominent Indian Sociologist, Professor […]
Social Events
As the Academic Year 2017/2018 comes to a close, we at the Department of Sociology bid farewell to a group of students who undertook our honours degree programme. Two social events were organised on 27th of November 2018 and on 29th of November 2018 to wish them well in their future endeavours. […]
Monthly Seminar Series- November 2018
The Department of Sociology organized the monthly seminar for the month of November, on Thursday 15th November 2018 from 2.00 p.m. – 4.00 p.m. in the Seminar Room of the Department of Sociology. At this seminar, Mr. M. G. L. Mahesh Premarathna delivered the lecture on “New forms of Buddhism and the social formation in postwar Sri Lanka”, and Mr. K. Krishnaraj delivered […]
Field Training Programme
The Department organises a Field Training Programme every year for the third year students in the Sociology Special Programme to ensure that they are well versed in research skills. With funding from the University, the programme is organized for 5 consecutive days in an area in Sri Lanka. Each year a team of staff are appointed […]
Dr Newton Gunasinghe Memorial Lecture
The Department of Sociology, University of Colombo and the Sociology Alumni Association of University of Colombo, in collaboration with the Social Scientists Association of Sri Lanka have organized the 30th “Dr Newton Gunasinghe” Memorial Lecture, on the 16th May, 2018 at the Auditorium, Department of Sociology, University of Colombo from 3.00 pm – 4.30 pm. The lecture […]
