News & Updates

1st round of the Inter Department quiz competition was held on 5th June at Sumangala reading hall which was organized by the Soft Skills Development Unit of the Faculty. Dr. D. P. S. Chandrakumara, Dean of the Faculty , Dr. W. M. Yaparathne, Chairman of the Soft Skills Development Unit, , Dr. K. M. Alexandar, Secretary and Academics of the Faculty participated to the inauguration of the competition. For more information please...Read More

පුජ්‍ය මාවරලේ භද්දිය හිමි, මහාචාර්ය සනත් සනන්දසිරි, ජගත් වික්‍රමසිංහ සහ චාමර වීරසිංහ යන විද්වතුන්ගේ සහභාගිත්වයෙන් දීපාලෝක සුදම් සභාව මෙවරත් ජුනි මස දෙවන දින විශ්වවිද්‍යාලයේදී පැවැත්වුනි. විශ්වවිද්‍යාලිය කලා පර්ශධයේ සම්බන්ධිකරණයෙන් සහ උපකුලපති තුමා ඇතුළු ආචාර්ය මණ්ඩලයෙත්, භූගෝල විද්‍යා අධ්‍යයනාංශය සහ බෞද්ධ සංගමය එකාබද්ධව සංවිධානය කල මෙම අවස්ථාව සඳහා ආචාර්ය මණ්ඩලය ඇතුළු විද්‍යාර්ථින් රැසක් සහභාගී විය.Read More

The Cabinet of Ministers had decided to appoint Professor P.B. Mandawala as the Acting Director General of Archaeology. Prof. Mandawala is the Dean of the  Faculty of Technology in the University of Sri Jayewardenepura and he was the former Head, Department of History and Archaeology at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.Read More

Dr. Gamini Ranasinghe, Senior Lecturer at the Department of History and Archaeology in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences has been invited to deliver this month public lecture on “Shi Royal Family in China and Taiwan” at the Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka (RASSL). This is an open session organized to be held on Monday 29th May 2017 at 5.00 p.m. by the Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka. Dr. Gamini...Read More

The worldwide community of museums will celebrate International Museum Day on and around 18 May 2017. The theme chosen for 2017 is “Museums and contested histories: Saying the unspeakable in museums”.  The objective of International Museum Day is to raise awareness of the fact that, “Museums are an important means of cultural exchange, enrichment of cultures and development of mutual understanding, cooperation and peace among peoples.” Organized on and around...Read More