A ceremony for the presentation of University of Colombo Long Service Awards was held on 01st January 2013 at the Auditorium of the Faculty of Graduate Studies under the distinguished patronage of the Vice Chancellor, University of Colombo, Professor Kshanika Hirimburegama.

The Employees of the University who have rendered continuous meritorious service for the development of the University during past 25,30,35 and 40 years were presented these awards in recognition and appreciation of their dedicated service.

The University wishes to express heartiest Congratulations to all the awardees.

40 years of Service
Name	Department/ Branch
Professor. T.R. Ariyaratne	Physics
Mr. H.K.N.Karunaratne	Geography
Mrs. S. Sirikananathan	Economics
35 years of Service
Name	Department/ Branch
Professor.(Mrs.)R. Hewamanne	Nuclear Science
Professor. K.A.P.Siddhisena	Demography
Professor. J. Welihinda	Department of Biochemistry
Professor. P.R. Fernando	Department  of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology
Mr. D. Nagasinghe	General Administration
Mr. S. Sirimanne	Accounts -IIM
Mrs.M.H.Mendis	Physics
Mrs.W.N.L. De Silva	Community Medicine
Mr.S.A.Pemaratne	Accounts/ Faculty of Medicine
30 years of Service
Name	Department/ Branch
Professor J.Uyangoda	Political Science & Public Policy
Professor. P.S.M. Gunaratne	Finance
Professor N.D. Kodikara	UCSC
Mr. V.T. Thamilmaran	Public & International Law
Miss. M.D.M. Abeyratne	Private & Comparative Law
Mr. P.M.B. Fernando	Landscape
Mrs.P.H.A.Jayakodige	Payments
Mrs.P.K.S.Perera	Accounts
Mrs.P.K.Weerasinghe	Maintenance
Mr.W.A.Sunil	Accounts/Faculty of Medicine
Mrs.R.L.C.Hemamalee	Pathology
Mrs.Y.W.Jayasekara	Pathology
Mrs.L.Mediwaka	Zoology
Mrs.P.Ariyapala	Deans’ Office,  Faculty of Science
Mrs.M.S.D.Silva	Deans’ Office,  Faculty of Science
Mrs.S.M.Naranpanawe	Faculty of Law
Mrs.K.Nanayakkara	Demography
Ms.R.M.B.Menike	Institute of Human Resource Advancement
Mrs.K.A.B.M.Herath	IIM
Mr.U.V.D.S.Ananda	Transport Service
Mr.S.A.L.C.Rodrigo	Maintenance
Mr.D.S.M.Tikiribanda	Maintenance
Mr.P.G.Jayasiri	Maintenance
Mr.A.Wijesuriya	Parasitology
Mr.T.Ariyapala	Forensic Medicine
Mr.M.J.C.Perera	Institute of Indigenous Medicine
25 years of service
Name	Department/ Branch
Professor W.A.D.S.Wijesuriya	Sinhala
Professor. H.D.K.G.A.Weerakoon	Zoology
Dr.(Mrs.).T.L.S.Tirimanne	Plant Sciences
Dr. D.N. Ranasinghe	UCSC
Dr. M.S.Dassanayake	Human Resource Management
Mr. D.M.S. Dassanayake	Finance
Mrs. S. Segarajasingham	Commercial Law
Mrs. W.I. Nanayakkara	Commercial Law
Mr. R.H.Edrisinha	Public & International Law
Mr. W.M. Pragnadarshana	Science &Technology Education
Dr. L.P.A. Karunatilleke	IIM- Ayurveda
Mrs. K.A.A.P. Ratnayake	IBMBB
Mrs.P.S.Senadheera	Examination
Mrs.P.H.S.P. De Silva	Salaries
Mr. P.G.Jinasena	Student & Staff Welfare
Mrs.A.A.Priyakanthi	Educational Psychology
Mrs.S.M.S. Kumarihamy	Student & Staff Welfare
Mrs.K.P.Perera	Pharmacology
Mrs.M.C.De Silva	Dean’s Office Medicine
Mrs.D.M.D.Chitra	Pharmacology
Mrs.H.P.C.Thissera	Physiology
Mrs.C.M.Vithanage	Geography
Mrs.K.D.Perera	Nuclear Science
Mrs.I.M.N,Fernando	Post Graduate Institute of Medicine
Mr.N.A.S.Nissanka	Post Graduate Institute of Medicine
Ms.G.D.S. Gamanayake	Post Graduate Institute of Medicine
Mrs.R.D.Rupa Pathmaseeli	Institute of Indigenous Medicine
Mr.M.M.Husain	Institute of Indigenous Medicine
Mr.P.J.Kothalawala	Sri Palee Campus
Mr.L.R.E.Fernando	Health Centre
Mr.G.R.Ratnayaka Banda	Health Centre
Mr.A.P.Amarasinghe	Library
Mr.P.K.R.Pathiraja	Maintenance
Mr.W.Chandrasiri	Maintenance
Mr.H.Sri Nishshanka	Sri Palee Campus
Mr.I.W.Sunil	Chemistry
Mr.D.A.N. Wickramasinghe	Institute of Indigenous Medicine
Mr.H.M.P.Fernando	Institute of Indigenous Medicine
Mr.H.D.Jayaweera	Institute of Human Resource Advancement
Mr.P.A.M. Kumarasiri	Sri Palee Campus
Mr.W.A.Gamini	Sri Palee Campus
Mr.U.K.Dasanayake	Staff Assistant/Library

The University of Colombo calls for applications from qualified candidates to enroll for Postgraduate Diploma in Applied Sociology/ Masters Degree in Sociology which will commence shortly.

MASTERS DEGREE IN SOCIOLOGY

Two years (Classes will normally be held in evenings during week days and on weekends)

Entry Requirements:

1. A Special Degree in Sociology from a recognized university with a first or second class pass or
2. General Degree in Arts with Sociology as a subject with a first or second class upper division pass or
3. B.A. Special Degree in Sociology with a Postgraduate Diploma in Applied Sociology or
4. M.A.Q in Sociology / Post-graduate Diploma in Applied Sociology

Medium of Instruction :        Sinhala / English

POSTGRAUDAE DIPLOMA IN APPLIED SOCIOLOGY

Duration : One year (Classes will normally be held in evenings during week days and on weekends)

Entry Requirements:

1. A degree from a recognized university with Sociology or Anthropology as subject or a degree from  a recognized University with relevant work experience in fields such as development, policy planning and rural or urban research or an equivalent professional qualification and experience and
2. A good working knowledge of English

Medium of Instruction :        English

Note : Those who successfully  complete the Postgraduate Diploma in Applied Sociology will be exempted  from the  MAQ examination if they wish to enroll for the MA. in Sociology

How to apply :   Application forms and course brochures can be obtained in person or by sending a self- addressed stamped (Rs. 15/=) envelope to the Senior Asst. Registrar, Academic & Publications Branch, University of Colombo, 94, Cumaratunga Munidasa Mawatha, Colombo 03. Name of the course should be written on the top left hand corner of the envelope.

Duly completed application forms must be accompanied with the paying-in-voucher for the application fee of Rs. 1,000/= and should be submitted on or before 16.11.2012 to the Senior Asst. Registrar, Academic & Publications Branch, University of Colombo, 94, Cumaratunga Munidasa Mawatha, Colombo 03. The payment of non refundable fee can be made at any branch of the  People’s Bank to credit of the  University of Colombo account number 086-100-121189662 by the paying-in-voucher issued by the University.

Vice-Chancellor (1994-1999)

W. D Lakshman received his post primary and secondary education at VidyalokaVidyalaya(now Vidyaloka College) in Galle and entered the University of Ceylon at Peradeniya in 1960. He was awarded the University of Ceylon scholarship based on his performance at the University Preliminary Examination. He obtained the degree of Bachelor of Arts in Economics specializing in Money and Banking – the subject specialization still considered as elite specialization in Economics. He was appointed Assistant Lecturer in Economics in January, 1965.

Prof. Lakshman preceded to the prestigious University of Oxford in the UK for his doctoral studies on a University Scholarship in 1968 and resumed work in 1973 having obtained a Doctor of Philosophy (D. Phil). Prof. Lakshman having been a student in the first batch of Sinhala medium undergraduates realized the difficulties faced by the students due to lack of books in Sinhala. He started writing books in Sinhala during his assistant lecturer days and continued with this practice during the rest of his career. He also contributed significantly to the translated literature in Sinhala on economics, of which a major highlight was the translation, editing and publication of the Sinhala translation of the renowned textbook in economics written by Professor Paul Samuelson.

Prof. Lakshman, while serving the University of Peradeniya as a Senior Lecturer in Economics, was appointed the Professor (Chair) of Economics in Colombo and the Head of the Department in the University of Colombo in October, 1982. Subsequently, he was promoted to the grade of Senior Professor in August 1992. Prof. Lakshman pioneered postgraduate taught programmes in Economics both at Postgraduate Diploma and Masters Levels, in addition to the reorganizing and restructuring research degrees at Masters and Doctoral levels offered by the Department of Economics. His research over a period of forty years covered a wide range of subjects including poverty, growth, equity, unemployment, public enterprises, structural adjustment policies, agriculture and industrial development, rural development, international trade, international finance and globalization. Prof. Lakshman’s contribution to development of human resources in the Department of Economics and more generally to promotion and up-grading of economic teaching in the country is extensively recognized. In this endeavour a Dutch Government funded project of collaboration between Colombo Department of Economics and the Institute of Social Studies in the Hague from 1987 to 2000 was enormously helpful and Professor Lakshman’s contribution in the development and management of this foreign aid project was of far reaching significance. Due to these efforts, by the time Prof. Lakshman retired from university service, the Economics Department of Colombo had become the uncontested leader in economics teaching in the entire university system in Sri Lanka in terms of the number of qualified teachers, quality of teaching and the variety of postgraduate courses on offer.

Prof. Lakshman was appointed a Research Professor at the Faculty of Graduate Studies in March 1991 and subsequently he was appointed the Dean of the Faculty in September, 1991.  As the Dean, Prof. Lakshman made significant changes to the structure of the Faculty of Graduate Studies and by introduced many postgraduate courses in several multi-disciplinary areas.

Prof. Lakshman was appointed Vice-Chancellor of the university of Colombo on 19/12/1994 and held this office with distinction up to end of March 1999, when he resigned from this position in order to take up a Visiting Professor assignment in a Japanese university. During his period as Vice-Chancellor, he was instrumental in re-structuring the undergraduate programmes at the faculty of Arts. The semester based modular system was introduced to the University of Colombo during his tenure. He also contributed a great deal to the development of the University particularly in areas such as postgraduate education, link programmes, staff development and infra-structure developments. A number of building projects were either initiated or carried out during his term of office. The main Library Building stands a monument to his efforts. Another foreign funded research project initiated due to the efforts of Prof. Lakshman was instrumental in bringing to the University the Project widely known within the university as the JICA Project.

The establishment of the Staff Development Centre (SDC) for capacity and skills development of both academic and non-academic staff of the university was a noteworthy contribution of Prof. Lakshman. The Centre continues excel further and some of its qualifications are accepted by a coordinating agency of university staff development centresin Britain.  The SDC of Colombo provides training facilities to the entire university system in Sri Lanka. The Career Guidance Unit, the Graduate Foundation, Research Management Unit and various other projects were established under the guidance during Prof. Lakshman’s tenure of office as Vice Chancellor.  The community service projects in Kurunegala and Weligatte were established during Professor Lakshman’s period as Vice-Chancellor. The Weligatte Project has been converted into a fully fledged Institute for Agro Technology and Rural Sciences in 2008. The Western Campus at Horana later re-named as Sri Palee Campus of the University of Colombo was another initiative of Prof. Lakshman as Vice Chancellor.

In 1998, Prof. Lakshman was appointed the “S. W Brooks Visiting Professor of Queenlands University, Australia, a Professor in the Faculty of Economics of the Ryukoku University, Japan for a period of two years in 1999, and Professor in the Faculty of Economics, Saga University, Japan in 2004.

Professor Lakshman’s involvement in policy related activities was extensive. At different times of his career, he held the positions as a Member, National Task Force for Industrial Development, Member of the National Task Force for Educational Reforms, Member and Vice Chairman, National Development Council and Board Member, Sri Lanka Foundation Institute, and Chairman of the National Institute of Business Management.  His involvement in non-governmental sector activities included honorary chairmanships at Social Scientists Association, and International Centre for Ethnic Studies. After retirement from university service he held the position of Senior Advisor, Ministry of Finance & Planning for two years on the invitation of the government and now holds the position of Chairman of the Institute of Policy Studies on invitation.

In recognition of his excellent services towards national development Professor Lakshman was honoured with the title of “Deshamanya” in 2005.

Professor Lakshman’s forty three years long academic career of which twenty five years were as Professor and Senior Professor was concluded on 27^th October 2007. The University of Colombo taking into consideration the excellent academic career of Professor Lakshman granted him the title of Emeritus Professor in 2008. His colleagues and friends have joined together to edit and publish two separate felicitation volumes in his honour, one in English and the other in Sinhala.

The University of Colombo, in recognition and appreciation of the excellent services rendered by Prof. W. D. Lakshman to higher Education in particular and to the country in general, conferred on him the Degree of Doctor of Letters (HonorisCausa) at the convocation of the University of Colombo in 2008.

Vice-Chancellor (1967)

Born to parents, both of the teaching profession, O.H. de A. Wijesekara started his school career in a bilingual school at Induruwa. He then spent a brief period at one of Galle’s leading schools, St. Aloysius College, and later gained admission to Ananda College, Colombo.

He was however, destined to follow a different career path. At the University of Colombo, Dr. G.P. Malalasekara , who was then head of the department of Sanskrit, Pali and Sinhalese was searching for talented young men to train them in various fields of  Ideological and Buddhist studies, which were gaining recognition in the University. At the same time Venerable Rambukwelle Siddhartha Mahathera, Senior Lecturer in the Department    was inculcating in his pupils a love for indigenous literature and the culture of the land.

Dr. Malalasekara was able to persuade him to take an interest in Pali Studies in the University. He specialized in Indo-Aryan Honours for the Degree and secured a First Class being also placed first among all the candidates who sat for the London University Examination in Arts, in 1932.

After winning a Government Scholarship on the result of a Final Examination, he proceeded to the School of Oriental and African studies, in London and obtained his Ph.D.  He took to the study of Sanskrit and Comparative Philosophy and Indian Philosophy, dipping also into Western Philosophy for purposes of comparison – all these subjects showing an important bearing in his research work. Specializing in Vedic and the Upanishads, he obtained the Master’s Degree, and the Diploma of the School of Oriental Studies in Indian Philosophy.

He returned to Ceylon, in 1936, and was appointed as an Assistant Lecturer in the Department of Sanskrit, Pali and Sinhalese where he found that his specialized knowledge of all the three languages was a great asset. He contributed in no small measure, both by example and by guidance, to the stimulation of research in Indology and Buddhism in the University. He began to contribute to learned articles on Vedic and Buddhist topics to the University of Ceylon Review of which he was one of the earliest Editors and also published papers in journals of international repute.

Dr. Wijesekera actively contributed along with Prof. G.P. Malalasekara in conducting courses both at the University of Ceylon and Vidyalankara Pirivena for the Buddhist Monks with a view to initiate learned Buddhist monks, steeped in traditional knowledge, into critical and comparative studies of these subjects and as a pioneering effort to teach these subjects at an advanced level in the Sinhala medium at the University and outside.

He was also a keen student of music and developed a special aptitude for classical Indian music and contributed articles on various musical topics to Sinhalese journals and weeklies. Another of his cultural interests was Sinhala drama which he avidly pursued from his days at Ananda. Later at the University, he wrote a few plays and produced them with acclaimed success.

When separate departments of Sinhalese and Sanskrit were created in 1943, Dr. Wijesekera was appointed the Head of the Department of Sanskrit, and in 1948, he was appointed as the first Sri Lankan to the Chair of Sanskrit of the University of Ceylon. He served as Dean of the Faculty of Oriental Studies from 1956 and as Dean of the Faculty of Arts from 1963. In 1959, he was invited by the German Universities Association to deliver a series of lectures on Indology and Buddhism and delivered the annual Joachim Wach Foundation Lecture on Comparative Religion at the University of Marburg. In 1963, he served the University of Pennsylvania as a Guest Professor, lecturing on Indological subjects. During the next year Prof. Wijesekera was invited by the Ministries of Culture in India and Japan to lecture at Universities in those countries. In 1966, he severed as one of the six panel speakers at the XIth Conference of the International Congress for the History of Religions held at Claremont, U.S.A, where he contributed a paper on Hinayana Buddhism. He served as Visiting Fellow of Harvard University and Smith College, Northampton, Massachusettes.

In 1967, he resigned his post in the University of Ceylon to accept the appointment as the first Vice-Chancellor of the new ‘University of Colombo’ but resigned from the post after a short period owing to a crisis which arose as a result of student agitation over the name and status of the University. In the same year he was appointed Professor Emeritus  of the University of Ceylon, Peradeniya. The University of Colombo honoured Professor Wijesekera by conferring the Degree of Doctor of Letters (Honoris Causa) in the year 1970.

In later years he has devoted more attention to the study of Religion paying special regard to Buddhism as a religion, motivated mainly by the requirements of teaching this aspect of the subject during his several assignments in American Universities. He has analysed and examined the data of early Buddhism in this light and presented the Religion and Psychology of Buddhism to students abroad in a scientific form.

Enjoying the peace and quite of a retired life he has been devoting a good part of his time to research studies on Buddhism. Professor Wijesekera passed away on 1^st February, 1990.

Professor Wijesekera has enjoyed has much success in his domestic life as in the academic sphere and it would be inappropriate, therefore, to conclude this account without referring to  his  wife who must necessarily share the credit for his achievements. She was one of his pupils at the University College, Colombo, a graduate in Indo- Aayan, who with her genial nature and understanding, has been an unfailing source of encouragement to him in all his activities. Our cordial wishes go to Ms. Wijesekara and the family for their continued happiness in the future.

Source: Felicitation Volume edited by Professor Jayadeva Tilakasiri

The University of Colombo has received 16 Scholarships for the junior academics to pursue their studies leading to M. Phils/Ph.Ds. The candidates are entitled to obtain funds under different cost components such as living allowances, academic allowances, computers and equipment, air fare for any overseas training, health insurance and bench fees. Total of Rs. 50 million is distributed among the 16 scholarship holders.

Name	Faculty	Department	Field of study	Higher Education institution
Ms. H.K.C.K. Ranaweera	Arts	Sinhala	Modern Literature	University of Sri Jayewardenepura
Ms. C.M.K.N.K. Chandrasekara	Arts	Geography	Environment	University of Ruhuna Link University – Southern Cross University , Australia
Mr. N. Gafoordeen	Arts	Islamic Civilization Unit	Islamic Studies	University of Kebansaan, Malaysia
Mr. D.L.P.M. Ratnasinghe	Management & Finance	Commerce & Finance	Finance	Management and Science University, Malaysia
Ms. S.N. Rajendram	Education	Humanities Education	Education	University of Colombo
Ms. W.V.A.D. Samararatne	Law	Public & International	Law	University of Colombo                       Link University – University of New South Wales, Australia
Ms. B.L. Somananda	ELTU	ELTU	Psycho Linguistics/ Education	University of Kelaniya
Ms. P.L.M.S. Cooray	ELTU	ELTU	Teaching English as a Second Language	University of Kelaniya
Ms. M.G.N.S. Mahagamasekera	ELTU	ELTU	Applied Linguistics	University of Kelaniya
Mr. S. L.P Fonseka	Sri Palee Campus	Performing Arts	Film Studies	University of Sydney, Australia
Mr. P.D.P.N. Wijewardhana	Sri Palee Campus	Mass Media	Mass Communication	University of Colombo    Link University – College of Kenyon, USA
Dr. D.P.A. Dissanayake	IIM	Clinical Medicine	Shalya Shalakya	University of Colombo
Dr.(Ms) A. M. Muthalib	IIM	Unani	General Medicine	University of Peradeniya
Dr. M.A.A. Sirajudeen	IIM	Clinical Medicine	Indigenous Medicine and Related Study	University of Colombo
Dr.(Ms) W.A.S.S. Weerakoon	IIM	Prasuthi Tantra Kaumarabhritiya	Ayurveda	University of Sri Jayewardenepura
Dr.(Ms) Y.S.G. Wimalasiri	IIM	Ayurveda	Ayurveda-Physiology	University of Colombo

Research publications in refereed journals

• “Sāhitya kalāva arabhayā Bauddha Vichāra Sampradāyayan Godanagāgatha Nohekida?”, Wimal Disanayaka hā Sannivedana Lokaya, Godage Brothers, 2009.
• “Kotte Yugayē sita Mahanuvara Yugaya dakwā shāsanika ithihāsaya”, Ruhuna University Swarna Jayanthi, Speical Publication, 2009. (In print).
• “Budu dahamin opavathvū hela bas vahara”,    Shāstrīya Sangrahaya, Sri Lanka Prācheena    Bhāshōpakāra Samāgama, 1999.
• “Jātaka Atuvā Getapadaya pilibanda vyākhyanamaya vimasumak” Shāstriya Sangrahaya, Sri Lanka Pracheena Bhāshōpakāra Samāgama, 2000.
• “Bhikshu vinayata mul vū Sikhavalanda Vinisehi vyākhyānamaya lakshana kihipayak”, Shāstrīya Sangrahaya, Sri Lanka Pracheena Bhāshōpakāra Samāgama, 2001.
• “Lankāvē iperani hiti pilima pilibanda vimasumak”, Shāstrīya Sangrahaya, Sri Lanka Pracheena Bhāshōpakāra Samāgama, 2002.
• “Hela sirith virith – Sinhalayē Säbä urumayan Soyā”, Helagosa, Sesatha Publishers, 2007.

Research publications in non-refereed journals

• “Dambadeni Kathikāvatha heli karana Bhikshu samājaya”,   Sambhāsha, Volume 5, Ministry of Education, 1993.

• “Sinhala vyākhyāna sāhityayē prabhavaya hā artha varnanā krama” Sambhāsha, Volume 6, Ministry of Education, 1994.

• “Lakdiva kathikāvathhi ārambhaya vikāshaya saha vathman swabhāvaya pilibanda sāhityamaya vimasumak”, Sambhāsha, Volume 7, Ministry of Education, 1996.
• “Mātara Nilvalā Nadiyehi kerunu asirimath bhakthi Poojāva varnitha Gangārōhana varnanāva”, Sambhāsha, Volume 8, Ministry of Education, 1997.
• “Maname nātyaya Jātaka kathāven saha sesu kruthivalin  venas vūyē kesēda?” Maname Natya Vimarshana, Ed. Professor Kulathilaka Kumarasinghe and Ranjanee Amarasinghe.

• “Maname nātyaya Sinhala gäminātyayen labā ethi pōshanaya”, Nava nirdeshitha usas pela Sinhala Shāstrīya lipi saraniya, Saddharmakara Pirivena, Panadura, 1997.

• “Kathikāvath sāhityaya, bhikshuva hā sampradāya”, Most Venerable Devahandiya Sri Saddhātissa Felicitation Volume, 1997.

• “Nidahasa pasubim karagath kamkaru vyāpārayē pibideema nirūpanaya kerena Yugānthaya navakathāva”, Sambhāshā, Volume 9, Ministry of Education, 1998.

• “Gurulugōmeehu jeevamāna Budun dakithi”, Vāgishōdaya Shāstreeya Sangrahaya, Special Issue, 1998.

• “Maname nātakayen opavath vana Sinhalayē vishishtathama bas vahara”, Sambhāsha, Volume 10, Ministry of Education, 1999.

• “Girā Sandesen Ismathu vana Swādheena lakshana”, Sri  Revatha Commemoration Volume, 2000.
• “Sinhala sāhityayehi vishistathama parikathāva vū Dharmapradeepikāva”, Sambhāshā, Volume 11, Ministry of Education, 2000.
• “Avasthā Nirūpanayehilā Siyabasmaldama kaviyāgē   prathibhāva”, Sārasa Shāstreeya Sangrahaya, University of Colombo, S. Godage Brothers, 2001.
• “Sinhala jana kaviyē āgamika sannivēdanaya”, Sammuthi,   Volume I, Ven. Dr. Daramitipola Ratanasāra Commemoration Volume, 2001.
• “Dambadeni samāja sāhitya pasubima hā ehi bihi vū Vishuddhimārga sannaya pilibanda hendinveemak”, Sambhāshā, Volume 12, Department of Education, 2002.

• “Iperani banku kramayak – Thonigala Inscription”, Sanskruthiya, Quarterly Journal, 2002 April-June.

• “Bududahama hela basin thebū helatuvā Sāhityaya”, Vidyāsūdanī, Medagama Vajiragnāna Nāhimi Abhinandana Shāstriya Sangrahaya, London Bauddha Vihāra Publication, 2003.

• “Gurulugōmī, Amāvathura saha ehi kathana kramaya”, Sāhityaya, Special issue, Department of Cultural Affairs, 2003.

• “Yahapath samājayak bihi kireema udesā Janamādhya sathu karya bhāraya”, Siyath Rāvaya, Dayāwansa Jayakody saha samagama, 2004.

• “Ashta mūlāyathana pilibanda vimaseemak”, Sahityaya, Special Issue, Department of Cultural Affairs, 2004.

• “Basin sarala vuva aruthin piripun Lōveda Sangarāva”, Nuvana, Volume 2, Ministry of Education, 2005.

• “Lankāvē vinaya sāhithyayehi Dambadeni Kathikāvathata himi tena”, Sāsana Deepani, Maharagama, 2007.

• “Sāhitha Pothapatha heli kala Matara” – Matara Vamsaya, Part I, Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, 2008.

• “Prachandatvaya hā Dharmakathā sāhityaya” Dinamina Vesak Annual, Lake House, 2008.

• “Bauddha sannivēdana mūladharma saha nūthana mādhyayē vagakeema”, Somaweera Senanayaka Prathibhā Prabhā, Tele Nirmana Vēdeenge Sansadaya, 2007.

• “Gajaman Nōnāgē Sāhitya mehevara“, Kalā Sangarāva, University of Colombo, 2008.
• “Phaladāyithāva vardhanayata Bauddha Kalamanākarana Sankalpaya”, Pravarthana, Volume II, Colombo, 2009.

• “Sinhala sāhityayen nirūpitha sāradharma – Amāvathura esurin” Nivan maga, Volume 40, Government Press – Buddhist Association, 2009.

• “Sambhāvya Sinhala Sāhithyayē Nirmānāthmaka Pravanatha – Gurulugōmin Vimasima”, Abhinandana, Professor Kusuma Karunaratne Felicitation Volume, Wijesooriya Grantha Kendraya, 2009.

• “Polonnaru yugayē gadya padya sāhityaya pilibanda sanskshiptha vivaranayak”, Sāhithyaya, Special Issue, 2009, Department of Cultural Affairs, 2009.

Presentations at conferences, meetings of professional associations :

Published in Abstract form

• “An analysis of power in Elu Attanagalu Vamsaya” Abstract of paper presented at the Royal Asiatic Society, Sri Lanka (27-03-2009).

• “Buddhist Approach to prevent suicide” Paper presented at the SLFI National Convention on Suicide (23 to 24, August, 2001)

Books, scholarly works not submitted for a degree

• Dambadeni Kathikāvatha hā Bhikshu Samājaya, Sadeepa Publishers, 2006.
• Sinhala Vyākhyāna Sāhithyaya, Godage and Brothers, 2009.
• Vishuddhimārga Sannaya – Vimasuma hā Arthavarnanā, Godage and Brothers, 2009.

Text Books

• Budu Dahamin Pōshitha Sinhala Sāhithyaya – Part I, Sadeepa Publishers, 2009.

Books to be used for supplementary reading

• Nuvana Pubudana Daham Arunalu, Senuri Publishers, 2005

Citation in refereed journals and scholarly publications.

• Citation of the book, Budu Dahamin Pōshitha Sinhala Sāhityaya – Part 1, in the book titled, Budu Dahamin Opnenvuna Sinhala Sāhityaya, by Professor Kusuma Karunaratne (see page 10)

Editing of Collections of Essays other than journals

• Joint Editor, Mahāchārya Kusuma Karunaratne Abhinandana, Felicitation Volume (Volume running up to 541 pages)

Editing of classical works

• Joint Editor of the English Translation of Gangārōhana Varnanāva by DBIPS Siriwardhana (Also submitted an Introduction to the book)

Editing of Journals

• Joint Editor, Sāhityaya, Annual Publication by the Department of Cultural Affairs, 2008.
• Joint Editor, Special Issue, Sāhityaya, Published by the Department of Cultural Affairs, 2009.
• Joint Editor, Sāra Pūjā,  Dodampahala Amaravansa Nāhimi Felicitation Volume, 1995.
• Joint Editor, Hela Gosa, Sesatha Publishers, 2007.

RESEARCH OUTPUTS AND PUBLICATIONS  (2011-2012)

Research on Transport Sector Issues, Economic Development and Productivity

(a)    Paper on “Economic and Socio-Political Perspectives on Indo-Lanka Transport Connectivity through Ferry Service”, Gunaruwan, T L and Dineka S K I, presented at the National Geographic Conference – 2011, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka

(b)   John Diandas memorial presentation on challenges faced by the transport sector in continuing to drive Sri Lanka’s economic activity, July 2011, Hotel Continental, Colombo. (Web link http://www.ciltsl.com/ciltsl/jdmo2011.pdf for the full text )

(c)    A research paper on “Transport Sector Driving Economic Activity in Sri Lanka : Opportunities and Challenges” has been accepted for publication in the South Asian Economic Journal (Publication of the paper is expected by end- 2012)

Research on Energy Economics

Abstract : “Scope for Energy Conservation Practices in the Information and Communication Technology Industry: A Time-series Examination of a Case from the Sri Lankan Corporate Sector”, by Gunaruwan T L, Nuwan Indika M G, and Gajanayake A, Acadamic Research Symposium 2011, Proceedings – June 28, 2011, Faculty of Arts, University Colombo

Impacts and implications of transport policy on the development of the energy sector, in view of contributing towards a National Energy Policy (work undertaken towards the latter part of 2011, and the inputs will be made to the policy development within 2012)

Research on International Trade

Abstract : “Has the Sri lankan Economic Growth Been Export-Led? : An Econometric Assessment”, by Gunaruwan T L, Nuwan Indika M G, Accepted for presentation at the 2^nd International Conference on Business & Information (ICBI), scheduled to be held on October 20, 2011 at Faculty of Commerce & Management Studies, University of Kelaniya- Sri Lanka.

Research on Language Economics

(a)    Paper : “සිංහල මව්බස ඉගෙනීම කෙරෙහි වෙළෙඳපොළ සාධකයන්හි බලපෑම”, by Gunaruwan T L, Kulatunga S T K and Nuwan Indika M G, presented at the Annual Research Symposium organised by the Department of Sinhala in October 2011.

(b)   Paper on “Economics of Language Usage and the Impact of Value Origination”, by Gunaruwan, T L and Kulatunga S T K, presented at the Annula Sessions of the Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka, March 2012. [The full paper is said to have been accepted for publication in the RASSL Journal in 2013]

Early Childhood Development Centre  was established by the University of Colombo on 18.05.2006 for the benefit of the University employees and both the Undergraduates and Postgraduate students.  This facility has been extended for the children of the general public in 2007.

Children between the age of  2 ½ – 12 years are eligible to gain admission.

The following information is for the kind attention of all the parents/guardians of the children who are under the care of the Day-Care Centre/Early Childhood Development Centre;

1. The children who are admitted to the Day-Care Centre  must be handed over to the Centre between 7.30 a.m. and 8.30 a.m.
2. The Child needs to be picked up from the centre, before 5.00 p.m.
3. The Child is not eligible to be under the care of the Day Care Centre once he/she completes the age of 12 years.
4. The fee due to be paid to the Day Care Centre must be paid before the 10th of each month.
5. The mother /father or the guardian of the child must accompany the child every day when the child is brought to and picked up from the Day Care Centre and also must sign to the effect that the child is admitted in and taken back from the Centre each day.
6. The parents who bring in children to the Centre must refrain from staying at the Centre.
7. The telephone calls in relation to a child must be given only to the Centre Telephone and not to the mobile telephones of the personnel working in the Centre.
8. Children who are sick should not be brought to the Centre until they are completely cured.
9. The parents are requested to refrain from requesting special treatment or preferences or privileges to their children.
10. The daily programmes of the Childhood Development Centre are designed to match the educational and psychological needs of the children in general.  The parents are advised not request the staff of the centre to involve their child to such general activities or request that their child must be involved only in certain selected activities.
11. The Centre has a duty  to train children to identify the local culture and the customs and also which is right from wrong and how to identify good from bad.  As such, when general activities of the Centre such as the Sinhala Hindu New Year, National Day, Wesak Festival, Games Day are organized, Parents are advised to encourage the children to take part in such activities.
12. Children are expected to take part in religious observances daily. Hence the parents are requested to hand over the child before the commencement of religious observances.
13. The child learns various things by experiencing the environment. To expose the child to  various experiences filled with education and fun, environment related trips will be organized.  Trips to the National Zoological Gardens, Sathutu Uyana, with the participation of the parents, could be organized to achieve this purpose.

Editorial Review Boards

2007 to date: Journal of Women’s History, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, U.S.A.

Publications

Books

• 2007:Militarizing Sri Lanka: Popular Culture, Memory and Narrative in the Sri Lankan Armed Conflict, Los Angeles, London, Delhi, Singapore, Sage
• 2001: Women and the Nation’s Narrative: Gender and Nationalism in 20th Century Sri Lanka, New Delhi, Kali for Women & Lanham, Rowman and Littlefield

Edited Volumes

1. 2012: (Co-editor with JayadevaUyangoda), Re-framing Democracy: Perspectives on the Cultures of Inclusion and Exclusion in Sri Lanka, Colombo, Social Scientists’ Association
2. 2009: (Principal Editor) After the Waves: The Impact of the Tsunami on Women in Sri Lanka, Colombo, Social Scientists’ Association
3. 2007: (Principal Editor) At the Cutting Edge: Essays in Honour of KumariJayawardena, New Delhi, Women Unlimited
4. 2005: (Co-editor with Robert Crusz), Bearing Witness: Women’s Experiences of Armed Conflict in Sri Lanka, Kelaniya& the Hague, Tulana Media Unit & the International Institute of Social History
5. 2002: (Principal Editor) Writing an Inheritance: Women’s Writing in Sri Lanka 1860-1948, Colombo, Women’s Education Research Center
6. 1995: (Editor), Essays on Sri Lankan Poetry in English, Colombo, English Association of Sri Lanka

Monographs

• Forthcoming:‘Cultures of Justice and Public Reasoning in Post-War Sri Lanka:Witnessing the LLRC,’ Colombo: ICES
• 2007: Marketing War, Marketing Peace, (in Sinhala) Colombo, International Center for Ethnic Studies
• 2006: (with KanchanaRuwanpura) Gendering the Tsunami: Women’s Experiences from Sri Lanka, Report, Colombo, International Center for Ethnic Studies

Book Introductions

1. 2009: ‘ The Production of Disaster: The Impact of the Tsunami on Women in Sri Lanka,’ in After the Waves: The Impact of the Tsunami on Women in Sri Lanka, (eds.) Neloufer de Mel, KanchanaRuwanpura, GameelaSamarasinghe, Colombo, Social Scientists’ Association, pp.3-16
2. 2007: ‘Affirmations at the Cutting Edge: Feminist Debates and Key Texts,’ in At the Cutting Edge: Essays in honour of KumariJayawardena, (eds.) Neloufer de Mel &SelvyThiruchandran, New Delhi, Women Unlimited, pp. xv – xxxvi
3. 2002: (co-author) ‘Tracing a Genealogy: Introduction,’ in Writing an Inheritance: Women’s Writing in Sri Lanka 1860-1948, Colombo, Women’s Education Research Centre, pp. 3- 57
4. 2002: ‘Complex Journeys,’ Foreword to Ruwanthie de Chickera, Middle of Silence, Colombo, International Centre for Ethnic Studies.
5. 2001: ‘The Half-Truths of Classification: The Wooden Dolls and the Census,” Karoor, The Wooden Dolls, Colombo, Asian Film Centre, pp. 2-11.

Book Chapters

1. 2012: ‘Borders, Brokers and the State Effect: State-Social Relations in the Katunayake Free Trade Zone,’ in JayadevaUyangoda and Neloufer de Mel (eds.) Re-framingDemocracy: Perspectives on the Cultures of Inclusion and Exclusion in Sri Lanka, Colombo, Social Scientists’ Association
2. 2012: ‘Post-Tsunami Resettlements: State-Gender Relations in Batticoloa,’ in JayadevaUyangoda and Neloufer de Mel (eds.) Re-framing Democracy: Perspectives on the Cultures of Inclusion and Exclusion in Sri Lanka, Colombo, Social Scientists’ Association
3. 2012: (Principal author, with K. Samuel & C.K. Soysa) ‘Ethno-political Conflict in Sri Lanka: Trajectories and Transformations,’ Dan Landis and Rosita Albert (eds.) Handbook of Ethno-Political Conflict, New York, Springer
4. 2005: ‘Sri Lanka: Mother Politics and Women’s Politics,’ Baksh, Etchart, Onubogu, Johnson (eds.),Gender Mainstreaming in Conflict Transformation, London, Commonwealth Secretariat, pp. 191-204
5. 2004:‘Journalism and its Domain: Advertising, Globalization and Gender,’ Gender and Media, Colombo, Journalism unit, University of Colombo, pp. 53-59.
6. 2003: ‘Agent or Victim? The Sri Lankan Woman Militant in the Interregnum,’ Giles, de Alwis, Klein, Silva (eds.) Feminists Under Fire: Exchanges Across War Zones, Toronto, Between the Lines, pp. 55-73.
7. 1999: `African Theatre in Sri Lanka: Cross-Cultural Transformations,’ Helen Gilbert (ed.) (Post)Colonial Stages: Critical and Creative Views on Drama, Theatre and Performance,Hebden Bridge, Dangaroo Press, pp. 124-135.
8. 1998: `Agent or Victim? The Sri Lankan Woman Militant in the Interregnum,’ Michael Roberts (ed.) Sri Lanka. Collective Identities Revisited Vol.2, Colombo, Marga, pp.199-220.
9. 1996: `Static signifiers?: Metaphors of Women in Sri Lankan War Poetry,’ KumariJayawardena&Malathi de Alwis (eds.) Embodied Violence: Communalising Women’s Sexuality in South Asia, New Delhi, Kali for Women, pp.168-189.
10. 1996: `Caliban or Crusoe?: Straddling the Paradigms of “Post-Colonial” Identity: Derek Walcott and Jean Arasanayagam,’ Wolfgang Zach & K. Goodwin (eds.) Nationalism vs Internationalism: (Inter)National Dimensions of Literatures in English, Tubingen, G.Narr, pp. 133-43.
11. 1995: `Mediating Origins: MoyezVassanji and the Discursivities of Migrant Identity,’ AbdulrazakGurnah (ed.) Essays on African Writing Vol.2, London, Heinemann, pp. 159 – 177.

Essays in Peer Reviewed Journals

1. 2009: ‘Gendering the New Security Paradigm in Sri Lanka,’ International Development Studies Bulletin 40 no. 2, London, Routledge, pp. 36-43
2. 2008: ‘Prohibited Desires: The Military-Apparel Nexus and its Politics of Sexuality in the Sinhala Language Cinema,’ Asian Cinema Vol. 19 no. 2, pp.46-60
3. 2007: ‘Between the War and the Sea: Critical Events, Contiguities and Feminist Domains,’
4. Intervention: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, 9 no. 2, London, Francis & Taylor, pp. 238-254
5. 2004:‘Staging Pain: Representation, the Disabled Soldier and the Butterflies Theatre of Sri Lanka,’ The Sri Lanka Journal of the Humanities, vol. 29 & 30, nos.1 & 2, pp. 111-129.
6. 2004: ‘Body Politics: (Re)Cognising the Female Suicide Bomber in Sri Lanka,’ Indian Journal of Gender Studies, 11 no. 1, New Delhi, Sage, pp.75-93
7. 2002: ‘Fractured Narratives, Totalizing Violence: Notes on Women in Conflict – Sri Lanka and Pakistan,’ in Wendy Harcourt (ed.), Place, Politics and Justice: Women negotiating globalization, Development 45 no.1, New Delhi, Sage, pp.99-104.
8. 1999: ‘Fixing Uncertainties: Producing “National” Culture in an Era of Globalization – The Terrain of Sexuality in Sri Lanka,’ Asian Women 8, Research Institute of Asian Women, The Sookmyung University, South Korea, pp. 87-105.
9. 1994: `Woman as Gendered Subject and Other Discourses in Contemporary Sri Lankan Fiction in English,’ Kunapipi vol. xvi no. 1 (Special Issue on Post-Colonial Women’s Writing), Aarhus, University of Aarhus, pp. 242-55.
10. 1993: `Myth as History: Wole Soyinka’s `A Dance of the Forests’,’ Wasafiri18, London, Association for the teaching of Caribbean, African, Asian and Associated Literatures, Autumn. pp. 27-33.

Keynote/Plenary Addresses

• 2012: ‘A Different Habit: Gender and the Work of the Sisters of St. Margaret,’ (On Gender and Missionary Education in Ceylon), Bishop’s College Founder’s Day, Colombo
• 2010: ‘Re-framing Comparativism for Post-War Sri Lanka,’ South Asia Studies Feminist Pre-Conference, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.

Recent Conference Presentations

1. 2011: ‘Post-War Order and Citizenship in Sri Lanka : Notes on a Politics of Transition,’ conference on ‘Aftershocks: Legacies of Conflict,’ University of Texas School of Law & Bernard and AudreRapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice, U.S.A.
2. 2010: ‘Citizenship and Post-War Order: Cross-Currents of State, Trans/Nation, Gender and Development, Civilians and Citizenship,’  ‘Ethnographic and Political Economy Perspectives on Civil War in South Asia’, Dept. of Sociology, University of Delhi, India
3. 2010: Panelist, ‘Conflict, Masculinities and Responses to Gender-based Violence Prevention,’ Bangkok, UNDP &Aakar
4. 2009: Panelist on ‘Masculinities’, Cross-Regional Feminist Dialogue on Gender, Development and Culture, Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, Netherlands
5. 2009: ‘Citizenship and Post-War Order: Locating Women, Religion, Cross-Currents,’ Conference on Women, Religion, Globalization, Yale University, U.S.A.

Dictionary Entries

1. 2008 & 2005: Entry on ‘The Years of Terror’ in PremPoddar& David Johnson (eds.) A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures in English, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, pp. 539-40
2. Review Essays
3. 2012: ‘Reforming the Sri Lankan State: The Implications of its ‘Effect,’ Vagdevi: Journal of Religious Reflection 6, no. 11, pp. 83-90
4. 2011: ‘Militarization and its Legacies,’ Vagdevi: Journal of Religious Reflection 5 no.1, pp.17-24
5. 2010: ‘Framing Sri Lanka’ (Review essay on the inaugural volume of Nethra, published by the International Centre for Ethnic Studies), Polity 5 no 5, Colombo, Social Scientists’ Association, pp.26-9.
6. 2008: ‘Mourning Sri Lanka: The Writer as Witness (Review of Like Myth & Mother by SumathySivamohan) Himal  21 no. 7, Kathmandu, pp.76-77.
7. 2007: ‘Critical Premises: The Nation and its Borders in Contemporary Sri Lankan Literature in English,’ (Review of Writing Sri Lanka by Minoli Salgado) Polity 4 no. 3, Colombo, Social Scientists’ Association, pp. 21-5.
8. 2005:‘The labours of peace: feminist peace activism and agendas for the future,’ review of Peace Work: Women, Armed Conflict and Negotiation, (ed) RadhikaCoomaraswamy&DilrukshiFonseka, New Delhi, Women Unlimited, in Bayan, vol. 1V, September, Lahore, Simorgh, pp.96-9.
9. 2004: ‘Survival in the Jungle: Gender, Militaries and Nihal Silva’s The Road from Elephant Pass,’ Options 35, no.3, Colombo, Women & Media Collective, pp. 14-16.
10. 2002: ‘The cinematic Suicidal Body and its Politics,’ Robert Crusz (ed.) Cinesith No. 2, Colombo, Asian Film Center, pp.45-48.
11. 2001: ‘Theatre and the State’: Review of “Sri Lankan Theatre in the Time of Terror” by RanjiniObeysekera, Pravada7 no. 7, Colombo, Social Scientists’ Association, pp.25-27
12. 1997: (with RamaniMuttetuwegama) ‘Sisters in Arms: The EksathKanthaPeramuna,’ Pravada 4, nos.10 & 11, Colombo, Social Scientists’ Association, pp.22-26.
13. 1993: ‘Stage Echoes: Tropes of Nationalism in the Modern Sinhala Theatre’, The Thatched Patio 6 no. 2, Colombo, International Centre for Ethnic Studies, pp.8-28.
14. 1993: Review of RomeshGunasekera’sMonkfish Moon, Wasifiri17, London, Association for Teaching of African, Caribbean, Asian Literatures, pp. 54-55.
15. 1991: ‘Nadine Gordimer: Notes on a White Writer’s Burden,’ Pravada 1 no. 1, Colombo, Social Scientists’ Association, pp. 23-27.

Manuals

1997:(with MaithreeWickramasinghe) Training Manual on Rehabilitating Women through Non-Traditional Education in Sri Lanka, for World University Services Canada

Refereed Journal articles

• (2003) ‘Sinhala prajawa tula viyapath wana kantawo’, Nivedini.
• (2004) ‘Gender and ceremony of puberty ‘Nivedini. (in Sinhala)
• (2004) Book review on Indian writer Rajeshwari Sundar Rajan’s book titled The Scandal of the State : Women, Law and Citizenship in Post Colonial India. Feminist Review
• (2006) ‘Cultural construction of the Sinhala woman and women’s resisitance to such identities’ Nivedini
• (2008) ‘sexual harassment in Sri Lankan universities’ Nivedini (in Sinhala)

Conference papers

National  seminars:

• (2003) presented a paper at the annual research conference of the faculty of Arts, University of Colombo on gender and puberty.
• (2003) presented a paper at seminar on promoting historical research in Sri Lanka on British colonial rule and national movement’s influence on constructing genederd identity among Sinhalese.
• (2010) presented a paper at the National Convention of Women’s Education and Research Centre (WERC) on mainstreaming Gender Studies .
• (2010) presented a paper on Societal Barriers for Women’s participation in Politics and Public Affairs in Sri Lanka, National Democratic Institution.

International conferences

• (2004) presented a paper at the international women’s conference organised by the Women’s Education and Research Centre on women’s history.
• (2005) presented a paper at the conference in Nepal on historicizing ethnicity and Sri Lankan experience.
• (2007) presented paper at seminar on Oral history, University of Bielefeld, Germany on ceremony of puberty in among Sinhalese.
• (2010) presented a paper at the conference on Transformative Politics in Oslo, Norway on women and democracy.
• (2010) presented a paper at the international conference on Historical Methods organized in Colombo on compatible knowledges and inventing traditions.
• (2011) Presented a paper at the international conference in Cambodia on structural similarities and differences of the colonial legacy between Sri Lanka and Cambodia on gender and nationalism.