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Geethanjali Poson Bathi Gee Saraniya 2019
2019-07-04 18:00 - 22:00 (America/Caracas)
Geethanjali Poson Bathi Gee Saraniya annually organized by the Department of Pali and Buddhist Studies of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences will be held on 4th July 2019 from 6.00 pm onwards at the Bandaranayake Hall of the University.

“Ranrasu 2019" by The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
2019-06-28 08:00 - 2019-07-19 17:00
‘Ranrasu 2019’ Festival of Art organized by the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences will be held on August 2019 at the Bandaranayaka Hall of the University. Concurrently to the Ranrasu 2019, ‘Ranrasu Academic Volume’ will be launched.
This is the largest festival of art conducts by the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, aiming to open a platform to display undergraduates talents in various fields such as dancing, singing, announcing, playing, acting, painting, lyrics writing, short story writing, short film making, documentary writing and producing, etc. Undergraduates in the faculty, academic members as well as non-academic staff members have the opportunity to participate in these competitions and to show their talents and skills and finally to own the victory.
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Singing, Dancing and Announcing – First Round Competition – 28th June 2019
Singing, Dancing and Announcing – Second Round Competition – 19th July 2019

මානව ශාස්ත්‍ර හා සමාජීය විද්‍යා පීඨය සංවිධානය කරන 'රන්රසු 2019'
2019-06-28 08:00 - 2019-07-19 17:00
මානව ශාස්ත්‍ර හා සමාජීය විද්‍යා පීඨය සංවිධානය කරන ප්‍රතිභා අභිනන්දන කලා මංගල්‍යය ‘රන්රසු 2019’ මැයි මස 31, ජූනි මස 7, 14 වන දිනවලදී විශ්ව විද්‍යාලයීය බණ්ඩාරනායක ශාලාවේදී පැවැත්වේ.
වැඩිදුර විස්තර සඳහා : http://fhss.sjp.ac.lk/ranrasu/

Prof. Pradeep Rathnayake's concerts in Germany
2019-06-25 08:00 - 17:00
Prof. Pradeep Rathnayake’s Kuweni Double Concerto will be performed with the Neue Philharmonie Westfalen, Germany, at the 9th Symphony Concerts: EXOTIC LEGENDS in June/July 2019, with Pradeep Ratnayake on Sitar, Ramon Jaffe on Violincello and Rasmus Baumann, conducting, on 25 and 26th June and 1 July at Recklinghausen, Ruhrfestspielhaus; Kamen, Konzertaula; and Gelsenkirchen, Konzertaula.

Pradeep Ratnayake will also play his original work for sitar and Quintet at the 21st Chamber Music Festival Middelburg 2019 on the 29th of June at Zeeland Concert Hall, Middleburg.
The program includes Ratnayake’s duet ‘Joyous Meeting’ for Sitar & Cello; the trio, ‘Kuveni’ for Sitar, Cello & Piano and ‘Stallions’ for Sitar and Quintet.

For more info visit: https://www.neue-philharmonie-westfalen.de/biografien/pradeep-ratnayake.html
Read More: Prof. Pradeep Rathnayake’s concerts in Germany

Workshop on Innovation & Patenting Process
2019-06-11 08:30 - 17:00
The University Business Linkage (UBL) Cell of the University of Sri Jayewardenepura has organized a Workshop on Innovation & Patenting Process to be held on Tuesday, June 11th, 2019 from 8.30 AM to 5.00 PM at Seminar Hall 1 of the Faculty of Graduate Studies of University of Sri Jayewardenepura
The session will comprise of extensive discussions on Intellectual Property management, law and Prior art search led by distinguished resource persons from the National Intellectual Property Office (NIPO) of Sri Lanka.
Research supervisors, research students and anyone who wishes to learn about IP policies are highly encouraged to participate.
Please bring your laptop for hands-on experience in guided prior art search.
Knowledge on Patenting Process and Prior art search will be vital in the future commercialization of research outputs in line with the new IP policy of the USJP.
Since seating is limited please register via https://forms.gle/w4nHn8MBuw2ooop5A to reserve your seat.
Refreshments will be provided.
For any clarifications please contact:
Lakalya – 071 983 8971
Trishan – 077 111 5565

Monthly Public Lecture on "Illumination of Chemistry in Living Cells"
2019-06-06 14:00 - 17:00

Vesak Bathi Gee and Dansala by USJP
2019-05-23 16:00
Vesak Devotional Song Program and Dansala (භක්ති ගීත වැඩසටහන සහ දන්සැල) coordinately organized by the Academic/Non-Academic staff members, Members of Student’s Religious Societies – USJP and Cultural Center – USJP, under the guidance of Prof. Sampath Amaratunge; Vice Chancellor of the University of Sri Jayewardenepura, will be held on 23rd May 2019, 4.00 pm onwards, in front of the Sumangala reading hall of the University.
This Vesak program will be held with the participation of Ven. Dr. Ittapana Dhammalankara Maha Nayake Maha Thero; Chancellor of the University of Sri Jayewardhenepura, His Eminence Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith, Muslim religious scholars (Mawlavi) and Hindu head pandit (Honorary Kurukkal).

වෙසක් බැති ගී සහ දන්සැල 2019
2019-05-23 16:00
වෙසක් උත්සවය නිමිත්තෙන් ශ්‍රී ජයවර්ධනපුර විශ්වවිද්‍යාලයේ උපකුලපතිතුමා ප්‍රමුඛ විශ්වවිද්‍යාලීය පාලන අධිකාරිය විසින් වෙසක් භක්ති ගීත වැඩසටහනක් හා දන්සැලක් සංවිධානය කර ඇති අතර එය 2019/05/23 වන දින ප.ව. 04.00 ට ශ්‍රී සුමංගල ගොඩනැගිල්ල ඉදිරිපිටදී පැවැත්වේ.
මෙම අවස්ථාවට අතිපූජ්‍ය ඉත්තෑපාන ධම්මාලංකාර කුලපති ස්වාමීන්ද්‍රයාණන් වහන්සේ, අගරදගුරු මැල්කම් කාදිනල් රංජිත් හිමිපාණන් වහන්සේ, ඉස්ලාම් මවුලවිතුමා සහ හින්දු කුරුක්කල් උතුමන්වහන්සේලා ඇතුළු පුජක උතුමන්ලාද සහභාගී වේ.

A Special Workshop On "Publishing Research Papers in American Journals"
2019-05-23 10:00

"ජපුර සූර්ය මංගල්‍යය"
2019-04-09 08:00 - 17:00
විශ්ව විද්‍යාලයීය 60 වන සංවත්සරයට සමගාමීව පවත්වනු ලබන ජපුර සූර්ය මංගල්‍යය 2019 අප්‍රේල් මස 9 වන දින විශ්ව විද්‍යාලයීය ප්‍රධාන ක්‍රීඩාංගනයේදී පැවැත්වේ.

"Japura Surya Mangalyaya" In line with the Diamond Jubilee Celebrations of the University
2019-04-09 08:00 - 17:00
The traditional Sinhala and Tamil New Year will be ushered by the University Community by engaging in Awurudhu Celebrations on 9th April 2019.

“Special Shantikarmaya” In line with the Diamond Jubilee Celebrations of the Univesity
2019-04-06 08:00 - 17:00
A traditional shanthi karmaya (ceremonial dance) will be held to invoke blessings upon the University premises in line with the Diamond Jubilee Celebrations on 6th April 2019.

Vidudaya Diamond Jubilee Gee Padura “The Sound of Music of USJP”
2019-04-04 08:00 - 17:00
In line with the 60th Anniversary celebrations, the sound of music unique to the University will be staged at the University on 04th April 2019.

"Haritha Wasanthaya 2019" by the Dept. of Forestry and Environmental Science
2019-04-04
Sinhala and Tamil New Year Festival ‘Haritha Wasanthaya 2019’ annually organized by the Department of Forestry and Environmental Science of Faculty of Applied Sciences was held on 4th April 2018 at the Department premises.

“Health is Wealth” – Medical Camp
2019-04-03 08:00 - 17:00
A free health check-up camp will be organized by the Medical Faculty of the of Sri Jayewardenepura and will be held at the BMICH on the 3rd of April. It is open to the public and the service is offered by the medical specialists from the university. Various investigations will be carried out as per the requirement of patients during this time. The celebrations of the Diamond Jubilee are by no means limited to only the stakeholders of the University. The Medical Camp organized by the Medical Faculty of the University of Sri Jayewardenepura stands as a community service project in its services to the general public.

‘Innovate Sri Lanka' Innovation and Invention Exhibition 2019
2019-04-02 08:00 - 2019-04-03 17:00
The Innovation Invention and Venture Creation Council (IIVCC), University of Sri Jayewardenepura (Sri Lanka) proudly presents you the Invention and Innovation Competition and Exhibition (IICE), an event much sought-after by the academics and practitioners and Professionals from the industry.
The Invention and Innovation Competition and Exhibition (IICE) aims at providing an interdisciplinary platform for renowned intellectual key profiles, emerging innovators and Industry Professionals to work on Research projects that may yield industry related innovation.
IICE will be held on 2nd and 3rd April 2019 from 9.00 am to 9.00 pm at BMICH.
Exhibition Program
2nd April 2019
08.30 am – Inauguration of the Exhibition: By H.E. the President of Sri Lanka, Maithipala Sirisena (All exhibitors must be ready in their respective stalls by this time)
09.00 am – 09.00 pm – Exhibition open to the general public.

03rd April 2019

09.00 a.m – 09.00 pm – Exhibition open to the general public.

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නව නිපැයුම් හා නවෝත්පාදන ප්‍රදර්ශනය 2019
2019-04-02 08:00 - 2019-04-03 17:00
ශ්‍රී ජයවර්ධනපුර විශ්වවිද්‍යාලයේ නවෝත්පාදන, නව්‍යකරණ සහ ව්‍යපාර නිර්මාණ කවුන්සිලය මඟින් ඉදිරිපත් කරන නව නිපැයුම් හා නවෝත්පාදන ප්‍රදර්ශනය 2019 අප්‍රේල් මස 2,3 වන දිනවලදී බණ්ඩාරනායක අනුස්මරණ ජාත්‍යන්තර සම්මන්ත්‍රණ ශාලාවේදී පැවැත්වේ.
ප්‍රදර්ශන වැඩසටහන
2019 අප්‍රේල් 02 දින
පෙ.ව. 08.30 – අතිගරු ජනාධිපති මෛත්‍රිපාල සිරිසේන මහතා අතින් ප්‍රදර්ශනය ආරම්භය
පෙ.ව. 09.00 – ප.ව. 09.00 – මහජන ප්‍රදර්ශනය

2019 අප්‍රේල් 03 දින

පෙ.ව. 09.00 – ප.ව. 09.00 – මහජන ප්‍රදර්ශනය

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දියමන්ති ජුබිලි සංවත්සරයට සමගාමීව ලිපි මාලාවක් ඉදිරිපත් කිරීම.
2019-04-02 08:00 - 18:00
දියමන්ති ජුබිලි සංවත්සරයට සමගාමීව විවිධ තේමා යටතේ ලිපි මාලාවක් ඉදිරිපත් කිරීම 2019 අප්‍රේල් මස 02 වන දින සිදු කරන අතර එම ලිපි මාලාව අතර අති පූජ්‍ය ශ්‍රී සුමංගල සෝරත ස්වාමීන්වහන්සේගේ සාහිත්‍යය ලිපිද අන්තර්ගතවේ. එයට අමතරව තවත් වැදගත් ලිපිද ඉදිරිපත්වේ.

Ceremonial launching of texts in line with the Diamond Jubilee Celebrations
2019-04-02 08:00 - 18:00
A series of texts of diverse nature will be ceremonially launched and presented to dignitaries in line with the celebrations. Notable texts include a compilation of Ven. Sri Sumangala Soratha Thero Literature, paying due homage to our founding forefathers. A text on Education Philosophy follows together with a Research Volume. It is important to note that in preserving notable moments of the history of the University, select Convocation Speeches delivered in the past convocations will be compiled and presented in a single text form. To enhance research and collaborative research a Student and Staff Members Academic Volume will also be launched. Notable books by Professor Paluhwadana will also be launched.

Staging of “Sandeshawali Kawinaluwa” (සන්දෙශාවලි කවිනළුව)
2019-04-02 08:00 - 17:00
Sandeshawali Kawinaluwa (සන්දෙශාවලි කවිනළුව) is a musical allure created based on Gira (ගිරා), Parewi (පරෙවි), Kokila (කෝකිල), Salalihini (සැළලිහිණි), and Hansa (හංස) sandesa poetries written in the Kotte Period (1412–1597). This musical evening is organized by the Cultural Committee of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and will be held on the 02nd of April 2019 from 5.00 pm onwards at the Main Hall of the BMICH.
Organized by the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, this epic literary event will witness the blending of traditional Sandesha Kawi with the performing arts. A unique feature of this literary event is the fact that over 200 performers of the University will share the stage in a literary culmination of verse and performance to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee. Keeping in line with the founding traditions of the University the Sandeshawali Kawimaluwa will celebrate the rich literary and performance traditions of the nation with a gathering of eminent literary scholars and performers.

සංදේශාවලි කවිනළුව
2019-04-02 08:00 - 17:00
සංදේශාවලි කවිනළුව යනු ගිරා, පරෙවි, කෝකිල, සැළලිහිණි සහ හංස යන කෝට්ටේ යුගයේ (1412-1597) ලියැවුණු සංදේශ කාව්‍ය පදනම් කරගෙන සැකසූ ප්‍රසංගයකි. මෙය ශ්‍රී ජයවර්ධනපුර විශ්වවිද්‍යාලයේ මානව ශාස්ත්‍ර හා සමාජීය විද්‍යා පීඨ සංස්කෘතික කමිටුව විසින් සංවිධානය කරන ලද්දකි. මෙම ප්‍රසංගය 2019 අප්‍රේල් මස 02 වන දින පස්වරු 5 සිට බණ්ඩාරනායක අනුස්මරණ ජාත්‍යන්තර සම්මන්ත්‍රණ ශාලාවේදී පැවැත්වේ.

60th Anniversary Research Publication
2019-04-02 08:00 - 17:00
The University of Sri Jayewardenepura has been in the tradition of publishing scholarly findings in order to disseminate knowledge. The 60th anniversary launches a special volume of research publications by the university academics to mark USJP’s tradition of research publication.
The Launching of a special Commemoration Volume to pay homage to the founding forefathers of the University of Sri Jayewardenepura will take place at the BMICH in addition to the exhibiting of research by way of the journal launch at the event.

USJP Human Library 2019
2019-03-27 08:00 - 17:00
The Library of the University of Sri Jayewardenepura is organizing USJP Human Library on the 27th of March, 2019 to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the university.

The Human Library is a place where the ‘human books’ tell their own stories and special experiences. This concept was organized in Copenhagen, Denmark in 2000. Now it is widely organized by libraries in many parts in the world.
We have invited a few eminent personnel as our ‘human books’. You can read those ‘human books’ – that means you would be able to have a conversation with them and they will share their views and experiences with you.
If you like to meet any of them individually, get details from Tel:011-2758531 (office hours) or email: library@sjp.ac.lk.
Contact us on or before 25th March 2019 to reserve your place.
‘Human Books’ : 27th March 2019
Time Slots and ‘Resource Personnel as Human Books’
9 am – 10 am: Ven. Diviyagaha Yasassi Nayake Thero
10 am – 12 noon: Dr. Saumya Liyanage , Prof. Muditha Vidanapathirana, Mr. Mathugama Seneviruwan , Ms. Kaushalya Fernando
12 noon – 2 pm: Uruwarige Wannila Aththo
2 pm. – 4 pm: Prof. Narada Warnasooriya , Mr. Sahan Ranwala , Ms. Indika Upamali , Mr. Thilak Kandegama , Mr. Wasantha Dukgannarala

Abstract are being called for the 3rd International Conference on Economics and Development (ICED 2019)
2019-03-25 08:00 - 17:00
We are pleased to announce that the Call for papers is now open for the 3rd International Conference on Economics and Development 2019 – (ICED 2019) to be held on the 13th – 14th June 2019 in Bangkok, Thailand. The theme of the conference will be “Fourth Industrial Revolution: Current Practices, New Challenges, and Opportunities.” The 3rd International Conference on Economics and Development 2019 – (ICED 2019) invites economists, academics, researchers, practitioners, scholars, and industry experts to submit their abstracts for the conference.
The abstract submission form can be found at https://economicconference.co/abstract-guidelines/ . The maximum word limit for the abstract is 250 words. Please download the abstract template and follow the format carefully. The abstract should be in English, should be informative including a summary of the paper’s background, purpose, methodology, results, and conclusion. Please include a brief biography of the author(s) with your submission. Your abstract will undergo a double-blind peer review by the international scientific committee within two to three weeks after its receipt. The results of the review should be sent to authors within two weeks of submission. Please submit your abstract before 25th March 2019. Submit well before the submission deadline in order to be eligible for Early Bird rates and to reserve your seats for the conference.
All full papers sent for conference proceedings will be subjected to double-blind peer reviewing process and will be published electronically with an ISSN 2536-8338 in the proceedings with a DOI Number (DOI prefix: 10.17501). All accepted abstracts for the 3rd International Conference on Economics and Development 2019 – (ICED 2019), will be published in the conference abstract book with ISBN 978-955-3605-31-3. Accepted papers published in conference proceedings will be submitted to Google Scholar, Scopus and Thomson Reuters for possible indexing.
The Conference Website (https://economicconference.co/ ) provides additional details about this exciting conference. We hope to see you at the ICED 2019 in Bangkok, Thailand!

Young Research Symposium 2019 (Submit Project Abstracts before 25th March)
2019-03-25 08:00 - 17:00
University of Sri Jayewardenepura
www.sjp.ac.lk/60/yrs
Young Research Symposium (YRS) 2019 to be held on 30 – 31 May 2019 at University premises from 8.30 am-5.00 pm to mark the 60th-anniversary celebration of University of Sri Jayewardenepura
YRS will give the platform to present a school or private projects done by an individual or a group in the field of Science/ Technology/ Social Sciences/ Humanities/ Management or Commerce.
All applicants should be in the age of 15-20 years on 25 March 2019. The projects will be evaluated by an eminent panel of judges. The selected projects will be published in an Abstract Book in par with 660th-anniversary celebrations of the university and all the participants will get a certificate.
Rules of the competition
• The projects should be in one of the mentioned fields (Science/ Technology/ Social Sciences/Humanities/ Management or Commerce) and should not have been published or presented in any other public competition.
• An individual or group can submit one project for the competition. An abstract should be submitted with 300 words in an A4 paper, in Sinhala or English medium, typed document (12 font, 1.5 spacing) should consists of an introduction, methodology, results and discussion with the completed application form, downloaded from www.sjp.ac.lk/60/yrs.
• The deadline to submit your project abstracts is 25th March 2019. The completed application form with the abstract should submit to the
The coordinator, YRS 2019
60 anniversary celebration
University of Sri Jayewardenepura
Nugegoda.
• Selected abstracts will be notified on 25 April 2019 in our webpage, www.sjp.ac.lk/60/yrs.
The leaders of the selected projects should present their project for 15 min in front of a public audience at the Young Research Symposium (YRS) 2019, which will be held on 30th and 31st May 2019 at University premises from 8.30 am-5.00 pm. The eminent panel of judges will select the best projects in each filed. The winners of the each of the four fields will be awarded at the last day of the forum during the award ceremony.
Download

Application.pdf
Application.docx

Back to Mindful Living with Nature; New Science of Personal Mastery
2019-03-18 16:00 - 18:00
Back to Nature Episode 7 on Back to Mindful Living with Nature; New Science of Personal Mastery by Dr. Sanath Mahawithanage, Mindfulness Practice Center at Faculty of Medicine at University of Sri Jayewardenepura will be held on 18th March 2019 from 4.00 pm to 6.00 pm.

Back to nature web: http://www.backtonature.lk/event/back-to-mindful-living-with-nature-new-science-of-personal-mastery/

Vidudaya Diamond Jubilee Blood Donation Camp
2019-03-18 09:00 - 15:00
A Bood Donation camp parallel to the 60th Anniversary Celebrations of the University of Sri Jayewardenepura will be held on 18th March 2019 at the Sumangala Hall of the University.

විදුදය දියමන්ති ජුබිලිය වෙනුවෙන් පැවැත්වෙන ලේ දන්දීමේ කඳවුර
2019-03-18 09:00 - 15:00
60 වන සංවත්සර සැමරුම සඳහා සිසු සිසුවියන්ගේ සහභාගීත්වය වැඩි දියුණු කරනු වස් පවත්වනු ලබන ලේ දන්දීමේ කඳවුර 2019 මාර්තු මස 7 වන දින BMICH පරිශ්‍රයේ පැවැත්වේ. මේ සඳහා ශ්‍රී ජයවර්ධනපුර විශ්වවිද්‍යාලයේ බෞද්ධ සංගමය, ක්‍රිස්තියානි සංගමය, හින්දු සංගමය සහ ඉස්ලාමීය සංගමය යන සංගම් සියල්ල එකාවන්ව පෙළගැසෙනු ඇත. මෙම කඳවුර මහා ජනයා සඳහාද විවෘතවේ. මෙය 60 වන සංවත්සර සැමරුම වෙනුවෙන් පවත්වනු ලබන වැඩසටහන් මාලාවේ තවත් අංගයකි.

භාෂා ග්‍රහණය, ද්විභාෂා, දෙවන භාෂා ඉගැන්වීම, භාෂා ප්‍රතිපත්තිය හා සැලසුම්කරණය සඳහා වන සමුළු
2019-03-18 08:00 - 2019-03-21 17:00
මානව ශාස්ත්‍ර හා සමාජීය විද්‍යා පීඨය, ජාතික භාෂා පැසුරුම් මධ්‍යස්ථානය, මොරටුව විශ්ව විද්‍යාලය හා ජර්මනියේ කොන්ස්ටාන්ස් විශ්ව විද්‍යාලය එක්ව සංවිධානය කරනු ලබන භාෂා ග්‍රහණය, ද්විභාෂා, දෙවන භාෂා ඉගැන්වීම, භාෂා ප්‍රතිපත්තිය හා සැලසුම්කරණය සඳහා වන සමුළු 2019 මාර්තු මස 18 සිට 21 වන දින දක්වා ශ්‍රී ජයවර්ධනපුර විශ්ව විද්‍යාලයේ ඉංග්‍රීසි භාෂා ඉගෙනුම් අධ්‍යනංශයේදී පැවැත්වේ.
අයදුම්පත් භාර ගන්නා අවසන් දිනය : 05.03.2109
අයදුම්පත : https://docs.google.com

වෙබ් අඩවිය : International Spring School in Advanced Language Engineering

Workshops on Language Acquisition, Bilingualism, Second Language Teaching and Language Policy/Planning
2019-03-18 08:00 - 2019-03-21 17:00
Workshops on Language Acquisition, Bilingualism, Second Language Teaching, and Language Policy/Planning collaboratively organized by the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, National Language Processing Center, University of Moratuwa and Department of Linguistics, University of Konstanz, Germany will take place from 18th March to 21at March 2019 at the Department of English Language Teaching of the University of Sri Jayewardenepaura.
Application Deadline: 05th March 2019
Apply Online: https://docs.google.com

Web Site: International Spring School in Advanced Language Engineering
