The Emerging Scholars’ Symposium 2025 (ESS 2025) was successfully held on August 28, 2025, bringing together young researchers and academics for a full day of knowledge-sharing and dialogue. The Symposium featured 15 panels across three sessions, covering a wide range of themes from regional cooperation, migration, security, to diplomacy, global norms and more.  Each panel provided a platform for...Read More

The launch of the book titled ‘Sri Lanka, Serendib The Silk Road of The Sea’, authored by Dr. Sanjiva Wijesinha and published by the Perera-Hussein Publishing House, was held on Friday, 22 August 2025 from 05:00p.m. to 06:30p.m. at the BCIS Auditorium (The Olympus).  It was attended by academics, members of the press, students,  family and friends...Read More

  The Bandaranaike Centre for International Studies (BCIS), in collaboration with the Special Library Group of the Sri Lanka Library Association, successfully conducted the Workshop on OpenBiblio (OB) Library Automation Software on 22–23 August 2025 at BCIS.  OpenBiblio (OB) is an open-source integrated library system widely used by small to medium-sized libraries. It offers modules...Read More

Under the BCIS Staff Development Programme, a lecture titled ‘Preparing Children for a Changing World’ by Ms. Yasodhara Pathanjali was held on Thursday, 14 August 2025 at the BCIS Auditorium. Ms. Pathanjali is a British Sri Lankan Life Coach, Creator, Educator, Activist and Founder of Sri Lanka’s first formal modern alternative school. The lecture was...Read More

The Bandaranaike Centre for International Studies (BCIS) successfully hosted a dynamic and thought-provoking panel discussion on “The Climate Crisis: Ethical Imperatives, Ocean Ecosystems & Community Action” on 07 August 2025 at the BCIS Olympus Auditorium. The event featured distinguished speakers — Mr. Matthew Pye, Author of Plato Tackles Climate Change and Teacher of Philosophy at...Read More