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A lecture on ‘International Relations Beyond the Nation State Framework,’ was delivered by Dr. Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu, Academic Board Member, BCIS and the founder Executive Director, Centre for Policy Alternatives, Sri Lanka on Friday, August 18, 2023, at the Olympus Auditorium, BCIS. This event was held under the BCIS Brown Bag Discussion series. The discussion was followed by an interactive session where the audience engaged in a fruitful discussion with the...Read More

Here’s sharing the video interview of Professor Pabasari Ginige, Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Peradeniya on “Rights and Recognition of the Transgender Community in Sri Lanka” by Shayani Jayasinghe, BCIS featured in BCIS International Affairs Review, Volume 2, Issue 5. In the video interview, Professor Pabasari Ginige discusses in detail the challenges that are faced by transgender persons in Sri Lanka, especially when accessing much needed health...Read More

The Awards Ceremony of the second batch of students who successfully completed the “Leaders for the 21st Century” course offered by the BCIS Youth Leadership Academy was held at the Olympus Auditorium of the BCIS on August 05, 2023. The Chairperson of the BCIS, HE Madam Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga graced the occasion as the chief guest. Twenty- seven students who successfully completed the course “Leaders for the 21st Century” received their...Read More

The Bandaranaike Centre for International Studies (BCIS) held a panel discussion at the launch of ‘The Routledge Companion to Sinhala Fiction from Postwar Sri Lanka: Resistance and Reconfiguration’ edited and translated by Dr. Madhubhashini Disanayaka Ratnayake, as part of the seminar series organized by the BCIS Language and Cultural Studies Division on Saturday, July 08, 2023, at the BCIS Auditorium [The Olympus]. Professor Sasanka Perera, Professor Liyanage Amarakeerthi, Professor Sumathy...Read More