Social Heritage
A Shared Heritage: Ibn Battuta in Sri Lanka
The 14th century Moroccan traveller Ibn Battuta came to the island of Sarandib or Lanka in 1344 to embark on pilgrimage up Adam’s Peak having travelled from Morocco…
The History of the Museum in India
The first half of the lecture summarizes the concept of the museum. It discusses how the institution was introduced to India and the gradual evolution of the concept from private collections to public displays of artifacts owned by the state in specially constructed places….
PARADIGM SHIFT: AN OVERVIEW OF GLOBAL AND LOCAL ECOSOCIAL CHALLENGES
While humanity has achieved incredible technological and material growth, ecosystems and human communities are collapsing due largely to that very advancement. The challenge before us is not the acceleration…
The Great Library Tradition As A Repository Of Knowledge
From time immemorial man has documented what he saw, observed, drawn on the wall of the caves and used the drawings of what he saw for ritualistic purposes and in the carvings on the instruments he carried around when they went out to hunt. This changed when man learnt to write.
ASIA RE-EMERGES AS THE DOMINANT ECONOMIC POWER IN THE WORLD: OPPORTUNITY BECKONS SRI LANKA
Asia, after having been accorded the dubious distinction of being the poorest continent in the 1960s, has within a very short space of time, transformed itself into the economic powerhouse of the world and is achieving prosperity at a dizzying pace…
PROFESSOR EDIRIWEERA SARACHCHANDRA AND THE ENRICHMENT TO SINHALA CULTURE
Thursday 25th June 2020 via Google Meet.
A Clerk Reminices & Humour In Parliament
Thursday 31st January 2019 at the HNB Auditorium, 22nd Floor, HNB Towers, Colombo 10.
THE LEGACY OF PROF. E.F.C. LUDOWYK AND HIS CONTRIBUTION TO THE UNIVERSITY OF CEYLON IN ITS EARLY YEARS
Thursday 25th October 2018 at the HNB Auditorium, 22nd Floor, HNB Towers, Colombo 10.
Sinhala attitude to knowledge
Thursday 29th June 2017 at the HNB Auditorium, 22nd Floor, HNB Towers, Colombo 10.
“Sinhala Attitude to Knowledge” by Dr. G. Usvatte-aratchi.
Trade routes and services for the traveller
The 83rd Session of the Monthly Lecture Series of the National Trust – Sri Lanka was held at the HNB Auditorium, 22nd Floor, HNB Towers, 479 T.B. Jayah Mawatha, Colombo 10 at 6.30 p.m. on Thursday the 28th April 2016.
Words of Sri Lankan origin in the Oxford English dictionary, especially those introduced by Robert Knox
On Thursday 26th November 2015 at the HNB Auditorium, 22nd Floor, HNB Towers, Colombo 10.
The pasts of the national flag: some unorthodox views on the invention of tradition
On Thursday the 29th October 2015 at the HNB Auditorium, 22nd Floor, HNB Towers, Colombo 10
Class & Ethnic Prejudice in Sri Lanka in the19-20th Century
Cultural mathematics
“24th April 2014 – “Cultural Mathematics” by Prof. J.B. Disanayake. The lecture was held on Thursday the 24th of April 2014 at the HNB Towers Auditorium. 479, T.B. Jayah Mawatha, Colombo 10.
Flags of ancient Sri Lanka
“28th February – “Flags of ancient Sri Lanka” by Prof. Nimal de Silva
An anecdotal survey of street & place names in the District of Colombo
Flags and Flag Traditions
Flags and Flag Traditions by Professor Nimal de Silva