The 3rd International Congress of the Society of South Asian Archaeology 2010 – University of Kelaniya – Sri Lanka
lakshmi | Thursday, August 19th, 2010 | No Comments »
The 3rd International Congress of the Society of South Asian Archaeology (SOSAA) which will be held at the Centre for Asian Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka during 20th-21st August 2010. The congress will be attended over hundred foreign archaeologists and about thirty Sri Lankans including Dr. Roland Silva, Prof. Senake Bandaranayake and Dr. Siran Deraniyagala as Keynote speakers.
The inauguration of the Congress is at 9.30 a.m. at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya Which will be chaired by Prof. Sarath Amunugama, Vice Chancellor of the University and will be addressed by Prof. Nimal De Silva, on behalf of the PGIAR & CCF, Dr. Senarath Dissanayake, Archaeology Director General, Dr. Gautam Sengupta, Director General of the Indian Archaeological Survey and Prof. Vasanth Shinde, SOSAA General Secretary. The first academic session is a common session for three Keynote speeches.
The other academic sessions will be conducted as five parallel sessions tentatively on following themes.
- Prehistory, Physical Anthropology & Environmental Archaeology
- Proto & Early History, Excavations, Explorations & New interpretations in Historical Archaeology.
- Art , Architecture ,Epigraphy and Numismatics.
- Heritage Management, Conservation, Ancient Technology, Marine Archaeology, Industrial Archaeology & Computer applications.
- History, Religion, Folklore and Ethnology
Programme – SOSAA – 3rd International Congress – University of Kelaniya – Sri Lanka.
