Activities

“A day-long exposure to live performing arts for story-telling, drama, puppetry, dance movement and music”Fifty students of the InSPIRE Network representing the Department of Media Studies of the University of Jaffna, University of Peradeniya, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, and South-Eastern University came together to engage in an interactive, activity filled, stimulating, stress relieving session organized by Helvetas Sri Lanka under the…

The Alcohol and Drug Information Center (ADIC) in collaboration with the Department of Media Studies conducted the Shortfilm Competition among university students in order to make awareness of ‘How do the films making influences the promotion of the usage of alcohol and drug among youths’.The competition was a part of the MoU signed between the Alcohol and Drug Information Center (ADIC)…

Mr. P. Sivaramakrishnan, a former senior BBC broadcaster shared his exposure based on his twenty years of professional broadcasting life in the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) with the Media Studies students on the 13th of December 2022 at the Media Lab.Mr. P. Sivaramakrishnan discussed varieties of vital aspects in the news sense and reporting news on public interest.

The Provincial Journalists in Jaffna and Media Studies students of the University of Jaffna participated in a workshop on crisis and investigative reporting on 10th and 11th of December 2022 at the Tilko City Hotel, Jaffna. The participants got the opportunity to learn specific topics related to crisis and investigative reporting, such as fact-checking tools, crisis management, journalists' behavior on crisis sites,…

Mr. Denmark Shan (Shanmuham Subramaniam), a senior filmmaker and the director of the recent popular Tamil film ‘Nerunchimul’ shared his filmmaking experiences with the Media Studies students on the 8th of December 2022. The students gathered valuable insights on filmmaking in the local context through this sharing session.

Parallel to the launch of ‘Integrated Newsroom’ at the Media Lab of the Department of Media Studies, Media Students of the University of Jaffna launched their media products through the exhibition at the Lobby of the Faculty of Arts building and created dialogue on the themes such as freedom of expression, digital citizenship, gender and right to information on the 6th of…

The event to officially launch the ‘Integrated Newsroom’, a novel idea to provide the exposure and training to the Media Studies students on print, electronic and new media under one umbrella at the University of Jaffna took place on the 6th of December 2022. The Newsroom has been established as per the MoU signed between the HELVETAS Intercooperation gGmbH Sri Lanka…

The students from Department of Media Studies at the University of Jaffna underwent a refresher training on the module developed under the project InSPIRE on the 5th of December 2022 at Hotel Tilko in Jaffna. They learned theoretical aspects on Freedom of Expression, Right to information, digital citizenship and, women in new media. The program was facilitated by Isbahan Sarfdeen.

Media students of Jaffna university launched their media products inside the incubator spaces and created dialogue on the themes such as freedom of expression, digital citizenship, gender in new media and right to information on the 5th of December 2022 at the Media Lab of the Media Studies.The activity is implemented as part of Incubator spaces for Promoting Information Rights and…

As per the MoU signed with the Center for Media and Information Literacy (CMIL), selected female students from Media Studies participated in the three days workshop which is part of the initiative called Film for Equality (F4E) aims to advocate for human rights of women and young girls through Mobile Short Films. The workshop was conducted by the CMIL at the…