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Seminar: Foreign Languages Unit / Sustainability and Climate Change

Seminar: Foreign Languages Unit / Sustainability and Climate Change Dear Colleagues and Students, You are cordially invited to attend the seminar organized by the Foreign Languages Unit.   Title: Sustainability and Climate Change Speakers: Aytek Akın, Ulaş Cönkeroğlu, İlka Gültekin, Hüseyin Topaç, Emincal Topal, İpek Yılmaz, Kristina Zaková Date: December 29th. 2021 Wednesday Time: 12.30-13.15   Presentations will be in […]

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“Intangible Cultural Heritage of Turkey: From Past to Present” , Seren Mendeş

A seminar will be given on Zoom on Dec 27, 2021 at 17:30 about « Intangible Cultural Heritage of Turkey: From Past to Present », by Seren Mendeş, our alumna from the Master program who specialized in that topic. Zoom Meeting Everyone is welcome to participate. The Department of Archaeology   Abstract: Cultural heritage is essential in people's life since […]

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“Dreaming of Lubberland: Idleness and Industry in the British Atlantic World”, Assist. Prof. Dr. Daniel Johnson

The American Studies Association of Turkey Presents: Title: “Dreaming of Lubberland: Idleness and Industry in the British Atlantic World”   A Talk by Assist. Prof. Dr. Daniel Johnson Department of American Culture and Literature Bilkent University Date & Time:  Friday, December 17, 2021, 6:30 P.M. Zoom Meeting Abstract: In the 1760s and 1770s, writers like Jared Eliot and Benjamin Franklin argued that North America was not “Lubberland,” a lazy person’s paradise in which food and other sensual pleasures were always available. Enlightenment authors’ evocation of the fictional Lubberland (also known […]

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