Join us for The Philosophy of Music, a special narrated classical music concert presented as part of PHILFEST’26 in collaboration with the Bilkent Symphony Orchestra. 👉 Buy Tickets Date: September 26, 2026Time: 7:00 PMVenue: Bilkent Odeon Conductor: Tolga Atalay ÜnNarrator: A. Onur Aktaş Program Aram Khachaturian – Masquerade Suite – Waltz Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Don Giovanni Overture Camille Saint-Saëns – […]
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Ivana Bičak investigates early modern ideas of Nature at the Herzog August Bibliothek
Ivana Bičak of the Department of English Language and Literature is currently undertaking a research fellowship at the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel, Germany. The library is one of Europe’s leading research libraries for medieval and early modern manuscripts, rare books, and historical printed works. During her fellowship, Dr. Bičak is investigating early modern continental treatises on prelapsarian Nature in the […]
Two new books on feminist philosophy by Sandrine Bergès
Sandrine Bergès Professor Sandrine Bergès, from the Department of Philosophy, has recently published two new books: Why Read Wollstonecraft Today? (Cambridge University Press) and No Place Like Home: Women Philosophers’ Struggles with Domesticity (Oxford University Press). In Why Read Wollstonecraft Today, she offers a fresh reading of Mary Wollstonecraft’s feminist arguments, demonstrating their enduring relevance to contemporary debates in social […]
Kirill Chepurin receives Klaus Heyne Award for research in German Romanticism
Dr Kirill Chepurin from the Program in Cultures, Civilizations, and Ideas is the recipient of this year’s Klaus Heyne Award. The award, conferred by Goethe University Frankfurt, recognizes outstanding scholarly contributions in the field of German Romanticism. Dr Chepurin received the award in recognition of his important monograph Bliss against the World: Schelling, Theodicy, and the Crisis of Modernity (Oxford […]
New book by James Kinkaid explores Husserl’s influence on Heidegger
James Kinkaid has published a new study of Martin Heidegger’s early phenomenology and its complex relationship to the phenomenological project of Edmund Husserl. The book offers an opinionated introduction to Heidegger’s phenomenology, framing its central themes and ambitions in terms of Heidegger’s debts to, and departures from, Husserl. Rather than treating Heidegger’s thought in isolation, it situates Being and Time […]
BIAA-Bilkent Postdoctoral Fellowship: Call for Applications
The British Institute at Ankara (BIAA) and Bilkent University are pleased to invite applications for their joint Postdoctoral Fellowship. Each year, this prestigious fellowship supports a postdoctoral scholar affiliated with a UK Higher Education Institution to undertake 12 months of research. Proposed projects may address any topic within the arts, humanities, or social sciences, provided they align with the BIAA’s […]
New book by Jonathan Williams reconsiders melancholy in eighteenth-century literature
Jonathan Williams from the Department of English Language and Literature has published a monograph with Bloomsbury Academic. The book, Melancholic Life: Literary Expression and the Experience of History from Burton to Keats, traces the long historical transformation of melancholia from a medical condition into a distinctly political mode of feeling. Dr. Williams interprets literary melancholy in the eighteenth century as […]
Sandrine Bergès delivers the 2025 Antognazza Lecture
Professor Sandrine Bergès, from the Department of Philosophy, recently presented the Antognazza Lecture at the Literary and Philosophical Library in Newcastle (UK). In her talk, she revisited Mary Astell’s analogy of marriage as a form of slavery, placing it within the broader context of transatlantic slavery and its philosophical implications. The annual lecture, organized by the British Society for the […]
New book by Nathan Leidholm explores slavery and family in the Byzantine world
Associate Professor Nathan Leidholm from the Program in Cultures, Civilizations, and Ideas has published a monograph with Arc Humanities Press. The book, Slavery and Unfreedom in Byzantine Thought on the Household, examines how slavery and family were deeply intertwined in Byzantine society. Drawing on diverse sources and modern theories such as intersectionality and social death, it reveals how enslaved people […]
Thomas Howard receives 2025 Ralph Cohen Prize
Thomas Howard from the Program in Cultures, Civilizations, & Ideas has been awarded the 2025 Ralph Cohen Prize from New Literary History. Dr. Howard received the prize for his essay, “Anesthetic Reading: Ether, Nitrous Oxide, and Nineteenth-Century Interpretation.” Named in honor of New Literary History’s founding editor, the annual Ralph Cohen Prize recognizes outstanding scholarship by early-career researchers in literary and […]