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Bilkent PhilFest’24

28 Eylül 2024, Cumartesi, Web: https://philfest.bilkent.edu.tr/ Düzenleyenler: Bilkent Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü Bilkent Felsefe Topluluğu Bilkent Üniversitesi Kütüphanesi Bilkent Psikolojik Danışma ve Gelişim Merkezi              

Workshop: Humanities Education Platform

Bilkent University Bilkent University, Ankara, Ankara, Turkey

Teaching Workshop: Humanities Education Platform Dates: 11-12 October, 2024 Place: A-Z31 (History Department Seminar Room) Conference program: Click here. Organized by the Program in Cultures, Civilizations and Ideas.

Princeton-Bilkent Workshop on the History and Philosophy of Science

Dates: October 13-15, 2024 Participants: Faculty and graduate students from the philosophy departments of Princeton and Bilkent. Tarek Dika (University of Toronto) and David Miller (Auburn University) will also join as special guests. About: The concept of 'method' as conceived in ancient and early modern times. On the first day of the workshop, the discussion will focus on Aristotle's conception […]

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Conference: Public Archaeology – Dialogues, Communities and Social Challenges

Bilkent University Bilkent University, Ankara, Ankara, Turkey

Public Archaeology: Dialogues, Communities and Social Challenges Dates: 17-18 October, 2024 Conference program: https://biaa.ac.uk/events/public-archaeology-dialogues-communities-and-social-challenges/ Organized by the British Institute at Ankara and the Department of Archaeology.

Talk: An Empire of 2000 Cities

Bilkent University Bilkent University, Ankara, Ankara, Turkey

Title: An Empire of 2000 Cities By John Bintliff (University of Edinburgh/ University of Leiden, Archaeology) Dates: 20th November, 2024 Time: 1730-1900 Place: A-130 Organized by the Department of Archaeology.

Talk: Unsettling Tricks: E. Pauline Johnson’s Mohawk Artifice

Talk: Unsettling Tricks: E. Pauline Johnson’s Mohawk Artifice By Cherrie Kwok (University of Virginia) Date: Thursday, January 30, 2025 Time: 1730-1900 Room: B206 Abstract: Sitting at the intersection of British Victorian Studies and Indigenous Studies, this talk examines poet-performer E. Pauline Johnson. Born to a Mohawk father and an English-Canadian mother, this talk argues that Johnson develops a metaleptic decadent […]

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Talk: What Would Grow From a Buried Bed? Nature and Culture in Antiphon’s On Truth

Talk: What Would Grow From a Buried Bed? Nature and Culture in Antiphon’s On Truth By Luke Lea (Columbia, Classics) Date: Wednesday, February 12, 2025 Time: 1230-1330 Room: H232 Abstract: Reflection on culture and civilization sometimes pits nature against products of human activity and invention such as art, technology, law, and political order. Inquiry into the antithesis of nomos (law, […]

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Talk: Redeeming Failed States: Allegory and the National Imagination

H232 Bilkent University, Ankara, Ankara, Turkey

Talk: Redeeming Failed States: Allegory and the National Imagination By Ashwin Bajaj (UC Irvine, Comparative Literature) Date: Thursday, February 12, 2025 Time: 1730-1900 Room: H232 Abstract: My talk, “Redeeming Failed States: Allegory and the Literary Imagination,” begins by returning to the concluding section of Marx’s Capital in order to uncover two issues relevant to thinking post-coloniality: namely, difference and origin. […]

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Conference: Human Mobility, Migration, and Colonization in the Ancient Near East

Bilkent University Bilkent University, Ankara, Ankara, Turkey

Human Mobility, Migration, and Colonization in the Ancient Near East Dates: 22-23 February, 2025 Description: This event is part of the Önasya Arkeolojisi Toplantıları series, bringing together scholars from various disciplines, including history, epigraphy, philology, archaeology, and anthropology, to explore human mobility, trade networks, craftspeople movement, large-scale migration, and colonization in the Eastern Mediterranean from the Neolithic to the Iron […]

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Talk: How Chances It They Travel? Mapping Itinerant Theater in Early Modern Europe

Talk: How Chances It They Travel?: Mapping Itinerant Theater in Early Modern Europe By Emily Glider (Boston University, Literary and Cultural Theory) Date: Monday, February 24, 2025 Time: 1230-1330 Room: H232 Abstract: Itinerant theater has long been represented as a “chance” affair: troupes of “wandering” or “strolling” players performing on an opportunistic basis at various courts, cities, and trade fairs […]

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