“Hittite Geographers: Cosmology and Geography in Late Bronze Age Anatolia”, Ilgi Gerçek
Location: FEASS, C-Blok Amfi
Philosophy Colloquium, Örsan Öymen
Örsan Öymen (Işık University) Date: Friday 21 Aprıl, 2017 Time: 1740-1900 (provisional) Place: G-160
CCI Colloquium , Mihaela Harper
Georgi Gospodinov’s There, Where We Are Not: Beyond, Between, Elsewhere, and Nowhere Assistant Professor Mihaela P. Harper (CCI) After his last novel, The Physics of Sorrow, prompted Jean-Luc Nancy to urge everyone to read it “without delay,” a much-anticipated volume of poetry by Bulgarian writer Georgi Gospodinov appeared in print in April 2016. He writes “In Place of a Preface” […]
The Wolfpack ,(Crystal Moselle/2015/1h30min), Introduction by Kitty Aal (Independent Film Scholar)
Perhaps no film genre approaches its subject with as much curiosity as does the documentary. Join us this spring for four documentaries of varying styles and subjects. Each screening will open with a brief introduction and an informal discussion will follow. All are welcome! This Tuesday, April 25 at 17.45 in FFB 05 The Wolfpack (Crystal Moselle/2015/1h30min), Introduction by Kitty […]
Philosophy Colloquium, Marco Finici
Marco Finici (University of Florence) Date: Wednesday 26 April, 2017 Time: 1100-1230 (provisional) Place: A-130
Poetry Reading
April is National Poetry Month in the USA. In celebration of NaPoMo, the American Culture Society and the Department of American Culture and Literature are hosting a student-faculty poetry reading on Wednesday 26 April. The event will feature undergraduates reading original poetry, as well as favorite poems from around the world. Faculty members from the Amer, E-lit, CCI and the […]
1st Bilkent Undergraduate Philosophy Conference
PLACE: Bilkent University, Main Campus, Room: A-130 Refreshments will be available between talks. Everyone is warmly invited to attend. SCHEDULE 10.00-10.55 Was David Hume Really an “Empiricist” Philosopher? Ali Mert İnal, Yeditepe University Commentator: Kerem Eroğlu 11.05-12.00 Knowing One’s Own Intentional Actions: Knowledge in Intention, and Its Implications on Knowing Other Agents and Other Minds Emre Fatih, Koç University Commentator: […]
“Training of conference interpreters, the requirements of international organisations and the future of the profession”, Sally Bailey-Ravet
You are cordially invited to attend the seminar organized by the Department of Translation and Interpretation (TRIN/CINT). The speaker is Sally Bailey-Ravet, Head Interpreter, Council of Europe. Title : « Training of conference interpreters, the requirements of international organisations and the future of the profession » Date: Friday, May 5, 2017 Time: 10:00-12.00 Place: EE01 (next to Mozart café, ELECTRICAL […]
“Contra Cantor: How to Count the “Uncountably Infinite”, Erdinç Sayan
Place: G-160 Abstract: Georg Cantor’s celebrated diagonalization argument is supposed to demonstrate that the set of real numbers has a higher cardinality than the set of natural numbers. In other words, real numbers are “uncountably (or nondenumerably) infinite” whereas natural numbers are “countably (or denumerably) infinite.” I argue that the set of real numbers is, like the set of natural […]