“The Future of Technique Ian James”, University of Cambridge
The Future of Technique Ian James, University of Cambridge Monday, December 9 5:40pm Library Art Gallery This paper will give an overview of my recently published book, The Technique of Thought: Nancy, Laruelle, Malabou, and Stiegler After Naturalism (University of Minnesota Press, 2019). It will review the arguments in this book concerning the recasting of the relation between philosophy and […]
“Humanities at Bilkent – What Are They and Where Are They Going?”, Prof. Stein Haugom Olsen
Title: Humanities at Bilkent – What Are They and Where Are They Going? Speaker: Prof. Stein Haugom Olsen, Faculty of Humanities and Letters (Dean) and English Language and Literature (Chair) Place: Art Gallery, Bilkent University Library Date: Wednesday, 11 December 2019 Time: 12.40-13.30.
“What is Reality and How Can I Find It? Plato, the Gracious Quran, and Romance”, Professor Victoria Rowe Holbrook (Bilgi University)
Dear members of the Bilkent community, As part of its speakers series, the Department of Turkish Literature is happy to invite you to a talk by Professor Victoria Rowe Holbrook (Bilgi University) entitled "What is Reality and How Can I Find It? Plato, the Gracious Quran, and Romance" to take place on Tuesday December 17th at 15.40. The talk will be given in English, in C Blok Amfi. All are welcome. Light refreshments will be served. Summary: We have long known that […]
Poetry Reading, Andrea Read
Poetry Reading DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE Poet: Andrea Read Date: 23 December 2019, Monday Time: 5 p.m. Place: Bilkent Library Art Gallery You are cordially invited to a reading by the poet Andrea Read at the Bilkent Library Art Gallery at 5pm on Monday 23 December. Andrea’s poems have appeared most recently in Barrow Street, Black Rabbit […]
“The Author in Nineteenth – Century Literary Culture : Romanticism to Formalism”, Andrea Selleri
Department of English Language and Literature Seminar The Author in Nineteenth – Century Literary Culture : Romanticism to Formalism Speaker : Andrea Selleri Date: January 16, 2020 Time: 14.40 - 16.00 Location: G 160 The Author in Nineteenth-Century Literary Culture: Romanticism to Formalism The significance of the relationship between the author and the work is among the most contentious issues in the theory of criticism. In an anglophone context, […]
“Hating Rubens: Charlotte Brontë, Anti-Catholicism, and the Limits of Female Self-Fashioning in Victorian England”, Aleksandar Stevic
Time: 14:40 to 16:00, Monday 20 January 2020. Location: G 160 Aleksandar Stevic Hating Rubens: Charlotte Brontë, Anti-Catholicism, and the Limits of Female Self-Fashioning in Victorian England What form can female development take in a culture committed to severely limiting the rights of women? What kinds of narratives about female education and growth can be produced by a […]
“Learning after Athens: Equity, Grace, and Prophecy in Milton’s Paradise Regained”, Deni Kasa
Time: 14:40 to 16:00, Thursday 23 January 2020. Location: G 160 Deni Kasa Learning after Athens: Equity, Grace, and Prophecy in Milton’s Paradise Regained Although Milton’s poetry is now understood to be republican, Paradise Regained poses a problem: it rejects Athenian learning in favour of the prophetic inspiration of the Holy Spirit. On this evidence, criticism has increasingly […]
“Pause for Thought: Brackets in Renaissance Romance”,Florence Hazrat
Time: 14:40 to 16:00, Thursday 30 January 2020. Location: G 160 Florence Hazrat Pause for Thought: Brackets in Renaissance Romance When opening a Renaissance book, it is brackets which populate the pages. What was it about these signs which attracted early modern writers? And why were they particularly prominent in romances, those stories about knights lost in magical woods? […]
“Friendship as a Means to Freedom”, Allauren Forbes
Friendship as a Means to Freedom By Allauren Forbes (University of Pennsylvania, Philosophy) Date: Tuesday 4th February, 2020 Time: 1640-1800 Place: H-232 Abstract: Friendship has been a subject of interest to Western philosophy since at least Plato and Aristotle, and the women thinking and writing about friendship in the Early Modern period did so within a context indebted to these […]
Contesting Disciplinary Boundaries in the Humanities and Beyond
Contesting Disciplinary Boundaries in the Humanities and Beyond PANEL DISCUSSION Etienne Charrière (EDEB) Alev Çinar (POLS) Patrick Fessenbecker (CCI) Mustafa Nakeeb (CCI & PHIL) Moderated by Colleen Kennedy-Karpat (COMD) Bilkent University Initiative for Interdisciplinary Humanities Date: February 10, 2020 (Monday) Time:12:40-13:30 Place:FFB-06
“The Theory of Every Thing: Toward a Symmetry-Based Metaphysics of Matter”, David Schroeren
By David Schroeren (Princeton, Philosophy) Date: Tuesday 11th February, 2020 Time: 1640-1800 Place: H-232 Abstract: We are used to thinking that physics describes the world as fundamentally composed of matter: the fundamental building blocks of the world, like elementary particles or quantum fields. But when we look at modern physics and the pronouncements of its practitioners, we find forceful rejections of this familiar picture. […]
“A New Metaphysical Explication of Infinitesimals”,Lu Chen (UMass, Philosophy)
A New Metaphysical Explication of Infinitesimals By Lu Chen (UMass, Philosophy) Date: Tuesday 18th February, 2020 Time: 1640-1800 Place: H-232 Abstract: Infinitesimals are widely used in physics and mathematics, but are considered merely heuristic due to a lack of rigorous understanding. Smooth Infinitesimal Analysis (SIA), alternatively known as Synthetic Differential Geometry, is the most developed mathematical system for regimenting […]