“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 […]
“Göbekli Tepe: Digging the ´Zero Point’ in Time”, Dr. Lee Clare
The Department of Archaeology organizes a Lecture given by Dr. Lee Clare, the scientific director of the excavations of Göbekli Tepe: “Göbekli Tepe: Digging the ´Zero Point' in Time” on Wednesday 19 February at 17:40 PM. It will take place in the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, Room FFB-05. GE 250 & 251 points will be given. We look […]
Friedrich Klopstock’s “Heretical” Poetics: Der Messias & the Case of Doubting Thomas
Bilkent University Library is pleased to invite you to attend the CCI Colloquium Series event! Title: Friedrich Klopstock’s “Heretical” Poetics: Der Messias & the Case of Doubting Thomas Place/Date/Time: Library Art Gallery, 21 February 2020, 4.40 p.m. Short speaker bio: Matthew Stoltz earned his PhD in 2019 from the Department of German Studies at Cornell University. His research explores the […]
“Taking Aesthetic Obligations Seriously”, Anthony Cross
Philosophy colloquium, Anthony Cross Taking Aesthetic Obligations Seriously By Anthony Cross (Texas State, Philosophy) Date: Thursday 27th, 2020 Time: 1540-1710 Place: H-232 Abstract: Are there any aesthetic obligations? The standard story of aesthetic normativity says no: aesthetic value may generate reasons, but these are never obligatory. I first introduce several cases that demonstrate that the standard story is incorrect, and that obligations […]
“Hempel’s Paradox of the Ravens”, Murali Ramachandran
Philosophy Colloquium, Murali Ramachandran Hempel’s Paradox of the Ravens By Murali Ramachandran (Witwatersrand, Philosophy) Date: Thursday, 5th March, 2020 Time: 1540-1710 Place: H-232 Abstract: Hempel’s paradox of the ravens arises from two very compelling principles, SUPPORT and EQUIVALENCE: SUPPORT Observations of FGs support (confirm, count as positive evidence for) the hypothesis ‘All Fs are G’, so long as no non-G Fs have been observed. (E.g. observations […]
“End of Democracy – The Nazi Rise to Power and the Failure of Anti-Fascism in Germany”, Lukas Knopp
Dear students and staff of Bilkent University, I would like to invite you to the one-time lecture, “End of Democracy – The Nazi Rise to Power and the Failure of Anti-Fascism in Germany”. As a DAAD scholar with a research focus on holocaust and social memory, currently teaching German at Bilkent University, I have realized that while there is a […]