Talk: The Case for Commitment
Title: The Case for Commitment By Sarah Paul (Philosophy, NYU Abu Dhabi) Date: Friday, November 3, 2023 Time: 1530-1700 Room: H232 Abstract: Theories of structural, instrumental rationality generally do not make reference to anything we might call 'commitment', beyond the sense in which all intentions are a kind of settled commitment. Some views do allow for things like commitment, resolutions, […]
Talk: Alahan – How a Roman City in Isauria Related to its Villages
Talk: Alahan - How a Roman City in Isauria Related to its Villages By Hugh Elton (Trent University, archaeology) Date: Monday 13 November, 2023 Time: 17.30-19.00 Room: C-Blok Amphi Abstract: City and countryside sound different, but Roman cities were very closely linked with their countrysides. Using evidence from the Göksu survey, this paper examines relationships between the city at Alahan and […]
PhilFest AI Art Exhibition
PhilFest AI Art Exhibition Description: This collection includes works on philosophical themes produced with the help of AI, selected from the Generative Artificial Intelligence Visual Art Competition for PhilFest'23 Bilkent Philosophy Festival. Place: Library Art Gallery Dates: November 17-30, 2023 Official opening: Friday, November 17, 2023, 1230-1330 Program: Opening Speech: Prof. Dr. Kürşat Aydoğan, Rector at Bilkent University "Art and […]
Sinopia Symposium
Pigments, Colors and Ideas November 23: Anatolian Museum of Civilizations November 24: Bilkent University Organized by the Department of Archaeology and the Faculty of Art, Design, and Architecture On the occasion of the 100th year of the Turkish Republic Watch the teaser video Conference website: https://pci.bilkent.edu.tr/
Conference: Black Sea Crossings
Conference title: Black Sea crossings - Maritime networks from Hellenistic to Byzantines times Dates: 30 November - 1 December, 2023 Location: ANAMED Auditorium, Beyoğlu/İstanbul Conference website and program: click here.
Talk: “A negative dowry”: Specters of debt and the family from the origins of the student loan industry in the United States
Talk: “A negative dowry”: Specters of debt and the family from the origins of the student loan industry in the United States By Britain Hopkins (Wellesley College, Sociology) Date: Wednesday 7 February, 2024 Time: 16.30-18.00 Room: G-160 Abstract: High levels of student loan debt are a cornerstone of higher education in the United States today. This talk provides an overview […]
Talk: Shakespeare’s Turkish Sonnets?
Talk: Shakespeare’s Turkish Sonnets? By Robert Stagg (University of Oxford, Shakespeare Institute) Date: Wednesday, 7 February 2024, 17:30 (reception at 17:00) Time: 1700-1830 Room: A130 Abstract: If Shakespeare became the English ‘national poet’ in the eighteenth century, he has spent subsequent centuries as an international poet. Yet scholarship about a so-called ‘Global Shakespeare’ has had comparatively little to say about […]
Talk: It’s about time! Reflections on the role of chronology in archaeology
Talk: It’s about time! Reflections on the role of chronology in archaeology By Jeroen Poblome (KU Leuven, archaeology) Date: Wednesday 7 February, 2024 Time: 17.30-19.00 Room: H-232 Abstract: In methods, practices and concepts, the discipline of Archaeology remains in full motion. Ever newer computational modelling techniques are being unleased. Ever more detailed methods of spatial analysis are being employed. While […]
Talk: Totality at Trinity – Paranoia and the State in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony
Talk: Totality at Trinity - Paranoia and the State in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony By Devin Daniels (Bryn Mawr College, English) Date: Wednesday 14 February, 2024 Time: 16.30-18.00 Room: G-160 Abstract: The cultural and theoretical production of the 1970s has been largely remembered for its resistance to metanarratives, skepticism towards totality, and embrace of plurality. At the same time, the […]
Talk: An American Divide – The Making of ‘Continental’ Philosophy
Talk: An American Divide - The Making of 'Continental' Philosophy By Jonathan Strassfeld (John Hopkins University, History) Date: Tuesday 20 February, 2024 Time: 16.30-18.00 Room: G-160 Abstract: Western philosophy underwent a dramatic schism during the twentieth century, splitting into two adversarial camps called "analytic" and "continental" philosophy. While this rupture is commonly understood as an ideological divide that reflects cultural […]
Talk: “If I cannot find a shady shelter and a companion for my penance, I shall never turn ascetic”: Modernist Asceticism in Rabindranath Tagore’s “The Ghat’s Story” (1884)
Talk: "If I cannot find a shady shelter and a companion for my penance, I shall never turn ascetic”: Modernist Asceticism in Rabindranath Tagore’s “The Ghat’s Story” (1884) By Apala Das (University of Toronto, Massey College) Date: Wednesday, 21 February 2024, 17:30 (reception at 17:00) Time: 1750-1900 Room: G160 Abstract: “The Ghat’s Story” (1884) is a short story written by […]
Talk: Beyond Empty Homogeneity – Rethinking Serial Form
Talk: Beyond Empty Homogeneity - Rethinking Serial Form By Kyra Sutton (University of California at Berkeley, Rhetoric) Date: Wednesday, February 28, 2024 Time: 16.30-18.00 Room: G-160 Abstract: Across literary studies, film studies, game studies, and critical theory, recent decades have seen a flurry of interest in “the serial”—a form dynamized by a tension between, to draw on Clare Pettitt, “the […]