“What The Golden Rule Teaches Us About Ethics “,Shane Ward (University of Southern California, Philosophy)
Title: What The Golden Rule Teaches Us About Ethics Speaker: Shane Ward (University of Southern California, Philosophy) Date: Tuesday March 14, 2023 Time: 1730-1900 Room: H232 Abstract: The Golden Rule is regularly used in ordinary life, across many different cultures, to acquire new moral knowledge. At the same time, the Golden Rule is widely ignored both in ethics […]
“Functional Ambiguity: Centrifugal Aphorisms in Emily Dickinson’s Letters”, Thomas Howard
Talk / Program in Cultures, Civilizations & Ideas Thomas Howard, Department of English and American Literature, Washington University in St. Louis Title: “Functional Ambiguity: Centrifugal Aphorisms in Emily Dickinson’s Letters” Abstract: The nineteenth century was a unique time in American literary and scientific history: with intellectual journals publishing a wide diversity of work and the “two cultures” of the humanities […]
“Idealism and Transparency in Sartre’s Ontological Proof”,James Kinkaid (Boston University, Philosophy)
Title: Idealism and Transparency in Sartre's Ontological Proof Speaker: James Kinkaid (Boston University, Philosophy) Date: Friday March 17, 2023 Time: 1730-1900 Room: H232 Abstract: The Introduction to Sartre’s Being and Nothingness (B&N) contains a condensed, cryptic argument—the ‘ontological proof’—that is meant to establish a position ‘beyond realism and idealism.’ Despite its role in establishing the fundamental ontological distinction of […]
“Care of the Past: Buildings and statues at Aphrodisias in later antiquity, AD 200-600”, Professor R.R.R. Smith (Aphrodisias Excavations, Director)
Department of Archaeology Evening Lecture by Professor R.R.R. Smith (Aphrodisias Excavations, Director): “Care of the Past: Buildings and statues at Aphrodisias in later antiquity, AD 200-600” On Monday 20 March at 17:30 in C Blok Amphi (Faculty of Humanities) Abstract What happened to the grandiose urban structures of the high Roman empire in late antiquity? […]
“Is Writing Dead? Hjelmslev between Deleuze and Derrida”, Dr. Donald J. Cross
Talk / Program in Cultures, Civilizations & Ideas Dr. Donald J. Cross, Visiting Assistant Professor- Comparative Literature Department, SUNY Buffalo Title: “Is Writing Dead? Hjelmslev between Deleuze and Derrida” Abstract: Journalists, educators, and cultural commentators have already declared 2023 as the year that writing died. ChatGPT and similar artificial intelligence chatbots certainly renew the issue with concrete […]
“Home. Family. Future: Authenticity, the Frontier Myth, and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes”, Dr Kara McCormack
Dear colleagues and students, You are cordially invited to this semester’s first instalment of the Humanities Faculty Seminar Series. This will be a hybrid event. Speaker: Dr Kara McCormack (Bilkent, AMER) Date: Wednesday 22 March 2023 Time: 17:30 – 18:30 Place: G-160 (humanities building) Or on Zoom: Topic: AMER - ELIT / Seminer - "Home. Family. Future: Authenticity, the Frontier […]
Bilkent Archaeology Day 2023
You are kindly invited to participate to the Bilkent Archaeology Day 2023 on Grounding Selves: Archaeological Approaches to Past Identities on Friday 31 March at 13:30. Hybrid event: C-Block Amphi (Faculty of Economics) or Zoom Meeting Material culture plays a significant and complex role in the construction, expression, and maintenance of social identities. These identities can operate at […]
“Good Sameness: Ben Lerner’s Song of the Fungible”, Professor Daniel Katz (University of Warwick)
Professor Daniel Katz (University of Warwick) Good Sameness: Ben Lerner's Song of the Fungible Wednesday 5 April 2023, 17:30 Room HZ-60 This talk will focus on the trope of the "fungible" in Ben Lerner's work, to see how it organises several related concerns: the relationship of the poet or artist to the collective, the relationship […]
“Archaeological Archives in the Digital Era. Attika 2.0”, Barbora Weissova
Department of Archaeology Evening Lecture by Barbora Weissova (Assistant professor in the Institute of Archaeological Studies Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany). “Archaeological Archives in the Digital Era. Attika 2.0” On Wednesday 19/4/ April 2023 at 17:30 in H-232 Abstract To acknowledge the 40th anniversary of the Attica Archive kept in the Institute of Archaeological Studies at the Ruhr University in Bochum, I […]
“The Final Frontier: Outer Space in Early Modern English Poetry”, Dr. Ivana Bičak (Durham University)
Abstract: Is the Moon inhabited? How do the Mercurians tolerate the Sun’s terrible heat? Are there any animals on the ice-cold Saturn? Such questions about possible new worlds in the heavens tickled the poetic imagination following the invention and subsequent perfection of the telescope in the early seventeenth century. The unprecedented advances in astronomy offered a new intergalactic imaginary to […]
“Approaching identity through space and material culture: The case study of the Rock Sanctuary at Sagalassos (SW Turkey)”, Peter Talloen
Department of Archaeology Evening Lecture by Peter Talloen (Assistant professorat İsparta University, Director of the Sagalassos Excavations): Approaching identity through space and material culture: The case study of the Rock Sanctuary at Sagalassos (SW Turkey) On Wednesday 26 April 2023 at 17:30 in C-Block Amphi Abstract Approaching the identity of the people whose traces we are uncovering in the archaeological […]
“Collective nouns and the distribution problem”, David Nicolas, Institut Jean Nicod- Jonathan D. Payton, Bilkent University
You are invited to Bilkent University’s Philosophy Department on Thursday for the seminar of Profs. David Nicolas and Jonathan D. Payton. Speakers: David Nicolas, Institut Jean Nicod; Jonathan D. Payton, Bilkent University “Collective nouns and the distribution problem” Date: Thursday, 4 May 2023 Time: 3:30 Room: H-232 Abstract: Intuitively, collective nouns are pseudo-singular: a collection of things (a pair of people, a flock of birds, etc.) just is the things that […]