Seminar: Foreign Languages Unit / Sustainability and Climate Change
Seminar: Foreign Languages Unit / Sustainability and Climate Change Dear Colleagues and Students, You are cordially invited to attend the seminar organized by the Foreign Languages Unit. Title: Sustainability and Climate Change Speakers: Aytek Akın, Ulaş Cönkeroğlu, İlka Gültekin, Hüseyin Topaç, Emincal Topal, İpek Yılmaz, Kristina Zaková Date: December 29th. 2021 Wednesday Time: 12.30-13.15 Presentations will be in […]
“Knowledge and Understanding: Education in Aldous Huxley’s Short Stories”,Andrija Matić
Topic: ELIT “Invited Talks” (Andrija Matić) / Andrea Selleri Time: Feb 8, 2022, 18:15. Zoom meeting: Knowledge and Understanding: Education in Aldous Huxley’s Short Stories Although he worked as a teacher for only two years (1917-1919), Aldous Huxley wrote about education all his life. The lecture will analyze his major views on this topic, especially his opinion on universal […]
“Women Writers and Alchemy in Early Modern Britain”,Dr Sajed Chowdhury
Topic: ELIT “Invited Talks” (Sajed Chowdhury) / Andrea Selleri Time: Feb 8, 2022, 19:45. Zoom Meeting Women Writers and Alchemy in Early Modern Britain It has long been established by scholars that writers such as William Shakespeare (1564-1616), John Milton (1608-1674) and Andrew Marvell (1621-1678) and were drawing upon alchemy – the craft of chemical transmuation – to depict […]
“Walter Pater and the Philosophical Turn to Experience”, Atti Viragh / Andrea Selleri
Topic: ELIT Invited Talks (Atti Viragh) / Andrea Selleri Time: Feb 10, 2022, 19:45. Zoom Meeting Walter Pater and the Philosophical Turn to Experience Long recognized as among Victorian England’s most influential writers and thinkers, Walter Pater helped establish the foundations of the aesthetic movement with essay collections including Studies in the History of the Renaissance (1873), Appreciations (1889), […]
“Society 5.0: Towards a Sustainable Future”, Dr. Yıldız Tuğba KARA
Dear Students and Colleagues, You are cordially invited to the online lecture on ‘Society 5.0: Towards a Sustainable Future”’ by Dr. Yıldız Tuğba KARA, organised by the Department of Translation and Interpreting (TRIN). Date: Feb 11, 2022 11:00 Time: 11:00 AM İstanbul Zoom Meeting Abstract: Dr. Kara will talk about Society 5.0 as a vision to balance economic advancement […]
“Saints, Sinners, and Censorship: Henry Arthur Jones and the Dawn of the New Drama”, Marija Reiff / Andrea Selleri
Topic: ELIT Invited Talks (Marija Reiff) / Andrea Selleri Time: Feb 11, 2022, 16:30. Zoom Meeting Saints, Sinners, and Censorship: Henry Arthur Jones and the Dawn of the New Drama Throughout the bulk of the nineteenth century, theatrical censorship was common through Europe and Great Britain. However, by the late 1800s, censorship laws in Britain had loosened enough to […]
“Originals and Copies in Thomas Hardy”, Sezen Ünlüönen / Andrea Selleri
Topic: ELIT Invited Talks (Sezen Ünlüönen) / Andrea Selleri Time: Feb 11, 2022, 18:15. Zoom Meeting Originals and Copies in Thomas Hardy In “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” Benjamin famously writes that what separates an original work of art from a copy is its existence over time: the original, unlike the copy, is […]
“The Architecture of the Caucasus in the Global Middle Ages”, Robert G. Ousterhout (Emeritus, University of Pennsylvania)
Department of Archaeology Sunday Evening Lecture Robert G. Ousterhout (Emeritus, University of Pennsylvania): "The Architecture of the Caucasus in the Global Middle Ages." Sunday, February 20, 2022 at 18:00 PM Zoom Meeting Abstract The stunning architecture of the medieval Caucasus is normally discussed in isolation, often limited by current national boundaries between eastern Turkey, Georgia, and Armenia. […]
“Independence and Kant’s Positive Conception of Freedom”, Pauline Kleingeld
Title: Independence and Kant’s Positive Conception of Freedom By Pauline Kleingeld (Groningen, Philosophy) Date: Thursday March 3, 2022 Time: 15.30-17.00 Zoom: go to www.phil.bilkent.edu.tr Abstract: The resurging interest in the republican tradition of legal and political theory has shed new light on Immanuel Kant’s conception of freedom and revealed that it is best understood along republican lines. The discussion of […]
“Fatih Özgüven ile Çeviri, Öykü ve Sinema Üzerine Söyleşi”, Fatih Özgüven
“Fatih Özgüven ile Çeviri, Öykü ve Sinema Üzerine Söyleşi” “Etkinlik Türkçe olacaktır.” Yöneten: Levent Yılmaz Tarih : 9 Mart, Çarşamba Saat : 16:50 – 17:50 Yer : İİSBF, C Blok Amfi Fatih Özgüven İlk yazısı Birikim dergisinde yayımlandı. Sinema ve edebiyat yazılarını “Yazko Çeviri”, “Yazko Somut”, “Çağdaş Eleştiri”,” Gösteri”, “VideoSinema”, “Sokak”, “Yeni Gündem”, “Express”, “Roll” dergileri ile “Cumhuriyet” ve […]
“Renaissance Psalm Reading and George Herbert’s The Temple”, Jeremy Specland
Talk / Program in Cultures, Civilizations, and Ideas Bilkent University’s Program in Cultures, Civilizations & Ideas will host an academic talk via ZOOM by: Jeremy Specland, Ph.D. Candidate in English Literature, Rutgers University Title: Renaissance Psalm Reading and George Herbert’s The Temple Description: No instance of lyric poetry contributed more to the cultural life of Renaissance […]
“The Problem of History in an Age of Reform: Secularism, Civilization, and the Syriac Christians of the Late Ottoman Empire”,Henry Clements
Talk / Program in Cultures, Civilizations, and Ideas Bilkent University’s CCI Program is hosting an academic talk via ZOOM by: Speaker: Henry Clements, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Yale University "The Problem of History in an Age of Reform: Secularism, Civilization, and the Syriac Christians of the Late Ottoman Empire" The administrative reforms of the late Ottoman […]