On Wednesday, February 28th, Associate Professor Charles D. Sabatos from Yeditepe University will give the following talk, as part of the Center for Turkish Literature Speaker Series. "The Ottoman Captivity Narrative in Central European Literature" Charles Sabatos is an Associate Professor in Comparative Literature at Yeditepe University in Istanbul. His primary research interests are in transnational contexts of Central and […]

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CCI Colloquium: ‘Diagnosing War in Ancient Greece’ – Dr Rachel Bruzzone; 6/3/2018 17:40 Art Gallery     Dear colleagues and students, You are kindly invited to the next talk in the Cultures, Civilizations and Ideas Interdisciplinary Humanities Colloquium: Dr Rachel Bruzzone (CCI) will speak on ‘Diagnosing War in Ancient Greece’. Time & place: Tuesday 6 March 2018, 17:40–18:30, Art Gallery, […]

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“The Search for Intelligent Life in a Computational Universe” By Seymur Jahangirov (Bilkent, UNAM) Date: Friday, 9th March, 2018 Time: 1240 – 1330 Place: A-130 Organized by the Mind, Brain and Behavior Research Group at Bilkent University. Abstract: Our physical universe is painstakingly explored by ever stronger telescopes in search of places that can inhabit life. In this seminar, we will review some of the routes that have been taken to discover intelligent life in computational universe. First we will […]

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  The Department of Archaeology of Bilkent University is pleased to invite you to the Lecture given by the Professor Fikri Kulakoğlu (Ankara University, DTCF): "Anatolia's Prologue: Kültepe Kanesh-Karum" on Wednesday 14th of March 2018 at 17:40 PM (Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Humanities and Letters, Room H-132). AbstractThe site of Kültepe, which was the capital of the ancient Kingdom of […]

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“The Metaphysics of May Sinclair” By Emily Thomas (Durham, Philosophy) Date: Friday 16 March, 2018 Time: 1040-1230 Place: H-232 Abstract: May Sinclair (1863 – 1946) is best known as a novelist, and her fiction is well studied by literature scholars. It is less well known that Sinclair was a philosopher, and there are no studies of her philosophical work. This paper will address that neglect, providing the first study of Sinclair’s philosophy. I’ll dig […]

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