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 […]

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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 […]

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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), […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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. […]

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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 […]

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