
Bilkent University Library is very pleased to invite you to attend the Library Lunchtime Lecture Series!
Each talk in the series will be delivered by specialists about their academic research but aimed at a non-specialist audience. The lectures will be in English and will be held in the Art Gallery, Main Campus Library.
Upcoming Lecture
Future Lectures
Past Lectures
Prof. Talat S. Halman on "Shakespeare the Turk"
Prof. Tayfun Özçelik on "Walking On All Fours: Evolution and Human Disease"
Prof. Ekmel Özbay on "Nanotechnology: Why is it so hot?"
Prof. Norman Stone on “Einstein to Bartok: Academic Refuge in Republican Turkey”
Dr. Emre Özgen on “Language, Learning and Color Perception.”
C. Uğur Ayfer on “Surviving the Hostile Internet”
Prof. Levent Gürel on “Computational Electromagnetics: What Does It Mean to Break the World Record in Bilkent?”
Dr. Marie-Henriette Gates on “Exploring an Ancient Port in Mediterranean Turkey: The Kinet Höyük Excavations (Hatay)”
Onur Türkmen on “Too many notes? The Evolution of Polyphonic Texture and its Absence in Turkish Music"
Prof. Metin Heper on “The Kurdish Initiative: Some Thoughts on Contentious Issues"
Prof. Orhan Aytür on “Realm of the Coral: Color, camouflage, consumption, cleaning and courtship under tropical seas"
Dr. Dilek Kaya Mutlu on “A Different Story of Secularism: The Censorship of Religion in Turkish Films of the 1960s”
Assoc. Prof. Lale Demirtürk on “Contemporary African American Novel: Critical Conversations about the City”
Prof. Sinan Sertöz on “Mathematics: The Gentle Giant ”
Prof. Halil İnalcık on “Which Is True: Turkey is not part of Europe, Turkey is part of Europe?”
Assist. Prof. Ahmet Gürata on “End of Cinema: or how I learned to stop worrying and love new cinephilia”
Prof. Sübidey Togan on “Is Accession to the EU Necessary for Turkey?”
Dr. Dominique Kassab-Tezgör on “Pottering along the Black Sea: Sinope and its ceramics workshops”
Dr. Katja Dörschner & Prof. Tayfun Özçelik on “Anna Karenina & DNA: Collobrative Aspects of Cognitive Neurogenomics at Bilkent”
Dr. Edward Kohn on “Hot Time in the Old Town: The Great Heat Wave of 1896 and the
Making of Theodore Roosevelt”
Prof. Tekin Akıllıoğlu on “Cyprus and the European Court of Human Rights”
Prof. Ali Doğramacı on “Pre-University Education: The Bilkent Experience”
Assoc. Prof. Pınar Bilgin on “International Relations in a changing world”
Prof. Fazli Can on “Mobile Information Retrieval”
Asst. Prof. Kadire Zeynep Sayım on “The Wisdom of Groupwork”
Prof. Tomris Türmen on “Child Brides”
Prof. Ömer Dağ on “The Fourth Phase of Matter: Liquid Crystals”