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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

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Past Lectures

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

Contact: librarylectures@bilkent.edu.tr