Each talk in the series is delivered by specialists about their academic research but aimed at a non-specialist audience. The lectures are in English and are held in the Art Gallery, Main Campus Library.
 | | One on One conversation: Directing American Plays in Turkey Yrd. Doç. Jason Hale  2014-12-18 |
 | | Markov and His Chains Prof. Tuğrul Dayar, Department of Computer Engineering, Bilkent University. 2014-11-20 |
 | | All that glitters is not gold, nor all that sparkles silver: Ancient Anatolian jewellery unveiled Dr. Thomas Zimmermann, HART, Bilkent University. 2014-10-23 |
 | | Well-Done! On Chemistry and Cooking Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ulrike SALZNER CHEM, Bilkent University 2014-05-14 |
 | | A Typical Turkish Leadership Comparisons within Turkey and Cross-Nationally by Prof. Carnot Nelson 2014-04-03 |
 | | Making Sense of Language Use - Shop advertising in English in a lingua franca context by Dr. Louisa Buckingham, Bilkent University MA TEFL program; BilWrite 2014-03-05 |
 | | Colour Design in the Built Environment Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nilgün Olguntürk, Department of Interior Architecture and Environmental Design, Bilkent University 2013-12-18 |
 | | Turkish Economy During the AKP Rule by Assoc. Prof. Refet Gürkaynak Department of Economics, Bilkent University 2013-11-21 |
 | | Homicidal Sleepwalkers: Can We Blame Them? Dr. Simon Wigley Department of Philosophy, Bilkent University 2013-10-10 |
 | | What Educators Can Learn from Games Robin Turner Faculty of Academic English Program, Bilkent University 2013-04-10 |
 | | Cultural Conflicts Continue in the Kitchen Chef Elif Denizci Tourism and Hotel Management, Bilkent University 2012-12-10 |
 | | Altruism in Cancer Research Curing the Patient (and Saving the isolated scientists) Assist. Prof. Ali Osmay Güre Molecular Biology and Genetics, Bilkent University 2012-11-14 |
 | | The Fourth Phase of Matter: Liquid Crystals Prof. Ömer Dağ Department of Chemistry, Bilkent University 2012-05-02 |
 | | Child Brides Prof. Tomris Türmen 2012-04-05 |
 | | The Wisdom of Groupwork by Asst. Prof. Kadire Zeynep Sayım Faculty of Business Administration, Bilkent University 2012-03-15 |
 | | Mobile Information Retrieval by Prof. Fazlı Can Department of Computer Engineering, Bilkent University 2011-12-14 |
 | | International Relations in a Changing World by Assoc. Prof. Pınar Bilgin Department of International Relations Bilkent University 2011-11-16 |
 | | Cyprus and the European Court of Human Rights by Prof. Dr. Tekin Akıllıoğlu, Department of Law 2011-05-05 |
 | | Turkish Love Poetry by Prof. Talat Halman Department of Turkish Literature 2011-03-30 |
 | | Hot Time In The Old Town by Asst.Prof. Edward Kohn Department of History, Bilkent University 2011-03-23 |
 | | ANNA KARENINA & DNA: Collobrative Aspects of Cognitive Neurogenomics by Prof. Tayfun Özçelik Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics and Dr. Katja Dörschner Department of Psychology 2011-03-03 |
 | | Pottering along the Black Sea, Sinope and It's Ceramics Workshops by Assoc. Prof. Dominique Tezgör-Kassab, Department of Fine Arts 2010-12-16 |
 | | Prospects of Turkey by Prof. Sübidey Togan, Department of Economics 2010-11-10 |
 | | End of CINEMA? or how I learned to stop worrying and new cinephilia by Assoc. Prof. Ahmet Gürata Department of Communication and Design 2010-10-14 |
 | | Which is True? Turkey is part of EUROPE or Turkey is not part of Europe by Prof. Halil İnalcık, simulataneous translation was provided by Dr Akif Kirecci 2010-05-12 |
 | | Mathematics: The Gentle Giant by Prof. Sinan Sertöz Department of Mathematics 2010-04-21 |
 | | The Contemporary African American Novel by Assoc. Prof. Lale Demirtürk Department of American Culture and Literature 2010-03-24 |
 | | Realm of the Coral: Color, camouflage, consumption, cleaning and courtship under tropical seas Orhan Aytür began scuba diving in 1998 and shorty afterwards became interested in underwater photography. He has been taking photographs under water since 2000. Orhan Aytür has received more than 50 awards in national and international underwater photography competitions. Most notably, he won the Jorge Albuquerque Prize at the prestigious Antibes World Festival of Underwater Pictures in 2007. He qualified to be one of two photographers on the Turkish national underwater photography team twice in a row. He was placed third in the “Macro Photograph” category at the 11th CMAS Underwater Photography World Championship in 2007. 2009-11-11 |
 | | Kurdish Initiative by Prof. Metin Heper Chair of the Department of Political Science; Prof. Heper talks about the recently publicized Kurdish Initiative. 2009-10-14 |
 | | Too many notes? The Evolution of Polyphonic Texture and its Absence in Turkish Music by Onur Türkmen 2009-04-30 |
 | | Computational Electromagnetics: What Does It Mean to Break the World Record in Bilkent? Prof. Dr. Levent Gürel talks on fast algorithms for computational electromagnetics (CEM) and the application thereof to scattering and radiation problems involving large and complicated scatterers, antennas and radars, frequency-selective surfaces, high-speed electronic circuits, optical and imaging systems, nanostructures and metamaterials. 2009-02-26 |
 | | Surviving the Hostile Internet Can Uğur Ayfer talks on the comtemporary threats on the Internet and explains the techniques used by cyber-criminals/fraudulant people and suggest some remedies to these threats. 2008-12-03 |
 | | Language, Learning and Color Perception Dr. Emre Özgen gives a talk on "Color Perception", its flexibility and that categorical perception of color can be induced in people using perceptual learning paradigms in the laboratory. This idea came in support of the linguistic relativity hypothesis, proposing that language, through its color categories, can shape people’s perception of color. 2008-11-05 |
 | | Einstein to Bartok: Academic Refuge in Republican Turkey by Prof. Norman Stone 2008-10-08 |
 | | Nanotechnology: Why is it so hot? Prof. Dr. Ekmel Özbay has published 169 articles in SCI journals, and 202 international conference proceedings. His publications have received more than 3000 SCI citations. He holds 2 patents in the area of photonic crystals. He has given 63 invited talks in international conferences. His recent review article on plasmonics appeared as an invited review article in Jan. 12th 2006 issue of Science. 2008-04-17 |
 | | "Walking On All Fours: Evolution and Human Disease" by Prof. Tayfun Özçelik 2008-03-27 |