[Bilimsel Haber] Thinking: The Ruin

[Gonul Pultar]

*The Istanbul Studies Center* at Kadir Has University is pleased to 
present */Thinking: The Ruin/*, the first in a series of lectures by a 
select group of innovative scholars and artists willing to think beyond 
the narrow confines of traditional disciplines, and offered as a 
sequence delivered over the course of a week.  Lectures will not 
necessarily focus on the city of Istanbul /per se/; Istanbul will be a 
frame, a foil, or a point of reference. 

 

/Thinking: The Ruin/ will begin on Friday 22 May and run until Friday 29 
May.  All lectures are in English, and will take place at 16:00 in the 
Fener Salonu, Kadir Has University, Cibali Campus.  For information on 
program and speakers, see 
http://www.khas.edu.tr/en/news/istanbul-sergi1.html

 

We invite you to all or any of the lectures in the series, and to the 
opening cocktail reception on Friday 22 May (immediately after the first 
lecture, Walid Raad's "Sweet Talk").

 

*Program*

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*_Friday 22 May_*

*Matthew Gumpert**: /Opening Remarks: Catachresis, or the Ruin/*

*Walid Raad: /Sweet Talk/*

*Cocktail Reception*

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*_Monday 25 May_*

*Trevor Hope: /City as Monument: Pierre Loti/*

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*_Tuesday 26 May_*

*Trevor Hope: /City as Archive: Orhan Pamuk/*

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*_Wednesday 27 May_*

*Jalal Toufic**: /Ruins/*

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*Film Screening: /The Shining (18:00)/*

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*_Thursday 28 May_*

*Jalal Toufic**: /Transit Visa to the Labyrinth!/*

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*_Friday 29 May_*

*Pelin Tan: //Did You Say Architectonic// Homo Sacer //or// Vampires//?//*//

 

 

The *Istanbul Studies Center* is a newly opened academic research center 
at Kadir Has University providing a forum for innovative and 
interdisciplinary scholarship on the changing culture of the city of 
Istanbul, by way of symposia, seminars, fellowships, publications, and 
exhibitions.