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New PhD programme Philosophy (in English), Fatih University, Istanbul
BREAKING NEWS
Philosophy PhD programme (English) at Fatih University Istanbul approved by Higher Education Board (YÖK)
From the spring term 2013, Fatih University Istanbul is offering a PhD programme in philosophy (taught in English).
For information about the department, see http://felsefe.fatih.edu.tr/?&language=EN
To find out about the areas of specialisation of the faculty, go to http://felsefe.fatih.edu.tr/?staff&language=EN
Informal inquiries to the head of department, Şengül Çelik scelik@fatih.edu.tr and the convening professors Manuel Knoll mknoll@fatih.edu.tr and Marc Rölli marcmroelli@gmail.com
Welcome to Istanbul
Seminar on Human Nature (in Turkish) at BETİM 29 Dec. 2012
Tarih : 29 Aralık 2012
Yer : Beşikçizade Tıp ve İnsani Bilimler Merkezi (BETİM)
Sempozyum Programı (below the fold)
Talk by Gürol Irzık at Fatih University: From Paradigms to Taxonomic Lexicons – Thomas Kuhn’s Linguistic Turn
It has been fifty years since Thomas Kuhn’s “Structure of Scientific Revolutions” was first published. On this occasion, the Philosophy Department of Fatih University and Fatih Felsefe Kulübü are happy to host a talk by
Gürol Irzık (Sabancı Üniversitesi)
From Paradigms to Taxonomic Lexicons: Thomas Kuhn’s Linguistic Turn
Date: Wed. 19 December 2012
Time: 2 pm – 3.30 pm
Room: M-226 (opposite library entrance)
The speaker will trace the evolution of Kuhn’s views about science from *The Structure of Scientific Revolutions* to *The Road Since Structure*. This evolution can be described in terms of the increasing tendency in Kuhn’s roughly post-1980 writings to emphasize the role played by taxonomic lexicons in particular and language learning process in general in the characterization of scientific revolutions and incommensurability.
The claim will be defended that Kuhn’s linguistic turn can be understood best against the background of a Whorfian conception of language and certain neo-Kantian themes.
How to reach us:
By public transport: Metrobus direction Beylikdüzü/TÜYAP, get off one stop before terminus (Hadımköy), take the blue bus 418 or the yellow (sometimes green or red and white) HT18 towards Hadımköy (ca. 15 min. to Fatih Kampüsü).
By car: leave the TEM at Hadımköy gişeleri, turn right and follow the signs for Fatih Üniversitesi
Symposium on Genetically Modified Organisms at Fatih University (in Turkish)
Program
09.00-10.00 Kayıt İşlemleri/ Registration
10.00-10.20 Açılış Konuşmaları/ Opening Addresses
10.20-10.30 Çay-Kahve Arası
10.30-12.00 Prof. Dr. Sebahattin ÖZCAN
Genetiği Değiştirilmiş Bitkiler ve Tarıma Katkıları/
Genetically Modified Plants and Their Contribution to Agriculture
Doç. Dr. Mustafa ERAYMAN
GDO’ya Toplumun Bakışı Nedir?/
What is Society’s View on GMOs?
Prof. Dr. Dürdane KOLONKAYA
GDO’lu Ürünlerin Toksik Etkileri Nelerdir?/
What are the Toxic Effects of GMO products?
12.00-12.10 Çay-Kahve Arası
12.10-13.00 PANEL
13.00-14.00 Öğle Yemeği Arası
14.00-15.30 Prof. Dr. Hakan YARDIMCI
Türkiye’de GDO Mevzuatı ve Biyogüvenlik Kurulu Çalışmaları/
Situation of GMO in Turkey and Activities of the Biosafety Commission
Yrd. Doç. Dr. Tahir BAYRAÇ
Nanoteknoloji ve Tarım/ Nanotechnology and Agriculture
Dr. Aslı AKYOL
GDO’nun Çocuk Gelişimi Üzerine Etkisi/ Impact of GMO’s on Child Development
15.30-15.40 Çay-Kahve Arası
15.40-16.30 PANEL
16.30-17.00 Kapanış Konuşmaları
17.00-17.30 Sertifika Dağıtımı
for more details, go to
http://www.binotek.org/tr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=544&Itemid=240
How to reach us:
By public transport: Metrobus direction Beylikdüzü/TÜYAP, get off one stop before terminus (Hadımköy), take the blue bus 418 or the yellow (sometimes green or red and white) HT18 towards Hadımköy (ca. 15 min. to Fatih Kampüsü).
By car: leave the TEM at Hadımköy gişeleri, turn right and follow the signs for Fatih Üniversitesi
Manuel Knoll’s Talk at Fatih University on John Rawls’s Theory of justice
Prof. Manuel Knoll of Fatih Üniversitesi will give a seminar talk at Fatih University, hosted by Fatih Üniversitesi İdeal Gençlik Kulübü.
The title of Manuel’s talk is
John Rawls’ Theory of Justice – a critical introduction
Date: Tuesday, 27 November 2012
Time: 1-2 pm
Room: Evliya Çelebi Seminar Hall (M-229)
John Rawls’s Theory of Justice is a work of political philosophy and ethics. It was originally published in 1971 and revised in both 1975 (for the translated editions) and 1999. In A Theory of Justice, Rawls attempts to solve the problem of distributive justice (the just distribution of goods in a society) by utilising a variant of the familiar device of the social contract. The resultant theory is known as “Justice as Fairness”, from which Rawls derives his two principles of justice: the liberty principle and the difference principle
In 2000 he earned a PhD in Philosophy, Political Science and History from the University of Munich. Since 1998 he has been lecturing at the University of Munich and at the Munich School of Political Science.
In 2008 he achieved his habilitation and venia legendi in Political Theory and Philosophy. In 2011 he became a Professor of Philosophy at Fatih University, Istanbul.
How to reach us:
By public transport: Metrobus direction Beylikdüzü/TÜYAP, get off one stop before terminus (Hadımköy), take the blue bus 418 or the yellow (sometimes green or red and white) HT18 towards Hadımköy (ca. 15 min. to Fatih Kampüsü).
By car: leave the TEM at Hadımköy gişeleri, turn right and follow the signs for Fatih Üniversitesi
Announcement on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/425357907532130/
Talk at Koc: ‘Expressive bodies and imaging desire: Deleuze’s practical Spinozism’
‘Expressive bodies and imaging desire: Deleuze’s practical Spinozism’
just seen this: Monday 5 Nov. 2012 Koç University
Social Sciences Seminars: Marjorie Gracieuse
Author: CSSH
Time: 14:00
Location: CAS 134
‘Expressive bodies and imaging desire: Deleuze’s practical Spinozism’
Marjorie Gracieuse
The ethical gesture common to Spinoza and Deleuze is not only that of classifying images and concepts according to what they make us feel, see, think and do, but also that of promoting a new understanding of imagination, conceived as psycho-physical power both capable of hindering and intensifying our life. If imagination first determines our servitude, rendering us dependent on impressions and external causes, it is also the necessary step towards a more intense and enlightened life, for it signals the body’s intrinsic power to reinvest the traces of its impressions and develop a new comprehension of its perceptive and cognitive processes. This paper explores the ambivalent status of images in Deleuze’s philosophy in light of Spinoza’s theory of images in order to understand in what sense, for Deleuze, the act of creation, whether it be philosophical, scientific or artistic, is always to be conceived as an imaging act of resistance to the present of established values or clichés. Indeed, the desiring production that emanates from the passionate bodies that we are does not cease to disrupt the rigid codes and lines that make us believe in the apparent necessity of this world’s organisation. Not only does creation bear a visionary value that escapes any historical determinations and judgements of expertise, but it also signals, through its multiple cultural expressions, an inalienable potential of inner liberation common to all living bodies.
Please join us for a lecture by Dr. Marjorie Gracieuse on November 5th, 2012. Dr. Gracieuse is a post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Warwick, UK.
Civilisation and Change conference 3-4 Nov İSAM
Civilisation and Change conference 3-4 Nov İSAM
Panels in English, Turkish, Arabic
Venue is İSAM (29 Mayıs Üniv.) near Altunizade Metrobüs, NOT İSAR
Philosophy Student Conference in Sakarya
Sakarya Üniversitesi Felsefe Topluluğu 1. Sakarya Üniversitesi Felsefe Öğrencileri Kongresi’ni gerçekleştiriyor…
Sakarya Üniversiteli Felsefe Öğrencileri, Felsefe Bölüm Mezunları ve Sosyal Bilimciler 11 Aralık 2012′de Kongre Merkezinde fikirleriyle bir araya geliyorlar…
Barry Stocker at Fatih on Foucault and freedom
Yard. Doç. Barry Stocker of İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi will speak at Fatih University.
The title of Barry’s talk is
Active Liberty and Freedom of Speech in Michel Foucault
Date: Thursday, 18 October 2012
Time: 3pm
room: tba (or ask at security lodge upon arrival)
How to reach us:
By public transport: Metrobus direction Beylikdüzü/TÜYAP, get off one stop before terminus (Hadımköy), take the blue bus 418 or the yellow (sometimes green or red and white) HT18 towards Hadımköy (ca. 15 min. to Fatih Kampüsü). After the event, there is an E-60 express bus to Mecidiyeköy at 5pm
By car: leave the TEM at Hadımköy gişeleri, turn right and follow the signs for Fatih Üniversitesi
Conf. Health, Culture, and the Human Body 13-15 Sept 2012
Conf. Health, Culture, and the Human Body 13-15 Sept 2012
Demographic change in a globalized world raises not only social and economic issues but also ethical problems within the medical system of aging societies. Medical care for elderly people cannot be conceptualized and organized without considering a cultural understanding of aging and the economic and social circumstances of a given society. In this regard this conference will focus on ethical, historical and epidemiological perspectives of aging in a global world. Further subjects of the conference are the beginning of life and sexually transmitted diseases, which will also be discussed from an interdisciplinary perspective.
This conference will focus on selected cases from Turkey, Germany, and other countries closely connected by substantial migration processes, as they had been earlier through medical scientific exchanges and common clinical practice. After the well received first round held in Germany (Mainz) in 2010, the aim of the Istanbul conference is to establish a discussion platform for different ethical considerations among historically connected countries.
Clinical Ethics · Concepts, Problems and Challenges (Workshop Istanbul)
On 17 September 2012, the second workshop will be held at the new Besikcizade Medical Humanities Center (Beşikçizade Tıp ve İnsani Bilimler Merkezi, BETİM), launched by hayatvakfı (http://www.hayatvakfi.org.tr/ ).
Prof. Dr. Hans-Martin Sass (USA/Germany) will lead a one-day workshop on the topic ‘Clinical Ethics · Concepts, Problems and Challenges’ from 9.15am to 4pm.
Description of the Workshop:
In parallel with the scientific developments in modern medicine we observe an increase in the number of ethical problems arising in medical practice. Solving these problems has become a complex task. Especially in the last 20 years, clinical ethics has come to the fore as an academic discipline addressing these issues. In this workshop, world-renowned philosopher Hans Martin Sass will first outline the historical development of clinical ethics in the Western world and then discuss ethical decision making in clinical everyday life and its challenges. Subsequently, he will introduce the Bochum Working Paper, which he himself developed as a tool for solving medical ethical problems. Finally, his concept will be analyzed in its application to interesting and complex clinical cases.
Prof. Dr. Hans-Marin Sass is a Founding Member of the Zentrum für Medizinische Ethik (Center for Medical Ethics) at Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany, and Emeritus Senior Research Scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA, as well as Honorary Professor at Peking Union Medical College in Beijing, China, and Academic Fellow at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies. He read philosophy and religious studies in Erlangen, Marburg and Münster, Germany. He earned his PhD 1962 at Münster University with a thesis on Hegel’s Philosophy of Religion. Having published widely on Hegel, Marx, and Heidegger, for the last 30 years Sass has focused on Political Philosophy and Applied Ethics.
Workshop languages are Turkish and English (with simultaneous translation provided).
Registration is required electronically by 7 September 2012, please, contact betim.bilgi@yandex.com, providing your name, institutional affiliation, mobile phone number, and e-mail address
how to get there
Medical History Workshop at New Research Institution for Medical Humanities in Istanbul
On 11 September 2012, the first ever event will be held at the new Besikcizade Medical Humanities Center (Beşikçizade Tıp ve İnsani Bilimler Merkezi, BETİM), launched by hayatvakfı (http://www.hayatvakfi.org.tr/ ).
Prof. Dr. Werner Kümmel from Mainz University Medical Center (Germany) will lead a one-day workshop on the topic ‘Medicine and National Socialism’ from 9.15am to 3.30pm.
Workshop languages are Turkish and German (with simultaneous translation provided).
Registration is required electronically asap, please, contact betim.bilgi@yandex.com, providing your name, institutional affiliation, mobile phone number, and e-mail address
CfP Proclus Conference in Istanbul Dec. 2012
Archai: Proclus Diadochus of Constantinople and his Abrahamic interpreters
In commemoration of the 1600th anniversary of the birth in Constantinople of Proclus, fourth last head of the Platonic Academy, we invite scholars to present papers both on all aspects both of Proclus’ own thought and of his reception in the Abrahamic traditions. The conference will be hosted by Fatih University and Yildiz University (Istanbul) from December 12-16, 2012 in Istanbul.
Prof. Carlos Steel (K.U. Leuven) will give the keynote lecture for the entire conference. There will be three plenary lectures: Prof. Wayne J. Hankey (Dalhousie University / University of King’s College (Halifax)) on the Christian reception; Prof. Richard C. Taylor (Marquette University; visiting professor at K.U. Leuven & Universidad Panamericana) on the Islamic reception; and Prof. Tzvi Langermann (Bar-Ilan University) on Jewish reception. Prof. D. O’Meara (Universität Freiburg) will give a public lecture on Proclus’ influence on the architecture of the Haggia Sophia, together with a choral concert of sacred music by the chamber choir, ChorISTanbul. A conference outing will be planned for Sunday, December 16.
Papers will be 20-25 minutes long, although there may be some flexibility given some merit. Please submit an abstract of approximately 300-500 words by Friday, September 14, 2012 to David Butorac at Proclusinistanbul@gmail.com, with letters of acceptance issued by Monday, September 17.
For further details:
http://www.archai.org/conferences/abrahamictrilogy/Proclusinistanbul
[The site should be up any day!]
The advisory committee includes:
David Butorac (Fatih University)
Süleyman Dogan (Yildiz University)
Carlos Steel (K.U. Leuven)
Dominic O’Meara (Universität Freiburg)
Wayne J. Hankey (Dalhousie / University of King’s College (Halifax))
Dimitri Gutas (Yale University)
Caroline Macé (K.U. Leuven)
Marije Martijn (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam)
Bert van den Berg (Universiteit Leiden)
Confirmed speakers include:
Carlos Steel, Dominic O’Meara, Wayne J. Hankey, Tzvi Langermann, Stephen Gersh (University of Notre Dame), Helen Lang (Villanova University), Thomas Curran (University of King’s College, Halifax), Sarah Klitenic-Wear (Stubenville University), Menahem Luz (University of Haifa), Tim Riggs (University of Jyväskylä), Michele Trizio (University of Bari), J.M. Charrue (Université de Lille III, Paris), Levan Gigineishvili (Ilia State University), Andras Kraft (Central European University), Frederick Lauritzen (Fondazione per la Scienza Religiose), Georgios Steris (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens), Gheorghe Pascalau (Universität Heidelberg), Gary Gabor (Boston College), Torrance Kirby (McGill University), Danny Layne (Georgia Southern University), John Walbridge (Indiana University), Eugene Afonasin (Novosibirsk State University) and Anna Afonasin (Novosibirsk State University)
Additional conference funding will be sought through TÜBİTAK (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey).
Jeremy Bell at Fatih Üniversitesi
Taking Pains: Plato on the Care of Self and Others
Mon. 10 Sept. 2012 12:00 noon
Hadımköy Campus, room A-306 (İbn-i Haldun Anfisi, previously known as Blue Hall)
Speaker’s abstract:
In this paper, I analyze the relationship between ethics and politics in Plato’s thought in order to demonstrate that Plato understood this relationship to be characterized by an ineradicable element of agonism and instability. Drawing upon texts such as the Apology, Alcibiades I, Gorgias, and Symposium, as well as upon Foucault’s late works, I take the epimeleia heautou, “the care of the self,” as the organizing theme of my analysis, in order to show that this agonism has the aporetic result that, though Plato conceived of the ethics of the care both of oneself and others as the truest form of statesmanship, he was nevertheless unwilling or unable to generalize it into an unproblematic political system.
How to reach us:
By public transport: Thankfully, the metrobus extension has been completed. Direction TÜYAP, get off one stop before terminus (misleadingly called Hadımköy), take the blue bus 418 or the yellow (sometimes green or red and white) HT18 towards Hadımköy (ca. 15 min. to Fatih Kampüsü)
By car: leave the TEM at Hadımköy gişeleri, turn right and follow the signs for Fatih Üniversitesi
Ziauddin Sardar at Fatih University
http://events.fatih.edu.tr/?events%2C1856&language=EN
| Muslim Writers in the West Debates- 2 |
| Event Type: Conference |
| Date / Time: 24 April 2012, Tuesday 13:00-15:00 |
| Place: D Block Conference Hall |
| Participants: Fatih University |
| Organizer: Akademeia & Praxis Club |
| Contact: 0212 866 33 00/ 4066 / kuluplerofisi@fatih.edu.tr |
| Relevant Unit: |
| On Tuesday 24 April 2012 Professor Ziauddin Sardar is visiting Fatih University to discuss his work on Muslims in the West. This event is part of a Muslim Writers in the West Series that the Sociology Department is holding in conjunction with the English Language and Literature Department at Fatih University.
This is the second in the series. Last year, Mohsin Hamid, acclaimed author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist, came to campus. That event proved to be a major success, and it is anticipated that this year’s event will have an even greater following. |
Andrea Pető (Budapest) at Fatih University 10 April 2012 1.30pm
Andrea Pető (Central European University Budapest, Department of Gender Studies, see
https://gender.ceu.hu/profiles/faculty/andrea_peto )
will give a talk on
Contextualising far right wing movements and gendered mobilization in Hungary
Tue. 10 April 2012
Christiane Czygan (Hamburg) at Fatih University (2 more)
Tuesday 3 April 2012
14.00-15.30
Christiane Czygan (Hamburg)
“Sources of Inspiration and the Relevance of Westernisation for Ottoman Intellectuals and Statesmen in the 19.th Century”
Room to be announced
Fatih University is at the Hadımköy exit of the TEM motorway towards Edirne
Public transport: 418 bus from Yenibosna Metro (ca. 60 min), E-60 bus from Mecidiyeköy (less than 60 min, but quite rare – will miss beginning of talk)
Johannes Fritsche (Boğaziçi) at Fatih University
My first attempt at blogging, sorry for potential mishaps
Tuesday 27 March 2012
14.00-15.30
Johannes Fritsche (Boğaziçi Üniversitesi)
“Kant’s Ethics as an Explanation of Common Sense”
Fatih University is at the Hadımköy exit of the TEM motorway towards Edirne
Public transport: 418 bus from Yenibosna Metro (ca. 60 min), E-60 bus from Mecidiyeköy (less than 60 min, but quite rare – will miss beginning of talk)
