Oct 9, 2017 – Oct 16, 2017

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CONFERENCES


Friday, October 13
Nanocolloquium Series: “Guest Binding and Structural Reorganization in Stimuli-Responsive Coordination Cages and DNA G-Quadruplexes,” by Prof. Guido H. Clever, at the UNAM Conference Room, 3:40 p.m. Organized by UNAM.

 

TALKS


Wednesday, October 11
“Democracy and Health,” by Assoc. Prof. Simon Wigley (Bilkent University), at FEASS, A-130, 12:30 p.m. Organized by POLS.

Thursday, October 12
“Games ‘They’ Play, Games Played on ‘Us’: A Comparative Approach to Fantasies of Espionage in British and Turkish Literatures,” by Doruk Tatar (University of Buffalo), at FEASS, A-130, 4:40 p.m. Organized by the Center for Turkish Literature.

 

LECTURES


Wednesday, October 11
“Excavations at Komana near Tokat,” by Prof. Burcu Erciyas (METU), at FEASS, H-132, 5:40 p.m. Organized by HART.

 

SEMINARS


Tuesday, October 10
“Nanostructured Functional Thin Films Through Vapor Phase Deposition,” by Assoc. Prof. Gökhan Demirel (Gazi University), at FS, SBZ-14, 12:40 p.m. Organized by CHEM.

Tuesday, October 10
“7 Decades of the United Nations and Global Economic Challenges,” by Prof. Anis Chowdhury (University of Western Sydney and former director of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, at FEASS, A-130, 1:30 p.m. Organized by FEASS.

Friday, October 13
“Neonatal Imitation in Context,” by Asst. Prof. Nazım Keven (Bilkent University), at FEASS,
A-130, 12:40 p.m. Organized by PHIL.

CONCERTS

Bilkent Symphony Orchestra
“Fantastic Cencic”
Saturday, October 21, 8 p.m.
Bilkent Concert Hall
Christian Schumann, conductor
Max Emmanuel Cencic, countertenor

W.A. Mozart, “Cara, lontano ancora” and “Ah, di sì nobil alma” from “Ascanio in Alba”
W.A. Mozart, “Venga pur” from “Mitridate, Rè di Ponto”
Rossini, Overture to “La Gazza Ladra”
Rossini, “O patria!” from “Tancredi”
Prokofiev, Symphony No. 6 in E flat minor

 

Bilkent Symphony Orchestra
“The Spirit of Festivity With Strings”
Saturday, October 28, 8 p.m.
Bilkent Concert Hall
Michael Maciaszczyk, conductor

Elgar, Introduction and Allegro, Op. 47
Barber, Adagio for Strings
Purcell, Chacony in G minor (Arr. by B. Britten)
Britten, Prelude and Fugue, Op. 29
Holst, “St. Paul’s Suite”
Warlock, “Capriol Suite”

Bilkent Symphony Orchestra
The “Environmental Symphony” With Halit Ergenç
Saturday, November 4, 8 p.m.
Bilkent Concert Hall
Matthew Coorey, conductor
Giorgi Kharadzé, violoncello
Halit Ergenç, narrator

Haydn, Concerto for Violoncello No. 2 in D major
Zavoud, “Environmental Symphony”