April 05, 2022

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EXHIBITIONS

Until April 11

“Kaybolan Mimari Bellek: Ankara,” by Kemal Mükremin Barut, at the FADA Exhibition Hall.

Until April 22

“Distinguished Works,” organized by the Department of Interior Architecture and Environmental Design. The exhibition features projects, drawings, sketches and models created during the fall 2021 semester by students at all levels of the IAED program.

CONCERTS

Saturday, April 9, 8 p.m.

Bilkent Concert Hall

Bilkent Brass Ensemble

Görkem Ezgi Yıldırım, soprano

T. Susato | Susato Suite

G. F. Handel | “Lascia ch’io pianga” from “Rinaldo”

G. F. Handel | “Let the bright Seraphim” from “Samson”

G. Verdi | “Mercè, dilette amiche” from “I Vespri Siciliani”

E. Grieg | Holberg Suite, Op. 40

 

Saturday, April 16, 8 p.m.

Bilkent Concert Hall

“Ravel and Shostakovich”

Cem Mansur, conductor

Jérôme Pernoo, violoncello

D. Shostakovich | Cello Concerto No. 1 in E-flat major, Op. 107

M. Ravel | “Pavane pour une Infante Défunte”

M. Ravel | “Ma Mère L’Oye” Suite

TALKS

Wednesday, April 6

“Lale Müldür ile Şiir Üzerine,” by Lale Müldür, at FEASS, C-Block Auditorium, 4:30 p.m. Organized by the Department of Turkish Literature and the Oğuz Tansel Center for Turkish Literature.

EXHIBITIONS

Until April 11

“Kaybolan Mimari Bellek: Ankara,” by Kemal Mükremin Barut, at the FADA Exhibition Hall.

Until April 22

“Distinguished Works,” organized by the Department of Interior Architecture and Environmental Design. The exhibition features projects, drawings, sketches and models created during the fall 2021 semester by students at all levels of the IAED program.

SEMINARS

Wednesday, April 6

“Biodiversity in the Age of Genomics,”  at 3:30 p.m. Organized by MBG.

3:30 p.m. Welcoming Remarks by Özlen Konu

3:40 p.m. “Discovering Potential Taxonomic Biomarkers of Diseases From Human Gut Microbiota via Different Feature Selection Methods,” by Burcu Bakır-Güngör (Abdullah Gül University)

4 p.m. “Bacterial Diversity in Mytilus galloprovincialis (Lamarck, 1819),” by Elif Bozcal Dağdeviren (İstanbul University)

4:30 p.m. “Metagenomic Approach to Study Co-infections Among Distinct SARS-CoV-2 Variants,” by Jose A. Molina-Mora (University of Costa Rica)

4:50 p.m. “LotuS2: An Ultrafast and Highly Accurate Tool for Amplicon Sequencing Analysis,” by Ezgi Özkurt (Quadram Institute)

5:20 p.m. “From Genomes to Ecosystems: Tools and Approaches for Overcoming Scaling Challenges in Biogeochemical Modeling in the Age of Genomics,” by Ulaş Karaöz (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

Thursday, April 7

“Ways to Differentiate Instruction,” by Dr. Anita Alexander (Bilkent University), at 3:30 p.m. Organized by BTLSC. The event link may be obtained by sending a message to btlsc@bilkent.edu.tr

Friday, April 8

“Investigation of Individual Dust Particle Grains by Optical Tweezers for Space Applications,” by Dr. Alessandro Magazzù (ICPF CNR Messina, Italy), at EA-202, 2 p.m. Organized by ME.

BİLKENT ARCHAEOLOGY DAY

Friday, April 8 at 1:30 p.m.

The Environmental Challenge: Views and Lessons From Antiquity

Program

1:30 p.m.: Welcoming remarks by Dominique Kassab Tezgör (Chair, Department of Archaeology) and Stein Haugom Olsen (Dean, Faculty of Humanities)

1:45 p.m.: “Are Bipeds to Blame? A Look Into the Deep History of Interfering with the Environment” by Thomas Zimmermann (Bilkent University)

2 p.m.: “Wastefulness and Resilience: Human–Environment Interaction in the Hattian Mountains,” by Ulf-Dietrich Schoop (University of Edinburgh)

2:25 p.m.: “Thinking Environmentally in Mediterranean Archaeology,” by Catherine Kearns (University of Chicago)

3:15 p.m.: “Can Archaeology Save the Sea Turtles? Bioarchaeology in the Age of the Anthropocene,” by Canan Çakırlar (Groningen Institute of Archaeology)

3:35 p.m.: “Lessons From the Past? Uses and Misuses of Premodern Environmental History in the 21st Century,” by Lee Mordechai (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

3:55 p.m.: “Reflecting on Change,” by Marie-Henriette Gates and Charles Gates (Bilkent University)

SYMPOSIUMS

April 9-10

“Horizons in Molecular Biology and Genetics”

The event, which will be conducted online, in English, will host 12 speakers working in various research areas who will give talks on the most recent developments in their fields.

 


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