Volume 13, Number 27
24 April
2007





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Bilkent Tulip Days' Program

Seminars
Tuesday, April 24
5:30 p.m.
in the FEASS Building, C-Block Auditorium
Opening speech:
Prof. Ali Doğramacı
Speech:
"The Ottomans and the Tulip" by Prof. Talat Halman
6:30 p.m.
in the Bilkent University Library Art Gallery
Opening reception of the Ottoman art exhibition: "Lâlezâr an Ottoman Garden"

Wednesday, April 25
2 p.m.
in the FEASS Building, A-131
Panel: The Tulip Age Gül İrepoğlu "Lale Devri Üzerine"
Salim Aydüz / Fatih Çalışır "Lale Devri İlmi Çalışmalarına Bir Bakış: Tercüme Faaliyetleri"

Thursday, April 26
11 a.m. in the FEASS Building, A-131
Panel: The Tulip in Science
Prof. Tayfun Özçelik "Çiçeklerin Renkli Dünyasına Molekülerin Penceresinden bir Bakış"
2 p.m. in the FEASS Building, A131
Panel: The Tulip in Art and Literature
Özge Öztekin "Lale Devrinden Cumhuriyet Dönemine Metinlerarası İlişkiler Bağlamında Lale İmgesi"
Ahmet Kartal "Türk Kültüründe ve Edebiyatında Lale"
Hans Theunissen "From Holland with Love: How the Double Dutch Hyacinth Conquered the Ottoman Empire"

Friday, April 27
2 p.m. in the FEASS Building, A131
Panel: The Tulip in Trade and International Relations
Asst. Prof. Paul Latimer "The Context of Seventeenth Century Dutch 'Tulipmania'"
Bülent Arı "Hollanda ve Osmanlı İlişkileri"
Asst. Prof. Edward Kohn "Maple Leaf and Tulip: Canadian-Dutch Relations during World War II and the Origins of the Ottawa Tulip Festival"
3:30 p.m. in the FEASS Building, 'C' Block Auditorium
Coffee and Tea Break
4:30 p.m. in the FEASS Building, 'C' Block Auditorium
Closing speech:
Prof. Halil İnalcık
5:30 p.m. in front of the FEASS Building
Closing reception


Exhibitions
April 24-28 at the Bilkent University Library Art Gallery (10 a.m. to 9 p.m.)
"Lalezar, an Ottoman Garden"
The Tulip in Tezhib and Ebru. (An Exhibition by Bahtiyar Hira and Hümeyra Yücel)
The Tulip in Ottoman Traditional Art (An Exhibition from the Collection of Alper Yurdemi, Çeşni Türk El Sanatları)

April 24-28 at the Bilkent University Library Entrance
"Children and Şukufenameler"
The Bilkent Library entrance, decorated by the students of the Bilkent Preschool.

April 24-28 at the FEASS Building, History Department Corridor
"The Reign of the Tulip"

Ebru Workshop
April 25-27 in the FEASS Building Main Entrance from 1 p.m. onwards
Ebru Workshop by Bahtiyar Hira


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