 Bilkent University students were chosen this year to participate in the first ever International Student Conference on Georgia-Turkey, Archaeology and Ancient Art. The symposium was initiated in 2008 by Professor Vakhtang Licheli of the State University of Tbilisi, Georgia.
Four students from the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture gave a presentation on June 16, 2009: Ege Alper (GRA/III) about the Ottoman Calligraphy, Aslý Özcivelek (GRA/III) about the Temple of Artemis in Ephesos, Ceyda Kiymir (GRA/09’) about Muhammed the Black Pen (Mehmet Siyah Kalem) and Sinem Cano (FA/IV), about the mosaics of Zeugma. Assoc. Prof. Dominique Kassab Tezgör from the Department of Fine Arts, acted as Chair of the Jury.
Georgian students received their Turkish counterparts and hosted them in their houses. During their three-day visit in Georgia, the four Bilkent students scrolled around the picturesque streets of Tbilisi and Mskheta, experienced a supra, the Georgian banquet, and ate a lunch given by the Turkish Ambassador at his residence. The experience was a unique opportunity to learn to prepare and give an oral presentation in public. The students also discovered the unique traditions of a neighboring country and construct new friendships with its people.
The trip will be renewed in the Spring Semester 2010 in another conference that will expand with some students from Oxford University and from Bordeaux University in France.
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