Aptullah Kuran Lectures

Prof. Carlo Ginzburg
Fiction and History, a Close up: Israel Bertuccio, “Rebellious Plebian”   
Rectorate Conference Hall, 7 April 2005.

Prof. Natalie Zemon Davis
Trickster Travels: Leo Africanus between Worlds
Rectorate Conference Hall, 4 April 2006.

Prof. Oleg Grabar
Islamic Culture and the Art of the Object
Rectorate Conference Hall , 5 April 2007

Prof. Nasser Rabat
The Prison House of Identity: A Critique of Contemporary Islamic Architecture
Rectorate Conference Hall, 1 April 2008

Prof. Gülru Necipoğlu
Aesthetics of Ornament in the Ottoman and Safavid Regimes of Visuality
Rectorate Conference Hall, 1 April 2009

Prof. Stephen Greenblatt
Shakespeare’s Beauty Marks
Rectorate Conference Hall, 1 April 2010

Prof. Zainab Bahrani

The Speaking Image (Ekphrasis) Art and Inscriptions in Mesopotamia

Rectorate Conference Hall, 4 April, 2011

Prof. Ussama Makdisi

The Artillery of Heaven: American Missionaries to the Ottoman Empire and the Question of Imperialism

Rectorate Conference Hall, 5 April 2012

Prof. Carol Gluck

Modernity in Common: Japan and World History

Rectorate Conference Hall, 2 April 2013