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
