Aptullah Kuran Memorial Lectures

The Aptullah Kuran Memorial Lecture is an annual event organized jointly by the Boğaziçi University President’s Office and the Department of History. Professor Aptullah Kuran (1927-2002), one of the leading historians of Medieval Anatolian and Ottoman architecture, was president of Boğaziçi University from 1971 to 1979, following the nationalization of Robert College, and the founding chair of the Department of History. Every year, the department honors the memory of Professor Kuran by inviting a distinguished scholar to offer a public lecture. The Memorial Lecture series is an occasion to cherish, in a pubic forum, the primary tenets of academic life at Boğaziçi University: open, critical thinking and academic freedom.