Last week, the Department of Performing Arts organized its “Ancient Drama Week” and hosted five students from the ALEF University of Iran as well as Professor Mirali Fotouhi and Delaram Habib Piran. Throughout the week, the Iranian theatre students joined second-year Bilkent Performing Arts students in attending two master workshops.[Read More…]
On Tuesday, November 15, the Republican People’s Party’s (CHP) Chairman Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu gave a speech at Bilkent. The event, organized by Atatürkçü Düşünce Topluluğu, filled the Bilkent Concert Hall to capacity with 800 students, staff members and professors. Mr. Kılıçdaroğlu shared his reflections on economics and current political issues as[Read More…]
A team of students from the Faculty of Engineering recently came in third in the Digital Turkey Blockchain Hackathon-Digiathon competition with their project MikroVeri. The team included Kaan Aydeniz (CS/I), Ege Aybars Bozkurt (EE/II), Kadir Metehan Çalışkan (EE/III) and Utku Koca (ME/I). The competition was held on November 12 and[Read More…]
November 10, 2022, marked the 84th anniversary of the death of Turkey’s beloved Atatürk. Bilkent University commemorated the solemn occasion over the course of two days with several events. On the morning of Thursday, November 10, members of the Bilkent community gathered at Bilkent’s Atatürk Monument to observe a moment[Read More…]
With the cooperation of Ankara Metropolitan Municipality and Bilkent University Department of Communication and Design, valued sites of the capital Ankara, included in the UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List, were depicted in a selection of short films. As part of the 33rd Ankara Film Festival, Gordion, Hacı Bayram Veli Mosque,[Read More…]
On October 20, Mexican chef Laura Cabrera visited the Department of Tourism and Hotel Management to offer the master class “The basis of Mexican Food: Nixtamalization” to Bilkent Students and Members of the Gastronomy Club. This was part of a set of activities that Chef Cabrera realized during her stay[Read More…]
The Kalbiye Tansel and Çiğdem Barçan Tansel Thesis Awards, organized by the Graduate School of Economics and Social Sciences, were presented on Tuesday, October 25, with a ceremony at the Oğuz Tansel Center for Turkish Literature. The ceremony began with opening remarks by Director Prof. Refet Gürkaynak. Prof. Aysıt Tansel,[Read More…]
Volunteers from Günköy (The Sun Rises from the Village), a project of the student volunteer organization TDP, recently spent a weekend working at Sinandı Gökkaya Primary and Secondary School in the village of Gökkaya, Aksaray. Günköy has been active since 2010 in helping villages where school facilities are inadequate, visiting[Read More…]
The Faculty of Academic English Program (FAE) has started The Çiğdem and Hossein Dabir Award for Excellence in Short Fiction. The award is intended for Bilkent students who display exceptional proficiency in the short fiction form. Current applicants were selected from ENG 312 – Introduction to Creative Writing through their[Read More…]
On Thursday, October 20, the Social Sciences Research Society hosted the Homeland Party’s (Memleket Partisi) Chairman Muharrem İnce at the Bilkent Concert Hall. The event, which filled the hall, attracted hundreds of interested students. In his speech, Mr. İnce touched on economics and current political issues as well as the[Read More…]
