{"id":11376,"date":"2026-09-21T20:12:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T17:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/?p=11376"},"modified":"2026-09-28T15:04:24","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T12:04:24","slug":"philfest-returns-for-fifth-year-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/?p=11376","title":{"rendered":"PhilFest Returns for Fifth Year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>PhilFest \u201926, now in its fifth year, will take place on <strong>Saturday, September 26,<\/strong> at the Spring Festival Area. Organized by the Department of Philosophy, the Bilkent Philosophical Society, the Bilkent University Library, the Bilkent Psychological Counseling and Development Center and the Bilkent Teaching and Learning Support Center, the festival aims to present philosophy not only as an academic field but as an experience connected to music, dance, art, science and daily life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The program will feature talks, a Lindy Hop dance workshop, \u201cWomen in Philosophy\u201d Pecha Kucha presentations, quiz competitions, exhibitions, interactive posters, a book fair and \u201cCome, Let\u2019s Discuss\u201d tables. The festival runs from <strong>11 a.m<\/strong>. to <strong>6 p.m<\/strong>., and admission is free. Visitors who are not Bilkent students or staff must register at<strong> philfest.bilkent.edu.tr<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the evening, the Bilkent Symphony Orchestra will perform at Bilkent Odeon in a concert with commentary by A. Onur Akta\u015f, bringing philosophy and classical music together on the same stage. The concert begins at <strong>7 p.m<\/strong>.; tickets are available at <strong>bso.bilkent.edu.tr.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PhilFest \u201926, now in its fifth year, will take place on Saturday, September 26, at the Spring Festival Area. Organized by the Department of Philosophy, the Bilkent Philosophical Society, the Bilkent University Library, the Bilkent Psychological Counseling and Development Center and the Bilkent Teaching and Learning Support Center, the festival<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/?p=11376\">[Read More&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11204,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,80,226,224],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11376"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11377,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11376\/revisions\/11377"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}