The Istanbul Studies Center at Kadir Has University is pleased to present "Thinking: The Ruin", the first in a series of lectures by a select group of innovative scholars and artists willing to think beyond the narrow confines of traditional disciplines, and offered as a sequence delivered over the course of a week. Lectures will not necessarily focus on the city of Istanbul"per se"; Istanbul will be a frame, a foil, or a point of reference.

The "Istanbul Studies Center" is a newly opened academic research center at Kadir Has University providing a forum for innovative and interdisciplinary scholarship on the changing culture of the city of Istanbul, by way of symposia, seminars, fellowships, publications, and exhibitions.

"Thinking: The Ruin" will begin on Friday 22 May and run until Friday 29 May 2009. All lectures are in English, and will take place at 16:00 in the Fener Salonu, Kadir Has University, Cibali Campus.

Program
22 May 2009
Matthew Gumpert "Opening Remarks: Catachresis, or the Ruin"
Walid Raad "Sweet Talk"
Cocktail Reception

25 May 2009
Trevor Hope "City as Monument: Pierre Loti"

26 May 2009
Trevor Hope "City as Archive: Orhan Pamuk"

27 May 2009
Jalal Toufic "Ruins"
Film Screening: The Shining (18:00)

28 May 2009
Jalal Toufic "Transit Visa to the Labyrinth!"

29 May 2009
Pelin Tan "Did You Say Architectonic Homo Sacer or Vampires?"