Thinking: The Ruin

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.

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

For information on program and speakers, see:
www.khas.edu.tr/en/news/istanbul-sergi1.html

Program:
Friday 22 May
Matthew Gumpert: Opening Remarks: Catachresis, or the Ruin
Walid Raad: Sweet Talk

Monday 25 May
Trevor Hope: City as Monument: Pierre Loti

Tuesday 26 May
Trevor Hope: City as Archive: Orhan Pamuk

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

Thursday 28 May
Jalal Toufic: Transit Visa to the Labyrinth!

Friday 29 May
Pelin Tan: Did You Say Architectonic Homo Sacer or Vampires?


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.

Related links:
www.jalaltoufic.com
www.theatlasgroup.org
www.fai.org.lb
www.e-flux.com/journal/view/16
www.yesarchitecturenoarchitecture.blogspot.com