Week 1: “Introduction to the Semester”
Mujadad Zaman, Amina Nawaz and Betül Avcı (Boğaziçi University)
Garanti Cultural Centre, 22 September 2025, 17:00

Week 2: “Every Skull and Bone Tells a Story: Bioarchaeology and Its Applications in Archaeology”
Rula Nuri Baysan (Yeditepe University)
Garanti Cultural Centre, 29 September 2025, 17:00

Week 3: “Homer: Storytelling, Heroes and Tricksters”
Nagihan Haliloğlu (Boğaziçi University)
Garanti Cultural Centre, 06 October 2025, 17:00

Week 4: “The Greek Divide: Plato and Aristotle”
Mujadad Zaman (Boğaziçi University)
Albert Long Hall, 13 October 2025, 17:00

Week 5: “Confucian Benevolence”
Sam Crane (University of Oxford)
Albert Long Hall, 20 October 2025, 17:00

Week 6: “Is Belief Knowledge or Experience? A Comparative Analysis within and beyond the Monotheistic Tradition”
Saeko Yazaki (University of Glasgow)
Albert Long Hall, 27 October 2025, 17:00

Week 7: “Violence and Non-Violence in Ancient India: Resolving Ethical Tensions in the Bhagavad Gita”
Richard King (SOAS, University of London)
Albert Long Hall, 03 November 2025, 17:00

Week 8: “Daily Life in the Roman Empire”
Paolo Maranzana (Boğaziçi University)
Albert Long Hall, 10 November 2025, 17:00

Week 9: “A Lost Heart amid the Veil of Appearances: Reflections on Al-Ghazzali's Intellectual Crisis”
Omneya Ayad (Üsküdar University)
Albert Long Hall, 17 November 2025, 17:00

Week 10: “Agustine and Macrina's Embrace of the Cross in the Following of Christ”
David Dawson Vasquez (University of St. Thomas)
Albert Long Hall, 24 November 2025, 17:00

Week 11: “From Al-Farabi to Maimonides to Talmudic Interpretation Among Ottoman Jewry”
Daniel Boyarin (University of California, Berkeley)
Albert Long Hall, 01 December 2025, 17:00

Week 12: “Geopolitical Ethnographies: European and Islamicate Encounters in the 13th Century”
Adnan Husain (Queen's University)
Albert Long Hall, 08 December 2025, 17:00

Week 12: “When The Land Sings Back: Polyphonic Kinship in the Sayan-Altai Mountains”
Robert O. Beahrs (Center for Advanced Studies in Music (MIAM), Istanbul Technical University)
Albert Long Hall, 15 December 2025, 17:00