Week 1: “Ibn Khaldun and The Cyclical Conception of History”
Mehmet Akif Kayapınar (Istanbul University)
Albert Long Hall, 18 February 2025, 17:00

Week 2: “The Renaissance: Man As the Measure of All Things”
Mujadad Zaman (Boğaziçi University)
Albert Long Hall, 25 February 2025, 17:00

Week 3: “The Fading of Aristotle: Galileo, The Telescope and New Astronomy”
Hasan Umut (Boğaziçi University)
Albert Long Hall, 04 March 2025, 17:00

Week 4: “Advice For Princes: Snapshots from Counsels for Ottoman Sultans”
Fatih Ermiş (Orient Institut Beirut)
Albert Long Hall, 11 March 2025, 17:00

Week 5: “Evliya Çelebi As the Narrator of His Personal History”
Suraiya Faroqhi (Ibn Haldun University)
Albert Long Hall, 18 March 2025, 17:00

Week 6: “The Self and the Collective: From Social Contracts to AI Utopias”
Jonathan Keir (University of Tübingen)
Albert Long Hall, 25 March 2025, 17:00

Week 7: “The Responsibility of Reason: On Kant's 'What is Enlightenment?'”
Christian Schlenker (University of Tübingen)
Albert Long Hall, 08 April 2025, 17:00

Week 8: "The Role of the State in the Economy: Historical, Ideological, and Policy Perspectives"
Mustafa Metin Başbay (Boğaziçi University )
Garanti Cultural Centre, 15 April 2025, 17:00

Week 9: "Responses to Western Modernity: Fukuzawa Yukichi and Japanese Modernism"
Ayşe Selçuk Esenbel (Boğaziçi University )
Albert Long Hall, 22 April 2025, 17:00

Week 10: "Historical Patterns of Resistance and Resilience"
Amina Nawaz (Boğaziçi University )
Garanti Cultural Centre, 06 May 2025, 17:00