Established in 2007 on the initiative of the then Rector Prof. Ali Doğramacı, the Bilkent University Seminar Series on Polity, Society and the World invites prominent scholars to give talks and meet with faculty members and students at Bilkent University. http://www.buss.bilkent.edu.tr
 | | "Optimism in the Anthropocene: Loss and Livable Futures in Post-Disaster Turkey" Prof. Christopher Dole Amherst College  2018-03-14 |
 | | Revolutionary Rebels and the Marxist Paradox Prof. Stathis N. Kalyvas YALE UNIVERSITY 2016-05-05 |
 | | Ethnography and Intervention in Complex Emergencies: Tensions between Local and Organizational Cultures Prof. ROBERT A: RUBINSTEIN Syracuse University 2016-03-14 |
 | | Locating Turkey in Comparative Party Progmmatic Policy Spaces Prof. Ali ÇARKOĞLU Koç University 2015-12-02 |
 | | Crisis and Resilience of Neo-Liberalism? Lessons From the Great Financial Crisis ANDREW GAMBLE Professor of Politics at the University of Sheffield 2014-12-02 |
 | | The Virtue of Comparison: On Times, Places, Issues, and Activities BERT KLANDERMANS Professor in Applied Social Psychology at Vrije University Amsterdam 2014-11-17 |
 | | Diversities in a Changing World: The Ottoman Empire and Turkey REŞAT KASABA Stanely D. Golub Professor of International Studies and Director of the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington 2014-10-23 |
 | | External Europeanization and the Limits to Transformative Power Europe: Turkey in Comparative Perspective TANJA A. BÖRZEL Professor of Political Science at the Freie Universität Berlin 2014-10-10 |
 | | Arminius Vambery: Traveller, Scholar, Politician JACOB M. LANDAU Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem 2014-05-08 |
 | | Jews, Turks, and Germans: Co-constituted Inter-Ethnic Space in the Production and Consumption of Culture Y. MICHAL BODEMANN Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Toronto 2014-04-10 |
 | | Is the Flood Tide over? Considerations on the Impact and Predicament of the Womens Movement in Turkey YEŞİM ARAT Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science and and International Relations at Boğaziçi University 2014-02-19 |
 | | Split City: Democratic Alliances at Urban Fault Lines BERNA TURAM Associate Professor of Sociology and International Affairs at Northeastern University, Boston 2013-12-23 |
 | | Turkey’s Experience with Democracy SABRİ SAYARI Professor of Political Science at Bahçeşehir University 2013-12-11 |
 | | Central Asia as an Emerging Multipolar System: The US-Russia-China Triangle and its Significance for Regional Security, Public Goods and Political Values ALEXANDER COOLEY Professor and Chair of the Political Science Department at Barnard College, Columbia University and Deputy Director of Columbia’s Harriman Institute 2013-10-22 |
 | | Liberalism in Comparative Perspective ANDREW VINCENT Emeritus Professor and Professorial Fellow at the Collingwood and British Idealism Centre, Cardiff University 2013-04-23 |
 | | Justice in International Negotiation: Peace Agreements, Trade, Arms Control, and the Environment DANIEL DRUCKMAN Professor of Public and International Affairs at George Mason University 2012-12-11 |
 | | Defending the Structuralist Moment and Worlds Beyond Levels DAVID L. BLANEY James Wallace Professor of Political Science at Macalester College 2012-11-07 |
 | | The Authority of Democracy and Human Rights RAYMOND GEUSS Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge 2012-10-16 |
 | | Backing into the Future: The Reinvention of Tradition in Britain STEPHEN PRICKETT Regius Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Glasgow, and Honorary Professor of the University of Kent at Canterbury 2012-04-17 |
 | | Social Dynamics of Civil War JEFFREY T. CHECKEL Professor of International Studies and Simons Chair in International Law and Human Security at Simon Fraser University 2012-02-16 |
 | | Women as Political Candidates in Turkey RICHARD E. MATLAND Helen Houlahan Rigali Professor in Political Science, Loyola University Chicago 2011-12-14 |
 | | With so Many Global Problems, Why so Little Global Governance? CRAIG N. MURPHY M. Margaret Ball Professor of International Relations at Wellesley College and Professor of Global Governance at the University of Massachusetts, Boston 2011-12-08 |
 | | Turkey, Islam, Nationalism, and Modernity CARTER V. FINDLEY Humanities Distinguished Professor in the Department of History at The Ohio State University 2011-10-13 |
 | | Self and Family in Socio-Economic-Cultural Context ÇİĞDEM KAĞITCIBAŞI Professor in the Department of Psychology and Director of the Center for Gender and Women’s Studies, Koç University 2011-05-02 |
 | | One Institutionalism or Many in the Study of Politics? B. GUY PETERS Maurice Falk Professor of American Politics at the University of Pittsburgh, and Distinguished Professor of Governance at Zeppelin Universität 2011-04-18 |
 | | Ottoman Empire and the Individual: Writing Civilizations, Writing Lives ŞÜKRÜ HANİOĞLU Garrett Professor in Foreign Affairs, Professor of Near Eastern Studies and Director of the Program in Near Eastern Studies in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University 2010-12-27 |
 | | Islam and the Politics of Gender: International Dimension and Domestic Struggles DENİZ KANDİYOTİ Professor Emeritus of Development Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London 2010-10-26 |
 | | Rethinking World Politics PHILIP G. CERNY Professor Emeritus of Politics and Global Affairs at the University of Manchester and Rutgers University 2010-10-25 |
 | | The Cold War and Contemporary Problems MELVYN P. LEFFLER Edward Stettinius Professor of History at the University of Virginia 2010-06-04 |
 | | The Sociology of Global Financial Crisis ANNA LEANDER Professor of International Political Economy at the Copenhagen Business School 2010-04-01 |
 | | Unipolarity and the Decline of Multilateralism? A Power-Theoretical Critique STEFANO GUZZINI Professor of Government at Uppsala University and Senior Researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies 2010-03-31 |
 | | The Republic of Love: Sentiment, Nation, and Popular Culture MARTIN STOKES Lecturer in ethnomusicology and the anthropology of music in the Faculty of Music at the University of Oxford, and Tutorial Fellow in Music at St John's College 2009-12-14 |
 | | Re-negotiating Europe PERTTI JOENNIEMI Senior Research Fellow in the Department for European Affairs at the Danish Institute for International Studies 2009-11-18 |
 | | Wake Up: International Relations at 90 KEN BOOTH Professor at the David Davies Memorial Institute of International Studies at the University of Wales at Aberystwyth 2009-06-16 |
 | | Coping with Change and Uncertainty: Political Context of Voter Re-alignment in Turkey ERSİN KALAYCIOĞLU Professor of Political Science in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Sabancı University 2008-12-25 |
 | | Youth Culture in a Global World PAULA S. FASS Margaret Byrne Professor of History in the Department of History at the University of California, Berkeley 2008-11-06 |
 | | The Red Dust of World Politics: Paradigms of Self and Other Compared between L.H.M. LING Associate Professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs at the New School, New York 2008-04-24 |
 | | Everyday Life in the Ottoman Empire: 18th Century Craftsmen in Istanbul SURAIYA FAROQHI Professor Emeritus of Ottoman Studies at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Berlin, and Professor of History at Bilgi University 2008-03-28 |
 | | World Poverty: Explanations and Responsibilities THOMAS POGGE Professor of Political Science at Columbia University, Professional Fellow at the ANU Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, and Research Director at the Oslo University Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature 2008-02-29 |
