Concert Chief Adjuah

Two-time Edison Award-winner, six-time Grammy Award nominee and a Doris Duke Award in the Arts awardee Chief Adjuah will perform at Zorlu PSM Turkcell Platinum Stage on the evening of October 2, as part of the 35th Akbank Jazz Festival.

Seminar Problems of Philosophy of Technology: Human and Machine Interaction

16 May 2024 - How does the use of artificial intelligence impact our ability to problem-solve and make decisions by aiding in analysing data and identifying unanticipated correlations? How are digital technologies contributing to the social processes of meaning-making?

Seminar Crisis of Recognition: Pathologies of Emotional Capitalism

25 April 2024 - This seminar aims to explore the novel pathologies arising from emotional capitalism through the lens of critical theory, and to propose methods for overcoming the "crisis of recognition", which pervades contemporary society with its economic, social, and psychological ramifications, eroding solidarity.

Seminar Identity Impasse: A Phenomenological Approach to the Problem of Identity

22 March 2024 - An essential yet overlooked aspect of identity debates surrounding race, gender and religion is that there is another basis on which distinctions are formed. Neglecting this foundation - one which arises only when contemplating existence and experience - can result in an "identity impasse".

Seminar Interactivism: A Theory of Mind Based on Movement

22 February 2024 - In this presentation, we aim to comprehend a movement-based representation theory.

Seminar Heidegger and the Crisis of Thinking

18 January 2024 - Heidegger discusses the crisis of thought and notes that the concept of thinking has been obscured and there is insufficient thinking. However, it remains unclear how thinking can be lost or vanish and what type of crisis this entails.

Seminar The Pathology of Community

14 December 2023

Seminar Naming the Age: Environmental Philosophy from "Anthropocene" to "Capitalocene"

23 November 2023

Seminar Artists and Curators – Can they be happy together? - Alistair Hicks

Alistair Hicks uses his experience of buying and commissioning works of art for Deutsche Bank, his role as an art critic for Newspapers and Magazines, and as curator of exhibitions and spaces, to explore whether artists and curators can be happy together.

2nd Akbank Jazz Festival