Seminar Ali Avni Çelebi’s Masked Ball Painting: An Allegory of Turkish Modernism

6 May 2027 - In this session of the Philosophy Seminars, we will examine Ali Avni Çelebi’s 'Masked Ball' through the theories of Jameson and Belting, and discuss the tension between aesthetic modernism and social modernization.

Seminar The Collective Voice of Paintings at Historical Thresholds: From Images of Desire to Utopian Landscapes

15 April 2027 - In this session of the Philosophy Seminars, starting from Ernst Bloch’s concept of 'images of desire', we will examine utopian landscapes in paintings and discuss the question 'How can we think society through paintings?' guided by Giotto and Franz Marc.

Seminar Merleau-Ponty and Cézanne’s Doubt

4 March 2027 - In this session of the Philosophy Seminars, we will examine Cézanne’s doubt from Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenological perspective, and discuss the silent dialogue with nature and the artist's creative freedom.

Seminar From Cave Paintings to Taş Tepeler (The Land of Great Transformation): An Inquiry into Images of Humans and Animals

18 February 2027 - In this session of the Philosophy Seminars, we will examine prehistoric art, extending from cave paintings to Taş Tepeler, and discuss the continuity in human-animal figures and the enigma of visibility.

Seminar An Attempt at a Dialogue between Adorno and Caravaggio: Representation, Image and the “More” of the Work

7 January 2027 - In this session of the Philosophy Seminars, we will examine Caravaggio’s works from an Adornian perspective, discussing the problem of representation, the image, and the work’s conceptually inexhaustible “more”.

Seminar A Problem of Freedom: The Openness That Painting Holds

10 December 2026 - "How is free existence possible?" In this session of the Philosophy Seminars, we discuss the ontological domain art opens up from necessity to freedom, extending from Kant's disinterested gaze to Heidegger's artistic openness.

Seminar Painting and Philosophy: The Mimetic Anatomy of a Profound Relationship

19 November 2026 - Drawing on the final chapter, titled “The Truth of Mimesis,” of Oğuz Haşlakoğlu’s Commentary on the Politeia (Politeia Şerhi), this talk addresses the intricate relationship between painting and philosophy.

Seminar (CANCELLED) State of the Art in Digital Technologies: New Wave AI, Promises, and Problems

23 May 2026 - What does the "New Wave Artificial Intelligence" promise us for the future, and what problems does it inherently contain? In this presentation, we will try to address how we should strike a balance between these two poles.

Seminar Against the Black Box: Context, Actor, and Practice in Communication Technologies

17 May 2026 - In this talk, we will develop a social-constructivist critique of communication technology by focusing on the triad of context, actor, and practice while examining the place of communication technologies in social change.

Seminar Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work

18 April 2026 - The future of work, one of the prominent topics in the ongoing debate surrounding artificial intelligence, must be considered precisely in this context of social contradictions, relationships, hierarchies, and power relations.

Seminar Technological Art: Creation Processes in the Dialectic of Human and Technology

15 March 2026 - In this talk, we will attempt to question and examine the creation processes in the dialectic of human and technology, looking through the perspective of homo technologicus and focusing on Selçuk Artut's artworks.

Seminar Artificial Intelligence and the Possibility of Creativity

25 January 2026 - In this seminar, we will address the philosophical debate on creativity through the relationship between embodiment and the capacity for abstraction, reflecting on whether artificial intelligence can be seen as an accomplice that reveals the radical possibilities of abstraction.