• Learning and Doing (Making) for a Healthy Society?

    Learning and Innovation Skills for the Future (Diler Öner): The purpose of this talk is to examine the educational outcomes we should be focusing on for the future. Drawing the parallels between industrial revolutions and education in history, I will discuss the potential transformations in education in the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. I […]

  • Service Robots in Healthcare

    In his lecture at the Orient-Institut Istanbul on 18 December 2019, Prof. Dr. Oliver Bendel from Zurich, Switzerland is going to deal with care robots as well as therapy and surgery robots. He will present well-known and less known examples and clarify the goals, tasks and characteristics of these service robots in the healthcare sector. […]

  • Ancient DNA and our Future: Techno-Scientific and Ethical Reflections

    Ancient DNA (Füsun Özer): Ancient DNA (aDNA) research focuses on the analyses of degraded DNA fragments extracted from archaeological remains such as bones, teeth and hair. These DNA molecules are sequenced to obtain individuals’ genomes, which are analysed for inferring kinship, demographic history, biological adaptations, and genetic diseases. The earliest aDNA studies mostly focused on […]

  • Self-efficacy and help-seeking behavior among women with the experience of Intimate partner violence

    According to global data, intimate partner violence and its corresponding impact threaten the lives of almost 35% of women at some point in their life. The aim of this research was to explore the effects of intimate partner sexual violence on women’s sense of self-efficacy. The participants, 10 women with experiences of intimate partner sexual […]

  • Doktor ↔ Hasta ↔ Teknoloji: Fenomenolojik ve Sosyolojik Yaklaşımlar

    Tıbbın Epistemik Serüveni: Bir Biyopolitik Fenomenoloji Denemesi (Özen B. Demir): Tıbbın, bütün “insancıl” ve inter-disipliner vurgulara inat, bir tür kendiliğinden ideoloji şeklinde varlığını sürdüren fizikalizmi, mekanik ve şabloncu paradigması esasında bir tür “ucube fabrikası” olarak çalışır. Tıbbın hegemonik bilim rejimi bünyesindeki tevellüdü modernite öncesine, antikiteye dek uzatılabilir. Bu koordinattaki elzem kavram ise “isonomia”dır. İsonomia ideali, […]

  • A Hungarian Pianist ay the Ottoman Court: Géza Hegyei

    Orient-Institut Istanbul Şahkulu Mah., Galip Dede Cad. No. 65, Beyoğlu, İstanbul, Turkey

    A HUNGARIAN PIANIST AT THE OTTOMAN COURT: GÉZA HEGYEI Orient-Institut Istanbul June 2023 Exhibition, Lectures, and Concerts at the Historic Clubhouse Teutonia