You are kindly invited to the seminar titled as \u2018 \u201cReligion and Science\u201d: The late Ottoman case in a global debate\u2019, organised by the Department of History.<\/p>\n
Date: 12 October 2023, Thursday
\nTime: 16.30<\/p>\n
Avenue: AZ-31 Department of History\u2019s Seminar Room<\/p>\n
Title: \u201cReligion and Science\u201d: The late Ottoman case in a global debate
\nSpeaker: M. Alper Yal\u00e7\u0131nkaya<\/p>\n
Abstract:
\nThe late nineteenth century was a time of intense debate about the relations between religion and science. Some of the most influential works making the case that science and religion could only be in conflict were published in this period, and comparing religions in terms of their compatibility with science became a popular intellectual activity in many parts of the world. In this talk, I will provide examples to the late Ottoman debate on science and religion, and argue that rather than being a debate shaped exclusively by internal dynamics, the Ottoman case can be seen as consisting of specific contributions to a global debate, and better understood in terms of actors and ideas that traveled between different contexts. A main conclusion of this approach is that the global debate on \u201creligion and science\u201d ultimately involved the construction of \u201creligion\u201d and \u201cscience\u201d as universally applicable categories.<\/p>\n
Bio:
\nM. Alper Yal\u00e7\u0131nkaya received his BA and MA in Sociology from Middle East Technical University, and his PhD degree in Sociology and Science Studies from the University of California, San Diego. After having worked as assistant and associate professor of sociology at Ohio Wesleyan University between 2010 and 2022, Yal\u00e7\u0131nkaya returned to Turkey and joined TED University\u2019s Department of Sociology.<\/p>\n
A historical sociologist of science and religion, Yal\u00e7\u0131nkaya has numerous journal articles and is author of Learned Patriots: Debating Science, State and Society in the Nineteenth Century Ottoman Empire (University of Chicago Press, 2015). Yal\u00e7\u0131nkaya\u2019s research interests also include social theory, cultural sociology, sociology of art, sociology of emotions, and intellectual history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
You are kindly invited to the seminar titled as \u2018 \u201cReligion and Science\u201d: The late Ottoman case in a global debate\u2019, organised by the Department of History. Date: 12 October 2023, Thursday Time: 16.30 Avenue: AZ-31 Department of History\u2019s Seminar Room Title: \u201cReligion and Science\u201d: The late Ottoman case in [\u2026] <\/p>\n