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About
the Light Millennium's the 5th Anniversary events:
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Reflections from Sri Lanka & Tsunami
-- " Don't let globalization
to kill cultural diversity..."
-- "Adalet Agaoglu talked on the Turkish Novel
in New York" &
"The Geography of Novels," in Toronto.
-- Media Coverage & Summary of the events...
-- 5th Anniversary of the Light Millennium I:
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Reflections from Sri Lanka & Tsunami
A Power Point Presentation by:Bircan ÜNVER
Guest Speaker: Ambassador R. JAYASINGHE
for Sri Lanka.
Date: Monday, May 2, 2005
-- Please note: The date has changed from April 28 to
May 2.
Time: 7:00 Registration & welcoming
Starts: 7:30 PM
Venue: #821 United Nations Plaza,
Turkish House, 2nd Floor
(Between 46 St. & 1st Avenue)
New York City, New York
Organized by: Light Millennium
Language: English
Suggested donation: $5
Projection provided
by: Beyhan
Karahan & Associates, Architects
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5th Anniversary of the Light Millennium II:
Panel:
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Cultural Diversity, Removing Prejudice &
Fostering Global Connectivity
Moderator & Participant: David CUTHELL,
Director of Middle Eastern Studies @Stevens
Panelists: Tirlok MALIK, Founder & President
of the NRI TV Film Club, NY;
Etem EROL, Columbia University, and
Hossein KAMALY, Columbia University
Date: On Wednesday, May 4, 2005; Time: 5:00
PM
Project by: Bircan Ünver
Organization: Light Millennium
Co-producers: Bircan ÜNVER, David CUTHELL
& Prof. Edward FOSTER
Cosponsored by: Stevens Institute of Technology
Venue:
Kidde Building (central campus)
Kidde lecture hall, 228 Kidde
Stevens Institute of Technology
Hoboken, New Jersey
For location information: (201)
216-5399
-- Open to public. Donation will be appreciated.
-- There will be a reception follow by the panel, and
prior of Adalet Agaoglu's presentation...
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5th Anniversary of the Light Millennium III:
Developments
in the Turkish Novel Between 1970-80
(Türk
Edebiyati Romaninda 1970-80 Degisimleri Üstüne)
Three Lectures by:
Adalet AGAOGLU
-- English translation of the presentation
will be presented prior to the event for non-Turkish speakers,
and will be posted on the Light Millennium's web site
before the event.
Based on the Author's Novels: Lying to Die,
A Wedding Night, No and Summer's End
Opening
Remarks: by Bircan ÜNVER
Introduction
& Host by:
Prof. Sibel EROL, Director of NYU Middle Eastern
Studies
Follow by Adalet Agaoglu's presentation, there will
be a Q&A Session.
Co-producers: Figen BINGÜL & Prof. Edward
FOSTER
Organization: Light Millennium
Co-sponsored by: Stevens Institute of Technoloby
Date: On Wednesday, May 4, 2005
Time: 7:30 - 9:00 PM
Language: Turkish/English
Venue:
Kidde Building (central campus)
Kidde lecture hall, 228 Kidde
Stevens Institute of Technology
Hoboken, New Jersey
For location information: (201)
216-5399
COLUMBIA
UNIVERSITY - MANHATTAN
II- Adalet AGAOGLU (will be the same presentation)
Date: May 5, 2005, Thursday
Time: 7:30 PM
Venue:
Uris Hall, Room# 301
Columbia University,
New York City
Directions to Uris Hall: On 116 Street, between
Broadway & Amsterdam Avenues; walk 40-50 m. on College
Walk; you’ll see a black sculpture in front of a
domed building. Uris Hall is exactly behind that domed
building.
Co-Producers:
Bircan ÜNVER& Prof. Etem EROL
Incollabration with the Department of Middle East and
Asian Languages and Cultures.Departments (MEALAC)
at the Columbia University.
TORONTO
UNIVERSITY - KANADA:
III- Adalet AGAOGLU (will be the same presentation)
Venue: Toronto Universitesi /Canada
Date: Saturday - 7 Mayis 2005
Time: 4 - 7 PM
Organized by: Light Millennium
Incollabration with Ankara Library of Toronto,
Inc.
Co-Producers: Erhan BERBER & Figen BINGÜL
-- Open to to all public. -- Donation will be appreciated.
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Please note that below project has postponed to September
2007
A Cultural Journey in Turkey which aims to encourage creavity,
connection, enhancing knowledge, and sharing ideas and
impressions before and after the tour...
A
CULTURAL JOURNEY TO FIVE CITIES IN TURKEY & CAPPADOCIA
- SIVAS
Following footprints of AHMET HAMDI TANPINAR'S "BES
SEHIR" (FIVE CITIES)
Tour Dates:
Departure: September 3, 2005, JFK Airport, New York
Return: September 16, 2005, Ataturk
Airport, Istanbul
Organization: Light Millennium in collaboration
with ALP TRAVEL, INC.
Awards: 2 Free trip Awards will
be given..
2 awards will be given based on original and "Creative
Writing" contest" 1 for English 1 for Turkish
selected submission... Writing contest inspired by A.H.
TANPINAR's "BES SEHIR". You may choose the book
as an inspiration point or you may choose your own.
Restrictions: Who were attended to the FIVE CITIES
reading sessions are not eligible.
Deadline for the tour & writing contest: July
1, 2005 (The tour will be realized when we have reached
minimum 15 attendees.
Award Announcement by:
August 1, 2005
E-mail: contact@lightmillennium.org
-- For Aim &
Concept of the project & 2 Free Round Trip Awards>
-- Itinerary>
-- How to register
or submit for the creative writing contest?>
-- Terms &
Conditions>
Presented:
Readings from Turkish & World Literature
Open
Class II - Special Event:
The readings will be an open mic to all interested
attendees and based on Nurullah ATAÇ/AÇIK
SINIF II - Reading Evenings, and Mevlana's
Rubaiyat's as well as Poetry Readings from
Turkish & World Literature
Date: On Monday, April 18, 2005
Time: 7:00 PM
Venue: #821 United Nations Plaza,
Turkish House, 2nd Floor
(Between 46 St. & 1st Avenue)
New York City, New York
Producer: Bircan Ünver
Coordinator: Elif Ogüten
If you like us to provide you poems for your reading,
please contact with
Elif Ogutken by e-mail: elifoguten@hotmail.com
DJ: Baris Ursavas
For Poetry reading: Turkish & English
For more
information>
E-mails: aciksinif@lightmillennium.org
& contact@lightmillennium.org
Enrty: $5 Suggested donation
-- Seeking contributed musicians and performances
for this event.
Period
March 7 to April 18, 2008 - Completed.
Open Class II - On-Line, Turkish
OKUMA
AKSAMLARI/ACIK SINIF II (On-Line)
Nurullah ATAÇ'tan OKURUMA MEKTUPLAR ve
MEVLANA'dan RUBAILER (For April 18)
Starting Date: Monday, March 7, 2005
Period: March 7 to April 18, 2005
Event scheduled:
On Monday, April 18, 2004
Project by: Bircan Ünver
Project Co-Producers: Bircan Ünver & Figen
Bingül
Organization: Light Millennium
Language: Turkish
For more information: aciksinif@lightmillennium.org
Light
Millennium presented...
"YUNUS EMRE: TURKISH MEDIEVAL HUMANIST
MYSTIC"
A
presentation on the great Sufi writer Yunus Emre by Prof.
Dr. Talat HALMAN,
First Minister of Culture of the Republic of Turkey, with
Defne HALMAN, Actress
Date: Wednesday, February 23, 2005
Organized by: Light Millennium
Co-producers: Bircan Ünver & Prof. Ed Foster
Media Coordinator: Figen Bingül
Co-sponsored by: Stevens Institute of Technology
Place: Kidde Building (central campus)
Kidde Lecture Hall, 228 Kidde
Stevens Institute of Technology
Hoboken, New Jersey
For location information:
(201) 216-5399
Organized by: Light Millennium
http://www..lightmillennium.org
For more information: contact@lightmillennium.org
/or
TALISMANED@aol.com /or figenbingul@lightmillennium.org
Language: English
Accompanying Original Music by: Jeff PERETZ
-- Open to the public without
charge!
For
previous events from 2000 fo 2004>
© Originally Prepared by Bircan Ünver on February
23, 2005,
and presented to the Board of Directors of the organization
on March 7, 2005.
Updated
in March & April 2005. The
Light Millennium, New York.
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