The second Cultural Conversation was held at TACC-Madison on March 1, 2009. The speaker was Tuncer Berat Edil, a prominent Turkish professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Professor Edil has received his BS and MS in civil engineering from Robert College in Turkey and his PhD in civil engineering from Northwestern University. He has been on the faculty at UW-Madison since 1973. He has founded the Geotechnical Engineering program at UW-Madison. He has received many awards during his academic career including the prestigious 2007 TUBITAK …

The first Cultural Conversation was held at TACC-Madison. The speaker was distinguished Kemal Karpat who is a Turkish historian and professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Kemal Karpat firstly began with the good wishes and hope to Cultural Conversations.
I wish the new intention to be successful and continuous. There are very distinguished friends in Madison. Every month if you invite them, and come together to talk about different issues, it will be possible to get closer and learn something from each other. … Hopefully Cultural Conversions will be ongoing success.
He …