Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences

An international scientific conference on the theme “Founders and Lessons of the First Turkological Congress: History and Modernity” has opened at the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences (ANAS). The conference is dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the First Turkological Congress.

Linguists, historians, ethnographers, literary scholars, and cultural researchers representing Turkey, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Russia, Hungary, Germany, Poland, and Georgia will present the current issues of Turkology from the perspectives of various scientific schools.

The conference program includes presentations on the following topics: “The Historical and Social Necessity of Convening the First Turkological Congress,” “Contributions of the Organizers and Leading Figures of the Congress to Turkology,” “Impact of the Congress Resolutions on the Scientific and Cultural Development of Turkic Peoples,” “Research on Turkic Languages, Alphabet and Terminology Issues, Methodological Approaches,” “Development Dynamics of the Congress Ideas During the Soviet Period and Afterwards,” “Challenges Facing Turkology in the Independence Era,” “Prospects for Turkological Research in the Global Scientific Environment,” and “Largely Unexplored Behind-the-Scenes Aspects of the Congress.”

Translation by Gulhane Aghayeva, Department of Public Relations, Press, and Information, Presidium of ANAS.

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