The next meeting of the Scientific Council of the Institute of Literature in 2021 was held. The meeting was attended by members of the council, heads of various departments of the Institute, as well as the director of the Baku Yunus Emre Institute Selcuk Karakilich and a representative of TIKA Elmir Lachin.
The scientific council was opened by the vice-president of ANAS, director of the Institute of Literature named after Nizami Ganjavi, academician Isa Habibbayli, who acquainted the participants with the current issues. Academician Isa Habibbayli said that inviting Turkish intellectuals to our Scientific Council has become a tradition. Then the employees of the institute congratulated doctors of philology Rauf Sadikhov on their 80th, Shahbaz Musayev on their 60th and Tarana Aslanova on their 60th anniversaries. The winners of the "Scientist of the Year" nomination were awarded diplomas to Doctors of Philology Islam Garibli, Basira Azizaliyeva and Gulnar Gasimli in the "Young Scientist of the Year" nomination.
Academician Isa Habibbayli spoke about the "Year of Yunus Emre" in Turkey and the upcoming tasks of the Institute of Literature named after Nizami Ganjavi
He added that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has declared 2021 the Year of Yunus Emre. In this regard, we owe it to ourselves to do our best to support. The third volume of the ten-volume "History of Azerbaijani Literature" is dedicated to Yunus Emre. In addition, we will implement a number of joint projects with TIKA and the Baku Yunus Emre Institute. We will publish Yunus Emre's book and organize a conference dedicated to him. We also plan to visit his grave in Gakh.
Director of the Baku Yunus Emre Institute Selcuk Karakilic and TIKA representative Elmir Lachin expressed satisfaction with the cooperation.
Then the issue of establishing the named awards of the Institute of Literature named after Nizami Ganjavi was considered, the issue of establishing the awards named after Hamid Arasli, Mammadjafar Jafarov, Yashar Garayev, Abbas Zamanov was discussed.
Celebration of the 80th anniversary of Nushaba Arasli, Head of the Department of Regular Studies, Corresponding Member of ANAS, Celebration of the 90th anniversary of Chingiz Sasani, Leading Researcher of the Department of Medieval Azerbaijani Literature, Doctor of Philosophy, Associate Professor, Volume VIII of the History of Azerbaijani Literature (Independence Period) Issues on the state of readiness were also discussed.
Scientific Secretary of the Institute, Doctor of Philosophy in Philology Mehman Hasanli On the inclusion of the Institute's journals "Azerbaijan Literary Studies", "Poetics.izm", "Comparative Literary Studies", "Philology and Art History" in the idealonline scientific database of Turkey and international He spoke about the results achieved in the preparation of standards and the tasks ahead.
Samir Sattarov, Head of the Education Department, Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology, informed about the approval of the scientific supervisors and topics of those admitted to the doctoral program for the preparation of PhD for 2020.
The monograph "Saviors" by the chief researcher of the department of oral folk literature and written monuments of Azerbaijan, doctor of philological sciences, professor Gazanfar Pashayev (Scientific editor and author of the foreword: academician Isa Habibbayli, reviewer: academician Nizami Jafarov) was recommended for publication.
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