The international conference of “The Great Azerbaijani poet Nizami Ganjavi and Eastern-Western Literary-Cultural Heritage” will be held 23-24^th of December 2021 at Baku State University (BSU) (Azerbaijan) in collaboration with Lomonosov Moscow State University Baku Branch (Azerbaijan).

Great Azerbaijan poet and singer Nizami Ganjavi was a rare person who created a new path in the annals of literary thought. His heritage that has been inseparable part of our nation's morality maintains its worthy place in the treasure of Eastern culture. Announcing the year of 2021 as a "The year of Nizami Ganjavi” in Azerbaijan creates new opportunities for learning, investigating and propagating of Nizami's heritage. The international scientific conference on the theme of " Great Azerbaijan poet Nizami Ganjavi and East-West literary-cultural heritage" helps to learn, analyse and investigate Nizami Ganjavi's life and creative activity over all directions. It creates a chance to comprehend profoundly his human addresses in order to establish justice, peace and humanism in the world.

The conference will feature presentations in the following areas:

1. Nizami Ganjavi as the herald of human ideas
2. Nizami phenomenon in the history of philosophical thought
3. Nizami traditions in Azerbaijan literature
4. Nizami and history
5. Nizami and folklore
6. Nizami and world literature
7. Nizami and the literature of Turkic nations
8. The sources of Nizami’s works
9. Didactics in Nizami’s creative activity
10. Nizami’s public views
11. Nizami’s heritage in the context of world culture
12. Nizami studies at the present stages
13. The study of Nizami manuscripts from the view of textual studies
14. Translation problems of Nizami’s works: experience, problems and solutions

Abstract submission deadline : November 25, 2021

Abstract are submitted via an online submission system :  http://nizamiganjavi880.bsu.edu.az/#link5

Abstract guidelines:

Abstract must be prepared in the Azerbaijani, Turkish, Russian and English languages.

The name of abstract must be short (not more than 12 words).

Name of abstract: with capital letters, bold, 14-point, Calibri font

Full name of the author: bold, 12-point, Calibri font

Names of the organization, city and country: Regular, italic, 12-point, Calibri font

E-mail: Regular, italic, 12-point, Calibri font

Abstracts should be a maximum of 500 words. Paper format: A4; File format: *doc, *docx; 12-point Calibri font, 1 spaced; Margins: top-2.7 cm, bottom-2.0 cm, left-2.0 cm, right-2.5 cm.

The number of the referenced literature is indicated in the text (for example, [2])

References are given at the end of the text (for example, Abdullayeva M. What did Nizami write about?// Materials of scientific-theoretical conference on the topic of «H.Aliyev and Azerbaijani Philology». Baku, 22 may, 2019, p.37-43

Only accepted abstracts will be published.

Theses that do not correspond to the scientific directions of the conference will not be accepted. Conference materials (collection of articles and abstracts) will be published and relevant certificates will be issued to participants. Selected articles will be published in prestigious journals.

Place of Conference and contact details:

Baku State University, AZ1148, Zahid Khalilov str.,33.

Tel.: (+99412) 5390373

Mob.: (+99451) 610 53 79  və (+99450) 741 21 85

E-mail: mehribanalizada@bsu.edu.az

Web-site: http://nizamiganjavi880.bsu.edu.az/