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THE TURKIC CULTURE AND HERITAGE FUND, WITH THE PARTICIPATION OF THE M.O. AUEZOV INSTITUTE OF LITERATURE AND ARTS AND THE NATIONAL COMMISSION OF THE REPUBLIC OF KAZAKHSTAN FOR UNESCO AND ISESCO, HELD AN INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC AND PRACTICAL SYMPOSIUM ON THE THEME "CULTURAL HERITAGE OF THE PEOPLES OF THE WORLD: ETHNOMUSIC, ETHNOPHORIA, ETHNOGRAPHY"
3/13/2025
1:30 PM
The Turkic Culture and Heritage Foundation, in collaboration with the M.O. Auezov Institute of Literature and Art, with the participation of the National Commission of the Republic of Kazakhstan for UNESCO and ISESCO, held the International Scientific and Practical Symposium "Cultural Heritage of the World's Peoples: Ethnomusicology, Ethnophore, Ethnography" on March 12-13, 2025, in Almaty, Kazakhstan. The symposium was dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the publication of the collection "1000 Songs of the Kazakh People" by the scholar and ethnographer A.V. Zataevich.
As part of the symposium, a presentation of the book "The Legacy of A.V. Zataevich in the Value-Semantic Space of the 20th-21st Centuries: Science – Culture – Society" took place, along with a final meeting of experts on the multinational nomination of the epic "Alpamys Batyr."
The main event held by the Foundation during the symposium was the First Online Meeting of the International Advisory Committee for the creation of a Multilingual Multivolume Folklore Collection of Turkic Peoples, initiated by the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan, H.E. Mr. Shavkat Mirziyoyev, at the 11th Summit of the Turkic States Organization in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, on November 6, 2024.
The goal of the project is to present the intangible cultural heritage of the Turkic peoples as a unified cross-cultural phenomenon that fosters mutual understanding and unity within the Turkic world.
The multivolume publication will cover various genres of folklore, such as fairy tales, ritual songs, legends, proverbs, sayings, riddles, and others, and will be accompanied by multimedia content in both audio and video formats.
The online meeting was attended by delegations from Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Türkiye, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Hungary, including leading scholars specializing in the folklore of Turkic peoples and representatives of research institutions working in the field of folklore studies.