In accordance with the Decree of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan on declaring 2025 “Year of Constitution and Sovereignty” in Azerbaijan, a republican scientific conference on the topic “National statehood and folklore” was held at the Institute of Folklore and in accordance with the Decree of the Head of State “On the celebration of the 80^th anniversary of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences”, a scientific session on the topic “Travelers on the road from Azerbaijan Research and Education Society to ANAS: Azerbaijani folklorists” was held.

AZERTAC reports that this was mentioned by Hikmat Guliyev, Director of the Institute of Folklore, Doctor of Philological Sciences, at a meeting of the Scientific Council dedicated to the report on scientific and scientific-organizational activities for 2025. The director noted that also in the current year, within the framework of the tasks arising from the implementation of the decrees of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan on the celebration of the 190^th anniversary of Seyid Azim Shirvani, the 100^th anniversary of Bakhtiyar Vahabzade, the 150^th anniversary of the Azerbaijani national press and the 140^th anniversary of the great Azerbaijani composer Uzeyir Hajibeyli, the Institute of Folklore organized scientific sessions on the topics of “Seyid Azim Shirvani: folkloric thought and classical artistic interpretation”, “Folklore context of Bakhtiyar Vahabzade’s creativity”, “National memory and press: from oral word to social concept”, as well as the international scientific symposium “From Ashiq Alasgar to Uzeyir Hajibeyli: Cultural codes of the Turkic world”. The mentioned scientific sessions, conferences and symposiums were held in the context of joint discussion and cooperation among scholars conducting research in the fields of folklore studies, literary studies, art studies, musicology, as well as cultural studies.