Scientific activity
The Department of Kazakh Literature, being one of the authoritative departments of the ENU named after L.N.Gumilyov, along with the educational process, is actively engaged in research activities.
Articles of the faculty of the department are regularly published in international rating publications, bulletins of the Kazakh National University named after Al-Farabi, National Pedagogical University named after Abay, Pavlodar, Karaganda, Kokshetau universities, Reports of the Kazakh Academy of Education, scientific and methodological international journal «Білім және өркениет» and others. These publications are further continued in monographs.
The teaching staff of the department takes an active part in scientific conferences held in the republic and abroad, in particular Turkey, Russia, Azerbaijan, Tatarstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan. Thus, the VI International Symposium for the Study of the Turkic World. - Bakı: Elm vә Tәhsil, 2019; Uluslararası Kutadgu Bilig Kurultayı. - Ankara, 26-28 Eylul, 2019; “Europe and the Turkic World: Science, Engineering and Technology V International Scientific and Practical Conference. 2020 (Ankara, Turkey), "Social Sciences and Humanities and Social Technologies: Perspectives, Priorities and Forecasts." International scientific and practical conference. www.scipro.ru. St. Petersburg, 2019; "Teaching foreign languages and applied linguistics" IX international conference. - Tashkent, 2019. "Abai is a great personality of the Turkic world" international symposium dedicated to the 175th anniversary of Abai Kunanbayuly. - Izmir, 2020.
In April 2020, seminars were held on the following topics: "Scientific internship and research practice: results and results"; "Writing research papers and the results of their implementation" (organized - M.S. Orazbek).
Within the framework of the annually held international scientific conference of students and young scientists "GYLYM JANE BILIM" (in kazakh), a section of Kazakh literary criticism is organized, where they make their reports, and receive directions of research.
On April 7, within the framework of the decade "Bilim zhane gylym - 2020", the Department of Kazakh Literature held a scientific and educational seminar on the topic "Ult tulgalary zhane gylym". The seminar was organized by members of the scientific circle "Zhas Galym".
If the report "aLash arystary" examines the well-known scientific works of representatives of the Alash movement, the report "KOs Academician" analyzes the fundamental scientific works of academicians R.Nurgali and S.Kaskabasov. On the basis of the reports conducted, informative slides (presentations) were shown.
In the 2020-2021 academic years, the teaching staff of the department won scientific projects funded by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan 3 scientific projects:
- "Humanitarian scientific space of the XXI century: integration of sciences and literary criticism" (supervisor - S.Sh. Aytuganova) - 2020-2021.
- World and national archetypes in the work of Abai "(supervisor - M. Orazbek) - 2020-2021
- "Poetic thesaurus of Abai's poems" (supervisor - J. Aimukhambet) - 2021-2023.
Monographs: S. Aituganova. The poetics of small prose. Astana: "FOCUS", 2025. -137 P.; M. Orazbek, K. Baitanasova. The typology of urban children in fiction. The monograph. Astana: IP "Akhtaev U. E.", 2025. 240 P.; B. Kurganbekov. Khoja Akhmet Yasavi in the Kazakh world. Almaty: Era, 2025-368 P.; K. Baitanasova. Aesthetics and literature. The monograph. - Astana: Master of Software, 2025. - 224 p.
Scientific projects: Aimukhambet. Head of the scientific project "AP09259039-poetological thesaurus of Abai's poems" for 2021-2023, funded by grants from the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan; J. Aimukhambet. The executor of the scientific project "Linguistic and cultural codes" for 2022-2024" AP14870245–Akhmet Yasavi"Divani Hikmet", funded by a grant from the NGO RK; K. Kemenger, S. Zhumagul. G. Saginadin. The scientific project "Literature of the Alash period: the context of integrative folklore studies and a new scientific paradigm" within the framework of grant funding for 2022-2024.
International project: The study of the cultural heritage of the Great Silk Road by the scientific Center "Cultural and Literary Heritage of the countries of the Great Silk Road" at Samarkand State University.Sharofa Rashidova (Uzbekistan): executor of the project "Cultural and literary heritage of the countries of the Great Silk Road" (on a contractual basis, 03/01/2023-12/30/2023 intervals).
