The purpose of the meeting was to broadly discuss the idea of ​​developing the Abay Institute raised by the Head of State Kassym-Jomart Tokayev at the fourth session of the National Assembly, to define its place in Kazakh spirituality and to distinguish the future directions of the institute on a scientific basis. urged to work together.

Doctor of philological sciences, well-known abayatologist Tursyn Zhurtbay emphasized the importance of introducing Abai to the world as the spiritual leader of the nation. "Abai's words can be translated only by a person who deeply understands his soul. Therefore, quality translation is a spiritual responsibility," he said.

Nazarbayev University Professor, Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences Gultas Kurmanbay, in his report entitled "Complete human standing - justice", emphasized the need to find the spiritual origin of Alash's idea from Abay, and discussed the place of the concept of justice in Abai's philosophy.
L.N. Zhandos Aubakir, director of the Abay Academy at Gumilev Eurasian National University, and Almakhan Mukhametkalikovyna, head of the museum of the Abay school-gymnasium No. 87 in Astana, emphasized the need to unite the activities of the Abay centers into one channel in promoting the legacy of the great thinker.
Layla Mukhlisovna, a descendant of Abay, was specially invited to the meeting and spoke about her many years of work in the Abay Museum. gave an overview of the new works of Abai scholars.

Layla Demesinova, head of the Abai Institute at the "Til-Kazyna" center, introduced the projects of the institute, which has been working for five years. The Institute conducts Kazakh language training courses for the Kazakh diaspora and representatives of other nationalities in 8 countries of the world. Every year, 150 people learn the language from these courses, and the number of people interested in the Kazakh language and culture is growing year by year.

As the head of state Kassym-Jomart Tokayev noted, the Abai Institute should become a full-fledged cultural and educational institution aimed at promoting the Kazakh language and literature. The last conference is one of the steps in the realization of that spiritual responsibility together with the scientific community.
The work of the scientific conference held in offline and online format was attended by teachers of prestigious higher educational institutions of the country, doctoral students and master's students, qualified specialists in the field of language policy, experts of scientific research institutes.

Source : https://www.gov.kz/memleket/entities/language/press/news/details/990394?lang=kk