Conference Presentations by Nima Shafaieh
Hamid Notghi ("Aytan") : an Azerbaijani Turkish Iranian Polymath, 2003
[This paper was written for presentation, and presented, at MESA’s (Middle East Studies Associati... more [This paper was written for presentation, and presented, at MESA’s (Middle East Studies Association) annual meeting in 2003, in Anchorage, Alaska, as indicated below,* and later on, re-presented at CESS (Central Eurasian Studies Society) annual meeting at Indiana University, in Bloomington, Indiana, in 2004. Up until recently, on the occasion of Hamid Notghi’s commemorative events and celebrations for his 100th birth anniversary, having been held, and being held, primarily in Turkey, as well as having been held online with virtual meetings, in September of 2020, it has remained an unpublished paper. It was hoped that it would be published elsewhere for the first time, in a ‘gedenkschrift’ for Hamid Notghi, but due to the current state of the world –during this pandemic– it has not yet been printed as of this writing, since September of 2020 when it was submitted (and was hoped to have been published on Notghi’s centenary). This version includes some more corrections and updates. The title has been modified from the original, Hamid Notghi (“Aytan”) : Azerbaijani Iranian Author, Poet, Scholar (my unpublished paper was cited in Gilles Riaux's “Ethnicité et nationalisme en Iran: la cause azerbaïdjanaise". Paris: Karthala, 2012) ; since this paper’s content, subject(s) and topic, has been a “work-in-progress,” it has naturally evolved, but –still remains– an “unfinished work”: it is hoped that it shall continue to evolve! – an ‘expanded version’ was hoped to have become a Master’s thesis (on hold, at this time, as a thesis, due to a lack of academic support at the Near Eastern Languages and Cultures Department at OSU, but may become an independent/separate article, at a later date) and concentrate almost entirely on the vocabulary, word usage and lexical corpus building in Notghi’s poems, and his hopes for the future developments for, in, and of, Azerbaijani Turkish language, literary and cultural studies, and poetry. Nima Shafaieh, December 2021, Dublin, Ohio (USA)]
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Conference Presentations by Nima Shafaieh