Name Roida Rzayeva | ||
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Born February 3, 1979 (age 45)
Azerbaijan ( 1979-02-03 ) |
Roida Oktay Rzayeva (Azerbaijani: Roida Oqtay qızı Rzayeva; born on February 3, 1979, Baku, Azerbaijan Republic) is an Azerbaijani Philosopher, Orientalist, Doctor of Science in Philosophy, Associate Professor.
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Biography
Roida Oktay Rzayeva was born in 1979 in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan. In 1996 she has accomplished the high school with the awards of honor.
In 2002 Miss Rzayeva graduated Turkish Department of Oriental Studies Faculty in Baku State University with the bachelor honors diploma and in 2002 acquired master honors diploma of the same department mentioned.
From 2001 to 2010, she worked as a simultaneous interpreter in conferences and events at state and international levels.
In 2004 Rzayeva had a training in the Embassy of the Republic of Turkey in Azerbaijan.
Scientific-pedagogical activity
From 2002 to 2011 she worked at the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, in the Institute for Oriental Studies named after Academician Z.M. Bunyadov.
In 2007 Rzayeva defended her Ph.D. thesis on philosophical sciences (title of Ph.D. thesis: “The Socio-Cultural Analysis of Modernization in Modern Turkey”) in the Institute for Oriental Studies named after Academician Z.M. Bunyadov, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences.
From 2003 to 2004 and from 2007 to 2008, Rzayeva gave lectures at Turkish Department of Oriental Studies Faculty, Baku State University.
From 2002 to 2005, she worked as a teacher and a head of Russian Department at FONO Institution of Open Education under the Ministry of Education, Republic of Turkey.
From January 2011 till March 2017 she worked as a deputy director of Institute of Philosophy, Sociology and Law of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences.
In 2013 she became an associate professor.
From 2005 to 2010 Rzayeva was a chairman of the Young Scientists’ Council of the Institute for Oriental Studies named after Academician Z.M. Bunyadov and a chairman of Department for Humanitarian and Social Sciences of Youth Intellectual Development Center in Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences.
From 2008 to 2010, Rzaeva was a member of an editorial board of the scientific journal “Transactions of young scientists", published on initiative of the Centre of Intellectual development of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, the Ministry of Youth and Sports of Azerbaijan Republic and the Society of Young scientists, post-graduate students and masters.
From 2012 to 2017, she was deputy editor-in-chief of journal "Scientific Works" which has been published in Institute of Philosophy and Law, National Academy of Sciences.
In 2013 Rzaeva was elected the chairman of the Council of young scientists and experts of Institute of Philosophy, Sociology and Law, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, and in 2014 - a member of the board of the Council of young scientists and experts of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences.
In 2016 Rzayeva defended her D.Sc. thesis on philosophical sciences (title of D.Sc. thesis: “Postmodern and Analysis of Development` Concepts of Turkish Public Consciousness”) in Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences.
Rzayeva is a co-author of the textbook named “The Development Ways of Turkish Literature” (in Russian, Baku, 2001), the author of books “Turkish Modernization in Russian and Azerbaijani Sources” (in Turkish, Ankara, 2012), "Postmodern and multiculturalism: interdisciplinary discourse" (in Russian, Baku, 2015), "Non-Western contemporaneity in the discourse of postmodern and cultural polyphony" (in Russian, Baku, 2015), "The Challenges of Contemporaneity: Postmodernity and Multiculturalism" (in English, Springer, 2016), and she is an author of over one hundred and twenty publications and reports, the most part of which has been published abroad. She has 40 certificates.
She has investigations on Turkish culture, literature, Mihri Khatun, Nedjati, Mevlâna, Yunus Emre, Ibn Sina, Al-Ghazali, socio-cultural transformations in Turkey and non-Western societies, etc.
Currently her researches and writings are devoted to different philosophical problems, especially concerning fields as philosophy of culture, philosophical anthropology: referring to unveiling the concepts of development of public conscience, especially in the postmodern condition and under influence of contemporaneity tendencies, multiculturalism, and alternative modernities, globalization, gender, post-Soviet area issues as well.
Awards and honors
She was awarded with a diploma of the Ministry of Education of Azerbaijan Republic for the best report at the section of Oriental Studies (2002).
Rzayeva was awarded with the honorary diploma of Youth Intellectual Development Centre for distinguishing herself in pursue youth policy, taking active stand in matters of defence interests of young scientists and on the occasion of 2007 - Youth’s Year in Azerbaijan (2007).
She was obtained the diploma and the award “Young Scientist of the Year” for her scientific achievements in 2007 (2008).
Rzayeva became a prize-winner of the international award in a nomination “Social Sciences” at the international competition of the young scientists of countries of the CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States) (2010).
The honorary diploma of Department of Social Studies, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences on the occasion of 70-year-old anniversary of ANAS for long and fruitful scientific activity (2015).
She has been officially thanked for organizational, pedagogical and research activity by the Ministry of National Education of the Republic of Turkey (2003-2008), Ege University of the Republic of Turkey (2010), the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the Republic of Azerbaijan (2011), the Ministry of Family and Social Policy of the Republic of Turkey (2013), Turkish Academy of Sciences (2014).