Literature, Language and Education Research-EDEA 2024 symposium was held at Çankaya Municipality Doğan Taşdelen Contemporary Art Center between September 20-22, 2024. The main aim of the symposium was to contribute to scientific studies in these fields by addressing the interaction between literature, language and education from an interdisciplinary perspective. Accordingly, many academics, researchers, students and literature lovers from Turkey and around the world attended the symposium, where current issues and new developments in the fields of literature, language and education were discussed.

The symposium started on Friday, September 20 with the opening speech of Prof. Dr. Ömer Solak, the chairman of the organizing committee. Then invited speakers: Prof. Dr. Şükrü Haluk Akalın, “Artificial Intelligence in Turkish Language Studies”; Prof. Dr. Mustafa Özsarı, “The Use and Interpretation of Artificial Intelligence in Modern Poetry Literature”; Prof. Dr. Nurettin Demir, “Contemporary Turkish Dialects and Literature”. The audience listened with great interest to the determinations on the use of artificial intelligence in the field of language and literature, which has been on the agenda of the whole world in the last few years. After the invited speeches, the planned sessions of the symposium started simultaneously in Sabahattin Ali and Gülten Akın halls. The first day sessions were completed at 14.30 with a total of 16 papers. Afterwards, the participants collectively visited Anıtkabir with the vehicle provided by Çankaya Municipality.

The second day of the symposium started at 9.30 am. A total of 32 papers were presented in parallel sessions that continued until 15:00. Following the paper sessions, Prof. Dr. İbrahim Özden Kaboğlu delivered his invited speech “On the Relationship between Linguistics and Constitutional Science” via video conference. This was followed by the Panel section of the Symposium. In this section, a panel on “General trends in short stories after the 2000s” was moderated by Prof. Dr. Ömer Solak. In the panel, storyteller Şenay Eroğlu Aksoy, academician Assoc. Prof. Dr. Jale Özata Dirlikyapan and editor Mesut Varlık shared their views on different aspects of the issue with the audience.

The third day of the symposium was dedicated to online sessions organized through the Zoom platform. The online sessions, which took place in parallel sessions in four separate virtual halls, started with the speeches of the invited speakers. Prof. Dr. Nazım Hikmet Polat's “On Methodology in Literary Studies”, Prof. Dr. Yavuz Kartallıoğlu's “World Countries where Turkish is taught in the 101st Year of the Republic” and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Achmad Samsudin's “Interdisciplinarity in Social Sciences” were listened with great interest. Afterwards, a total of 65 papers were presented in five consecutive sessions in four different parallel halls. After the presentations of the online section, which continued until 17:00, and the closing session that followed, the EDEA 2024 Symposium came to an end.

The esteemed academics who attended the closing session made some evaluations and suggestions to the symposium organizing committee and their young colleagues. They drew attention to issues such as grouping the papers according to their relevance to each other; reconsidering the break times; including more papers on the first day in planning the symposium days; while preparing the papers, young academics should keep their theoretical grounds strong, pay attention to the distinction between theory and method, and show the necessary care while visualizing and presenting the information.

In conclusion, the Literature, Language and Education Research-EDEA 2024 symposium was an important academic meeting point in the field of literature, language and education in the capital of our Republic. Important contributions were made to the field with the papers presented and discussions held at the symposium. A consensus was reached to organize the symposium every year in the capital Ankara with face-to-face and online sessions and with a wide participation. We would like to take this opportunity to once again thank all stakeholders and participants who contributed to the organization of the symposium.