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On December 17, the AUCA Department of Anthropology held an award ceremony dedicated to those students who were selected to receive the Mary Schweitzer Scholarship for Excellence in Antropology.

Mary Schweitzer Scholarship for Excellence in Anthropology welcomes applications from promising students of Anthropology, Technology and International Development Department at AUCA. The aim of this scholarship is to support students who show commitment to and excellence in anthropology. This year, the scholarship fund raised over $3000.

AUCA is glad to announce that students of the Anthropology, Technology and International Development Department are welcome to apply for Mary Schweitzer Scholarship for Excellence in Anthropology.

Anthropology Department announces INTERNATIONAL ANTHROPOLOGY VIDEO CONTEST DEDICATED TO THE INTERNATIONAL ANTHROPOLOGY DAY - FEBRUARY 18Deadline: February 18, 2021Participants: high school students from Central Asia and Afghanistan, as well as students of the NGA Program and Technical School of Innovation AUCA.

Dinara Abildenova, a senior lecturer of Kazakh National University named after Al-Farabi gave a presentation "Marriage ceremonies in Kazakhstan: Norms and their change" on September 30, within the AUCA Anthropology Club meeting. In this presentation she focused on social changes that took place in Kazakh marriage ceremonies after the country’s independence.

This symposium aimed to create a common platform for both undergraduate and master students to present their senior and master theses and projects, discuss them and exchange their feedbacks.

On Saturday, December 1, the Division of Social Sciences held the 1st Annual Student Thesis Symposium of Social Sciences “Writing Senior and Master Theses and Projects in Social Sciences” at the American University of Central Asia.

On 15 October, 2016 Student Symposium of Social Sciences will be held in AUCA, CH at 9.30am. Students of Psychology, Anthropology, Journalism and Mass Communication, Sociology will present their summer internships reports at the first joint event of the Division of Social Sciences. Master students will have a separate panel "Application of Social Sciences Research and Practice to Social Change in Central Asia".