NEWS

Material collected as part of the Analyzing Kyrgyz Narratives (AKYN) Research project is now freely available online. The project included the recording of six performances, nearly six hours in total, consisting of over ten thousand lines of poetry, by the esteemed manaschis Talatantaaly Bakchiev and Doolot Sydykov.

Pari Vatanshoeva is an AUCA Business administration student from Tajikistan who had experience in an exchange program and had a chance to extend her study in Poland. She believes that the AUCA exchange program will help her personal development and gain experience in a multicultural environment with people with different backgrounds.

“AUCA is full of adventures and discoveries, where students come from all over the world which made the experience even more interesting for me”
 

On Dec 9-11, 2021, an AUCA team visited partner educational institutions in Naryn, delivering guest lectures, sharing methodologies, and strengthening connections with the aim to develop education and information access in the region.

On December 13th, the AUCA administration headed by President Jonathan Becker conducted the Knowledge Day Ceremony. The Acting President of the AUCA, Dr. Jonathan Becker, and Dr. Nurgul Ukueva, the Vice President for Academic Affairs personally awarded the best students for their outstanding academic excellence with a President's List and Dean's List, respectively. 

Curious about the Executive Master on Development Policies and Practices (DPP)? Join us for an online Q&A session on our Caucasus & Central Asia regional programme!

For Kyrgyzstan, located in Central Asia and landlocked, land is an integral part of its national economy.

On November 3rd, students and faculty of the Applied Geology department joined the Kyrgyz Seismic Hazard Seminar taught by Prof. Ray Weldon from Oregon State University (OSU). The workshop is organized as part of a Central Asia University Partnerships Program (UniCEN) program that provides grants for universities in Central Asia.

Main objective of the research is to improve current understanding of the causes and impacts of the winter air pollution in Bishkek.

Literature Week is a part of CASI’s Workshop on Literature and History. Supported by a generous contribution from Matthew Nimetz, the aim of the workshop is to create a community of junior scholars and advanced graduate students committed to studying literature and to applying literary tools and methodologies to the study of literary art in the Central Asian past.