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Philipp Lottholz and Polina Manolova, University of Birmingham, CASI Visiting Scholars
Abstract: This paper aims at inquiring how people in the former Soviet periphery make sense of the transformation that they have undergone since the breakdown of Socialism. Drawing on sociological and social psychological perspectives on post-Socialist societies, we develop the concept of the ‘imaginary West’. The latter has, to our mind, fundamentally shaped the way in which people came to understand post-Socialist reforms, democratisation and integration into the global economy.

Elections for new student senators will be held soon at the American University of Central Asia. This year, the AUCA Student Senate adopts new e-voting system. Implementing this project with the assistance of the Integra engineering group, AUCA presents an e-voting system unique and innovative not only for the university, but even for the Kyrgyz Republic and Central Asia.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will travel to Austria, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan from October 28 to November 3. In Bishkek, the Secretary will participate in the opening of the new campus of the American University of Central Asia and dedicate the new chancery of the U.S. Embassy.

Samatbek Osmonov, a junior majoring in Business Administration and minoring in Software Engineering at AUCA, spent his spring 2015 semester as an exchange student at the Hannam University in South Korea.

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The American University of Central Asia announces its inaugural art exhibition TOPOGRAFICA, an examination of the socio-cultural landscape of Central Asia

QS University Rankings rated AUCA No. 1 in Kyrgyzstan and No. 106 among EECA countries. The worldwide ranking service noted AUCA No. 1 in academic reputation and faculty-student ratio in Kyrgyzstan, as well as Kyrgyzstan’s leading educational institution in the categories of “Natural Sciences” and “Arts & Humanities”.

The American University of Central Asia announces its inaugural art exhibition TOPOGRAFICA, an examination of the socio-cultural landscape of Central Asia through the work of over twenty-five artists from Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and the United States.

"Exchange programs are the most effective accelerators of personal progress"

Begaiym Esenkulova, an Assistant Professor of the AUCA International and Business Law Department, conducted research at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg, Germany from May to August, 2015.