Mustafa Shirzad, junior student from Economics department who recently has returned to AUCA from an Exchange semester at Norwegian University of Life Sciences NMBU, Norway, tells his story about exchange semester in Norway

As part of the "Night of Ideas" 2018, the Embassy of France in Kyrgyzstan invites you to discuss these issues with the French biologist, Gilles Boeuf, who is visiting Kyrgyzstan from January 22 to 24.

2018 Civic Engagement Micro-Grant Competition

Dear students,
The applications to the Energy and Sustainable Development Master’s Program, which is an interdisciplinary program in energy field at Kadir Has University is accepted from 18 December

Uulkan Dzholdoshbekovna Kambaralieva has been awarded with the Certificate of Merit of the Supreme Attestation Commission of the Kyrgyz Republic

On December 11, the Prime Minister of the Kyrgyz Republic, Sapar Isakov honored AUCA with a high state award - the Order of Dostuk. Andrew Wachtel, the President of AUCA has received it

The Department of International and Comparative Politics of American University of Central Asia held on November 30, 2017 an inaugural workshop of a newly created Regional Center for Central Asia of Varieties of Democracy Institute (V-Dem).

SPEAKER: Christopher Fort, University of Michigan
Abstract: Since the breakup of the Soviet Union, historians of Central Asia and the Soviet Union have frequently asked to what extent the post-colonial theory developed by writers of Africa and Asia can be applied to Soviet Central Asia. In answering this question, most have reexamined the founding moments of the USSR under Lenin and Stalin. In this presentation, I turn our attention to the 1990s and the breakup itself, comparing post-Soviet independence to anti-colonial revolution. 

SPEAKER: Gabriel McGuire, Nazarbayev University
Abstract: The paradox of the horse in Central Asia is that it appear, at first glance, to simultaneously hold the place of ideal companion and ideal food. In Kazakhstan, the meat of horses above all other animals holds the highest value: its acquisition drives households to band together to collect the money necessary for its purchase; its presence at funerals, weddings, and seasonal celebrations mark these events as qualitatively different from everyday life.

SPEAKER: Naomi Caffee, University of Arizona
Abstract: What are the limits of Russian literature? What factors--language proficiency, citizenship, geographic location, family heritage--qualify someone as "Russian" or "not Russian?" Entering into dialogue with research in Francophone and Sinophone Studies, this talk introduces the transnational framework of “Russophonia” in order to analyze literature produced from within a variety of geopolitical, cultural, sociolinguistic, virtual, and subjective spaces shaped by the Russian language.