Sabrina Beaver, an exchange student from the Wellesley College, US, came to Kyrgyzstan for the first time. She is impressed about a beauty of the country, “Last week we went to Ala-Archa for hiking, it was just gorgeous. I really like Bishkek, I am looking forward to get to know the city better.”

This year archaeological practice of AUCA Anthropology Department is organised in the form of Summer Field School jointly with Indiana University students leading by Professor Anne Pyburn and Aida Abdykanova

On 13-14 April, the Departments of 'Applied Geology' and 'Environmental Management and Sustainable Development' at AUCA organized the field trip to Kumtor mining site for students. This site tour was arranged by faculty member Rustam Orozbaev, as a part of the practicum for the course of 'Environmental and Socio-Economic Impacts of Mining'. 

This week ‘Young Working-Class Men in Transition: Lecture Review of Dr. Steve Roberts’ article by a senior student from Sociology Department at AUCA Asel Shamyrbekova was published at London School of Economics (LSE) Engenderings.

Last year AUCA started a cooperation with the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Geneva, Switzerland) in delivering the Executive Master in Development Policies and Practices (DPP) and became the Central Asian hub for this program.

Razia Gul is a junior student at AUCA who is currently majoring in International and Comparative Politics and minoring in Journalism and Mass Communication. Razia has spent her 2017-2018 fall semester in one of the oldest universities in the world Philipps University Marburg, Germany

This semester, the Writing and Academic Resource Center (WARC) introduced tutoring sessions in programming by request from the Student Senate. This initiative—which became an immediate success, with all of the programming sessions booked on a regular basis--marks the first example of close cooperation between the Student Senate and the WARC.  We asked the Student Senators to tell us more about this project.

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

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.