Our Journalism and Mass Communication department continues #JMCteam posts, where every week they will meet you with their brilliant faculty team members and their work activities. Today they introduce you Aizhana Dzhumalieva.

Dear AUCA community! Halloween is coming!
On October 30, 2020 Student Life office organizes two Halloween competitions on their Instagram @studlife_auca

Please join the fifth Bishkek Liberal Arts Seminar (BLAS) on Monsters, Heroes, and Dangerous Women: Reading Beowulf in the context of its manuscript presented by Dr. Simon Thomson.

On October 15, 2020, AUCA “Talent Management and Human Potential Development in Organizations” program presented the results of its achievements as part of the planned monitoring of Erasmus+ National Office. It was noted that the AUCA TALENT team is one of the strongest academic teams in Kyrgyzstan, which participates in the implementation of educational projects of the Erasmus+ network.

Hamid Ismailov is an Uzbek novelist and poet who was forced to leave his home in Tashkent when his writing brought him to the attention of government officials. Under threat of arrest, he moved to London and joined the BBC World Service, where he was the first-ever Writer in Residence. In addition to journalism, Ismailov is a prolific writer of poetry and prose.

Please join The New Star in welcoming guest speaker Janyl Jusupjan for a discussion of storytelling across media. The event will take place on Tuesday, October 20th, at 6PM Bishkek Time.

Dr. Mária Vargha, 'Hearing the Voiceless from Below: Using Skeletons and Vernacular Structures to Reassess the Role of the Rural Population in State-Building and Religious Conversion in East-Central Europe'

Are you interested in pursuing an undergraduate degree in BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION, ECONOMICS, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, OR APPLIED MATHEMATICS AND INFORMATICS at AUCA, one of the top universities in Central Asia offering American-style education, but you cannot afford the school's high tuition fees?

Dr. Saed is a poet, essayist, and scholar whose work frequently touches upon themes of ancestral memory, migration, and displacement. Born in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, she now lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. The event will take place at 6:00 PM Bishkek Time on Wednesday, October 14th. To receive the Zoom login information, please write to warc@auca.kg.

In July, during the peak of the pandemic crisis in Kyrgyzstan, U.S.-CAEF and AUCA alumna Asel Kaldybaeva could not just sit and watch while people in her community were suffering. She became one of the first volunteers of the “Help Issyk-Kul” initiative created by Edil Ajibaev, founder of PicVPic.com, and played a key role in the success of the project.