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 AUCA Hosts Annual Ambassador Talks Series with the Ambassador of France On October 7, 2026, the International and Comparative Politics program at the American University of Central Asia (AUCA) convened its annual Ambassador Talks Series, entitled “How France and Kyrgyzstan Can Cooperate at the Multilateral Level to Make the World More Peaceful and Sustainable.

Dear AUCA Community,The AUCA Office of the VPAA is pleased to invite you to an information session with the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).Date: Friday, October 16, 2026Time: 15:30 – 17:30Venue: Room 410, AUCASpeaker: Gizela Zimmermann, Director of DAAD Central AsiaThe session has two parts:Part 1.

 
 

 
Dr. Mirko Tasic, Associate Professor in the International and Comparative Politics Department at the American University of Central Asia, has published a new essay in The Philosophical Salon, the digital platform affiliated with the Los Angeles Review of Books.

  Dr. Mirko Tasic, Associate Professor in the Department of International and Comparative Politics at the American University of Central Asia, recently completed his role as an international judge for The Global Undergraduate Awards (GUA) 2026 Programme in the Politics & International Relations category.

Please accept my warmest congratulations on your professional holiday, Education Workers’ Day.

On September 29, the AUCA Forum hosted “Keepers of Chiy Traditions,” the closing art exhibition of the PREF 2025–26 project “Chiy weaving at the сrossroads of art, ecology and cultural survival.” The project was initiated and carried out by Cholpon Kuskakbaeva, a graduate student in AUCA's Anthropology program, with the support of the AUCA Presidential Research and Education Fund (PREF).

The International and Comparative Politics Department is pleased to invite you to the ICP Ambassador Talks Series with 
H.E. Mr. Nicolas FAYE, the Ambassador of France to the Kyrgyz Republic.


The registration is required at this link.

You are warmly invited to the closing event of the AUCA PREF 2025-26 project “Chiy weaving at the crossroads of art, ecology and cultural survival”.

Thomas Peterson, a college freshman from Wisconsin, USA, studied at AUCA last year through the National Security Language Initiative for Youth, a US State Department program that teaches foreign languages to American high school students through study abroad.

From September 10 to 14, Bishkek hosted the 2nd UmutDoc International Documentary Film Festival. Projects and films created by students and alumni of AUCA's Television, Cinema and Media Arts (TCMA) Department earned high praise from industry experts and secured prestigious awards.