On Monday, November 19, Donald Lu, the U.S. Ambassador to the Kyrgyz Republic was invited as a guest lecturer to have a class on US Policy in the Region.
 

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.”

The American University of Central Asia hosted the 6th Conference of the Asian Borderlands Research Network (ABRN): Borderland Spaces Ruins, Revival(s) and Resources on 13-15 August.
About 200 scholars from all over the world have participated in the conference.
The conference was jointly organized by the American University of Central Asia; International Institute for Asian Studies and the Asian Borderlands Research Network (ABRN).
 
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Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan – September 2, 2018 – The Board of Trustees of the American University of Central Asia announced today the appointment of Jonathan Becker, the Executive Vice President and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Bard College, as the new acting President of the University. Dr. Becker has been a trustee of AUCA since 2009 and has led its historic collaboration with Bard College.

American University of Central Asia will host 6th Conference of the Asian Borderlands Research Network (ABRN): Borderland Spaces Ruins, Revival(s) and Resources on 13-15 August.
The expected number of participants is 200 scholars from all over the world.

American University of Central Asia will host 6th Conference of the Asian Borderlands Research Network (ABRN): Borderland Spaces Ruins, Revival(s) and Resources on 13-15 August.  The expected number of participants is 200 scholars from all over the world. The conference is jointly organized by the American University of Central Asia; International Institute for Asian Studies and the Asian Borderlands Research Network (ABRN).

This talk concerns the Uyghurs who crossed the border and moved to Soviet Central Asia from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in the 1950s and 1960s. It focuses on the process of the Uyghur migration, the reasons behind it, and the lives of Uyghurs in the Soviet Union. The talk is based on oral interviews conducted in the summer of 2016 in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. The interviews show that in addition to harsh Chinese policy towards the local peoples of Xinjiang, Soviet propaganda played a significant role in encouraging people to leave their homeland for the USSR, depicted in the propaganda as a land of paradise.

At the initiative of one of the AUCA Board of Trustees members Nazira Beishenalieva, 4 AUCA students have participated in a StartUp Bootcamp held in Baku, Azerbaijan on June 18-20, 2018. The event, which was a first of its kind for the CAMCA (Central Asia - Mongolia - Caucasus - Afghanistan) region, gathered 30 participants from 8 countries.

CASI RESEARCH SEMINAR
SPEAKER: Gulnisa Nazarova, PhD John D. Soper Senior Lecturer at Indiana University Bloomington

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.