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Maftunakhon Tokhirova is a junior student of Anthropology department. She came to study at AUCA from Tashkent. Previously, she applied for an exchange program and was successfully accepted to study at BARD College, USA. Due to the pandemic, the flights have been canceled and now Maftunakhon is studying remotely. We talked with her about her student life and learned about her best memories at AUCA.

Dinara Abildenova, a senior lecturer of Kazakh National University named after Al-Farabi gave a presentation "Marriage ceremonies in Kazakhstan: Norms and their change" on September 30, within the AUCA Anthropology Club meeting. In this presentation she focused on social changes that took place in Kazakh marriage ceremonies after the country’s independence.

The Creative Writing Club at AUCA is pleased to announce its first event of the semester, a workshop of student writing featuring work by Deniz Nazarova. Please join it next Wednesday at 6:00 PM, when Deniz will be sharing her piece with us in order to receive feedback and suggestions.

The Bishkek Liberal Arts Seminar (BLAS) series invites academics outside of Kyrgyzstan to share their research with AUCA students, typically on topics and using methodologies not currently present at AUCA. The primary aim of this series is to provide an opportunity for students to engage with different subjects and approaches potentially beneficial for their studies and their curiosity.

AUCA Alumni Association awarded five undergraduate students with the Alumni Scholarship 2020. Dana, Editha, Dastan, Maftuna, and Rysmende are those distinguished students who demonstrate excellent academic performance and active participation in the life of the University community.

Today, September 23, as Kyrgyzstan celebrates the Kyrgyz Language Day, AUCA’s Writing and Academic Resource Center (WARC) is glad to announce that its WARC Kyrgyz Language Tutorials––free videos that provide instruction in Kyrgyz vocabulary and grammar––have returned for a second semester of filming.

The Liberal Arts and Sciences department has launched four new and innovative concentrations. These concentrations are not only new to AUCA, but also the whole region. They are Digital Cultures, Environmental and Urban Studies, Literature and History, Peace, and Conflict Studies.

Dr. Bermet Tursunkulova is well known to the AUCA community as she has been a professor in the Department of International and Comparative Politics since 2005. She also ably served as the Vice President for Academic Affairs from 2008-2015.

Dr. Bermet Tursunkulova is well known to the AUCA community as she has been a professor in the Department of International and Comparative Politics since 2005. She also ably served as the Vice President for Academic Affairs from 2008-2015.

Twelve years of continuous work on AUCA Enactus projects have finally borne fruit - our team became a national champion of Enactus Kyrgyzstan.