Two AUCA professors have recently presented the findings of groundbreaking research made in AUCA

June 25, 2019

Dr. James Plumtree, lead researcher in the Analyzing Kyrgyz Narratives (AKYN) Research Project, presented his findings at an international conference held at the European Humanities University in Vilnius, Lithuania.

Dr. Anguelina Popova, the project coordinator, with a Willard McCarthy Digital Humanities fellowship at King’s College, London, delivered a public lecture on Manas epos and the work the AKYN research group is doing.

The Manas epos is one of the few surviving oral traditions. The Digital Humanities AKYN project is providing new means to collect, study, and assess the important cultural and linguistic corpus. The first publication of the AKYN project will be Dr. Plumtree’s ‘A Kyrgyz Singer of Tales: Formulas in Three Performances of the Birth of Manas by Talantaaly Bakchiev’.

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