CASI Research Seminar: “Localizing norms: comparative perspectives on human rights, gender and ethnicity in Central Asia”. Speaker: Medet Tiulegenov, Head, Division of Politics and International/Area Studies, AUCA. Date: November 18, 2015.

On Tuesday, November 10, AUCA conducted it’s annual Initiation ceremony for the AUCA class of 2019. The celebration was organized by the Office of Student Affairs. In addition, the ceremony was accompanied

Thirteen AUCA students along with Kyrgyz and US-based professional instructors will be challenging themselves to a two-week hike through the Ala-Archa National Park next summer.

On November 10th 2015, John Gray visited American University of Central Asia (AUCA) within the network of his workshop in Bishkek. This workshop was arranged by Central Eurasia Leadership Alliance. 

Alessandra Sztrimbely, an Assistant Professor of the New Generation Academy (NGA) at American University of Central Asia (AUCA) shares her impressions about the NGA and Kyrgyzstan.

October 31, 2015, remarks the Gala Opening Ceremony of the American University of Central Asia (AUCA) new campus in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.

Getting university students to participate in elections is an ongoing challenge for the student government; moreover, the students’ apathy towards voting is a reflection of voter apathy in society at large.

 
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Philipp Lottholz and Polina Manolova, University of Birmingham, CASI Visiting Scholars
Abstract: This paper aims at inquiring how people in the former Soviet periphery make sense of the transformation that they have undergone since the breakdown of Socialism. Drawing on sociological and social psychological perspectives on post-Socialist societies, we develop the concept of the ‘imaginary West’. The latter has, to our mind, fundamentally shaped the way in which people came to understand post-Socialist reforms, democratisation and integration into the global economy.

Elections for new student senators will be held soon at the American University of Central Asia. This year, the AUCA Student Senate adopts new e-voting system. Implementing this project with the assistance of the Integra engineering group, AUCA presents an e-voting system unique and innovative not only for the university, but even for the Kyrgyz Republic and Central Asia.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will travel to Austria, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan from October 28 to November 3. In Bishkek, the Secretary will participate in the opening of the new campus of the American University of Central Asia and dedicate the new chancery of the U.S. Embassy.