A second annual workshop organized by the Department of Central Eurasian Studies, Indiana University, and Central Asian Studies Institute, AUCA, took place on August 29-31, 2018 at the School of Global and International Studies (SGIS) Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana, USA.

A second annual workshop  organized by the Department of Central Eurasian Studies, Indiana University, and Central Asian Studies Institute, AUCA, will take place on August 29-31, 2018

This year archaeological practice of AUCA Anthropology Department is organised in the form of Summer Field School jointly with Indiana University students leading by Professor Anne Pyburn and Aida Abdykanova

Minor in European Studies   The European Studies department offers to non ES students an opportunity to obtain a minor degree in European Studies. In order to start studying for minor in ES, a student

Minor in European Studies in Second language The European Studies department offers to non ES students an opportunity to obtain a minor degree in European Studies in Second Language (French or German or Spanish)

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.

The Institute of Education at the American University of Central Asia is hosting an International Summer School on Inclusive Education (IE2018) with participants from five countries: Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Ukraine.

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

This Memorandum of Understanding outlines the cooperation between the two partners: High Technology Park of the Kyrgyz Republic and the American University of Central Asia

The VAFT department is excited to announce a summer course on Visual Arts "Artistic Meta-cognition and Studio Art Experience" by Bibiana Powell, an Art Educator from Seattle, Washington.