On September 29, the Head of UNFPA Kyrgyzstan Country Office, Mr. Azamat Baialinov visited the AUCA campus with a guest lecture on "Global Citizenship" within the Bard Network Course, the lecture was prepared for AUCA students on a hybrid basis. 

To help newcomers adapt to the walls of the campus, AUCA hosts an Orientation Week, which began today, August 16. Over the next two weeks, our freshmen will get acquainted with the openness and traditions of AUCA.

The American University of Central Asia is accepting applications for the 2020 - 2025 academic cycle from interested applicants for the Afghan Scholarship Program, funded by the U.S. Embassy in Kabul.

On December 23 at 12:30 in the Manas cinema the premiere of the film "The Lake", directed by our lecturer, director Emil Atageldiev, will take place. Note that our other lecturer, director Artykpai Suyundukov plays one of the main roles. Moreover, this film was nominated for the Golden Globe Awards for Best Foreign Language Film.

Please join the fifth Bishkek Liberal Arts Seminar (BLAS) on Monsters, Heroes, and Dangerous Women: Reading Beowulf in the context of its manuscript presented by Dr. Simon Thomson.

Please join The New Star in welcoming guest speaker Janyl Jusupjan for a discussion of storytelling across media. The event will take place on Tuesday, October 20th, at 6PM Bishkek Time.

Today, as part of the Investigative Journalism course of Tom Torok, we have a guest lecture with Oleg Khomenok, member of GIJN's (Global Investigative Journalism Network) Board of Directors, and a Senior Media Adviser at Internews Network.

During an online class of investigative journalism Journalism Department , guest lecturer Dylan Purcell shared with students the process and deliberation with which he uncovered his two Pulitzer prize winning pieces, Toxic City and The Probation Trap. Purcell emphasized how important it is to use every resource available to get the information you need as a truth-seeker, recalling that at times, when his team could not get access to a dust sample inside of a school (to test if the schools were harming children with exposure to lead), they had to train teachers to test the schools instead, risking the teacher’s jobs for the children’s safety.

The presentation focuses on the linkages between ethnicity and national censuses in the context of nation-building. Using theoretical approaches, historical and contemporary illustrations in a variety of countries, parts of this complex puzzle scrutinized through the prisms of sociology and political science.

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.