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.

At the initiative of one of the AUCA Board of Trustees members Nazira Beishenalieva, 4 AUCA students have participated in a StartUp Bootcamp held in Baku, Azerbaijan on June 18-20, 2018. The event, which was a first of its kind for the CAMCA (Central Asia - Mongolia - Caucasus - Afghanistan) region, gathered 30 participants from 8 countries.

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

This week ‘Young Working-Class Men in Transition: Lecture Review of Dr. Steve Roberts’ article by a senior student from Sociology Department at AUCA Asel Shamyrbekova was published at London School of Economics (LSE) Engenderings.

Tian-Shan Policy Center (TSPC) at AUCA, Center for Environment and Development (СЕD) of Division of Economics and Environmental Studies at AUCA in partnership with the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH are organizing a guest lecture with Prof. Robert Costanza.

The world-famous scientist Robert Costanza will deliver a lecture at AUCA on "Creating the Future we want". The American environmental economist will share the latest trends in the global environmental economics, as well as the images of the future that humanity is creating now.
The scientist will talk about his vision of what public institutions, politicians and civil society need to do all over the world to achieve the future that we want for ourselves and for our children.

Last year AUCA started a cooperation with the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Geneva, Switzerland) in delivering the Executive Master in Development Policies and Practices (DPP) and became the Central Asian hub for this program.

Different excursions of AUCA students to the most beautiful places of Kyrgyzstan become the tradition. On Tuesday, 20 March 2018, department of EMSD and Applied Geology have organized a trip for AUCA students to the “Konorchek” canyon and “Karagacheva rosha” forest park.

Mustafa Shirzad, junior student from Economics department who recently has returned to AUCA from an Exchange semester at Norwegian University of Life Sciences NMBU, Norway, tells his story about exchange semester in Norway

From 14th to 22nd of October Sochi hosted one of the most ambitious events of the 21st century – the 19th World Festival of Youth and Students.