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SPEAKER: Diana Kudaibergenova
Short abstract: The understanding of regional locality and, moreover, of regional art and cultural production poses important questions, namely, What is Central Asia and Where is Central Asia? “Central Asia” is a multi-layered jigsaw that appears as a fairly simple and well-defined but in reality as very complex yet very exciting “lively space”. 

Literature Week is a part of CASI’s Workshop on Literature and History. Supported by a generous contribution from Matthew Nimetz, the aim of the workshop is to create a community of junior scholars and advanced graduate students committed to studying literature and to applying literary tools and methodologies to the study of literary art in the Central Asian past.

CASI is holding a follow-on workshop this year to the seminar it conducted in 2014 on the “Intersections of History and Literature in Central Asia.” The workshop will be held on the campus of AUCA in Bishkek from 30 November to 2 December 2017.

Literature Week is a part of CASI’s Workshop on Literature and History. Supported by a generous contribution from Matthew Nimetz, the aim of the workshop is to create a community of junior scholars and advanced graduate students committed to studying literature and to applying literary tools and methodologies to the study of literary art in the Central Asian past.

AUCA new faculty member - Anastasia Valeeva is data journalism lecturer and open data researcher. She has researched the use of open data in investigative data journalism as part of her fellowship at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, Oxford.

There results of the photo contest "Migrants: Invisible Force in Central Asia" were summarized at the American University of Central Asia (AUCA) in a solemn atmosphere on the eve of 26 September 2017. The competition was held in two categories - among professional photographers and among students throughout the region.
Both winners in the student category are from Kyrgyzstan: 1st winner - Almazbek Duishebaev, AUCA student; 2nd winner - Rakhat Sagynbek kyzy, student of the Kyrgyz State Medical Academy.

Emma Svoboda is new member of New Generation Academy faculty, a fellow in the Princeton in Asia program.

Early in the morning on August 26, a "Lexus" crashed into a taxi with Mohira inside. Mohira and the taxi driver are now in serious condition in the intensive care unit of the Bishkek Research Center for Traumatology and Orthopedics.

AUCA alumni have gone on to achieve many great things after graduation, across numerous career paths. Meerim Karybaeva is one of them. She is currently working at the Regional Firm Centil as the Senior Associate.

Young Leaders’ Association Club has recently started working among AUCA students clubs. This club aims to empower youth’s critical thinking, to boast youth engagement in social activities, to develop leadership potential of youth, and to promote the tolerance of diversity and global citizenship ideas.