AUCA Hosts Annual Ambassador Talks Series with the Ambassador of France On October 7, 2026, the International and Comparative Politics program at the American University of Central Asia (AUCA) convened its annual Ambassador Talks Series, entitled “How France and Kyrgyzstan Can Cooperate at the Multilateral Level to Make the World More Peaceful and Sustainable.

Dear AUCA Community,The AUCA Office of the VPAA is pleased to invite you to an information session with the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).Date: Friday, October 16, 2026Time: 15:30 – 17:30Venue: Room 410, AUCASpeaker: Gizela Zimmermann, Director of DAAD Central AsiaThe session has two parts:Part 1.

 
 

 
Dr. Mirko Tasic, Associate Professor in the International and Comparative Politics Department at the American University of Central Asia, has published a new essay in The Philosophical Salon, the digital platform affiliated with the Los Angeles Review of Books.

 

 
On September 24, 2026, the American University of Central Asia hosted Dr. Zhanibek Arynov, Assistant Professor at Nazarbayev University, for a presentation titled “Tracing Central Asian Regionalism through High-Level Political Interactions.

  Dr. Mirko Tasic, Associate Professor in the Department of International and Comparative Politics at the American University of Central Asia, recently completed his role as an international judge for The Global Undergraduate Awards (GUA) 2026 Programme in the Politics & International Relations category.

Please accept my warmest congratulations on your professional holiday, Education Workers’ Day.

Thomas Peterson, a college freshman from Wisconsin, USA, studied at AUCA last year through the National Security Language Initiative for Youth, a US State Department program that teaches foreign languages to American high school students through study abroad.

 

The Department of International and Comparative Politics kindly invites you to the public lecture "Tracing Central Asian Regionalism through High-Level Political Interactions" 

Please sign up at this link.

 

 
On August 18–19, 2026, AUCA, Maker Space hosted the Annual International Conference of the Mid-Latitude Region Network (MLRN) & Third Pole, themed "Designing Climate-Resilient Futures."
The conference brought together international researchers, climate change experts, and representatives from academia, government agencies, and international organizations working in the fields of climate resilience, water security, climate change adaptation, and sustainable development.

The Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs successfully hosted a professional development training session, “Inclusive Education: Awareness and Classroom Management,” led by Mukadas Tashieva, M.