MACAS is holding its annual graduate students' conference on 3-4 May 2023. The program of the conference is attached below. We invite all faculty and students to join us and help us promote and improve graduate research at AUCA.
MACAS Students Graduate Conference, 3-4 May 2023
Venue: 51Թmain campus, room T16
Program:
Wednesday May 3, 2023
2.00 pm-3.00 pm: Hajar Salik, My Family, Successful Future and the Lure of Elsewhere: An Ethnographic Study of Afghan Female Students in Kyrgyzstan
3.10 pm-4.10 pm: Dilmurat Anvar, Rereading Ancient Turkic Stele: Contribution to the Social and Political History ofthe Yenisei Kyrgyz Khanate
4.10-4.30 : Coffee break
4.30-5.30: Saboor Stanikai, US and Soviet Union Competition in Afghanistan during the Cold War
Thursday May 4, 2023
10.00-11.00 Nicholas Andersen, Adversarialness and fakeness in Kyrgyzstan. Manipulation of public opinion through social media.
11.10-12.10 Mirakhmad Daimiriam, Representations of Soviet Modernity in the pages of the Soviet Life Magazine
12.10-12.30 Coffee Break
12.30-1.30 Tamim Krimi, Continuity and Changes in Iran-Tajikistan Relations under the Raisi Presidency
1.40-2.40 Amin Shamseddin, Norm Diffusion and Localization in Developmental Projects in Eastern Afghanistan