‘Otandastar’ is a project about the Kazakh people, who have returned to their historical homeland. How do they live in Kazakhstan? What do they do? What have they achieved? ‘Otandastar’ is a project that also deserves the viewer’s attention. One of the heroes of the project was Durvudkhan Suragan, associate professor of the Mathematics department. […]
Assistant Professor of the History, Philosophy and Religious Studies Department Clare Griffin took part in “The Global History” Podcast. Professor was interviewed by host Chase Caldwell Smith for the podcast’s “Global Histories of Health, Medicine & Disease in the Early Modern World ” series. They talked about professor Griffin’s research on the global links of […]
The accelerator was designed and fabricated in collaboration with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and the Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU). The project is led guided by associated professor of Physics Alexander Tikhonov and postdoc Dr. Marat Kaikanov. Professor Tikhonov: Accelerator provides a 10 000 Amperes ion current in 80 nanoseconds, with ion energy of […]
On June 14, 2020, Nazarbayev University hosted a virtual Graduation ceremony. The 2020 Ceremony is special as this year Nazarbayev University celebrates its tenth anniversary and for the first time due to the COVID-19 pandemic the Ceremony was digital. In the congratulatory speech the Founder of the University Nursultan Nazarbayev, the First President of the […]
Professor Anastasios Bountis: This was the first international online conference organized at Nazarbayev University during this quarantine period, and we all approached it with some hesitation, as we were unaware of what difficulties might arise. However, due to our careful planning, the attendees were given well in advance explicit instructions how to use the Zoom platform, […]
An interview with Aidyn Zhunuskhanov, a teaching assistant at the Department of Kazakh Language and Turkic Studies of the School of Sciences and Humanities, has been published on the Kursiv media portal. Click the link to read the interview. […]
May 31 – Memorial Day for victims of political repression in Kazakhstan. Professor of the Department of History, Philosophy and Religious Studies, historian Mikhail Akulov gave a lecture on the memory of a difficult past for the project called “omindkz”. […]
Kazakh TV made a documentary with a 4th year student Moldir Mekenbaeva. The film is part of the full project called New Generation, and will be broadcast in 8 countries with translation into 8 languages. Moldir Mekenbaeva is a future NU graduate in mathematics, a two-time world champion in Jiu-Jitsu in the middle weight category, […]
Supporting the initiative of home-based education, the Tselinniy Center for Contemporary Culture has initiated a series of podcasts called “Around the bush”. In the first episode of the podcast, historian, assistant professor of the school of sciences and humanities Mikhail Akulov and journalist Arslan Akanov talk about what the Soviet bourgeoisie is and how it […]
Research group: Uli Schamiloglu (Professor and Chair Department of Kazakh Language and Turkic Studies, SSH), Aidyn Zhuniskhanov, Ayken Askapuli This project supports the interdisciplinary research of Professor Uli Schamiloglu into the social, economic, cultural, and environmental history of Central Eurasia in the late medieval period. Schamiloglu’s original work focused on tribal politics and social […]
