Videos of the conference “Empire, Colonies and Knowledge: Intellectual Exchange in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union” are available on our YouTube channel
Dear friends, we are pleased to announce that on the YouTube channel of our School you can watch all the sessions and lectures of the speakers from the conference “Empire, Colonies and Knowledge: Intellectual Exchange in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union”, which was held at Nazarbayev University on May 21-22, 2022. The conference […]
NU hosted an International Conference with Harvard University on Central Asian history
From May 21st to 22nd, Nazarbayev University hosted the International Conference “Empire, Colonies, and Knowledge.” in partnership with Harvard University. It was the first major in-person humanities and social science conference since the pandemic, an event organized with an eye on potential future cooperation between the universities. As Dr. Nargiz Kassenova, a conference co-organizer and […]
Nazarbayev University and Harvard to discuss the history of Russia’s relations with Central Asia and the West
On May 21 and 22, 2022 in Nur-Sultan, Nazarbayev University jointly with Harvard University (Davis Center), will hold the international conference “Empire, Colonies and Knowledge”. The objective of its participants consists in exploring the role of the multinational elites in forming and mediating the relations between the imperial center and the peripheries., as well as […]
Interview with Madina Bizhanova who got into the MBA program at the University of Washington Michael G. Foster School of Business
Please tell us about yourself and the most important skills you would have learned as a student at NU. Born and raised in Aralsk, a small town in southern Kazakhstan, I grew up taking on any leadership role at my school as an opportunity to reconcile my bookish introversion with a streak of competitiveness. However, […]
MAES student Temirlan Tileubek will be starting his PhD at University of California, Davis, in the Fall
Please tell us about your background and why you chose MA in Eurasian Studies? It all started when I was an undergraduate student and decided to declare history as my major. After years of taking different history courses, I finally decided to stick with a field of history of medicine. My area of interests is […]
