• A NEW IMPERIAL MIGRATION? PERCEPTION OF RUSSIAN EMIGRES IN KAZAKHSTAN BY LOCALS AFTER THE START OF THE WAR IN UKRAINE 

  Gani, Amina (Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2024-04-30)

  Russia invaded Ukraine on 24th of February 2022 that shocked the whole world. Due to the territorial proximity to Russia, Kazakhstan was involved in the consequences of conflict - being a hosting country for the emigres. ...
• THE REFLECTION OF VLADIMIR SOLOVIEV'S PHILOSOPHY IN ANDREI TARKOVSKII'S CINEMATIC NARRATIVES 

  Bisianova, Saniya (Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2024-04-26)

  The USSR has produced some of the most influential film directors in history who have created new genres and introduced new filming techniques. Many of these directors have also introduced Soviet cinema to international ...
• BREAKING THE MOLD: EXPLORING FEMALE FANS' ONLINE REACTIONS TO THE REPRESENTATION OF WOMEN IN K-DRAMAS 

  Alimbetova, Aruzhan (Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2024-05-02)

  Korean dramas have gained enormous popularity throughout the world, particularly among female viewers, thanks to their compelling stories and cinematography. However, the number of research papers exclusively focusing on ...
• HOMELAND REEMERGED: EXPLORING CHANGES IN UZBEK’S ENGAGEMENT WITH KIN STATE POLITICS AND HOST STATE LOYALTY IN SAIRAM 

  Saidikarimova, Intizor (Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2024-05-15)

  Being cut off from Uzbekistan due to a lack of welcoming attitude and restrictive policies that overlooked the question of co-ethnics outside its borders, Uzbeks in Sairam district evolved and developed its identity ...
• SELF-PERCEPTION AND MOTIVATIONS OF FEMALE BURYAT BUDDHIST ACTIVISTS 

  Baitanova, Aizhan (Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2024-04-29)

  A rich scholarship exists on Buryat Buddhism and its history; however, it mostly provides the reader with socio-historical context, leaving a gap in understanding the role of women within the religious community. This gap ...
• THE DISTRIBUTION OF RELATIVE CLAUSES IN KAZAKH CONVERSATIONS 

  Akanov, Akyl (Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2024-04-25)

  In conversation, speakers need to track the referents they introduce, establishing their identity and thereby building common ground with the hearer. This communicative need can be achieved through relative clauses (RCs), ...
• THROUGH HARDSHIP TO THE RED STAR: THE FORGING OF GERMAN COLONISTS INTO SOVIET GERMANS 

  Anderson, Joseph Patrick (Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2024-04-26)

  Referred to commonly in scholarship as Soviet Germans, at the beginning of the Soviet Union these people did not represent a unified nationality. Instead within the early Soviet Union there existed many disparate groups ...
• WOMEN SCIENTISTS IN KAZSSR DURING THE LATE SOVIET ERA 

  Kubeyeva, Lunara (Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2024-05-05)

  With the creation of the Soviet Union, the Bolsheviks introduced policies aimed at equalizing and emancipating women in Central Asia. The emancipation campaign involved education and the rejection of the traditional way ...
• NEO-TRIBALISM IN KAZAKHSTAN: THE MANIFESTATIONS OF RU-BASED IDENTITY AND THE RETURN OF THE 'BATYRS' 

  Yergeshbay, Temirlan (Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2024-04-30)

  The motivation behind composing this thesis stemmed from the perplexity on why the contemporary settled Kazakh society in Kazakhstan continues to not only align itself with tribal (ru) associations, but also actively ...
• COMING BACK HOME: POSTMEMORY IN NOVELS BY ALEXANDER CHUDAKOV, KATJA PETROWSKAJA, AND MARIA STEPANOVA 

  Mektepbayeva, Zhanel (Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2023-11-27)

  This study explores postmemory as a way of “coming back home” to one’s roots and reimagined identity. It is particularly important within the context of the recent turn to prioritizing personal memories over the official, ...
• GENDER RHETORIC IN POLICY AND NATIONAL DISCOURSES IN KAZAKHSTAN 

  Sadykova, Kulyash (School of Sciences and Humanities, 2023)

  Gender policy is known to be an important part of the nation-building processes of countries all around the world, and Kazakhstan is no exception. Overview of the history of gender in Central Asia in the pre-Soviet period ...
• HAN CHINESE MIGRANTS IN KAZAKHSTAN UNDER THE BELT AND ROAD INITIATIVE 

  Aidelieti, Jiayidaer (School of Sciences and Humanities, 2023-07-20)

  Chinese migrants are widespread all over the world, but in recent years their footprints have begun to reach Central Asia, a destination mainly for ethnic minorities migrants from Xinjiang. Especially after the Belt and ...
• NATIONALISM FROM THE MARGINS: A CRITICAL STUDY OF ELITIST HISTORIOGRAPHY AND POLITICS IN MĀWARĀʾ AL-NAHR AND KHURĀSĀN (LATER UZBEKISTAN, TAJIKISTAN AND AFGHANISTAN), 1800-1950. 

  Ahwar, Ahmad Javeed (School of Sciences and Humanities, 2023)

  This dissertation traces the history of national ideas in Māwarāʾ al-Nahr and Khurāsān, later known as Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Afghanistan, from the margins. This study follows the transformations of ideas of differences ...
• FOOD CULTURE OF CONTEMPORARY KOREANS IN KAZAKHSTAN 

  Absadikova, Indira (School of Sciences and Humanities, 2023)

  Food is one of the most significant aspects of Korean diaspora culture in Kazakhstan and is an important element of traditions, yet little is known about the food culture of the Koreans of Kazakhstan. Previous studies ...
• BORN TO BE SOVIET: AMANGELDY IMANOV’S LIFE AFTER DEATH THROUGH THE PRISM OF THE SOVIET NATIONALITIES POLICY 

  Zhaneken, Adel (School of Sciences and Humanities, 2023)

  There is growing interest in historical studies in deconstructing Soviet narratives about national heroes. Scholars studying Soviet-era Kazakhstan agree that the image of Amangeldy Imanov was carefully crafted by Soviet ...
• THE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS: KAZAKH ORAL LITERATURE IN JÜSÏPBEK AIMAUYTOV’S NOVEL AQBÏLEK 

  Kossybak, Nuraiym (School of Sciences and Humanities, 2023)

  Aqbïlek is one of the first and most innovative novels in Kazakh literature. In this novel, Aimauytov merges Kazakh oral literary genres with novel form. This research looks at the style of Aqbïlek and its continuity with ...
• A SPINNING TOP? KAZAKHSTAN'S MULTIVECTORISM WITH OTHER MIDDLE POWER STATES 

  Brosius, Logan (School of Sciences and Humanities, 2023)

  Research surrounding the Republic of Kazakhstan foreign policy often assumes the state’s capture by or capitulation to foreign forces, which lead to further conclusions regarding the extent of Kazakhstan’s sovereignty. ...
• CHANGES IN KAZAKH ORTHOGRAPHY IN 1929-1940 AND THEIR REFLECTION OF POLITICAL AND IDEOLOGICAL SHIFTS IN KAZAKHSTAN 

  Seitak, Bibarys (School of Sciences and Humanities, 2023)

  The 1920s 30s, as it will be later described in more detail, were the times of important political and ideological changes in Kazakhstan. These changes were reflected in the dynamics of official party rhetoric on different ...
• TRUE LOVE OR FETISH: ABSTRACT AND MATERIALISTIV OBSESSIONS IN NABOKOV’S LOLITA AND PAMUK’S THE MUSEUM OF INNOCENCE 

  Khamitova, Kamilya (School of Sciences and Humanities, 2023)

  My thesis project is a combination of a comparative analysis of the two novels, Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita and Orhan Pamuk’s The Museum of Innocence, and a social-anthropological survey of the visitors of the Museum of ...
• COLLECTIVE VICTIMHOOD AND MEMORY IN AZERBAIJAN: THE CONSTRUCTION OF NATIONAL IDENTITY THROUGH THE NAGORNO-KARABAKH CONFLICT AND ITS POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS 

  Perez Catalan, Emma (School of Sciences and Humanities, 2023)

  The present thesis examines the transmission of memory and political implications of victimized identity in Azerbaijan. It focuses on the strategies of victimization that shape society’s discourse of Nagorno-Karabakh, which ...

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