Academic Showcase Commences at AUK

President Marina Tolmacheva opened AUK's 2nd Academic Showcase at noon on Monday, 11th December, in the Multipurpose Room on the AUK campus, with a brief speech in which she thanked all the students and faculty involved for their tremendous efforts in organizing the program of the showcase, which was put together on fairly short notice. She was very impressed, she said, with the diversity of the presentations and the amount of creativity shown.

Dr. Marina gave brief overviews of the scheduled presentations, and then introduced the keynote speaker, Mr. Clifford Chanin, who will present a lecture titled "Building Liberal Arts" later in the day.

Clifford Chanin is an honored guest at AUK this week. He is founder and president of The Legacy Project, a non-profit organization in New York dedicated to documenting contemporary responses- in visual art, literature, film and public debates about memory- to historical traumas in societies, around the world. For ten years, he was associate director of Arts and Humanities at the Rockefeller Foundation. He is also the editor of a monthly op-ed column, Islam and the World, for Project Syndicate, an association of 289 newspapers in 114 countries. Chanin has worked as a journalist and as a spokesman for the Mayor of New York.
 
The Academic Showcase program is part of Liberal Arts Week at AUK which is a celebration of the AUK Mission and the academic excellence of our faculty and students. The program of the Showcase runs for two days, December 11-12, and includes presentations, short film productions, and art exhibitions prepared by AUK students representing all academic fields at the university.
 

President of the American University of Kuwait Dr. Marina Tolmacheva gives an opening speech

A student presents his project to AUK students and visitors