CITS Plans to Open a Center of Kazakh Language and Culture

On February 10, representatives of the Caspian Higher School of Interpreting and Translation Ulyana Savelieva and Olga Egorova, as well as Irina Bocharnikova, Head of the ASU Project Office of International Cooperation and Development, and Nadezhda Emelianova, Dean of the Faculty of Foreign Languages, held an online meeting with partners from the Eurasian National University named after L.N. Gumilyov (Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan) and representatives of the Embassy of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the Russian Federation.

The history of partnership between CITS and the Faculty of Philology of ENU began in 2015, when an agreement on a joint master’s interpreter training program was signed. Several students from the Kazakhstan university have been trained at CITS, participating in international internships, workshops hosted by our experts and interesting volunteer interpretation projects.

Last December, during the visit of Ermek Kosherbayev, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Kazakhstan to the Russian Federation, to ASU, the parties discussed ways to update the partnership and initiate new projects in the field of linguistics and interpretation. As a result, at the working meeting on February 10, attended by Ardak Beisenbay, Dean of the Faculty of Philology, Manshuk Yeskindirova, Head of the Department of Translation and Interpretation, and representatives of the university’s International Department, the parties discussed such issues as teacher and student exchange programs, teaching of Kazakh as part of the CITS MA programs, as well as the prospects to establish a Kazakh language and culture center at ASU, and an intercultural communication research and education center at the ENU.