Teaching old traditions with new technology: The AKYN Project at AUCA

The purpose of the presentation at the annual AMICAL conference is to report on the success of the AMICAL small grant, show what challenges expected and unexpected emerged, and explain how we have been able to expand the project into the first digital humanities course at AUCA.

This session will describe how an AMICAL small grants project brought to life a digital humanities course at the American University of Central Asia. The object of study of the project (AKYN) is the national epos of Manas, whose titular character is said to be the father of the Kyrgyz.