Dr.Sean Brennan spent five weeks in October and November in Almaty, Kazakhstan helping to establish an academic exchange program between the University of Scranton and Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, the premier university in Kazakhstan. He also taught a four-week seminar on online education, and gave a number of lectures on international relations, terrorism, and US-Kazakh ties at a number of conferences and forums sponsored by the University. He also had a chance to visit Kazakhstan’s other largest cities, the new capital of Astana and the coal center, Karaganda.
