On November 22, 2019, Nazarbayev University hosted a Scientific Seminar organized by the School of Humanities and Social Sciences of Nazarbayev University, the Nazarbayev University Library and the Public Opinion Research Institute. The keynote speaker in the panel discussion was migration specialist Antonio Mendonça with the theme "Migrants from Central Asia to Western Europe: Numbers, Mobility, Profiles, Identity".
Other speakers: Botagoz Rakisheva (Public Opinion Research Institute), Caress Schenk (Nazarbayev University) and Darina Sadvokassova (Nazarbayev University).
In the second part of the event, an employee of Dublin City University Abel Polesé - a scientist, development specialist, amateur musician, author of fifteen books and more than 100 peer-reviewed chapters and articles spoke. Abel Polesé presented his new book, The SCOPUS Diaries and the (il) logics of Academic Survival.