CAS publishes the Summer 2018 issue of the Colorado Journal of Asian Studies

April 23, 2019

We are pleased to announce the posting of the Summer 2018 issue of the Colorado Journal of Asian Studies . This issue five contains papers covering a wide range of Asia-related topics: “Spatial Expressions of Tradition and Modernity in Urban China: An Examination and Comparison of the Origins, Evolution and...

CAS Event on Friday: Liberalism Cannot Save Us: Multispecies Justice, Ongoing Colonialism, and Decolonization in Malaysia and South Africa

April 22, 2019

Friday, April 26 at 4pm Hale 230 Research lecture by Dr. Juno Salazar Parreñas, Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, The Ohio State University Articulations of human rights and animal rights have insufficiently engaged the dire challenges of biodiversity loss, species extinction, and climate change. Instead of situating...

Event Thursday: The Cosmo-logics of K-pop: Media Intimacies and Populist Soft Power

April 18, 2019

Thursday, April 18 at 5pm HUMN 135 A Talk with Michelle Cho Discussant: Erin Espelie Much of the rising transnational popularity of K-pop today has been correlated to the growth of its digital distribution and consumption. Over and above its status as a genre of music, K-pop is a media...

CAS Event: Lecture on The Last days of the Mighty Mekong

April 15, 2019

Wednesday, April 17 at 4:30pm CASE room E422 above Euclid Car Park Last Days of the Mighty Mekong Brian Eyler Celebrated for its natural beauty and its abundance of wildlife, the Mekong river runs thousands of miles through China, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam. Its basin is home to...

Asia-Related Classes offered in the Fall

April 11, 2019

There will be many Asia-related courses taught at CU in the Fall. Gain an international perspective or explore something you have always been curious about! Below you can find a variety of courses about Asia-related topics that might round out your Fall semester registration. Courses Offered through the Center for...

Event Recap: Center for Asian Studies Roundtable on Xinjiang: Perspectives from the field on China’s mass incarceration of Turkic Muslims

April 8, 2019

On March 21st CAS hosted a roundtable on the current imprisonment of Uyghurs and other Turkic minorities in China’s Xinjiang Uyghurs Autonomous Region. The roundtable featured five speakers, all major scholars of Xinjiang. Rian Thum , a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Nottingham and author of The Sacred...

CAS-Initiated Cultures and Languages Across the Curriculum featured in Colorado Arts and Sciences Magazine

April 4, 2019

The March 21 issue of the Colorado Arts and Sciences Magazine features an article entitled Cultures and Languages Across the Curriculum uses foreign languages as a tool to ‘open new avenues of inquiry and communication to enhance whatever you are studying'. The article outlines the CLAC initiative which was launched...

Great turnout at CAS reception during the Association for Asian Studies Conference in Denver

March 25, 2019

CAS and the Asian Art Department of the DAM co-hosted a reception at the Denver Art Museum this past Saturday evening in honor of the 20th anniversary of the founding of CAS at the CU Boulder campus, and also because for the first time, the Association for Asian Studies held...

Event Tomorrow: Justifying Violence in a Buddhist World Colloquium with Michael Jerryson

March 18, 2019

Cas Event--Tuesday, March 19 at 2pm CASE Building E422 at CU Boulder (above Euclid garage) In many ways, Buddhist-inspired violence may seem like an oxymoron, yet there is a robust history of Buddhist revolts, just-war theory, and violence in Asia. Dr. Jerryson analyzes the patterns behind these historical examples and...

CU Boulder Faculty presenting at the Association for Asian Studies conference in Denver

March 14, 2019

Many CU Faculty members will be chairing panels and presenting research at the Association for Asian Studies Conference in Denver March 21-24. Find a full list of presenters here .

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