Japan and Tibet-Related Displays at Norlin Library

June 20, 2016

Adam Lisbon, Japanese Studies Librarian, curated Japan and Disaster: 1670-1995 , a small exhibition of items relating to major natural disasters in Japan over the past 325 years. Japan is prone to frequent earthquakes because the island nation sits atop four tectonic plates. They had no less than seven earthquakes...

Artist Lectures During Tibetan Arts Week Offer Glimpse into Tibetan Culture and Craft

June 13, 2016

From April 4 to 10, 2016 the Tibet Himalaya Initiative (THI) hosted renowned Tibetan artists Gonkar Gyatso and Dorje Tsering Chenaktsang (Jangbu) for Tibetan Arts Week. Coinciding with the Conference on World Affairs, Tibetan Arts Week gathered students, faculty, and supporters of THI from CU, Naropa University, and the Boulder...

NHK World Offers Broadcast News, English and Japanese Language Learning

June 3, 2016

NHK World, a broadcast service based in Tokyo, offers domestic and international English news 24 hours a day. NHK World presents information on Asia from various perspectives and covers politics, culture, science and industry news related to Japan as well as global affairs. The site includes NHK's Journeys in Japan...

Trans Pacific Partnership Sparks Fascinating Discussion about Future of Pacific Economy

May 26, 2016

The Transpacific Partnership (TPP) has received attention from Presidential candidates, the news media, and the Boulder community, with letters to the editor and columns in the local paper at least weekly. Since many of the TPP partners are Asian countries, it is appropriate that CAS organized a roundtable discussion of...

Dr. Noriko Manabe Explored the Impact of the Internet on the Japanese Nuclear Movement in her March Talk

May 17, 2016

At 2:46 p.m. on March 11, 2011, the most powerful earthquake ever recorded to hit Japan rocked the Pacific coast of northern Japan, triggering huge tsunami waves. As of a year ago, the Japanese National Police agency confirmed the total death toll: 15,894 deaths, in addition to over 6,000 injured...

Congratulations to the Class of 2016!

May 5, 2016

Congratulations to the CU Class of 2016, and especially to our graduating Asian Studies majors and minors! Best of luck in all of your future endeavors! Majors: Alexander "Zan" Appell John Hazuka Samuel Alfred Keoseyan Shelly Kim Emily Orendorff Amberly Brooke Rivera-Morrell Carmen Rodriguez Morgan Sweeney, magna cum laude Zesha...

Dr. Manalansan IV Draws Large Crowd for His Talk on Undocumented Queer Immigrants

May 2, 2016

On February 11, 2016, Professor Martin Manalansan IV, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Asian American Studies at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, delivered a lecture at CU-Boulder to a standing room only crowd with HALE 230, seating 85, packed to capacity. Professor Manalansan鈥檚 talk, 鈥(Un)moved: The Paradoxes of Disaffection among...

CUBASGA Hosted Another Successful Conference at CU this February

April 28, 2016

This year鈥檚 CU Boulder Asian Studies Graduate Association (CUBASGA) Conference was an enormous success. The conference took place on Friday, February 19 th and Saturday, February 20 th and featured two distinguished keynote speakers: Professor Ronald Egan of Stanford University and Professor Adam Kern of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Conference...

Dr. Chika Watanabe Offered Important Insights into Japanese NGOs in Southeast Asia during Her January 2016 Visit to CU-Boulder

April 25, 2016

On January 22, 2016, Dr. Chika Watanabe, Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester, presented the paper, 鈥淭inkering with Difference: The Ethical Labor of Aid in a Japanese NGO.鈥 Her visit was generously sponsored by the Center for Asian Studies and the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the...

John Osburg to Present at the Last CAS Event of the Semester!

April 21, 2016

CAS is pleased to partner with the Department of Geography and the Tibet Himalaya Initiative to invite John Osburg from the University of Rochester to present on "Business and Belief among Han Chinese Practitioners of Tibetan Buddhism in the People's Republic of China." In the context of a perceived spiritual...

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