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Recipient of 2014 Foreign Minister's Commendation Dr. Laurel Rasplica Rodd On Thursday, July 24 the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan announced recipients of the Japanese Foreign Minister’s Commendation for 2014, including one individual from within the jurisdiction of the Consulate General of Japan in Denver. Dr. Laurel Rasplica Rodd...

This article, written by Amy Bounds, was originally published in the Daily Camera on July 23, 2014. To see the full article, please click here . Mandarin Chinese teachers are spending 10 days learning to incorporate technology that encourages active learning in their K-12 classrooms at a summer workshop at...

Are you looking for something to do this weekend? Head out to Sloan's Lake Park to the Dragon Boat Festival, which will be held on Saturday from 10-7, and Sunday from 10-5. This annual event features Dragon Boat races, a martial arts stage, the Japanese Obon dance, lion dancing, and...

Are you interested in helping incoming international students adjust to life at CU? Volunteer to be an International Student Guide! For more information, please visit http://www.colorado.edu/oie/isg . To apply to be an International Student Guide, please email Rebecca.Sibley@Colorado.edu . The ISG program is a joint project of International Student and...

This article was originally published in the University of Colorado Arts and Sciences Magazine. To read the full article, please click here . Belly up to a bar, drop by a café, or sit down at a bus stop and mention Tibet in most any American city, from Baltimore to...

This article was originally published in the University of Colorado Arts and Sciences Magazine. To read the full article, please click here . At 5 a.m., Professor Herbert Covert sits silently in the Vietnamese jungle, waiting for the morning calls of the yellow-cheeked crested gibbon, an endangered primate. In three...

For the first time, CU will be a testing site for the popular Japanese-Language Proficiency Test. The Center for Asian Studies is excited to work with JLPT and the Association for American Teachers of Japanese to bring this test to Colorado, as the JLPT currently has no testing sites in...

Four students at the 91ÖÆƬ³§¹ú²úAV were selected to received highly-competitive Critical Language Scholarships (CLS) by the U.S. Department of State for summer 2014. Thirteen languages are included in the CLS program: Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bangala/Bengali, Chinese, Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Punjabi, Russian, Turkish, and Urdu. Of the...

The Conference on World Affairs Athenaeum Program, sponsored by the Center for Asian Studies, brought Alison Klayman to CU Boulder’s campus March 10th-13th. Alison Klayman directed the film Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry. Her important work with Ai Weiwei highlighted an artist with unrelenting spirit and defiance who blurs the line...

CU Boulder’s Asian Studies Graduate Association (CUBASGA) held its annual graduate student conference on March 7th and 8th. Beginning in 1998, this conference has been organized to provide current graduate students with a forum to present original research on East Asia, particularly on topics in the humanities and social sciences...