Join us for a conversation about Dr. Maeda's New Book "Like Water: A Cultural History of Bruce Lee"

Dec. 7, 2022

CAS Event Tuesday, November 1 at 9am Join Dean and Vice Provost of Undergraduate Education Dr. Daryl Joji Maeda as he discusses his most recent book, 'Like Water'. An Asian and Asian American icon of unimaginable stature and influence, Bruce Lee revolutionized the martial arts by combining influences drawn from...

Remarkable Japanese Women Artists and Craftsmakers in a Male Dominated World - from the 17th century to the Present

Nov. 5, 2022

CAS Event Thursday, November 3 at 4pm In conjunction with the exhibition, “Her Brush: Japanese Women Artists from the Fong-Johnston Collection” at the Denver Art Museum (opening on Nov. 13, 2022,) which features recently donated collection of Japanese art by women artists, this event will provide scholarly and comparative perspectives...

U.S.-China Relations in the Era of Xi Jinping

Dec. 16, 2021

Monday, November 8 at 5pm Hale 230* The backdrop to rising U.S.-China tensions has been the emergence of Xi Jinping as China's most powerful leader since Mao Zedong. Former senior diplomat Dave Rank talks about the impact Xi has had on the bilateral relationship -- and on China's own political...

A Decade of Fukushima: Socio-Technical Perspectives on Surviving the Nuclear Age in Japan

April 26, 2021

WORKSHOP PROGRAM THURSDAY, 18 MARCH, 2021 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM Keynote Presentation Nuclear Compensation: Hope, Responsibility, and Collaboration around Fukushima HIROKAZU MIYAZAKI, Northwestern University Discussant: Kathryn Goldfarb, University of Colorado FRIDAY, 19 MARCH, 2021 3:00 PM – 3:05 PM Welcome TIM OAKES and KATHRYN GOLDFARB, University of Colorado 3:05...

Expanding Inclusive Excellence and Intercultural Competency: Content Instruction through CLAC

March 10, 2021

Event held by the University of Colorado Boulder Center for Asian Studies, 2/16/2021. Original event description: Join us to learn about Cultures and Languages Across the Curriculum (CLAC; see https://www.colorado.edu/cas/clac ​) from the Center for Asian Studies and CU faculty members who have taught classes utilizing CLAC techniques. CLAC provides...

Seeing/Unseeing the ‘Chinese’: visuality, race, and contemporary art in Indonesia

Feb. 18, 2021

Thursday, February 11 at 12pm MST This paper examines recent work by contemporary Indonesian artists in order to think through the visual politics by which “Chineseness” has become both hypervisible and invisible in different ways and at different moments in Indonesian history. My aim is to trace a historically shifting...

Under Beijing's Shadow

Feb. 12, 2021

Wednesday, January 27 at 4:30pm MST China’s rise and stepped-up involvement in Southeast Asia have prompted a blend of anticipation and unease among its smaller neighbors. The stunning growth of China has yanked up the region’s economies, but its militarization of the South China Sea and dam building on the...

The Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier

Oct. 20, 2020

The Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier: Rebellion, Repression, and Remembrance on a Tibetan Borderland of Early-Maoist China CAS Event presented on Wednesday, October 7 at 5pm MDT When in 1949 the Chinese Communist Party “liberated” the ethnocultural frontier region known to Tibetans as Amdo, its goal was not just...

Notes from the Field: Some Recent Geologic and Climate Change Impacts on Nepal’s Glaciers

Oct. 13, 2020

with Alton C. Byers Link to the talk: https://www.facebook.com/Nepalglacier/videos/3820720474604884/ For those, who missed our seventh webinar, here is a record of the webinar. We hope you all, who joined the webinar enjoyed the talk by Dr. Alton C. Byers on "Notes from the Field: Some Recent Geologic and Climate Change...

Asia After Covid-19

June 18, 2020

What sorts of longer-term economic, political, social, and cultural changes has the pandemic ushered in for different regions / countries in Asia? In what ways will things not return to the way they were before COVID-19? What is the ’new normal’ for different parts of Asia? This panel looks at...

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