Department News

Hisako Schibli, Teaching Assistant Professor of Japanese, was elected as president of Colorado Japanese Language Education Association (CJLEA) during their fall assemby on Saturday, November 4. Her term begins on January 1, 2024.

We are pleased to announce a deadline extension for paper submissions for the CU Boulder Asian Studies Graduate Association (CUBASGA) Conference this coming February!  We welcome paper submissions up until 15 December 2023.  We would

Are you interested in our graduate program in Japanese? Join our weekly virtual Office Hour to learn more about the program and ask questions!  Who: For prospective graduate students in Japanese When: Wednesdays in October (

We will be offering the following courses this Summer 2023.  Maymester  (2023-05-15 through 2023-06-02) JPNS 3331-001 Business Japanese MTWThF 12:30pm-3:30pm Meets Remotely Yumiko Matsunaga Session A (2023-06-05 through 2023-07-07)

Congratulations, Sarah Al Qallaf (Korean Minor) for receiving the Excellence Award for her outstanding Korean skills at the 2022 Online Korean Poetry Recitation Contest, held for the first time by the Korean Cultural Center in Los Angeles! (

The CU Boulder Asian Studies Graduate Association (CUBASGA) invites submissions for its annual graduate student conference, to be held fully in-person on the CU Boulder campus on February 4 & 5, 2023.  Current graduate

Congratulations to our Administrative and Graduate Program Assistant, Asuka Morley for having been named one of the five employees of the year by the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder! The article about the

Are you interested in our graduate program in Japanese? Join our weekly virtual Office Hour to learn more about the program and ask questions!  Who: For prospective graduate students in Japanese When: Wednesdays in October (10/5

Thirteen previously published essays by Prof. Paul W. Kroll have been collected into a book and translated into Chinese by a group of his former students and graduates of our department. The book, titled Xunyuan yu wuma 馴鳶與舞馬 (Tamed Kite and Dancing

On April 25th 2022, the Department of Asian Languages and Civilizations held a retirement celebration in honor of: Chun-ling Hsu, Assistant Teaching Professor of Chinese, Faye Kleeman, Professor of Japanese, and Terry Kleeman, Professor of