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CAS Spring 2024 event schedule:

 

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Anthropology of Japan Series: Religion, Politics, Law, and Media: The Case of the Unification Church in Japan 2024.03.20

Wed, Mar 20, 2024, 12:20-1:10pm MT, on Zoom Register in advance: https://cuboulder.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMtfuCqqTIrG9cNae-ndyBHEXnxA... Dr. Levi McLaughlin Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, North Carolina State University McLaughlin will introduce Japan’s diverse religious landscape by showing how people’s everyday interactions with Shinto shrines, Buddhist temples, and other religious sites, as well as within politics and other spheres, instantiate religion in Japanese contexts. He will discuss historical processes that...
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CAS Luncheon Series - Buddhist Feminism in Tibet: Promoting Women’s Education, Health, and Equality in the Nuns’ Journal, Gangkar Lhamo 2024.03.21

Thursday, March 21 at 12:30pm *New Location* Denison Arts & Sciences Building 1080 Broadway, room C146 In this presentation, Professor Padma ’tsho explores writings on women’s education, health and equality in the journal Gangkar Lhamo, highlighting the voices of Buddhist nuns in an emergent feminism on the Tibetan plateau. Gangkar Lhamo is the first women’s journal edited by Tibetan nuns, founded in 2011 by the K henmos (female cleric scholars)...
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Towards Contemplative Fluency: Framing Tibetan Meditation Practices 2024.04.03

Wednesday, April 3, 2024, 6pm - 7:30pm Eaton Humanities 250 Meditation is an ancient human practice. Our ability to artfully cultivate attentive, imaginal, and embodied modes of consciousness, and more so, intentionally design and apply techniques to transcend ordinary experience are deeply integral to the human contemplative heritage. Such practices have historically been innovated, tested, refined, and documented in magnificent diversity by the world’s great contemplative traditions. Yet, despite this...
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Southeast Asia in a Backpack: Expert Guides and Maps for Teaching Geography and Conservation 2024.04.06

April 6, 2024, Saturday, 9 a.m. to 2:15 p.m. Map Library at the Benson Earth Sciences Building University of Colorado Boulder $10 registration fee Did you know Southeast Asia is one of the most biodiverse regions on the planet? Learn more about its unique wildlife and geography in this one-day professional development workshop. Learn how to use thematic maps of Southeast Asia while meeting geography standards. This in-person program is...
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Emerging Book Cultures in Asia and the Middle East: Materiality, Paratexts, Practices 2024.04.06-07

April 6 and 7, 10:30am - 5:30pm Center for British and Irish Studies, Norlin Library This conference brings together scholars working on a variety of textual cultures across the Asian continent, ranging from Japan to the Middle East, to consider a wide range of material and sociological aspects of the production and use of written texts: Who wrote? How did they write, using what materials and for what purpose? How...

GETSEA Simulcast Film Screening of Indigenous Cambodian Filmmakers 2024.04.08

GETSEA Simulcast Film Screening of Indigenous Cambodian Filmmakers On April 9 th from 4:00 pm-5:30pm the Center for Asian Studies, in partnership with GETSEA and the Bophana Institute will present a unique Simulcast Film Screening of short films by Indigenous Cambodian filmmakers, each weaving a narrative around the themes of healing, memory, and care. The screening will be held in Humanities 135. This event is a part of the International...
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Abundance: Sexuality’s History, Book Talk by Anjali Arondekar 2024.04.10

Wednesday, April 10 at 5pm Humanities 250 Anjali Arondekar will give a book talk about her latest book, A bundance: Sexuality’s History (Duke University Press, 2023). Arondekar is a Professor of Feminist Studies and the Founding Director of the Center for South Asian Studies at the University of California Santa Cruz. In Abundance , Arondekar refutes the historical common sense that archival loss is foundational to a subaltern history of...

Anthropology of Japan Series: Yusuke’s Story: Coming of Age in Care and the Precarity of Social Welfare in Japan 2024.04.10

Wed, Apr 10, 2024, 12:20-1:10pm MT, on Zoom Register in advance: https://cuboulder.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJApceGrrD4tGdcRkfoEv8PB7W0BI... Dr. Christopher Chapman PhD recipient in Anthropology, Oxford University Children’s voices are often marginalized in child welfare, yet they offer important insight into the design and delivery of social care. Drawing on yearlong fieldwork in a residential care institution, I explore how one young person, Yusuke, sees himself and his society. I consider how his daily movements in...
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Mediating Feuds and Making Minorities on the Sino- Tibetan Borderlands of Late Republican and Early Maoist China 2024.04.11

Thursday, April 11 at 6pm Gugg 205 In early 1941, the Kuomintang dispatched a well-known scholar-official, Gao Yihan, to investigate a “grassland dispute” between two Tibetan chiefdoms on the Qinghai-Gansu border. As Gao quickly discovered, the Gyelwo-Gengya feud was part of a much larger contest put into motion by the collapse of Manchu Qing power and competition between a host of regional actors to shape the post-imperial order. It also...
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Asia Symposium: Fluid Asia 2024.04.12

Friday, April 12 Center for British and Irish Studies, Norlin Library This symposium will be exploring the theme of water in Asia. There are many dimensions to water, as a liquid, a basis of all living organisms, a biotic infrastructure for life, a material around which complex social relations of power swirl, and a counterpoint to conceptions that area studies are based on. With this theme, CAS seeks to gather...

Sculpting the Self: Islam, Selfhood, and Human Flourishing 2024.04.16

Tuesday, April 16 at 5pm Humanities 250 This talk will be based on Dr. Muhammad U. Faruque's acclaimed book Sculpting Selves (University of Michigan Press, 2021). Alongside detailed analyses of three major Islamic thinkers, Dr. Faruque’s study situates their writings on selfhood within the wider constellation of related discussions in late modern and contemporary thought, which allows him to develop his inquiry within a spectrum theory of selfhood, incorporating bio-physiological,...

Anthropology of Japan Series: Stoking Academic Colonialism or Nurturing Indigenous Futures? Japan’s Upopoy National Ainu Museum and Polarizing Conversations 2024.04.17

Wed, Apr 17, 2024, 12:20-1:10pm MT, on Zoom Register in advance: https://cuboulder.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcqd-CtqT8jHNTX3NP6yOVbLgZhG... Dr. ann-elise lewallen Associate Professor of Pacific and Asian Studies, University of Victoria In 2020, amidst the global pandemic, Japan inaugurated its first national museum dedicated to the Ainu community—the Upopoy National Ainu Museum and Park. This groundbreaking institution, while welcomed by many Ainu, has concurrently sparked divisive discussions regarding the representation of Ainu knowledge and expertise. Situated...

Claiming the nation: Reflections on the state of religion and politics in the Philippines 2024.04.24

Wednesday, April 24 at 5pm Center for Teaching and Learning in the CASE building That the Philippines is the only Christian nation in Asia is a claim widely rehearsed in and about Philippine society. It is, for one, often found in media commentaries about Filipinos and their spectacular religiosity. Even state agencies resort to this characterization. Beginning with this vignette, this talk introduces the concept of 'theological nationalism', which refers...
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Indonesian Gamelan Workshop 2024.04.26

Friday, April 26, 5pm-6pm ALTEC (CASE E380) 1725 Euclid Ave., Boulder Discovering Indonesia through music! Register for free: https://forms.gle/TzdBPSfaMxCUbLnk8

Anthropology of Japan Series: Recovery in Post-3.11 Japan 2024.04.29

Mon , Apr 29, 2024, 12:20-1:10pm MT, on Zoom Register in advance: https://cuboulder.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcpfuisqjkqHtxM6cCfZSOgc-RRe... Dr. Hiroko Kumaki Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Oberlin College and Dr. Jun Mizukawa Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Lake Forest College