Upcoming Center for Asian Studies Events

CAS Luncheon Series Thursday, September 29 at 12:30pm CASE Building, room W311 Angus Lockyer Visiting Scholar, Center for Asian Studies, University of Colorado Boulder Most of us know that northeast Asia has hosted the Olympics twice in the last two years – the winter games in Beijing earlier this year, and the postponed summer ones in Tokyo last summer. Many of us may not be aware that Osaka is currently...

CAS Event Tuesday, November 1 at 9am Register Here 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 around the world. By blending cultural history with biography, 'Like Water' unearths the cultural strands that Lee intertwined...

HALE 230 Doors open at 4:30, webcast begins at 5pm sharp. We are delighted to announce that the 2022 CHINA Town Hall program will be held on Wednesday, November 16, at 5:00pm MST (7:00 p.m. EST), and will feature former U.S. ambassador to Russia, China, and Singapore, Jon M. Huntsman Jr. Following the webcast, a presentation by Associate Professor of History and NCUSCR member, Tim Weston “China, the United States,...

Wednesday, November 30 at 5:30pm Humanities 135 Featuring discussion and Q&A after the screening. This film tells the little-known story of one of the most dramatic and consequential showdowns in American history between a protest movement and a president. The film reveals how two antiwar demonstrations in the fall of 1969 — the largest the country had ever seen — helped prevent a massive escalation of the U.S. war in...