Past Events

CAS Event Thursday, September 15, 12:30 - 1:45pm Space is limited - registration required. Register here . This event is in person, and location will be given upon registration. A research presentation by Nebil Husayn (Religious Studies: Miami University), with Aun Hasan Ali (Religious Studies: CU Boulder) and John Matthew Willis (History: CU Boulder) responding. Islam’s fourth caliph, Ali, can be considered one of the most revered figures in Islamic...

CAS Event Thursday, September 15, 6pm - 7:30pm Eaton Humanities 250 A public talk by Nebil Husayn (Religious Studies: Miami University) This lecture challenges the ways in which two icons of the 1960s, Dr. King and Malcolm X, are popularly characterized as rivals. Dr. Nebil Husayn argues that the two icons, in fact, represented a radical black tradition of political action that was subversive to narratives of American exceptionalism. As...

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...

Wednesday, October 12 1:30pm - 3:00pm The Hive, ALTEC in Hellems Register here: bit.ly/batik101cu

Thursday October 20, 2022 5-6:30 pm CASE E422 The death of Jina Mahsa Amini on September 16 has sparked historic demonstrations centered on women’s socio-political rights, human rights, and regime change in Iran. Over the past month, tens of thousands of Iranians have taken to the streets across the country to protest the Iranian government’s treatment of girls and women. The women-led protests have shaken Iranian society and the government...

CAS Luncheon Series Thursday, October 20, 2022 at 12:30pm CASE Building room W311 This event features two talks: Ant Forest: How One Chinese App's Experiment with Environmental Fintech is Transforming Ecologies, Pursuing Profits, and Shaping the Carbon Future with Emma Loizeaux With China’s increasing international environmental leadership, how environmental goals are pursued in China matters, including for climate change and for the models of environmental approaches that circulate globally. Can...

Join us to practice your listening and speaking skills at the Tibetan Conversation Table! All ability levels are welcome. We'll enjoy lively conversation, coffee, and games in The HIVE @ALTEC (Hellems 159), at 4-5 pm on Thursdays . Hosted by ALTEC and the Center of Asian Studies.

October 22, 3pm-5pm Hale Science Reading Room 1350 Pleasant St., 4th Floor Indonesia is a country with diverse heritage of cuisines from its sprawling 17000 islands. We would like to invite you to come and try a taste of Indonesian cuisine right here in Boulder. Meet us in The Hale Science reading Room on October 22, 2022 and join the Indonesian community who are happy to present you "Indonesian Potluck...

Join us to practice your listening and speaking skills at the Tibetan Conversation Table! All ability levels are welcome. We'll enjoy lively conversation, coffee, and games in The HIVE @ALTEC (Hellems 159), at 4-5 pm on Thursdays . Hosted by ALTEC and the Center of Asian Studies.

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 around the world. By blending cultural history with biography, 'Like Water' unearths the cultural strands that Lee intertwined in his...

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 on women artists and various genres of artworks that women created from the early modern to modern periods in Asia...

Join us to practice your listening and speaking skills at the Tibetan Conversation Table! All ability levels are welcome. We'll enjoy lively conversation, coffee, and games in The HIVE @ALTEC (Hellems 159), at 4-5 pm on Thursdays . Hosted by ALTEC and the Center of Asian Studies.

November 9th 4:00 - 5:30 PM Hale 230 A book launch for the ChinaMade project, featuring a panel discussion with CAS Visiting Scholar Max Hirsh , Gökçe Günel (Rice University), CAS Faculty Director Tim Oakes , and Professor Emily Yeh (CU Geography). In the 21 st century, infrastructure has undergone a seismic shift from West to East. Once concentrated in Europe and North America, global infrastructure production today is focused...

CAS Luncheon Series Thursday, November 10 at 12:30pm CASE Building W311 The talk sets China in the Communist world of the late 1950s, especially after Khrushchev’s speech denouncing Stalin’s personality cult in 1956. The speech triggered a series of unrest in Eastern Europe, and it also provoked Mao’s launching of the Hundred Flowers and Rectification Campaigns. The talk compares student activism in China with that of Poland and Hungary in...

Join us to practice your listening and speaking skills at the Tibetan Conversation Table! All ability levels are welcome. We'll enjoy lively conversation, coffee, and games in The HIVE @ALTEC (Hellems 159), at 4-5 pm on Thursdays . Hosted by ALTEC and the Center of Asian Studies.

Tuesday, November 15 at 2pm via Zoom On Tuesday November 15 th at 2pm, the Center for Asian Studies will be hosting a virtual "Asia at CU" information session for undergraduates interested in study abroad and work opportunities in Asia, scholarships and fellowships available for study in Asia, and the CU Asian Studies minor and major. Speakers from the Center for Asian Studies, Academic Advising, Education Abroad, and the Office...

Tuesday, November 15 at 12:00pm MST This discussion will examine issues such as how various forms of Asian popular culture have responded to or engaged with other forms of national and hemispheric popular cultures, such as those in Europe, the Americas, Africa, and the Pacific, how Asian American and Asian diaspora communities have drawn on Asian popular cultures, and the implications of homegrown Asian popular cultures circulating within and beyond...

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,...

Join us to practice your listening and speaking skills at the Tibetan Conversation Table! All ability levels are welcome. We'll enjoy lively conversation, coffee, and games in The HIVE @ALTEC (Hellems 159), at 4-5 pm on Thursdays . Hosted by ALTEC and the Center of Asian Studies.

Wednesday, November 30 at 5:30pm Humanities 135 Featuring an introduction to the film by filmmaker Robert Levering (Executive Producer), and discussion and Q&A with Sam Brown and Steven Dike (CU Boulder Honors) 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...

Join us to practice your listening and speaking skills at the Tibetan Conversation Table! All ability levels are welcome. We'll enjoy lively conversation, coffee, and games in The HIVE @ALTEC (Hellems 159), at 4-5 pm on Thursdays . Hosted by ALTEC and the Center of Asian Studies.

Join us to practice your listening and speaking skills at the Tibetan Conversation Table! All ability levels are welcome. We'll enjoy lively conversation, coffee, and games in The HIVE @ALTEC (Hellems 159), at 4-5 pm on Thursdays . Hosted by ALTEC and the Center of Asian Studies.

Wednesday, January 25, 2023, 11:30am – 1:30pm The Center for Asian Studies is co-sponsoring a Lunar New Year Celebration, along with Metro State University of Denver. Join us in the Tivoli Turnhalle (900 Auraria) for a Lunar New Year Celebration! There will be activities, crafts, and food such as a Japanese tea ceremony and Gamelan, K*Pop, and Kung Fu performances. Map: https://www.ahec.edu/files/general/Tivoli_Directory_Map_8.5x11_.pdf featuring Guiding Mountain Dragon & Lion Dance (...

Public lecture: Wednesday, Feb 1, 2023 11:15am-12:05pm MT, on Zoom Dr. Laura Miller, Ei’ichi Shibusawa-Seigo Arai Endowed Professor of Japanese Studies and Professor of History, University of Missouri-St. Louis Contemporary divination products, media, and services are usually categorized under the term uranai (divination). Scholars have noted that divination in Japan includes in a preponderance of female aesthetics and tastes being channeled into a diverse range of new or refurbished businesses...

Thursday, February 2, 2023 at 5:30pm CASE Building, room E422 A panel discussion featuring Sister Sen Nguyen, Dr. Ted Ning, and Dr. Pete Steinhauer We're 50 years out from the United States's withdrawal from combat in Vietnam in 1973, 48 years from the Fall of Saigon and the unification of Vietnam under a government we had been at war with for over two decades. It certainly looked pretty grave in...

Friday, February 3, 2023 at 5:00pm CASE Building, 4th Floor Chancellor's Auditorium A reception with light refreshments will follow the talk. A diplomat for nearly thirty years, Ted Osius served from 2014 to 2017 as U.S. ambassador to Vietnam, a country he has loved since serving there in the 1990s, when he helped open the U.S. Consulate General in Ho Chi Minh City and was one of the first U.S...

Tina Lu , Yale University 4:20 p.m. Saturday, February 4, 2023 UMC, Aspen Rooms “How to Read a Seventeenth-Century Book” Although it is mentioned in other seventeenth-century texts and strongly associated with Sun Yunqiu, Jingshi (Anatomy of Lenses, sometime after 1681) was only rediscovered in 2015; it is one of a handful of seventeenth-century Chinese texts that allude to a Chinese-made telescope. I find this slender volume (which includes many...

Saturday, February 4, 2023 at 7:30pm Munzinger Auditorium The Center for Asian Studies and The International Film Series commemorate the anniversary of the signing of the Paris Peace Accords with a special free screening of the documentary, HEARTS AND MINDS. With a special video intro by the film's director, Peter Davis! Here is a documentary about Vietnam that doesn't really level with us on a simple technical level. If we...

Public lecture: Wednesday, Feb 8, 2023 11:15am-12:05pm MT, on Zoom Dr. Levi McLaughlin, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, North Carolina State University This presentation introduces religion in contemporary Japan. McLaughlin will introduce Japan’s diverse religious landscape by describing 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 summarize...

Monday, February 13, 11:30am to 1pm on Zoom An information session and roundtable discussion hosted by the Center for Asian Studies. Speakers will include Asian Languages and Civilizations faculty members Katherine Alexander , Assistant Professor of Chinese, Marjorie Burge , Assistant Professor of Japanese, and Evelyn Shih , Assistant Professor of Chinese. Moderated by Center for Asian Studies Executive Director Danielle Rocheleau Salaz . CLAC is a curricular framework that...

Public lecture: Wednesday, Feb 15, 2023 11:15am-12:05pm MT, on Zoom In 2020, the 75th year anniversary of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japanese ceramic artist Momoko Usami was given a public commission to create a bust of Harry S. Truman for Hotel Kansas City. Truman may have advocated for civil rights domestically, but he also authorized the dropping of atomic bombs on Usami’s native country. For Usami,...

Join us to practice your listening and speaking skills at the Tibetan Conversation Table! All ability levels are welcome. We'll enjoy lively conversation, coffee, and games in The HIVE @ALTEC (Hellems 159), at 2pm - 3pm on Thursdays . Hosted by ALTEC and the Center of Asian Studies.

Monday, February 20, 5:00-6:30pm, HUMN 135 Joshua Frydman, University of Oklahoma Excavations in recent decades have uncovered inscriptions of poetry from the seventh through tenth centuries in Japan, many of which are on objects that were thrown away, as well as “graffiti” on buildings. These inscriptions comprised networks of "informal" transmission of poems and tropes separate from more formal avenues of circulation. A comparative approach to similar behavior in other...

Tuesday, February 21 at 3pm MST In person CASE room W313 - in-person capacity is very limited Bonnie Etherington will be speaking via Zoom, and will not be on the Boulder Campus for this event. Event hosted by Carla Jones , Associate Professor of Anthropology CU Boulder With Discussant Colleen Scanlan Lyons , Governors’ Climate and Forests Task Force In her book Indigenous Species (2016), Indonesian writer Khairani Barokka writes...

CAS Luncheon Series Thursday, February 23, 2023 at 12:45pm CASE Building room W311 Rooted in the historical present of the brahmanical nation, this project traces the imperial spectacle ( Rana, 2011) to discern the rhetoric of enemy-making. I juxtapose the understanding of caste as a hierarchical structure against an affectual and ontological understanding of caste as a hierarchizing force . To do this, I turn towards the spectaclized violences of...

Join us to practice your listening and speaking skills at the Tibetan Conversation Table! All ability levels are welcome. We'll enjoy lively conversation, coffee, and games in The HIVE @ALTEC (Hellems 159), at 2pm - 3pm on Thursdays . Hosted by ALTEC and the Center of Asian Studies.

Friday, February 24, 2023 5pm - 7pm The Hive, ALTEC Hellems Building

Saturday, February 25 2023 1PM - 3 PM UMC 386

Public lecture: Monday, Feb 27, 2023 11:15am-12:05pm MT, on Zoom Register here in advance. Dr. Emma Cook Associate Professor, Modern Japanese Studies Program, Hokkaido University, Japan Toyota Visiting Professor, Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan (2022-2023) In this talk I explore how young adults with food allergies in Japan “read the air” and try to avoid creating trouble for others and themselves in their practices of allergy disclosure. I...

Tuesday, February 28, 2023 4pm-5pm The Hive @ALTEC Hellems 159.

Thursday, March 2 at 5pm Humanities 135 This talk will present new epigraphic discoveries from the late 5th to early 7th-century Hijaz region of Arabia. Dr. Al-Jallad will discuss religious continuities and transformations that occurred in this period and their implications for our understanding of the background of Islam. Ahmad Al-Jallad did his doctoral work at Harvard University in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. He currently researches the languages, writing...

Join us to practice your listening and speaking skills at the Tibetan Conversation Table! All ability levels are welcome. We'll enjoy lively conversation, coffee, and games in The HIVE @ALTEC (Hellems 159), at 2pm - 3pm on Thursdays . Hosted by ALTEC and the Center of Asian Studies.

March 2, 2023 5:30pm Reception 6pm Book talk followed by Q&A Chancellor's Hall and Auditorium CASE Building, 4th floor Join us for an extraordinary event: a book reading and dialogue with Tsering Yangzom Lama about her award-winning debut novel, We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies , the first novel in English by a Tibetan woman. Breathtaking in scope and powerfully intimate, We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies is...

Saturday, March 4 2023 3 PM - 7pm Glenn Miller Ballroom UMC

Wednesday, March 8, 11:15am – 12:05pm MT Register in advance for the Zoom here . With Dr. Daniel White , Senior Research Associate, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge What is an affect automated? This lecture situates discussions on affect, emotion, and technology in anthropology in the context of contemporary Japan. It asks what happens to the culturally specific dimensions of affective experience when it is 1) formulated as...

CAS Luncheon Series Thursday, March 9, 2023 at 12:45pm CASE Building Room W311 Despite the importance of Mongolia's horse cultures in shaping Eurasian prehistory, the origins of the region's unique pastoral cultures have proven difficult to trace in the archaeological record. New discoveries from archaeological research at high altitude snow and ice patches in the Altai Mountain range shows that mountain hunting has played a key role in subsistence in...

Join us to practice your listening and speaking skills at the Tibetan Conversation Table! All ability levels are welcome. We'll enjoy lively conversation, coffee, and games in The HIVE @ALTEC (Hellems 159), at 2pm - 3pm on Thursdays . Hosted by ALTEC and the Center of Asian Studies.

A new documentary film by Donagh Coleman Thursday, March 9, 2023 Reception at 6pm Film begins at 6:30pm (91 min.) discussion with Donagh Coleman after the film CASE Chancellor's Hall and Auditorium, 4th floor This event is not taking reservations, and is first come first serve for seating. Doors open at 6pm. In what Tibetans call tukdam, deceased meditators show no signs of death for days or weeks. Juxtaposing ground-breaking...

Wednesday, Mar 15, 2023 11:15am-12:05pm MT , on Zoom Dr. Elizabeth Rodwell , Assistant Professor, University of Houston Department of Information & Logistics Technology Following the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, some within the Japanese TV and journalism industries used the crisis as an opportunity for self-critique; others side-stepped questions of self-censorship and advertiser coercion by focusing on restoring audience engagement through the development of pioneering interactive (social) television. Outside the...

Wednesday, March 15, 7 pm CASE Chancellor's Auditorium, 4th Floor Join us for a screening of Crossings, a new documentary film by Deann Borshay Liem that follows the historic journey of 30 women peacemakers including Gloria Steinem and Nobel Peace Laureates as they cross the De-Militarized Zone between North and South Korea calling for an end to a 70-year war that has divided the Korean Peninsula and its people. Following...

Join us to practice your listening and speaking skills at the Tibetan Conversation Table! All ability levels are welcome. We'll enjoy lively conversation, coffee, and games in The HIVE @ALTEC (Hellems 159), at 2pm - 3pm on Thursdays . Hosted by ALTEC and the Center of Asian Studies.

Tuesday, March 21 at 5pm CASE Building, room E422 Book talk by Jodi Kim , Professor, Media & Cultural Studies, University of California Riverside Jodi Kim’s research and teaching interests are at the intersections of Asian American studies, critical ethnic and race studies, postcolonial theory, feminist epistemologies, and critiques of US empire and militarism. Her first book, Ends of Empire: Asian American Critique and the Cold War (University of Minnesota...

Tuesday, March 21 4pm Paleo Hall, CU Boulder Museum of Natural History This will be a public lecture by Professor Kenneth George , (Anthropology) The Australian National University, as part of a two-talk series for this year's Distinguished Lecture in Cultural Anthropology. He and his partner, Professor Kirin Narayan, are co-PIs of a multi-year, multi-sited project on the renewed interest in venerating Vishwakarma in contemporary India. Vishwakarma, the deity associated...

Thursday, March 23, 2023 at 4pm Paleo Hall, Museum of Natural History, CU Boulder Kirin Narayan , Professor of Anthropology The Australian National University Ellora, Western India, is a World Heritage Site with 34 magnificent Buddhist, Hindu and Jain cave temples excavated and sculpted into the scarp of a basalt mountain. These caves, made between the 6th and 10th centuries CE, have long attracted pilgrims, travellers, and scholars, some of...

Join us to practice your listening and speaking skills at the Tibetan Conversation Table! All ability levels are welcome. We'll enjoy lively conversation, coffee, and games in The HIVE @ALTEC (Hellems 159), at 2pm - 3pm on Thursdays . Hosted by ALTEC and the Center of Asian Studies.

Saturday, March 25th at 4:00pm, at Boulder Bookstore Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai will speak about and sign her new book, Dust Child, on Saturday, March 25th at 4:00pm, at Boulder Bookstore. About the Book: In 1969, sisters Trang and Quỳnh, desperate to help their parents pay off debts, leave their rural village and become “bar girls” in Sài Gòn, drinking, flirting (and more) with American GIs in return for money...

Wed, Apr 5 11:15am-12:05pm MT, on Zoom Register here in advance Dr. Jason Danely , Reader in Anthropology, Oxford Brookes University With a shrinking population, older people in Japan are increasingly living their last years alone and impoverished. The social welfare system, once a global model of cost-effective universal care, is no longer able to provide adequate support, and family members, struggle to cope. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Japan was...

Join us to practice your listening and speaking skills at the Tibetan Conversation Table! All ability levels are welcome. We'll enjoy lively conversation, coffee, and games in The HIVE @ALTEC (Hellems 159), at 2pm - 3pm on Thursdays . Hosted by ALTEC and the Center of Asian Studies.

Friday, April 7 at 3:35pm to 5:00pm In person: Guggenheim Geography, 205 1475 Central Campus Mall, Boulder, CO 80309 Join Zoom Meeting: cuboulder.zoom.us/j/93507754851 Gao Yufang​ PhD Candidate, Sociocultural & School of the Environment Yale University Livestock depredation by snow leopards and other large carnivores is a significant concern for wildlife conservationists seeking harmonious coexistence in China’s Sanjiangyuan National Park. Gao Yufang studies the interactions between snow leopards and Tibetan herders...

Tuesday, April 11 at 7pm Old Main Chapel With Political Leader of an Exile Government, Lobsang Sangay . In 2011, the Dalai Lama stepped down as political leader of the Tibetan exile government. For the first time ever, the Tibetan community democratically elected a new political leader: Mr. Lobsang Sangay. He served two terms as Sikyong (President) from 2011-2021. As Sikyong, Mr. Sangay traveled the world on behalf of the...

Wed, Apr 12, 2023 11:15am-12:05pm MT, on Zoom Register here in advance Dr. ann-elise lewallen , Associate Professor of Pacific and Asian Studies, University of Victoria Across Asia, Indigenous relationships with ancestral land are shaped by environmental racism and neoliberal capitalism, but also by ancestral instructions to care for the land. Yet, Indigenous communities in Japan refuse to accept state-sponsored energy development projects on their land. Indigenous Ainu (Japan) engage...

Join us to practice your listening and speaking skills at the Tibetan Conversation Table! All ability levels are welcome. We'll enjoy lively conversation, coffee, and games in The HIVE @ALTEC (Hellems 159), at 2pm - 3pm on Thursdays . Hosted by ALTEC and the Center of Asian Studies.

April 13, 3:30 - 4:30pm In person: Engineering Center, ECCR 265 Dial-In Information: https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/190280621 Talk by Tanuja Gupta, first year student at Cardozo Law School in New York The caste system is a millennia-old system of exclusion originating in South Asia. It impacts over 1.9B South Asians globally today, including 5.4M South Asians here in America. Dalits (the most oppressed in the Caste system) have been historically subjected to violence...

CAS Luncheon Series Thursday, April 13, 12:45pm - 1:45pm CASE Building, room E422 Ethnographic and artistic renditions of waterscapes frequently highlight local interactions and understandings, such as otherwise ‘invisible’ reed bed economies. But national and global water policy arenas still widely depend on universalizing languages and blue-print principles to forge political consensus. So what allows embedded, ethnographic and artistic forms of knowing to carry across spatial and temporal scales, to...

Thursday, April 13, Reception 5:30, Lecture 6pm, followed by Q&A Humanities 250 with Kurtis Schaeffer The idea of wilderness, a natural environment largely unmarked by human settlement, has long been central to Buddhism. Wilderness is a space where spiritual development begins, flourishes, and achieves fulfillment. The Buddha began his quest by leaving the city and immersing himself in the wild. Throughout the millennia, Buddhist writers have promoted the benefits of...

Friday, April 14 at 11:30am Hale 230 THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO A DEATH IN THE FAMILY. WE HOPE TO RESCHEDULE IN THE FUTURE, PLEASE KEEP AN EYE OUT FOR UPDATES. In this lecture, former Prime Minister of South Korea Nakyon Lee will summarize the reasons why nuclear negotiations with North Korea have failed. He will suggest realistic and pragmatic approaches for the US and all relevant parties...

April 14, 2023 3:35pm - 5pm THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED Lisa Kelley Assistant Professor of Geography and Environmental Science University of Colorado, Denver Climate-induced displacement is attracting increasing media, state, and scholarly attention, albeit often in a way that situates migration as either an example of climate adaptation or a failure thereof. Whether depicted as success or failure, both framings invisibilize the pre-existing socio-environmental processes that render such migrations...

Join the conversation about social movements circulating in Global Asia and Asian America. Monday, April 17, 1:30 - 2:30pm ​ Webinar registration The event topic on the circulation of contemporary social justice movements will examine interconnections among social movements in Asia and across a variety of Asian diasporas, including struggles against racism(s), labor movements, refugee/migrant organizing, and religious and nationalist movements. This virtual panel will feature 3 scholars in conversation,...

On Tuesday, April 18th from 5 pm-6:15pm, the Center for Asian Studies and the CU Honors Program will be hosting an information session on scholarships, careers, and study opportunities for undergraduates interested in going to Asia. Speakers from the Office of Top Scholarships, Career Services, Asian Studies, Peace Corps, and Education Abroad will be in attendance to share with students from all majors across campus about the many ways in...

Wed, Apr 19, 2023 11:15am-12:05pm MT, on Zoom Dr. Chika Watanabe , Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology, The University of Manchester It is now a maxim that disaster preparedness needs to involve community-based approaches in order to be effective. These include not only neighbourhood-level strategies but also those involving households. But what is a “household” in the first place in disaster preparedness initiatives? This talk explores how particular notions of...

Join us to practice your listening and speaking skills at the Tibetan Conversation Table! All ability levels are welcome. We'll enjoy lively conversation, coffee, and games in The HIVE @ALTEC (Hellems 159), at 2pm - 3pm on Thursdays . Hosted by ALTEC and the Center of Asian Studies.

Friday, April 21, 10:30am - 5pm CASE Building E422 This year’s Asia Symposium will explore two fundamental contemporary legacies of imperialism and colonialism in Asia: indigeneity and environmental justice. Noting that empire has been a crucial factor in shaping the trajectories of past and present Asian societies, this year’s symposium seeks to draw connections between past and present, between activism and scholarship, and between Asia and the US. The Asia...

"Rayakan Kebersamaan" Friday, April 28, 2023 at 4:30pm The HIVE - Hellems 159 Bring your favorite dish to share! Lebaran is one of the major national holidays in Indonesia after the end of Ramadan month. Foods and delicacies are served to visiting guests, family, relatives, neighbors, and friends during this festive occasion. Join us at the Lebaran Celebration this year! There will also be games, dance, and door prizes. Sign...

Join us to practice your listening and speaking skills at the Tibetan Conversation Table! All ability levels are welcome. We'll enjoy lively conversation, coffee, and games in The HIVE @ALTEC (Hellems 159), at 2pm - 3pm on Thursdays . Hosted by ALTEC and the Center of Asian Studies.

Public lecture: Mon, May 1, 2023, 11:15am-12:05pm on Zoom Dr. Hiroko Kumaki (Postdoctoral fellow, Dartmouth College) Dr. Jun Mizukawa (Lecturer, Lake Forest College Department of Sociology and Anthropology and Department of Religion) This conversation will focus on areas of Northern Japan impacted by the March 2011 earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster. Dr. Kumaki’s research explores what it means to live well in a world where certain levels of environmental exposure...

Monday, May 1, 2023 at 12:15pm The HIVE - Hellems 159 Indonesia is not just Bali! It is a home of more than 300 ethnic groups and cultures, with dozens of languages, different social and cultural backgrounds. Indonesian language is used to unite all those differences. LEARN ABOUT INDONESIA AND THE LANGUAGE! Free refreshment Door prize More Info: Ida.Fauziyah@colorado.edu

The Center for Asian Studies invites you to our annual graduation ceremony and celebration of student and faculty accomplishments including thesis presentations and a reception. Friday, May 12, 2023 from 9:30am to 11:30am The Center Academic Success and Engagement (CASE), 1725 Euclid Ave. Room E422, 4th floor Parking is available in the garage under the CASE Building. All parking on University grounds is free on Thursday and Friday, May 11...

Wednesday, May 24 at 12:00pm to 1:00pm on Zoom For over 50 years, New York native Corky Lee photographed his hometown's Chinatown, and Asian American communities around the country. With a strong sense of social justice, he captured activists, celebrities, and everyday heroes with equal passion, taking over a hundred thousand photos. Sadly, while documenting the latest rise of anti-Asian hate crimes, Corky fell to COVID. Through his own words...