In the Spotlight

Gail Nelson, a career intelligence officer and CU Boulder alumnus, advised Afghan military intelligence leaders after the United States drove the Taliban from power It’s been almost three years since the Afghanistan government fell to the Taliban, and with the passage of time some have come to believe that America’s...

Spring is go time for climbers who hope to summit Mount Everest, Earth’s highest peak above sea level. Hundreds of mountaineers from around the world travel to Asia in April and May, headed for base camps in Nepal and Tibet. But jagged peaks won’t be the only thing they see...

More than 150 years ago, some 15,000 Chinese workers arrived in the U.S. to help construct the country’s first transcontinental railroad, which connected the West Coast with the East Coast’s rail network. These Chinese laborers received lower wages than their white counterparts for the same job and endured worse living...

The conference “Emerging Book Cultures in Asia and the Middle East: Materiality, Paratexts, Practices,” was convened on April 6 and 7, 2024, in the British and Irish Studies Room in Norlin Library. Each day the conference convened from 10:15am to 5:45pm, with a reception at the Koenig Alumni Center on...

On March 12, 2024, Dr. Xiaojing Miao, Stanley Ho Junior Research Fellow at Pembroke College, University of Oxford, gave a talk in the CAS Seminar Series on strategies of Tang Dynasty literati to enter officialdom and become part of the governmental bureaucracy. The talk focused on several self-recommendation writings that...

Together with the Colorado Tibetan community, the Vail Symposium, and CU’s Department of Anthropology, the Tibet Himalaya Initiative is pleased to invite you to a special event this summer linked to Professor Carole McGranahan's longstanding research. On Sunday, June 9 at 12 noon, we will hold a memorial gathering at...

On April 3, Michael R. Sheehy, Ph.D., Research Associate Professor and Director of Research at the Contemplative Sciences Center at the University of Virginia, delivered a talk titled Towards Contemplative Fluency: Framing Tibetan Meditation Practices. Meditation is an ancient human practice. Our ability to artfully cultivate attentive, imaginal, and embodied...

After spending a few years teaching English abroad in Japan with the Japanese Exchange and Teaching program (JET), Adam Lisbon , Japanese and Korean Studies librarian at the University Libraries, fell in love with the country and its culture and decided to pursue librarianship. Once he joined the CU Boulder...

A commuter professional development program for high school and community college (grades 9-14) educators in Colorado. Make the 2024 Summer Olympics a teachable moment for history, geography, political science, and social sciences. Learn why certain sports are more popular in South and Southeast Asia, how they became game-changers beyond the...

Many of the students featured in the A&S Magazine's article about CU's Amazing Grads have Asian Studies connections. The article is highlighting Valerie Lombogia , a graduating Asian Studies student this semester. Also highlighted is Frances Emmeline Nettles (International affairs and Chinese) who did the summer 2023 Tang program. Chu...