In the Spotlight

On Wednesday September 27, from 5:30 to 7 p.m., CU hosted Masataka Hata, the twelfth generation head of the Shoyeido Incense Company, as he delivered a lecture on the aesthetics of traditional Japanese incense and performed a live interactive workshop on “listening” to incense. Mr. Hata was joined by incense...

Looking for something to do during your Maymester this Summer? Why not spend it in China exploring the cultural identity of four of China's most famous and historic cities: Beijing, Shanghai, Xi'an, and Hangzhou! Interact with Chinese peers both in and outside the classroom and gain firsthand knowledge on the...

On Friday, September 22, from 4 pm to 6 pm, CU hosted two speakers on the topic of North Korea. The event was co-sponsored by the Center for Asian Studies and the Department of History. The invited speakers are two of the very few humanists who work on North Korea...

Please join us next Wednesday evening at 5:47 p.m. in the Environmental Design Building, Room 134 as Daan Roggeveen, renowned architect and partner at MORE Architecture, delivers a lecture on Chinese urban development and architecture! The Chinese metropolis has developed into the world’s most successful urban scheme. Combining bottom-up energy...

The Center for Asian Studies is pleased to announce that our annual research forum for undergraduates will be held this Wednesday at 4:00 p.m. in the Abrams Lounge at the C4C! We invite any CU undergraduates interested in learning more about how to identify research problems and appropriate methodologies to...

Tomorrow afternoon CAS will kick off the Culture and Languages Across the Curriculum (CLAC) Program with an inaugural lecture by Dr. JY Zhou. Dr. Zhou is the secretary of the CLAC Consortium and an Internationalization Specialist at Stockton University, she will be visiting campus to give a public introductory lecture...

CAS is pleased to partner with the Shoyeido Incense Company to present "Koh: Appreciation of Incense" this Wednesday at 5:30 p.m.! Masataka Hata, president of Shoyeido Incense Co., will be joining us from Kyoto, Japan to deliver a lecture discussing the history and cultural practice of Japanese incense and then...

CAS is pleased to partner with the Department of History to present "New Perspectives on North Korea: Building the Socialist Future"! This colloquium will feature academic talks by two scholars on North Korea, illuminating new perspectives on North Korean gender relations and youth literature. Suzy Kim (Rutgers University) and Dafna...

The Annual Jaipur Literature Festival will be returning to Boulder this weekend (September 15-17, 2017) for its third year. Each year, the festival draws dozens of acclaimed international and local writers, journalists, activists, and diplomats from around the world for an exchanges of ideas. This year, the festival will take...

The CU in D.C. program is now accepting applications for the Spring 2018 semester. CU in D.C. is an internship and coursework program for undergraduate students from a wide variety of majors. Every fall, spring, Maymester, and summer, the program sends CU Boulder students to Washington D.C. where they intern...