In the Spotlight

We would like to extend our congratulations to Eben Yonnetti and Sierra Gladfelter for their recent selection for 2017-18 Fulbright Student Awards! Eben Yonnetti is recent a graduate of the M.A. program in the Department of Religious Studies at CU Boulder. His Fulbright will take him to the Himalayan region...

CAS would like to recognize our Asian Studies majors graduating today. Congratulations to Leandra Laws, Angelica Powell, Kurt Schreiber and Nathan Wright! We wish you all the best. Look for the next volume of the Colorado Journal of Asian Studies later this year, which will include our 2017 graduates' thesis work.

Monday, May 1, 2017, 4:00 p.m. Clare Small Arts and Sciences 209, CU Boulder Prof. Meichun Liu, City University of Hong Kong, has collaborated on work that contributes to the formulation of a linguistic theory based on cross-linguistic data rather than on the narrow data of Indo-European languages. Chinese grammar...

Joyce Lebra became the first American woman to earn a PhD in Japanese history in 1958. Lebra completed a residency with Fulbright in Japan from 1955-1957. She joined the CU community as the university's first female history professor in 1961, and taught Japanese and Indian history for 29 years. Lebra...

CAS affiliated emeritus professor Dennis McGilvray's work in Sri Lanka is the culmination of nearly forty years of anthropologic research. Professor McGilvray's research interests focus on the Tamils and Muslims of south India and Sri Lanka. This exhibit of photography takes a look at dowry practices in the region and...

Summer is almost here! As the spring semester wraps up and you make plans for fall 2017, take a look at the CAS Asia-related course list for next semester. Search by semester for course offerings in Fall 2017. Also check out information about CAS and ALC courses below! ASIA 2000:...

CAS is excited to announce the results of hard work and collaboration among many individuals in recent years. We would like to publicize recent work from Director Professor Tim Oakes: " Mediating Asia: Information, Democracy, and the State In and Before the Digital Age ," a special section from the...

Join CAS for our next Asian Borderlands event on Thursday, April 6 with Hjorleiffur Jonsson! The event will be held in the British and Irish Studies room in Norlin at CU Boulder. Reception will begin at 4:30, followed by the keynote address from 5:00 - 6:30. A Q&A session will...

The Center for Asian Studies is looking for a graduate student in a field related to Asian studies to join the CAS staff as a GRA for Data Collection and Communications for Fall 2017, with the possibility of continuation in Spring 2018 and beyond. Duties include: Data Collection to assist...

The CAS Event Coordinator is primarily responsible for planning CAS speaker and event programming. This includes acting as a liaison between CAS and CU faculty members, campus departments such as UMC Event Planning, Academic Scheduling, the International Tax Specialist, etc.; making travel arrangements; reserving event venues; publicity; and communicating with...