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The Center for Asian Studies has funding available for CU Boulder faculty who would like to develop curricula for new or revised courses about Southeast Asia! Application Deadline: Thursday, March 16, 2017 CAS will offer two faculty awards for the creation or significant revision of an undergraduate course on Southeast...

The CU Boulder Asian Studies Graduate Association (CUBASGA) is pleased to report that its annual conference was a great success! On February 3 and 4, twenty-one graduate students from around the world gathered at Norlin Library and the University Memorial Center to share their research in the fields of Chinese...

The Center for Asian Studies Special Event Fund is designed to provide support for larger events involving multiple speakers that may also have relevance to the annual theme. See below for a summary of funding types. Due to limited funding, we are unable to fund any undergraduate student-related events such...

The Center for Asian Studies is now accepting applications for the summer 2017 program, in collaboration with CU Study Abroad and the CU Leeds School of Business Global Initiatives program! Here's what you need to know: • Course credit is available for qualified students • Housing is provided by the...

CAS would like to congratulate our affiliated faculty member and associate professor of history Mithi Mukherjee, who has been awarded a fellowship from the American Council of Learned Socities to continue work on her book: The Asian Jurist and the Empire: Radhabinod Pal, Anticolonialism, and the Counter Discourse of International...

Happy new year and welcome back students! Warm greetings from the Center for Asian Studies here at CU. All of us at the Center are looking forward to a full spring semester of events and outreach. We would like to welcome Carla Jones, our interim faculty director for the Center...

Dr. Tianlong Jiao, Joseph de Heer Curator of Asian Art at the Denver Art Museum presented the first in the CAS annual theme series for 2016-17, “Asian Borderlands.” Dr. Jiao’s extensive research as an archaeologist and art historian illuminated the murky waters of maritime excavations. The study of Chinese export...

Looking for language opportunities in the spring semester? Check out ALTEC's spring schedule of noncredit language courses, with offerings in beginning Japanese and Korean. Courses range from 5-8 weeks long, meeting once or twice a week. CU students can enroll for $75 per class, $150 for community members. For a...

Professor Rachel Silvey, of the Department of Geography of the University of Toronto, gave a talk on December 2 at CU Boulder. Her lecture and research, “Infrastructures of Eviction: Indonesian migrant labor in the Transnational City,” was set within the context of the recent boom in urbanism in Asia, the...

In the Spring 2017 semester, the Center for Asian Studies is offering a 2-credit internship at Rowman & Littlefield Publishers to an undergraduate student with an interest in Asia. Rowman & Littlefield is a leading independent academic press located in Boulder that is committed to publishing enduring works of scholarship,...