In the Spotlight

The Center for Asian Studies welcomes the CU community back for the Fall 2016 semester! Welcome back to all returning CU faculty, staff, and students, and a special welcome to all of the new Buffs. CAS is hosting several exciting events throughout the semester. Check out our calendar of Speaker...

ASIA 4300 "Urban Asia: History, Modernity, Challenges" will cover a variety of cities in China (including Hong Kong and Taiwan), India, Japan, Afghanistan, Malaysia, Indonesia, and other countries, and will be taught thematically (environmental issues, impact of colonialism, concepts of urbanism and modernity, and challenges facing urban areas) while keeping...

CU Boulder Religious Studies professor and CAS board member Terry Kleeman is a leading scholar on Taoism, China's only native religion. His recent book, "Celestial Masters: History and Ritual in Early Daoist Communities" is the first work published in a Western language on the founding of Taoism. Here's an excerpt...

The Anderson Language and Technology Center at CU Boulder (ALTEC) offers language courses at various levels throughout the academic year. Here are some upcoming courses in Asian languages for fall semester: Beginning Hindi: July 18 - August 17, Mondays & Wednesdays 5:30 - 7 p.m. Beginner conversation skills such as...

In collaboration with CU Study Abroad and the CU Leeds School of Business Global Initiatives program, The Center for Asian Studies has partnered with three companies in Tokyo to offer internships to CU students this summer. The internships aim to provide opportunities for students to live in Japan and learn...

Formally recognized as the 14th incarnation in 1950 at the age of 15, the Dalai Lama was last in Boulder in 1997 when he spoke at both CU Boulder and Naropa University. During his last visit, the he delivered the keynote address at a groundbreaking conference at Naropa on spirituality...

Adam Lisbon, Japanese Studies Librarian, curated Japan and Disaster: 1670-1995 , a small exhibition of items relating to major natural disasters in Japan over the past 325 years. Japan is prone to frequent earthquakes because the island nation sits atop four tectonic plates. They had no less than seven earthquakes...

From April 4 to 10, 2016 the Tibet Himalaya Initiative (THI) hosted renowned Tibetan artists Gonkar Gyatso and Dorje Tsering Chenaktsang (Jangbu) for Tibetan Arts Week. Coinciding with the Conference on World Affairs, Tibetan Arts Week gathered students, faculty, and supporters of THI from CU, Naropa University, and the Boulder...

NHK World, a broadcast service based in Tokyo, offers domestic and international English news 24 hours a day. NHK World presents information on Asia from various perspectives and covers politics, culture, science and industry news related to Japan as well as global affairs. The site includes NHK's Journeys in Japan...

The Transpacific Partnership (TPP) has received attention from Presidential candidates, the news media, and the Boulder community, with letters to the editor and columns in the local paper at least weekly. Since many of the TPP partners are Asian countries, it is appropriate that CAS organized a roundtable discussion of...