In the Spotlight

The 2015 Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies is coming up next week, March 26-29 at the University of Chicago. There will be 12 CU-Boulder faculty and graduate students participating on numerous panels throughout the conference. On Friday at 8:30 a.m., Emiily Yeh , Geography, will serve as...

Younghwa Lee, Professor of English at Sun Moon University and current visiting scholar at the Center for Asian Studies, will present at our next Luncheon Series event, this Thursday, March 19. In her research, which will be presented in this talk entitled, "Why Am I in the Writing Class? The...

The Center for Asian Studies is pleased to help support the Department of Asian Languages and Civilizations' "Transnationalism and it's Discontents: Exploring Critical Approaches to Border-space" conference this weekend, March 13-15. A collaborative effort between faculty and graduate students, this conference, organized by the Department of Asian Languages and Civilizations,...

The Center for Asian Studies is pleased to help bring Professor Morris Rossabi of the City University of New York on Wednesday, March 11, to offer new insights into the history of the Mongol empire in "Genghis Khan and the Mongols: Barbarians or Harbingers of Global History." Most people perceived...

Jean Koster and his students, Ethan and Aaron, have been working on designing and AREND sensor aircraft to fight poaching of rhinos and elephants in Africa, and on Thursday, March 12, they will present their work as well as the ways in which the trade of ivory is deeply bound...

This Friday, March 6, Kenneth Chan of the University of Northern Colorado will present on Hong Kong director Stephen Fun's two-part 3D martial arts extravaganza, Tai Chi Zero and Tai Chi Hero . These kung fu flicks would have been unremarkable as Hong Kong entries to the genre if not...

Join the Center for Asian Studies on Monday, March 2, for an evening of pizza and networking. Meet other Asian Studies majors, minors, and interested students, as well as members of our faculty. Hear about new developments in the Asian Studies program and meet our new Asian Studies instructor, Colleen...

The Center for Asian Studies is pleased to partner with the CU Boulder Asian Studies Graduate Association is to bring this year's Graduate Student Conference. Held Friday, February 27, and Saturday, February 28, this conference will bring together graduate students from CU, as well as universities across the country to...

This Thursday, February 26, Loriliai Biernacki, Associate Professor in Religious Studies, will bring the second CAS Luncheon Series talk this semester on her research on the idea of wonder in medieval Indian Tantra, in a presentation entitled "Immaterial Bodies: Images of the Body in Medieval India." For the West, the...

Tsherin Sherpa, whose artwork is featured in the current CU Art Museum Anonymous: Contemporary Tibetan Art exhibition, will give a public lecture at CU on Tuesday, February 24. Born in 1968 in Kathmandu, Nepal, Tsherin Sherpa studied traditional Tibetan painting methods from the age of 12 under his father, Master...