In the Spotlight

This article was originally published in the University of Colorado Arts and Sciences Magazine. To read the full article, please click here . At 5 a.m., Professor Herbert Covert sits silently in the Vietnamese jungle, waiting for the morning calls of the yellow-cheeked crested gibbon, an endangered primate. In three...

For the first time, CU will be a testing site for the popular Japanese-Language Proficiency Test. The Center for Asian Studies is excited to work with JLPT and the Association for American Teachers of Japanese to bring this test to Colorado, as the JLPT currently has no testing sites in...

Four students at the University of Colorado Boulder were selected to received highly-competitive Critical Language Scholarships (CLS) by the U.S. Department of State for summer 2014. Thirteen languages are included in the CLS program: Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bangala/Bengali, Chinese, Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Punjabi, Russian, Turkish, and Urdu. Of the...

The Conference on World Affairs Athenaeum Program, sponsored by the Center for Asian Studies, brought Alison Klayman to CU Boulder’s campus March 10th-13th. Alison Klayman directed the film Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry. Her important work with Ai Weiwei highlighted an artist with unrelenting spirit and defiance who blurs the line...

CU Boulder’s Asian Studies Graduate Association (CUBASGA) held its annual graduate student conference on March 7th and 8th. Beginning in 1998, this conference has been organized to provide current graduate students with a forum to present original research on East Asia, particularly on topics in the humanities and social sciences...

The Center for Asian Studies is pleased to announce our Spring 2014 graduates! Sharon Chang is graduating with a dual degree in the College of Arts & Sciences, majoring in Asian Studies and Japanese, and in the Leeds School of Business, where she studied Marketing and Management. This semester, she...

On Friday February 21, Professor Richa Nagar of the University of Minnesota gave a lecture, sponsored by CAS entitled Muddying the Waters: Co-authoring feminisms across scholarship and activism . The talk was based on her forthcoming book by the same title. Held in ATLAS 100, the lecture was very well...

Dennis McGilvray, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, will discuss his recent research in Sri Lanka at the final CAS Luncheon Series event of Spring 2014. This event will be held on Thursday, May 1, at 12:00 p.m. in the CAS Conference Room at 1424 Broadway on the CU-Boulder campus. The century-old...

February 11th, observers watched Kim Jongku combine physical and digital media, where rust filings simultaneously become poetry, calligraphy, and landscape. The performance lasted only fifteen minutes, but wonderfully transmitted what it means to be a master of one’s craft. Kim plays with the traditions and conventions of East Asian art,...

Anna Shields, Associate Professor of Chinese at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, is coming to CU this week to give a talk entitled "The Body of the Friend: Friendship and Literary Culture in Mid-Tang China." This talk will be on Thursday, April 24 at 5:00 p.m. in Humanities 180...