In the Spotlight

Every year, the Center for Asian Studies examines a particular theme through multiple lens through events throughout the fall and spring semesters, culminating in a day-long symposium that brings together faculty from across the CU campus and invites scholars from other universities to examine the annual theme in detail through...

This event has been cancelled. Rachel Fleming, PhD Candidate in the Department of Anthropology at CU, will start off our April Luncheon Series events with a talk entitled "Negotiating Gender and Modernity in Urban India: Workplaces, Generational Change, and the Importance of Friendship for Professional Women in Bangalore." As more...

The next event in the CAS Luncheon Series is this Thursday, March 20. Wee Kiat Lim, PhD Candidate in the Department of Sociology, will discuss his field work on emergency management systems in China. Using a mixed-method approach that involves interviews, participant observation, and archival review, he traces the genesis...

The 2014 Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference is right around the corner. Held in Philadelphia, the conference will include more than 1,800 Asian studies scholars, including a number from CU Boulder, who work on topics as diverse as the role of family in the visual culture of medieval East...

Professor Jerry Peterson of the Departments of Physics and International Affairs will give a Luncheon Series talk on Kazakhstan Joins the World on Thursday, March 13, at 12:00 p.m. When The Republic of Kazakhstan became independent of the Soviet Union at the end of 1991, this vast land had very...

On March 10 and 11, Eric Dinmore, Associate Professor of History at Hampden-Sydney College, will come to the University of Colorado Boulder to discuss his recent research, offering the Boulder community the opportunity to engage with a prominent scholar on issues relating to Japan, both current and historical. On March...

Award-winning filmmaker and journalist Alison Klayman is one of documentary film’s most exciting new talents, and she will be at CU on Tuesday, March 11 to show her debut feature documentary, Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry at 7:30 p.m. in the Muenzinger Auditorium. Never Sorry won critical acclaim and several top...

The 2014 annual CU Boulder Asian Studies Graduate Association Graduate Student Conference will be held next weekend. This conference features panels of graduate students across the CU campus as well as students from other universities whose research focuses on Asia. This conference, which seeks to foster cross-cultural understanding of Asia,...

On Tuesday, February 4, students and faculty, undeterred by the freezing temperatures and blowing snow, gathered at The Sink for the first Asian Studies Meet & Greet. Participants talked long into the evening over plenteous supplies of chips and salsa, cheesy bread, and pizza. Conversations ranged from shared experiences in...

Every semester, the Center for Asian Studies hosts a career panel to inform students of career opportunities in Asia and in Asia-related fields. This spring's panel will be on Thursday, February 27 from 5:00 until 6:30 p.m in Humanities 250. The panel will feature Sam Goodman, founder and COO of...