In the Spotlight

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...

Professor Bella Mody of the Journalism and Mass Communication Program will present our next Luncheon Series event where she will discuss newspapers and citizen education in the context of the Maoist insurgency, considered by the government to be India's "greatest internal security threat" in a talk entitled "Mao in India:...

Richa Nagar, Professor of Geography at the University of Minnesota, will deliver the Keynote Address for the 20th Annual Critical Geography Conference, to be held February 21-23. Nagar's lecture will be on Friday, February 21, at 4:00 p.m. in Atlas 100. Nagar's work focuses on the politics and practices of...

Emily Yeh, Associate Professor of Geography at CU, will be at Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe on the Hill on Wednesday, February 12 at 7:00 p.m. to talk about her new book, Taming Tibet: Landscape Transformation and the Gift of Chinese Development , published by Cornell University Press in 2013...

Seoul-based artist, Kim Jongku, began a two-week residency at CU on February 3. Jongku works in sculpture, video, painting, and photography. Using black, steel powder - the result of an industrial grinding process - he "writes" calligraphic inscriptions on the floor of a pristine, white environment, as if the powder...

Robert A. Kapp, President of Robert A. Kapp & Associates, Inc, of Port Townsend, Washington, will come to CU on Friday, February 7, to give a lecture on corporate responsibility in contemporary China at 11:00 a.m. in Koelbel S125. Dr. Kapp's firm provides consulting services to companies and nonprofit organizations...

Have you been looking for a community of students who are interested in Asia? Have you heard about the Asian Studies major and are wondering how it can fit into your academic plan? Would you like to incorporate Asia into your undergraduate career but don't have the time to study...