In the Spotlight

Scott Kennedy, Associate Professor of the Departments of Political Science and East Asian Languages and Cultures at Indiana University, will come to CU to give a talk on China and its role in global governance as Chinese government agencies, companies, and NGOs are becoming much more significant players in every...

The Center for Asian Studies is pleased to announce the release of the latest volume of the Colorado Journal for Asian Studies (CJAS). Every year, seniors in Asian Studies complete a research project under the guidance of a faculty advisor. In the spring, they present their work in a public...

Professor Matthew Hull, a member of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Michigan, will come to CU on Friday, September 27 to deliver the keynote lecture for the annual interdisciplinary graduate student conference sponsored by the Department of Anthropology. In this lecture, he will address bureaucracy and corporations...

In this Brown Bag event, Sarah Tynen, a graduate student in the Department of Geography, will discuss her research on housing developments in Nanjing. She will take an ethnographic approach to examining urban redevelopment in order to address the everyday nuances of the uneven geographies of housing development. This project...

On Friday, September 27, Professor Matthew Hull of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Michigan will deliver the keynote lecture for the annual interdisciplinary graduate student conference, which is sponsored by the Department of Anthropology. Professor Hull is known for his research on colonial and contemporary bureaucracy, documents,...

Next Thursday, September 26, Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Chancellor’s Professor of History at UC Irvine, will come to CU to talk about the Boxer Crisis of 1900. This illustrated talk will looked at how this crisis has been linked to “catastrophes” of different sorts. A drought, interpreted by the anti-Christian Boxers as...

Students from Journalism and Mass Communications, International Affairs and Asian Studies spent two weeks in Beijing this summer, participating in one of CU's Global Seminars. The courses are part of a campus effort to give undergrads more opportunities to study abroad. JMC Professor and UNESCO Chair Meg Moritz designed the...

Last month, Professor Tim Weston, CAS Associate Director, served as the scholar-expert for a delegation of Communications Directors for members of the U.S. Congress. During this trip, they met with numerous Chinese government and business leaders. Reflecting on the experience, Weston said, "What I found most interesting is that I...

The Center for Asian Studies welcomes Patricia Yarrow, a CU Alumna, who is visiting from Japan and will give a presentation about her working her way through the Japanese education system as an English teacher. Her ultimate goal after gaining her M.A. in Japanese Literature at CU was to return...

Explore study abroad program options in 70+ countries at http://studyabroad.colorado.edu , including Asian countries, such as China, India, Japan, Nepal, South Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand. Programs exist for all majors, all language levels, and fall within a wide range of program costs (and financial aid applies!). Come to Study Abroad...