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Asian reflections on trauma and healing: 1965 massacres in Indonesia, excerpt from novel Beauty is a Wound (New Directions, 2015) by Eka Kurniawan, translated from Indonesian by Annie Tucker. CAS Advisory Council Member Stanley Harsha offers this translated excerpt. In 1965-66, the Indonesian army led a massacre that killed an...

Press Release: The Government of Japan announced on April 29, the 2021 Spring Conferment of Decorations on Foreign Nationals for their outstanding contribution to their respective areas. The Consulate-General of Japan in Denver therefore wishes it to be known that the following recipient from within the jurisdiction of the Consulate-General...

Recently, our Spring 2021 Newsletter was published. It features a variety of articles with updates about faculty, students and alumni, as well as messages from Tim Oakes, our Faculty director and the Advisory council. We hope you enjoy the summary of what we have been up to over the last...

The Center for Asian Studies wants to wish a warm congratulations to our graduating seniors, and to all the students who are graduating this year! We recognize this has been an especially trying and strange year to finish your college career, but we feel confident you are prepared to find...

On February 24 th , CAS partnered with Aruna Global South to co-host the panel discussion “The Political Crisis in Myanmar: Nuanced Perspectives on the Nation’s Past, Present, and Future.” The panel featured four emerging scholars with with indigenous and heritage ties to Myanmar: Than Toe Aung (MA student, Central...

Wednesday, May 5 at 4:30pm MDT Register for the ZOOM Meeting here Part of the Sound and Noise in Asia Speaker Series. In this paper I trace a lineage of conditions generalizable as “racial melancholia” (including “diasporic melancholia” and “postcolonial melancholia”) in order to focus on the relationship between melancholia...

On March 18 th and 19 th , the Center for Asian Studies hosted an international group of scholars for the workshop A Decade of Fukushima: Socio-Technical Perspectives on Surviving the Nuclear Age in Japan . Professor Hirokazu Miyazaki of Northwestern University launched the workshop on Thursday evening with his...

Friday, April 23 at 12pm MDT Join via Zoom Recent years have seen a remarkable fluorescence of environmental history scholarship on East Asia, and this panel discussion will explore that scholarship with three recent authors in the field, all of whose books have appeared in the Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books series...

Professor Levi Thompson offers a translation of the poem Weapons and Children . Weapons and Children (1954) by Badr Shakir al-Sayyab The Iraqi poet Badr Shakir al-Sayyab (d. 1964) published this poem in a chapbook in 1954 after originally composing it in 1953. 1953 was a tumultuous year in Sayyab’s...

Wednesday, April 7 at 4:30pm MDT Register for the ZOOM Meeting here Part of the Sound and Noise in Asia Speaker Series. In this talk, I trace the contemporary circulation of “golden era” 1960s and 1970s Cambodian popular music recordings as a global media archeology. I seek to contextualize and...