World’s Highest Wildflower App Celebrates Beauty of Mount Everest

May 11, 2020

Bozeman, MT (April 2, 2020) – Dreaming of your next trip to Nepal? Or going through photos and memories from your last trip? Today High Country Apps announces a new app, Wildflowers of Mount Everest, the first-ever wildflower identification app for Nepal. The app virtually transports travelers to the world’s...

Byers Writes about Environmental Impacts of Mules on Everest

Nov. 25, 2019

Alton C. Byers, CAS Visiting Scholar and Research Associate at INSTAAR has authored an article about the impact mules are making on the Everest Trail. In the article, Byers writes that "[The mules] have largely replaced the use of dzopkio (yak-cattle cross breeds) for the Lukla to Namche supply run,...

CAS Event on Wednesday: A History of the Communist Purge Against Buddhism in Mongolia

Sept. 30, 2019

with Oyungerel Tsedevdamba and Jeffrey L. Falt Wednesday, October 2 @ 5PM Eaton Humanities 250 Meet Oyungerel Tsedevdamba, well-known in Mongolia as a social change-maker, former Member of the Mongolian Parliament, ex Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism, author of bestselling novels and multiple non-fiction books, a human rights and...

CAS and THI Event: Political Contests and Moral Battles: A Perspective on Bhutan's Democratic Transition

March 12, 2019

CAS Event/Tibet Himalaya Initiative Event Wednesday, March 20 at 5pm British and Irish Studies Room, Norlin Library Dr. Sonam Kinga is an important political figure, scholar, and writer in the Buddhist kingdom of Bhutan. Now that the country is a decade into its transition to democracy, Dr. Kinga will present...

Professor Morris Rossabi to Offer Reassessment of the Mongol Empire

March 9, 2015

The Center for Asian Studies is pleased to help bring Professor Morris Rossabi of the City University of New York on Wednesday, March 11, to offer new insights into the history of the Mongol empire in "Genghis Khan and the Mongols: Barbarians or Harbingers of Global History." Most people perceived...

New Persian Course Book Released!

Aug. 11, 2014

The second volume of Persian: Here and Now (Mage: summer 2014) authored by our Persian instructor and coordinator of Persian (Farsi) program recently released and will be used this year as a course book for Farsi Intermediate. Extract from preface of the book: "In this volume, as in the first...

CU-Boulder Anthropology PhD Candidate Magdelena Stawkowski to Discuss Cultural Changes in Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan

March 27, 2014

Magdelena Stawkowski, a PhD Candidate in Anthropology at CU-Boulder, will kick off the 2014 CAS Annual Symposium: Catastrophic Asia with her presentation entitled "Radiation 'Adaptation': Emergent Subjectivities and Health Strategies Among Indigenous Kazakhs at Semipalatinsk." In this paper, she draws on sixteen months of field work to describe the legacies...

CAS Luncheon Series: Jerry Peterson Presents "Kazakhstan Joins the World"

March 10, 2014

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...

The US and Prospects for Democracy in Iran

Oct. 28, 2013

Dr. Abbas Milani, director of Iranian Studies at Stanford University, will be coming to Boulder at the end of this week to give a talk on the US and the possibilities of democracy in Iran. We are at a critical juncture in the troubled history of US-Iran relations and the...

Speaker Series Event: New Perspectives on Medieval Chinese Poetry

Feb. 14, 2013

Join us for a conference in celebration of the 30th anniversary CU-Boulder's Department of Asian Languages and Civilizations . New Perspectives on Medieval Chinese Poetry February 21-22, 9:00am - 5:00pm Old Main Chapel, CU-Boulder campus The two-day conference will begin Thursday with welcoming remarks by Steven Leigh, Dean of the...

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