Spotlight East Asia

CU Boulder’s Asian Studies Graduate Association (CUBASGA) held its annual graduate student conference on March 7th and 8th. Beginning in 1998, this conference has been organized to provide current graduate students with a forum to present original research on East Asia, particularly on topics in the humanities and social sciences...

February 11th, observers watched Kim Jongku combine physical and digital media, where rust filings simultaneously become poetry, calligraphy, and landscape. The performance lasted only fifteen minutes, but wonderfully transmitted what it means to be a master of one’s craft. Kim plays with the traditions and conventions of East Asian art,...

Anna Shields, Associate Professor of Chinese at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, is coming to CU this week to give a talk entitled "The Body of the Friend: Friendship and Literary Culture in Mid-Tang China." This talk will be on Thursday, April 24 at 5:00 p.m. in Humanities 180...

Join the Center for Asian Studies for an evening during which we commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Tiananmen protests and June 4th Crackdown with a panel discussion entitled "Tiananmen Retrospective: Reflections on Violence, Power, and Protest in China and Beyond." We will discuss not only the events of Tiananmen...

It's one thing to learn to read with an alphabet that has 26 letters. It's something else to entirely master an alphabet with 2,600+ different letters, or "kanji." Once you master the basic principle of ideographic writing, anyone can start reading the kanji. On April 8, T.R. Reid is coming...

Dr. Jerry Peterson is our second featured scholar at the CAS Annual Symposium: Catastrophic Asia , to be held this Friday, April 4 beginning at 1:00 p.m. in the Center for British and Irish Studies room on the fifth floor of the Norlin Library. Dr. Peterson will follow Magdalena's talk...

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,...

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...