Spotlight East Asia

Join us next week for a visiting-scholar brown bag: Community Rebuilding Efforts in the Post-3.11 Japan Wednesday, March 20 at 12:00 p.m. Guggenheim 201E, CU-Boulder campus Come and hear a first hand account of relief work in the wake of the 3.11 triple disaster in North Eastern Japan. What were...

Join us this Friday for the following event: Reforming Welfare Regimes in Russia and China: The Enduring Impact of the Socialist Social Contract Friday, March 15 at 11:30 a.m. Ketchum Hall 116, CU-Boulder campus A lecture by Professor Thomas F. Remington of Emory University. Remington’s research focuses on whether what...

Join us next week for the following event: The Legal Environment and Law About the Environment in China Wednesday, March 13 at 5:00 p.m. Humanities 135, CU-Boulder campus A lecture by two experts on Chinese law, Benjamin L. Liebman, Robert L. Lieff Professor of Law and Director of the Center...

Thanks to a generous grant from the Cressant Foundation, the Center for Asian Studies is offering two graduate research scholarships in pre-modern Japanese studies for 2013-14. The deadline for these scholarships has been extended to March 15, 2013. Amount : $1,000 each Purpose : Scholarships will cover research-related expenses, such...

Join us for the Second Annual Center for Asian Studies Symposium, an interdisciplinary inquiry into contemporary Asian societies and cultures. This year, we explore the sounds of love and war, the voices of the subaltern and the middle classes, and music and dance from throughout the region. 10:00 a.m. |...

Join us for the Second Annual Center for Asian Studies Symposium, an interdisciplinary inquiry into contemporary Asian societies and cultures. This year, we explore the sounds of love and war, the voices of the subaltern and the middle classes, and music and dance from throughout the region. Please see full...

We are happy to announce our first Speaker Series event of the Spring Semester: The Remaking of Asia: What does the Shift of Power from the West to the East Portend? Friday, January 25 at 4:00pm ATLAS 100, CU-Boulder campus Reception immediately following A lecture featuring Pankaj Mishra. At the...

CAS is pleased to announce a new course in Asian religions this spring: Women in Buddhism. Buddhist texts depict an array of female figures: cajoling goddesses, prostitute temptresses, enlightened queens, numinous hags, ardent nuns, scorned wives, celestial maidens, flesh-eating demonesses and more. This new course explores diverse representations of the...

Choice Reviews has named Associate Director Timothy Weston's new co-edited (with Lionel M. Jensen) volume, China in and beyond the Headlines , one of 20 Editors' Picks for the month of January 2013. Choice states: “Chosen by the Choice editors from among the nearly 600 reviews published monthly, these titles...

CAS is pleased to announce that we are close to reaching our goal of establishing an endowment in honor of establish Edward G. Seidensticker (1921-2007), mentor, teacher, and friend to many. The endowment will provide an annual fellowship for a graduate student in Professor Seidensticker’s field of Japanese studies and...