Spotlight Transnational/Comparative

Tomorrow, Professor Brian Toon of the CU-Boulder Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences will wrap up the 2014 Annual CAS Symposium: "Catastrophic Asia" with his talk entitled "Self-Assured Destruction: The Climate Impacts of Nuclear War." Climatic Consequences and Agricultural Impact of Regional Nuclear Conflict - Brian Toon. A nuclear war...

Every year, the Center for Asian Studies examines a particular theme through multiple lens through events throughout the fall and spring semesters, culminating in a day-long symposium that brings together faculty from across the CU campus and invites scholars from other universities to examine the annual theme in detail through...

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,...

In this Brown Bag event, Amy Liu, Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science, will discuss Chinese Migration in Europe. In the past twenty years, Eastern Europe has become an increasing popular destination for Chinese migrants. In fact, Hungary is the top destination outside the OECD countries. What explains...

We are holding another Brown Bag event this month! Lucas Carmichael of the Department of Religious Studies will present on Gia-fu Feng and his important role in the development of Daoism in America. American Daoist Masters have always operated in a hybrid space of Asian religions more broadly construed. Because...

Daryl Joji Maeda, Associate Professor in CU's Department of Ethnic Studies, will present a Brown Bag lecture on Bruce Lee. Dr. Maeda examines Lee as a transnational figure thoroughly enmeshed in trans-Pacific flows of people and culture dating back to the nineteenth century and accelerating in the twentieth century. He...

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...

Asian Language Night 2013 was held on Thursday, April 11, 2013 at HUMN 1B50 from 5:30pm to 8pm, followed by a reception at the HUMN lobby from 8pm to 9pm. Language students of Arabic, Chinese, Farsi, Hindi-Urdu, Japanese, and Korean, from beginning to advanced levels, performed skits, songs, dances and...

In March, CAS helped sponsor the Asian Studies Graduate Association (CUBASGA)'s annual graduate student conference. The two-day conference featured Prof. Michael Puett of Harvard University and Prof. Sharalyn Orbaugh of the University of British Columbia as keynote speakers as well as presentations by 22 graduate students in Asian Studies from...

Earlier this week, the Center for Asian studies wrapped up its 2012-2013 Brown Bag events with “Buddhism To-go: Creating Mobile Sacred Space Through Smartphone Meditation Apps.” The talk, presented by CAS’ Graduate Research Assistant and CU Religious Studies graduate student Joanna Piacenza, covered digital Buddhism, as framed through a smartphone...