This Barbie is a Teacher: Exploring Race, Culture, and Geopolitics of the Barbie Movie and Beyond

Dec. 2, 2023

December 2, 2023, 8:00 AM-12:00 PM University Memorial Center, CU Boulder This is the inaugural workshop of the relaunched South, Southeast, and West Asia (SSEWA) Outreach Program of the Center for Asian Studies at CU Boulder. The half-day professional development workshop for secondary social studies teachers explored “Barbie” and other...

Poetry of the War in Vietnam and its Consequences

Nov. 8, 2023

Part of the Waging Peace in Vietnam Exhibit and Events November 8, 5:00 - 7:00 PM British and Irish Studies Room, Norlin Library Poetry helps us speak the unspeakable and feel deeply. Award-winning poets whose poems of war, memory, and reconciliation will arouse our empathy and understanding of the war...

Book Talk: Defending Black Sailors from Discriminatory Prosecution

Nov. 7, 2023

Part of the Waging Peace in Vietnam Exhibit and Events November 7, 5:30-7:30PM British and Irish Studies Room, Norlin Library Racial tension was high when a fight broke out between White and Black sailors aboard the massive Kitty Hawk aircraft carrier that serviced the bombing missions over Vietnam. Discovering the...

Legacies of War

Nov. 6, 2023

Panel Discussion on the Legacies of War Part of the Waging Peace in Vietnam Exhibit and Events November 6, 5:00-7:00PM Humanities 250 War does not end when the last shots are fired. The Vietnamese population, as well as American soldiers and their families, continue to this day to bear the...

Talk by Ron Haeberle of the My Lai Massacre published in Life Magazine shifting public opinion.

Nov. 2, 2023

Talk by Ron Haeberle, former Army photographer, whose photos of the My Lai Massacre published in Life Magazine helped to shift public opinion Part of the Waging Peace in Vietnam Exhibit and Events November 2, 5:00-6:30 PM CASE Building room E340 Ron Haeberle will share his experience of coming upon...

Screening of documentary on GI Antiwar Movement Sir! No Sir!

Nov. 1, 2023

Screening of documentary on GI Antiwar Movement Sir! No Sir! Part of the Waging Peace in Vietnam Exhibit and Events This video contains the discussion after the film only. November 1, 4:30-6:30PM Humanities 135 Students may access the film remotely through the library. Non-students can access via NETFLIX. This remarkable...

Settler Garrison: Debt Imperialism, Militarism, and Transpacific Imaginaries

April 1, 2023

Tuesday, March 21 at 5pm CASE Building, room E422 Book talk by Jodi Kim, Professor, Media & Cultural Studies, University of California Riverside Jodi Kim’s research and teaching interests are at the intersections of Asian American studies, critical ethnic and race studies, postcolonial theory, feminist epistemologies, and critiques of US...

Global Asias Cyber Chat: Globalization and Circulation of Asian Popular Culture

March 15, 2023

This discussion will examine issues such as how various forms of Asian popular culture have responded to or engaged with other forms of national and hemispheric popular cultures, such as those in Europe, the Americas, Africa, and the Pacific, how Asian American and Asian diaspora communities have drawn on Asian...

Creating Culturally Inclusive Learning Environments CLAC

Feb. 13, 2023

Monday, February 13, 11:30 a.m. on Zoom An information session and roundtable discussion hosted by the Center for Asian Studies. Speakers will include Asian Languages and Civilizations faculty members Katherine Alexander , Assistant Professor of Chinese, Marjorie Burge , Assistant Professor of Japanese, and Evelyn Shih , Assistant Professor of...

Lauren Collins - The Case for Asian Studies

Dec. 15, 2022

Lauren Collins (Ph.D.) gives a talk on why asian studies is so important in our globalized world. - The importance of Asia in the asian century. - Building student capacities to see with 'dragonfly eyes'. - Critical courses that provide 'mirrors' and 'windows' for students in an increasingly diverse campus...

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