Alison Klayman is Coming to CU to Present Her Documentary Never Sorry

March 3, 2014

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...

CUBASGA Graduate Student Conference is Next Week!

Feb. 27, 2014

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,...

First Asian Studies Meet & Greet was a Success!

Feb. 24, 2014

On Tuesday, February 4, students and faculty, undeterred by the freezing temperatures and blowing snow, gathered at The Sink for the first Asian Studies Meet & Greet. Participants talked long into the evening over plenteous supplies of chips and salsa, cheesy bread, and pizza. Conversations ranged from shared experiences in...

Spring "Career Tracks in Asian Studies" Panel Coming Next Week

Feb. 20, 2014

Every semester, the Center for Asian Studies hosts a career panel to inform students of career opportunities in Asia and in Asia-related fields. This spring's panel will be on Thursday, February 27 from 5:00 until 6:30 p.m in Humanities 250. The panel will feature Sam Goodman, founder and COO of...

CAS Luncheon Series: Professor Bella Mody Presents "Mao in India"

Feb. 17, 2014

Professor Bella Mody of the Journalism and Mass Communication Program will present our next Luncheon Series event where she will discuss newspapers and citizen education in the context of the Maoist insurgency, considered by the government to be India's "greatest internal security threat" in a talk entitled "Mao in India:...

Muddying the Waters: Co-authoring Feminisms Across Scholarship and Activism

Feb. 13, 2014

Richa Nagar, Professor of Geography at the University of Minnesota, will deliver the Keynote Address for the 20th Annual Critical Geography Conference, to be held February 21-23. Nagar's lecture will be on Friday, February 21, at 4:00 p.m. in Atlas 100. Nagar's work focuses on the politics and practices of...

Geography Professor Emily Yeh to Give Talk on Her New Book, Taming Tibet

Feb. 10, 2014

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...

Jongku Kim Comes to CU for Two-Week Residency

Feb. 6, 2014

Seoul-based artist, Kim Jongku, began a two-week residency at CU on February 3. Jongku works in sculpture, video, painting, and photography. Using black, steel powder - the result of an industrial grinding process - he "writes" calligraphic inscriptions on the floor of a pristine, white environment, as if the powder...

Robert A. Kapp Presents Corporate Responsibility in the Contemporary Chinese Context at CU

Feb. 3, 2014

Robert A. Kapp, President of Robert A. Kapp & Associates, Inc, of Port Townsend, Washington, will come to CU on Friday, February 7, to give a lecture on corporate responsibility in contemporary China at 11:00 a.m. in Koelbel S125. Dr. Kapp's firm provides consulting services to companies and nonprofit organizations...

First Asian Studies Meet & Greet of the Year

Jan. 30, 2014

Have you been looking for a community of students who are interested in Asia? Have you heard about the Asian Studies major and are wondering how it can fit into your academic plan? Would you like to incorporate Asia into your undergraduate career but don't have the time to study...

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