Happy Holidays from all of us at the Center for Asian Studies!

Dec. 17, 2020

Everyone here at the Center for Asian Studies wishes you and yours a very happy holiday season! Our offices will be closed from December 24th through January 1st. We hope you take advantage of some time off to relax and rest during this holiday time. With an inspired nudge from...

New Course! Asia 1000: Origins of Contemporary Southeast Asia

Dec. 10, 2020

Faculty Fellows Project Enhances Online Arabic Courses

Dec. 7, 2020

From an article by Sara Myers: Mona Attwa's Qahwa Arabi platform makes learning accessible and appealing for remote students Mona Attwa , an Arabic instructor in the Department of Asian Languages and Civilizations, for realizing a long-time goal with the production of the online platform Qahwa Arabi . The platform...

Center for Asian Studies Remote Internship with Shambhala Publications: Marketing & Publicity

Dec. 3, 2020

The Center for Asian Studies is seeking an undergraduate student with an interest in Asia, Eastern Philosophy & Religion, and Buddhism for a remote 3-credit internship at Shambhala Publications over the spring 2021 semester. Job Description and Responsibilities: The intern will assist the Marketing & Publicity Team remotely with a...

Event Wednesday - Listening for India: Reading and the Multilingual Nation

Nov. 30, 2020

CAS Event Wednesday, December 2 at 4:30pm MST Zoom link Part of the Sound and Noise in Asia Speaker Series. with Madhumita Lahiri from the University of Michigan. How can print serve the needs of a largely illiterate and famously multilingual nation? For nationalist writers in nineteenth- and twentieth-century India,...

CU Boulder's Will Taylor featured in New York Times Article

Nov. 23, 2020

In an article in the New York Times, A Record of Horseback Riding, Written in Bone and Teeth , written by Katherine Kornei, research by William Taylor is featured. Quoting the article, it says: The advent of horseback riding transformed our ancestors’ lives, irrevocably changing how they migrated, fought wars...

Governor Polis Declares International Education Week

Nov. 16, 2020

Governor Jared Polis declared that the Week of November 16 through November 20 be declared International Education Week in the State of Colorado. Please join us in celebrating our international students! Learn more about opportunites for International Education at CU Boulder at the Education Abroad website . You can find...

Program for Teaching East Asia wins Community Impact Micro-Grant

Nov. 12, 2020

Impact of COVID in China and the U.S. Senior Staff Associate Lynn Kalinauskas Center for Asian Studies, Program for Teaching East Asia The program, Understanding the Impact of COVID in China and the U.S. through Literature and Writing , will work with a group of ten Colorado secondary teachers to...

Asia-Related Courses offered in Spring 2021

Nov. 9, 2020

Check out these Asia-related courses being offered in the Spring! ASIA 1000: Origins of Contemporary Southeast Asia (new course!) Dr. Lauren Yapp ( Lauren.yapp@colorado.edu ) Tuesdays and Thursdays, 3:55-5:10pm Remote/Online Explores the dynamic present of postcolonial Southeast Asia in light of its complex past. Traces the shared historical experiences that...

Sound and Noise in Asia Symposium this Thursday and Friday

Nov. 3, 2020

Please join us for this year's symposium! Symposium: Sound and Noise in Asia ‘Instrument of Flesh’: The Operatic Voice in Late Ming Musical Culture​ Thursday, November 5, 2020 at 4pm MST Register here for the ZOOM link Voice and Laughter Thursday, November 5 at 7pm MST ZOOM link Noise Aesthetics...

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