Harvard PhD Candidate Bridget Hanna to Give Talk at Annual Sympsium on the 1984 Union Carbide Disaster in Bhopal

March 24, 2014

On Friday, April 4, we will hold the 2014 CAS Annual Symposium , which features four scholars who will present on various topics concerning the relationship between catastrophe and culture in Asia. Bridget Hanna will present a talk entitled "Catastrophic 'Experiments' and Corporeal Categories: Bhopal Gas Victims as 'Special' Citizens"...

“Catastrophic Asia”: The 4th Annual Center for Asian Studies Symposium is Coming Up on April 4!

March 21, 2014

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...

First April Luncheon Series Event: Negotiating Gender and Modernity in Urban India

March 19, 2014

This event has been cancelled. Rachel Fleming, PhD Candidate in the Department of Anthropology at CU, will start off our April Luncheon Series events with a talk entitled "Negotiating Gender and Modernity in Urban India: Workplaces, Generational Change, and the Importance of Friendship for Professional Women in Bangalore." As more...

Wee Kiat Lim to Present His Research at the Next CAS Luncheon Series Event

March 17, 2014

The next event in the CAS Luncheon Series is this Thursday, March 20. Wee Kiat Lim, PhD Candidate in the Department of Sociology, will discuss his field work on emergency management systems in China. Using a mixed-method approach that involves interviews, participant observation, and archival review, he traces the genesis...

CU Boulder Faculty go to the 2014 Associate for Asian Studies Annual Conference

March 14, 2014

The 2014 Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference is right around the corner. Held in Philadelphia, the conference will include more than 1,800 Asian studies scholars, including a number from CU Boulder, who work on topics as diverse as the role of family in the visual culture of medieval East...

CAS Luncheon Series: Jerry Peterson Presents "Kazakhstan Joins the World"

March 10, 2014

Professor Jerry Peterson of the Departments of Physics and International Affairs will give a Luncheon Series talk on Kazakhstan Joins the World on Thursday, March 13, at 12:00 p.m. When The Republic of Kazakhstan became independent of the Soviet Union at the end of 1991, this vast land had very...

Noted Japanese Historian Eric Dinmore to Come to CU to Discuss His Current Research

March 6, 2014

On March 10 and 11, Eric Dinmore, Associate Professor of History at Hampden-Sydney College, will come to the ֲý Boulder to discuss his recent research, offering the Boulder community the opportunity to engage with a prominent scholar on issues relating to Japan, both current and historical. On March...

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...

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