CAS Event: Urgent Elements: Eco-Video from Southeast Asia

Feb. 28, 2019

Khvay Samnang & UuDam Tran Nguyen Tuesday, March 5 from 6:30-7:45PM Location: Visual Arts Complex, Auditorium 1B20 Next Tuesday is the first in a series of Eco-Video co-sponsored by CAS. Khvay Samnang is a founding member of Stiev Selapak, an art collective dedicated to experimental arts practice in Cambodia and...

Donald Keene, Famed Translator of Japanese Literature who first learned Japanese during World War II at the US Navy Japanese Language School, which was located at CU, Dies at 96

Feb. 25, 2019

Donald Keene, whose translations of Japanese literature into English and prodigious academic output helped define the study of the subject and made him a celebrity in Japan, died on Sunday in Tokyo. He was 96. The Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture at Columbia University confirmed his death. He had...

Internships at the Jaipur Literature Festival

Feb. 21, 2019

CAS has internships available at the Jaipur Literature Festival! Jaipur Literature Festival is a sumptuous feast of ideas and has been described as the ‘greatest literary show on Earth'. In the last decade it has transformed into a global literary phenomenon, hosting nearly 2000 speakers and welcoming over a million...

Urban China Global Seminar Blog Series

Feb. 19, 2019

I am so grateful to have had the opportunity to study abroad in China on the Discovering Urban China Global Seminar. This experience helped me to gain a tremendous understanding of Chinese culture, history, and modernity of China. Not only did this course provide in depth discussions about various components...

CAS Post-Doctoral Associate Alessandro Rippa's new article in "Critical Asian Studies"

Feb. 14, 2019

CAS Post-Doctoral Associate Alessandro Rippa has co-authored a new article in "Critical Asian Studies." Abstract: The past decade of development schemes has been experienced very differently by various groups within the city of Kashgar in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China. The recent exacerbation of social inequalities, stratification, and...

Urban China Global Seminar Blog Series

Feb. 11, 2019

When I was in eighth grade, I began a journey of studying Mandarin Chinese which has changed in many ways. In beginning my my studies, I dreamed of one day having the chance to visit China and practice what I had learned in class and an gain insight about China’s...

Edward G. Seidensticker Japan Summer Research Grant - Deadline Monday, February 11

Feb. 7, 2019

Call for Graduate Research Proposals The Center for Asian Studies invites CU «Ƶ graduate students doing research on Japan to apply for the Edward G. Seidensticker Japan Summer Research Grant. The Center will offer several grants of up to a maximum of $1200 each to help fund graduate level research...

Urban China Global Seminar Blog Series

Feb. 4, 2019

Going to China was somewhat of an unreachable dream for most of my life. My parents were immigrants from Guangzhou, China, but I was born and remained planted in Colorado for all of my life. When I got the email that said that I was awarded the Tang Scholarship and...

The World’s Most Valuable Parasite Is in Trouble

Jan. 31, 2019

Emily Yeh, a CU «Ƶ professor associated with the Center for Asian Studies and the Tibet-Himalaya Initiative disusses some of the implications of the disappearance of the fungus in an article in The Atlantic. “Its role in contemporary Tibetan lives and livelihoods is really very difficult to overstate,” says Emily...

Urban China Global Seminar Blog Series

Jan. 28, 2019

Going to China was the best thing that CU has ever given me the opportunity to do. China is so beautiful and the fact that I experienced all of it with a group of my fellow CU students made all the difference in the world!! I felt this strong feeling...

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