2018 CUBASGA Graduate Conference A Success!

April 2, 2018

The CU Ƶ Asian Studies Graduate Association (CUBASGA) held its annual graduate student conference on February 23 rd and 24 th , 2018. Since 1998, the organization has presented this conference to provide graduate students from CU Ƶ and elsewhere with a forum to present their original research on East...

Colorado Journal of Asian Studies Call for Papers

March 22, 2018

We are happy to announce that Summer 2017 issue of the Colorado Journal of Asian Studies has been posted. This issue contains articles on “Boys’ Love” in Japanese manga (Leandra Laws); the travels of the Japanese monk, Ennin (Kurt Schreiber); and representations of the May Fourth Movement in China (Angelica...

Gerald Roche: New Views on Tibet's Linguistic Diversity, This Wednesday, March 21 @ 3 p.m.

March 19, 2018

Please join us this Wednesday, March 21, 2018 @ 3 p.m. in HUMN 1B80 for a lecture by Professor Gerald Roche on Tibetan linguistics! Research on Tibet’s linguistic diversity in the West dates back to at least the mid-nineteenth century. However, a surge in descriptive and documentary linguistics in the...

"Tenzin Dickie, Tibetan Stories: Writing From Exile" Monday, March 19, 2018 @ 4:30 p.m.

March 15, 2018

Please join us next Monday, March 19, 2018 at 4:30 p.m. in Eaton Humanities Room 250 for a lecture by Tenzin Dickie! Tenzin Dickie is a poet, writer and translator. Her work has appeared in Cultural Anthropology, The Washington Post online, Words Without Borders and Modern Poetry in Translation ,...

CAS Graduate Research Assistantship AY 2018-19

March 12, 2018

The Center for Asian Studies is looking for a graduate student in a field related to Asian studies to join the CAS staff as a GRA for the 2018-19 academic year. This position will focus on supporting and facilitating the Henry Luce Foundation funded initiative “China Made: Asian Infrastructures and...

"Examining Research Practices of Asian Studies Scholars" with Xiang Li

March 8, 2018

In 2017, the University of Colorado Libraries participated in a national research project on developing research practices in the field of Asian Studies. Xiang Li, the Chinese and Asian Studies Librarian at CU, was kind enough to share the results of this study with us recently. Examining Research Practices of...

Small Hydropower and the Low-carbon Frontier in China with Tyler Harlan, Tuesday, March 13 @ 5p.m.

March 5, 2018

Please join us in Eaton Humanities Room 1B90, this coming Tuesday, March 13 @ 5 p.m. for a lecture by environmental geographer Tyler Harlan on the development of small hydropower in China! Sustainability scholars typically talk about the ‘greening’ of development as a process of low-carbon transition, which entails the...

From Remote to Visible: The 13th Dalai Lama and the Transition to Modernity in Tibet with Tsering Shakya, Tonight, March 1, 2018 @ 5 p.m.

March 1, 2018

Please join us this evening at 5 p.m. in Hale 230 as Tsering Shakya (Associate Professor, University of British Columbia) gives a lecture on the dissemination of images of ther Dalai Lama! This talk will examine how the images of the Dalai Lamas in the West or among the Tibetan...

Asian Studies Research Forum for Undergraduates, This Wednesday, February 28 @ 4:30 p.m.

Feb. 26, 2018

Please join us as CU Ƶ faculty members Mike Dwyer (Instuctor, Dept. of Geography), Katherine Alexander (Assistant Professor of Chinese), and Adam Lisbon (Japanese and Korean Studies Librarian) discuss how they identify subjects for study and how they approach their research. Appetizers and refreshments will be served. This event is...

Southeast Asia Course Development Grants Available for CU Faculty, Deadline: February 26, 2018

Feb. 19, 2018

The Center for Asian Studies has funding available for CU Ƶ faculty members who would like to develop curricula for new or revised courses about Southeast Asia. CAS will offer two faculty awards for the creation or significant revision of an undergraduate course on Southeast Asia in any discipline. This...

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