CANCELLED Event Friday: When Work is Worship: Technology, Labor and the Figure of Vishwakarma—“Maker of the Universe”

March 9, 2020

Friday, March 13 at 4pm Hale 230 with Kenneth George, Professor of Anthropology The Australian National University Although Vishwakarmaworship in India has long been associated with hereditary artisan castes and their hand tools, Vishwakarma’s presence has moved beyond craft workshops and into workplaces associated with the country’s infrastructural systems and...

Event report on “Multispecies Injustice: Race and Animal Advocacy in Southeast Asia and South Africa”

March 5, 2020

On February 7, The Center for Asian Studies co-sponsored the visit of Dr. Juno Salazar Parreñas. Parreñas is Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at The Ohio State University and the author of the multi-award winningbook Decolonizing Extinction: The Work of Care in Orangutan Rehabilitation (Duke University Press...

CAS Event Wednesday: Uyghur Voices: "Never Again" Is Now

March 2, 2020

Wednesday, March 4 at 5pm CASE Building, Chancellor's Auditorium, 4th floor Since 2017, as many as 800,000 - 1.8 million Uyghurs and Kazakhs have been “disappeared” into a widespread system of “reeducation camps” in the Uyghur Autonomous Region (Xinjiang). Nearly all Uyghurs and Kazakhs in China have an immediate family...

Video of Coronavirus emergency teach-in now available

Feb. 26, 2020

The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) that emerged in central China in December presents a serious challenge to China’s healthcare system, as well as to global public health. Economic and political impacts will also be severe, with repercussions that will likely last for years. Meanwhile, some responses to the virus in the...

UAE partners with Ҵýƽ, sending space exploring craft towards Mars via Japan

Feb. 24, 2020

A recent article in the New York Times details the connection between the Ҵýƽ Aerospace Engineering program, the United Arab Emirates and Japan. From Dubai to Mars, With Stops in Colorado and Japan The United Arab Emirates used a novel approach to build the Hope spacecraft, which launches for...

CAS hosts teach-in on the COVID-19 epidemic

Feb. 20, 2020

The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) that emerged in central China in December presents a serious challenge to China’s healthcare system, as well as to global public health. Economic and political impacts will also be severe, with repercussions that will likely last for years. Meanwhile, some responses to the virus in the...

CAS Event Wednesday: The Coronavirus Crisis: an emergency teach-in

Feb. 17, 2020

Wednesday, February 19 at 3pm Chancellor's Auditorium CASE Building, 4th floor The novel coronavirus presents a serious challenge to China’s healthcare system, as well as to global public health. Economic and political impacts will also be severe, with repercussions that will likely last for years. Meanwhile, some responses to the...

Summer 2019 Issue of the Colorado Journal of Asian Studies published

Feb. 13, 2020

We are pleased to announce the posting of the Summer 2019 issue of the Colorado Journal of Asian Studies . This issue contains papers written by students who wrote China-related papers for the ASIA 3900 Urban China class held in China in Summer 2018 (Gagne, Jones, and Vunnam), by a...

CAS Event this weekend: Annual Conference of Ҵýƽ Asian Studies Graduate Association

Feb. 10, 2020

Friday, February 14 and Saturday February 15 British and Irish Studies Room in Norlin Library The conference to be held by the Ҵýƽ Asian Studies Graduate Association (CUBASGA) on February 14th and 15th, 2020 aims to facilitate academic conversation and networking among graduate students from across the U.S. and...

Filmmaker Adam James Smith interviewed in A&S Magazine

Feb. 4, 2020

Howdy, partner! Welcome to Jackson Hole, China British filmmaker Adam James Smith has memorialized the town in a documentary, Americaville, which he will screen on campus Feb. 7 North of Beijing, China, is a replica of Jackson Hole, Wyoming, where Chinese citizens come to escape an increasingly uninhabitable city life...

Pages