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The Center for Asian Studies strives to facilitate engagement with and within Asia, and to make Asia as accessible as possible to the CU Boulder community. During the academic year, we offer a dynamic schedule of speakers while also overseeing the

CAS has multiple events this week. Among them are:Asian Studies at CUTuesday, November 16 at 9:30amThe Center for Asian Studies will be hosting an "Asian Studies at CU" information session for undergraduates interested in study abroad and work

Today, at 5pm, CAS will host Dave Rank, former US diplomat to China, for a talk "U.S.-China Relations in the Era of Xi Jinping"Rank, who served as a diplomat for 17 years, resigned from the foreign service in 2017. At the time, he wrote an op-ed in

Monday, November 8 at 5pm Hale 230*The backdrop to rising U.S.-China tensions has been the emergence of Xi Jinping as China's most powerful leader since Mao Zedong. Former senior diplomat Dave Rank talks about the impact Xi has had on

ASIA 1000 Origins of Contemporary Southeast AsiaT/Th 3:30pm-4:45pm Lauren Collins lauren.collins@colorado.edu This course introduces the shared historical experiences that have shaped diverse Southeast Asian societies, with a focus on

From December 2020 to May 2021, CAS held a yearlong lecture series around the theme of “Sound and Noise in Asia.” Following a two-day symposium held in November, the series highlighted sound/noise practices and aesthetics from East Asian broadcast

After the chaos of the recent US exit, Afghanistan has been much on our minds. Because of decades of war and turbulence, there are already an estimated 2.2 million refugees from Afghanistan, and since early 2021, hundreds of thousands more have fled

Monday, October 18 at 4pm MDTRegister for the Zoom Meeting here.Over the past few months, Afghanistan has experienced the US withdrawal, the Taliban takeover,  the fall of the US backed government, followed by a chaotic evacuation of some

CAS Affiliate Faculty William Taylor has written about new discoveries in Mongolia, as the ice melts.From the article in A&S Magazine:In the world’s high mountain regions, life needs ice. From the Rockies to the Himalayas, glaciers and other

AbstractUsing information contained in the eighteenth to twentieth century British administrative documents, preserved in the National Archives of India (NAI), we present a 218-year (1729–1947 AD) record of socioeconomic disruptions and human