Center for Asian Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder

The good vibes remained until Ms. Singh started high school, where the shiny, oiled look was seen as decidedly uncool by her peers, a perception that she and her cousins internalized.

Hair Oil Gets a Slick Reboot (Gift Article) Some South Asian women remember being embarrassed of their families’ hair oiling traditions. Now, beauty brands, bloggers and celebrities are embracing them.

Someone needed a better education in Asian Studies!

Olympics Apologize For Colossal Mistake At Opening Ceremony Well, that's one way to spark an international incident.

No one mandates that students use these backpacks, but strong social norms lead most families to purchase them for their children.

The Book Bag That Binds Japanese Society No rule requires Japan’s elementary school students to wear the boxy, bulky backpack known as the randoseru. But for nearly 150 years, nearly all of them have.

This year there will be 21 intriguing feature films as well as 2 popular TV drama series.

The Festival will be held from June 04 11:00pm - July 2 11:00pm, 2024 (EDT). Please stay tuned for updates regarding film-related programming here on this page.

United States | JAPANESE FILM FESTIVAL ONLINE 2024 | JFF+ Hello and welcome to our third Japanese Film Festival Online , where you can enjoy watching Japanese movies from the comfort of your own home! We invite you to explore the various facets of Japanese culture through different genres of movies ranging from documentaries, fiction, animation, and films....

We’re helping with this conference as co-sponsors. Check it out!

📢 AIFIS-MSU 2024 Conference on Indonesian Studies Participants Registration is NOW OPEN! Register now and secure your spot to listen and opportunity to engage with scholars from Indonesia and around the world who will be presenting on many great topics related with Indonesian Studies!
*Limited slots available

For more info: https://tinyurl.com/AIFISMSUCOIS2024

Understanding nuance and subtext of recent Asian and Asian American shows is just another excellent reason to study Asian languages!

From ‘The Sympathizer’ to ‘Past Lives,’ American Audiences Warm to Subtitles In Hollywood today, not only are Asian and Asian American narratives more prominent than ever, but they are also being told in increasingly dynamic ways through the artful use of Asian languages.

CAS would like to congratulate our graduating seniors, and all the CU Boulder graduates!

Come see what undergraduate research looks like these days! Thursday at 12:30 - CASE E313

Emerging Scholars: Showcasing Undergraduate Research on Asia 2024.05.02 Thursday, May 2 at 12:30pm CASE E313 Research symposium designed to hi

The Indonesian Consul General will visit campus on Friday. Please join us, free and open to the public.

Explore Our World: 75th Year of Bilateral Relations – What's New on the U.S.-Indonesia Relationship 2024.04.19 Friday, April 19 at 1:30pm to 3:30pm Flatirons room, 2nd Floor, Center

Today and tomorrow!

Tomorrow!

2024 Asia Symposium: Fluid Asia 2024.04.12 Friday, April 12 Center for British and Irish Studies, Norlin Library

Friday, April 12, 8:45am - 5:30pm
Center for British and Irish Studies, Norlin Library 5th floor

This symposium explores themes of physical and social fluidities in Asia. There are many dimensions to water, as a liquid, a basis of all living organisms, a biotic infrastructure for life, a material around which complex social relations of power swirl, and a counterpoint to conceptions that area studies are based on. With this theme, CAS seeks to gather together divergent interests in ‘blue humanities’, ‘wet ontologies’, environmental justice movements associated with water, climate change induced experiences of flood and drought, and social fluidities of all sorts – from labor migrant streams to ‘be like water’ protest movements – all in the spatial and temporal contexts of Asian places. We are particularly interested in how the social effects of anthropogenic climate change are experienced through human relations with water.

2024 Asia Symposium: Fluid Asia 2024.04.12 Friday, April 12 Center for British and Irish Studies, Norlin Library

While people of MENA heritage are by no means monolithic, they do share one common experience in the United States. On official forms, most don’t see themselves represented among the check boxes for race or ethnicity.

No Box to Check: When the Census Doesn’t Reflect You Most people of Middle Eastern and North African descent are classified as “white” in U.S. census data. Thousands of respondents to a Times survey told us how they actually identify.

Join us on Tuesday! All CU students welcome!

Who wants to go?

The Ultimate Product Placement: Thailand on ‘The White Lotus’ Season 3 of the hit HBO series is being shot in the lush Southeast Asian country, which is betting financial incentives given to the production will pay off in increased tourism numbers.

Feeding Asceticism: Himalayan Buddhist Renunciation, Devotion, and Embodied Intimate Care
Thursday, February 22 at 6pm
Humanities 250

Feeding Asceticism: Himalayan Buddhist Renunciation, Devotion, and Embodied Intimate Care 2024.02.22 Thursday, February 22 at 6pm Humanities 250 In Tibetan and Himalayan B

Join the Center for Asian Studies and MSU Denver to celebrate Lunar New Year on Tuesday, February 13th at Tivoli Turnhalle on the Auraria Campus in Denver!

Happy New Year!

Lunar New Year begins auspicious, perhaps fertile, Year of the Dragon CU Boulder Asian languages faculty Yingjie Li and Yu Zhang reflect on what some consider the luckiest year in the Chinese zodiac.

Today at 12pm, Institute of Behavioral Science
1440 15th Street, S 155A

The Long Climate Crisis: Global Political Ecologies of Caste, Race, and Migration 2024.02.05 February 5, 2024, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Institute of Behavioral Science 1

CAS funding opportunities for students: Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships, Edward G. Seidensticker Japan Summer Research Grant, Undergraduate Tibetan and Himalayan Studies Scholarship for Study Abroad, Language Study, and/or Independent Research

Scholarship and Fellowship Opportunities for Graduate and Undergraduate Students Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowshi

Student Essay Contest - Waging Peace in Vietnam Exhibit

The Indonesian culture event from last month is getting some love!

Join us tonight in the UMC Connection!

CAS will present several events over the next 2 weeks. You can find the full schedule at https://www.colorado.edu/cas/event-list

Today at 5pm - HUMN 135

Green politics in the Lower Mekong Subregion 2023.10.11 Wednesday October 11 5:00-6:00 pm Eaton Humanities 135 Professor Nguye

Wednesday, October 11 at 5pm, Humanities 135

Green politics in the Lower Mekong Subregion 2023.10.11 Wednesday October 11 5:00-6:00 pm Eaton Humanities 135 Professor Nguye

CU Boulder Days of Compassion events next week

Cultivate compassion for your community and yourself at CU Boulder Days of Compassion Attend a screening of Mission Joy, take part in a guided compassion practice with Thupta Jinpa, and find resources for compassion at Norlin Library, the Renée Crown Wellness Institute, the Contemplative Resource Center and other campus partners.

September 30, 2023 09:00 AM
Center for British and Irish Studies Room Norlin Library 5th Floor CU Boulder

Ichikawa played beautiful damsels, as well as witches, samurai and even animals throughout his career.

Eno Ichikawa, Japanese Kabuki theater actor and innovator, dies at 83 Eno Ichikawa, who revived the spectacular in Japanese Kabuki theater to woo younger and global audiences, has died. He was 83.

In conjunction with the inauguration of a new curriculum in climate & society in Asia during the 2023-24 academic year, the Center for Asian Studies will be exploring the theme of water in Asia.

The CAS Annual Theme for 2023-2024 is Fluid Asia In conjunction with the inauguration of a new curr