Spring 2021 Newsletter

Last year in this newsletter, I wrote with some excitement about our new home in the CASE building. Little did I know that we would spend the next year working from home, with our desks and chairs gathering dust. But while we miss our beautiful view of the Flatirons, we...

Introducing Asian Studies Program Director, Dr. Lauren Yapp CAS is very pleased to welcome our new Asian Studies Program Director, Dr. Lauren Yapp . Lauren is an anthropologist and archaeologist fascinated by how present-day communities remember, preserve, and contest their pasts. Her research explores cultural heritage, memory politics, and postcolonial...

The Center for Asian Studies Advisory Council (CASAC) is moving forward with renewed enthusiasm and engagement to help the Center achieve its financial and academic goals and to help provide a forum for robust discussion on Asia. Call to Action. We have successfully recruited several new Advisory Council members from...

Updates from the American Association of Teachers of Japanese 2020 - The Year of Zoom For the American Association of Teachers of Japanese (AATJ) – whose administrative office is part of the Center for Asian Studies – 2020 was a milestone year in many ways. AATJ’s annual spring conference, scheduled...

Colorado Journal of Asian Studies We are pleased to announce the upcoming 2020 issue of the Colorado Journal of Asian Studies, which will be published at the end of the Spring 2021 semester. This issue contains papers written by students in last year’s ASIA 4830 Senior Seminar class and excerpts...

In 2020, the Center for Asian Studies held 22 events. After twelve in-person events before COVID-19, we moved to a virtual platform in April, allowing us to welcome a particularly large audience of nearly 1000 attendees over the year. Here is a summary of some of our bigger events. In...