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Lauren Collins from the Center for Asian Studies has been awarded a Research & Innovation Office (RIO) Arts & Humanities Grant for her project " Enhancing Archiving Practices of Western Colonial-era Photographs of Southeast Asia (1850s-1950s) in American Academic Libraries." This project aims to make colonial-era photographs of Southeast Asia...

When Joy Yamaguchi graduates from the University of Colorado Boulder’s College of Music next week with a Doctor of Musical Arts degree (violin performance + Music Theory Certificate), the work she started here will continue well beyond her official stint as a student. “I’m looking forward to further developing the...

On March 11, representatives from Japan and Colorado came together at the Japan-Colorado Business Seminar, presented by the Leeds School of Business in partnership with the Denver Consulate-General of Japan. Panelists and presenters discussed the strengthening economic ties between Japan and Colorado and how they are thriving. Vijay Khatri, the...

In April of 2024, The CU Mediterranean Studies Group invited Muhammad U. Faruque of the University of Cincinnati to CU Boulder. Dr. Faruque is a philosopher whose research lies at the intersection of philosophy, science, and environmental studies, especially in relation to the Islamic intellectual tradition. The CU Mediterranean Studies...

Gail Nelson, a career intelligence officer and CU Boulder alumnus, advised Afghan military intelligence leaders after the United States drove the Taliban from power It’s been almost three years since the Afghanistan government fell to the Taliban, and with the passage of time some have come to believe that America’s...

Spring is go time for climbers who hope to summit Mount Everest, Earth’s highest peak above sea level. Hundreds of mountaineers from around the world travel to Asia in April and May, headed for base camps in Nepal and Tibet. But jagged peaks won’t be the only thing they see...

More than 150 years ago, some 15,000 Chinese workers arrived in the U.S. to help construct the country’s first transcontinental railroad, which connected the West Coast with the East Coast’s rail network. These Chinese laborers received lower wages than their white counterparts for the same job and endured worse living...

The conference “Emerging Book Cultures in Asia and the Middle East: Materiality, Paratexts, Practices,” was convened on April 6 and 7, 2024, in the British and Irish Studies Room in Norlin Library. Each day the conference convened from 10:15am to 5:45pm, with a reception at the Koenig Alumni Center on...

On March 12, 2024, Dr. Xiaojing Miao, Stanley Ho Junior Research Fellow at Pembroke College, University of Oxford, gave a talk in the CAS Seminar Series on strategies of Tang Dynasty literati to enter officialdom and become part of the governmental bureaucracy. The talk focused on several self-recommendation writings that...

Together with the Colorado Tibetan community, the Vail Symposium, and CU’s Department of Anthropology, the Tibet Himalaya Initiative is pleased to invite you to a special event this summer linked to Professor Carole McGranahan's longstanding research. On Sunday, June 9 at 12 noon, we will hold a memorial gathering at...