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- On April 23, 2021, the Center for Asian Studies sponsored a panel discussion titled “New Directions in East Asian Environmental History” that featured the authors of three recent books that have appeared in the University of Washington Press’
- Mukherjee, associate professor of history, was nominated by 13 colleagues and students.Nominators said that as an international faculty member, she has worked hard to promote the principles of diversity and inclusive excellence on campus for 20
- Asian reflections on trauma and healing: 1965 massacres in Indonesia, excerpt from novel Beauty is a Wound (New Directions, 2015) by Eka Kurniawan, translated from Indonesian by Annie Tucker. CAS Advisory Council Member Stanley Harsha
- Press Release:The Government of Japan announced on April 29, the 2021 Spring Conferment of Decorations on Foreign Nationals for their outstanding contribution to their respective areas. The Consulate-General of Japan in Denver therefore
- Recently, our Spring 2021 Newsletter was published. It features a variety of articles with updates about faculty, students and alumni, as well as messages from Tim Oakes, our Faculty director and the Advisory council. We hope you enjoy the summary
- The Center for Asian Studies wants to wish a warm congratulations to our graduating seniors, and to all the students who are graduating this year! We recognize this has been an especially trying and strange year to finish your college career, but we
- On February 24th, CAS partnered with Aruna Global South to co-host the panel discussion “The Political Crisis in Myanmar: Nuanced Perspectives on the Nation’s Past, Present, and Future.” The panel featured four emerging scholars with with
- Wednesday, May 5 at 4:30pm MDTRegister for the ZOOM Meeting herePart of the Sound and Noise in Asia Speaker Series.In this paper I trace a lineage of conditions generalizable as “racial melancholia” (including “diasporic melancholia” and “
- On March 18th and 19th, the Center for Asian Studies hosted an international group of scholars for the workshop A Decade of Fukushima: Socio-Technical Perspectives on Surviving the Nuclear Age in Japan. Professor Hirokazu Miyazaki of Northwestern
- Friday, April 23 at 12pm MDTJoin via ZoomRecent years have seen a remarkable fluorescence of environmental history scholarship on East Asia, and this panel discussion will explore that scholarship with three recent authors in the field, all of whose