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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

Professor Levi Thompson offers a translation of the poem Weapons and Children.Weapons and Children (1954) by Badr Shakir al-SayyabThe Iraqi poet Badr Shakir al-Sayyab (d. 1964) published this poem in a chapbook in 1954 after originally composing it

Wednesday, April 7 at 4:30pm MDTRegister for the ZOOM Meeting herePart of the Sound and Noise in Asia Speaker Series.In this talk, I trace the contemporary circulation of “golden era” 1960s and 1970s Cambodian popular music recordings as a

There are several new courses in Tibetan language and civilization, as well as many other Asia-related courses being offered in the Fall! ASIA 2000: Gateway to Asian StudiesT/Th 9:35-10:50 am Remote/Online  Introduces the main themes and

In 1952, the great Pakistani poet Faiz Ahmad Faiz (d. 1984) published a collection of poetry titled Dast-e Sabaa (The Hand of the Zephyr). This collection included a poem titled “Un Talaba ke Naam” (“For Those Students”) that was dedicated to young

Documentary: “Comfort” conversation with the directorCAS Event Thursday, March 25, 6-7:30pmZoom Meeting ID: 991 1007 2628 Passcode: ComfortConversation with the Director, Moonchil ParkThe documentary, COMFORT (보드랍게, 2020) 

The past year has witnessed a horrifying surge in anti-Asian racism and hate crimes across the United States, from Oakland to Atlanta. The Center for Asian Studies condemns these attacks and the systemic racism, xenophobia, misogyny, and oppression