South Asia

Dennis McGilvray, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, will discuss his recent research in Sri Lanka at the final CAS Luncheon Series event of Spring 2014. This event will be held on Thursday, May 1, at 12:00 p.m. in the CAS Conference Room at 1424 Broadway on the CU-Boulder campus. The century-old...

On Friday, April 4, we will hold the 2014 CAS Annual Symposium , which features four scholars who will present on various topics concerning the relationship between catastrophe and culture in Asia. Bridget Hanna will present a talk entitled "Catastrophic 'Experiments' and Corporeal Categories: Bhopal Gas Victims as 'Special' Citizens"...

This event has been cancelled. Rachel Fleming, PhD Candidate in the Department of Anthropology at CU, will start off our April Luncheon Series events with a talk entitled "Negotiating Gender and Modernity in Urban India: Workplaces, Generational Change, and the Importance of Friendship for Professional Women in Bangalore." As more...

Professor Bella Mody of the Journalism and Mass Communication Program will present our next Luncheon Series event where she will discuss newspapers and citizen education in the context of the Maoist insurgency, considered by the government to be India's "greatest internal security threat" in a talk entitled "Mao in India:...

Richa Nagar, Professor of Geography at the University of Minnesota, will deliver the Keynote Address for the 20th Annual Critical Geography Conference, to be held February 21-23. Nagar's lecture will be on Friday, February 21, at 4:00 p.m. in Atlas 100. Nagar's work focuses on the politics and practices of...

This Saturday, January 11, Dr. Pradip Thomas will come to CU to deliver a plenary lecture at the fifth in a series of international conferences held by the Center for Media, Religion, and Culture. These conferences bring together an interdisciplinary community of scholars and media practitioners for focused conversations on...

This Saturday, January 11, Dr. Pradip Thomas will come to CU to deliver a plenary lecture at the fifth in a series of international conferences held by the Center for Media, Religion, and Culture. These conferences bring together an interdisciplinary community of scholars and media practitioners for focused conversations on...

Professor Matthew Hull, a member of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Michigan, will come to CU on Friday, September 27 to deliver the keynote lecture for the annual interdisciplinary graduate student conference sponsored by the Department of Anthropology. In this lecture, he will address bureaucracy and corporations...

On Friday, September 27, Professor Matthew Hull of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Michigan will deliver the keynote lecture for the annual interdisciplinary graduate student conference, which is sponsored by the Department of Anthropology. Professor Hull is known for his research on colonial and contemporary bureaucracy, documents,...

The CU Center for Asian Studies, in collaboration with the department of Asian Languages and Civilizations ( ALC ) and the Anderson Language Technology Center ( ALTEC ), has successfully concluded its second Hindi-Urdu STARTALK language program. Our program titled “STARTALK: Hindi in the Rockies” was an intensive, three-week, non-residential...