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The Center for Asian Studies is a proud sponsor of the 2015 Jaipur Literary Festival Boulder, which will be held September 19-20. In preparation for the Jaipur Literature Festival, we are presenting an afternoon of related programming including a

Joseph Alter presented a talk at the University of ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ on April 23, 2015.  His talk was titled “Yoga, Nature Cure and ‘Perfect’ Health.” Approximately, a little over 50 people attended the event. His talk offered a combination of a

The Center for Asian Studies is pleased to partner with the Department of Religious Studies to bring Dr. Joseph Alter, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh, to ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ on Thursday, April 23. In this lecture, Alter presents an answer

This Thursday, April 2, Rachel Fleming, Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Anthropology, will present her research on working women in Bangalore as part of our Luncheon Series.In the past three generations and especially since economic

This Thursday, February 26, Loriliai Biernacki, Associate Professor in Religious Studies, will bring the second CAS Luncheon Series talk this semester on her research on the idea of wonder in medieval Indian Tantra, in a presentation entitled "

Are you studying Japanese, Chinese, Hindi or any subject related to Japan, China or India?  Are you interested in teaching or simply sharing your knowledge about Asia with school-age children?  Earn one ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ upper division credit hour

We are pleased to have Sam Sonntag join us on Friday, October 31, for our next Luncheon Series talk, "Depoliticizing Hindi through Linguistic Federalism." While the politics of Hindi dominated the language policy debate in India for much of the 20th

Are Indian women seen as passive victims or agents of change? Please join this roundtable discussion of professors and students for a lively conversation on how Indian women are represented (or misrepresented) in Western media as we discuss popular

Caste, a social-economic-cultural-religious construction has ruled the Indian minds for over three thousand years and have gradually been institutionalized. Caste continues to serve as the fabric of Indian society, co-existing with modernity and a

On Friday February 21, Professor Richa Nagar of the University of Minnesota gave a lecture, sponsored by CAS entitled Muddying the Waters: Co-authoring feminisms across scholarship and activism. The talk was based on her forthcoming book by the