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The Â鶹ÊÓƵ is one of the top research programs in the country in Tibet and Himalayan Studies, but undergraduate students have been unable to pursue a directed course of study in that field—new language classes, area studies

Alton Byers, who was a Visiting Scholar at CAS in 2019-2020, has written an article about the dramatic re-growth of forests in Nepal:The greening of the KhumbuWhat are the reasons for such a dramatic re-growth in trees in Nepal’s Everest region?

CAS Event Tuesday, October 27th at 6pm MDT  The History and Future of Tibet’s First Khenmos (Scholar-Nuns) Jue Liang & Andrew S. Taylor in Conversation with Padma 'tsho In 1997, the first cohort of women to receive the

The Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier: Rebellion, Repression, and Remembrance on a Tibetan Borderland of Early-Maoist ChinaCAS Event Part of the Tibet Himalaya Initiative Wednesday, October 7 at 5pm MDTRegister for the ZOOM Webinar hereWhen

The Center for Asian Studies is pleased to announce that we have been selected to receive a Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Languages (UISFL) grant from the US Department of Education for the next two years. Entitled “Creating a

New York University/Abu Dhabi is in the process of creating a new graduate level course titled "Geopolitics and ecology of Himalayan Water," and interviewed Byers in  for a podcast on the topic of  "A guide to GLOFs and their implications

Sam (Selma K.) Sonntag’s co-edited volume on The Politics of Language Contact in the Himalaya was recently published by Open Book Publishers. The five in-depth chapters cover language politics in Tibet (China), Assam (India), and Nepal,

Study Tibetan with Sarah Harding, Jules Levinson, Acharya Lama Tenpa Gyaltsen, other skilled instructors, and native Tibetan speakers in an intensive two-week course this summer.   When: August 12-23, 2019 Where: The University of Colorado,

Emily Yeh, a CU Boulder professor associated with the Center for Asian Studies and the Tibet-Himalaya Initiative disusses some of the implications of the disappearance of the fungus in an article in The Atlantic.“Its role in contemporary Tibetan

Adam Lisbon, Japanese Studies Librarian, curated Japan and Disaster:  1670-1995, a small exhibition of items relating to major natural disasters in Japan over the past 325 years.  Japan is prone to frequent earthquakes because the island