logic – Asian American / Asian Research Institute

A Dispassionate Logic in Contemporary Chinese Art and Cinema: Globalization, Nationalism, and Post-Socialist Trauma

October 1, 2018June 2, 2006 By Xiaoping Lin

This talk gives a general outlook on contemporary Chinese art and cinema that has attracted a critical attention from both Chinese and Western scholars in the past decade (1995-2005). As China is rising as a new economic power in Asia, the work of so-called Chinese “avant-garde” artists and filmmakers needs to be examined in the … Read more

How Logic Can Help The World

September 14, 2018April 11, 2002 By Rohit Parikh

In the last three decades Logic has emerged from the ivory tower and started to address problems of human concern, like how we think, how we vote and how we act. We will give a sampling of some recent insights.