Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
Originally rooted in the Buddhist tradition of Japanese American culture, taiko drumming in North America has steadily increased in popularity and in recent years has been featured in popular music collaborations, movies, television programs and commercials, and a well-known video game. With this increased exposure, individual drummers and the taiko community at large have been … Read more
Dr. Joseph T. Lee looks at the current development of the Sino-American encounter in the Third World. During the Maoist and the Dengist era, China was responding to the international pressures from the United States and the Soviet Union rather than dealing with the Third World countries per se. But since the launching of the … Read more
About 10 percent of the world’s population (~360 million people) live on or near potentially dangerous volcanoes. Many of the processes that take place on active volcanoes are potentially hazardous to local populations. Emergence of volcanology as a modern multidisciplinary science was largely a result of volcanic catastrophes that occurred at Krakatau Volcano in Indonesia … Read more
What is reincarnation? Reincarnation is concerned with the afterlife. At this very moment we are all currently building our path towards the afterlife. What we do, what we think, and what we feel everyday determines what happens in the afterlife. There are two hypotheses about the afterlife. The single life hypothesis states that the soul … Read more
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.