On July 7th, we held the eighth session of the seminar “Secularization, Religion, and State.”

On June 30th, the seventh session of the Seminar “Secularization, Religion, State” was held.

The fifth session of the Seminar “Secularization, Religion, State” was held on June 16th. In this session,

On June 2nd, the third session of the Seminar “Secularization, Religion, State” was held.

On June 6, the fifth lecture on understanding Islam "Why Now the Revival of Islam? From the Perspective of Modern History of Islamic Thought" was held. The speaker was Masato Iizuka (Professor, Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies).

　A seminar titled “Religion and Secularization in Germany” took place on May 12. The speakers of the seminar were Prof. Dr. Peter Muller and his wife Dr. habil. Anita Muller-Friese. Prof. Masashi Haneda took the chair in the seminar.
　

On April 28th, the first session of the Seminar “Secularization, Religion, State” was held.

The second volume of the UTCP booklet What are the Classics in Our Time? under the edition of Nakajima Takahiro and Kobayashi Yasuo came out.

Masashi Haneda, member of UTCP has published a new book.

I am in Paris to attend a workshop of two days at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. I arrived here on Tuesday evening and will go back to Tokyo with today(Thursday)’s flight.

11月22日，UTCP理解伊斯兰讲座第二讲请羽田正教授主讲，题目为“《伊斯兰世界的创造》及其以后”。羽田教授以自己于2005年出版的著作《伊斯兰世界的创造》为主要题材，聚焦于“世俗化”和“世界史”这两个概念，重审伊斯兰理解的框架，提出以“共生的世界史”的形式来摸索回应时代要求的新型历史叙述的可能性。

The vice-leader Masashi Haneda was invited to give a lecture on November 22nd. Based on materials from his book The Creation of the Islamic World (2005), Haneda was questioning the framework of understanding Islam through the notions of “secularization” and “world history” in search of new possibilities to narrate history as “world history of coexistence”.