Thanks to Professor Graham Parkes, UTCP had a chance to collaborate with scholars at University of Hawaii.

The workshop started with Yasuo Kobayashi’s opening remarks on the problematic of “the epoch”.

From March 22 to 31, Yasuo Kobayashi, Takahiro Nakajima, UTCP fellows (Dennitza Gabrakova, Misato Ido, Wang Qian, Kei Hirakura, and Kei Yoshida), and Satoru Hashimoto (the former UTCP fellow, currently Ph.D. student at Harvard University) visited New York University.

2008年3月6日到7日，UTCP与CEFC(Centre d’Etudes Francais sur la Chine contemporaine)共同主办的国际研讨会“中国传统文化在当代中国的角色”在东京大学驹场校区举行。

From March 6 to 7, the international workshop "The Revival of Traditional Culture and Confucianism in China Today" was held by Centre d’Etudes Français sur la Chine contemporaine (CEFC) and UTCP.

The third volume of the UTCP booklet Passages of the Epochs : Walter Benjamin Today under the edition of Kobayashi Yasuo came out.

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.

2008年2月23日，UTCP的专题讨论会“哲学与大学——人文科学的未来”在驹场校区召开（主持人：宫崎裕助、西山雄二）

The symposium was a part of the open joint study “Philosophy and the University” , whose main objective was to reexamine the understanding of the university of various philosophers as well as well as the relationship between philosophy and the system and ideals of the university.

Here are published the proceedings of the Symposium “Philosophie et Education” held in Paris this January.

Kais Firro (The Department of Middle Eastern History, Haifa University, Israel) pronounced a lecture on the 28th of January at UTCPunder the title “The (Im-)possibility of Coexistence in Bilingual Haifa”, had research seminars for four days until the 31st and left for Israel on the 1st of February.

1月8日，在巴黎的国际哲学学院召开了UTCP与学院共同主办的论坛《哲学与教育 教、学——关于哲学与精神分析的教育》。这是继2006年11月第一届论坛之后的第二届，是由UTCP主导推动的计划。

On the 8th of January a forum took place at CiPH in Paris, organized by UTCP and CiPH under the title “Philosophy and Education: Teaching and Learning – about the pedagogy of the philosophy and the psychoanalysis”. This was the second meeting after November 2006 and was part of a project developed by UTCP.

UTCP工作室《古典的人之形象》的讨论从东洋编开始。

　UTCP Work Salon “Classical Views on Man” took place from the perspective of East Asia.

The proceedings of the International Symposium (18th -19th November 2005 in Paris University 7 ), organized by CEEI （CENTRE D'ÉTUDE DE L'ÉCRITURE ET DE L'IMAGE）　and UTCP under the title “La lettre et l'image : Nouvelles approaches”[The Letter and the Image New Approaches]
have been published.
La lettre et l'image : Nouvelles approches
Textes réunis et présentés par Anne-Marie Christin et Atsushi Miura
Textuel, n 54, novembre 2007, université Paris Diderot – Paris 7
For a full table of contents see the Japanese version,
(Translated by Dennitza Gabrakova)

佛教的现代可能性问题是前一COE的中心课题之一，对此课题的探讨重又开始了。

This program is conducted by alternating my graduate seminar and the seminars and work salons of UTCP, from 6pm every Tuesday, while all the presentations and discussions are loosely centered on the notion of “times” (age, epoch).