東京大学東洋文化研究所教授の中島隆博と東京大学大学院総合文化研究科教授の石井剛 が、白水社より『ことばを紡ぐための哲学　東大駒場・現代思想講義』を刊行しました。

2019年2月17日と3月2日、書家の華雪さんによるワークショップを行った。タイトルは、
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　2019年1月７日（月）に第2回「障害と共生」研究会が開催された。研究報告を行ったのは、田中慎太郎（UTCP）と山田理絵（UTCP）である。

2019年3月17日（日）、こまば当事者カレッジ2018年冬期コース「生きづらさを考える」の第３回が開催されました。今回は講師に日本大学の中村英代先生をお招きし「コントロールを手放す　変えられないものを変えようとし続ける私たち」と題し、社会学の観点から「生きづらさ」「依存」についてレクチャーしていただきました。

Participating in the 2019 Winter Institute(WI) held at Australia National University (ANU) in Canberra from January 7 to 11 was a great opportunity as well as such an inspiration in terms of exchanging thoughts and ideas on the theme titled “History, Culture and Contested Memories: Global and Local Perspectives,” which has grown crucial in recent years, among wonderful students and scholars from ANU, Peking University, New York University, and the University of Tokyo.

Personally, I should admit that it was not off to an exciting beginning due to the fact that I had suffered with a bad cold. However, when I arrived in Canberra, met with excellent students and scholars, and as I got exposed to participants’ academic zeal for the given theme, needless to say along with a very good weather --- we were very fortunate about it indeed, not very hot in the midst of summer while extremely hot temperature had been reported before we arrived---, I was getting better physically and got immersed in thought-stimulating lectures and presentations --- I am still not sure which happened first, feeling better and then started to get immersed, or vise versa. Anyhow, my first visit to Canberra finally geared up.

The Winter Institute 2019 was held at Australia National University, Canberra from 7 to 11 January. The professors and students from ANU, PKU, NYU and UTokyo discussed “History, Culture and Contested Memories: Global ad Local Perspectives”. As it was the first time for me to take part in international conferences, I was feeling a mixture of anxiety and excitement.

The conference began with Professor Masashi Haneda’s paper. Explaining his well-known book Toward Creation of a New World History (2011), Prof. Haneda stressed the sense of belonging to the earth in the (anti-)global age. He also cited the essay of Jeremy Adelman and suggested two aspects of globalization, which is, the integration and the resistance toward it. Finally, he referred to the positionality of historians, which is of critical importance to me because I major in the British history as a Japanese student. I would like to be careful about who I am and whom I am writing to through my academic career.

The motivations of my joining the 2019 Winter Institute could be described as followed. Firstly, the conference this year not only brought together outstanding scholars and young prospects from ANU, PKU, NYU, and UTokyo once again but also focused on the issue of “Nationalism, Culture, and Contested Memory”, which is closely relevant to my research. Therefore, I was longing for presenting my research at the conference with an eye to making contributions to the intellectual dialogue and also getting inspiration. Secondly, I was also looking forward to taking this chance to visit Australia, in which I found many similarities with my hometown, Taiwan, in regards to demographic structure and colonial legacy. Looking back on these days not so long ago, it is the aforementioned reasons that kept me motivated throughout the struggles and frustrations during the preparation processes.

Although only one month has passed after I attended this productive and unforgettable winter institute, I feel like describing an event happened years ago when starting to write this report. This is not only the first time for me to set foot into Australia but also to use academic English that intensively, which is a precious opportunity especially for students like me majoring in Tokugawa intellectual history. The language barrier was a challenge for me, yet atmosphere throughout the whole institute remained relaxing, in a sense that all student participants were allowed, or even encouraged to communicate actively with professors and fellow students.

　2月11日（月・祝）に駒場キャンパスKOMCEEにて、こまば当事者カレッジ2018年度冬期コース「生きづらさを考える」の第1回として、社会学者の牧野智和先生（大妻女子大学）をお招きし「『自己啓発』を書き換え、使い直す」というテーマでのワークショップを実施しました。

元UTCPセンター長で現青山学院大学特任教授の小林康夫氏と東京大学東洋文化研究所教授の中島隆博が『日本を解き放つ』（東京大学出版会）の刊行記念対談を行い、その内容が週刊読書人に掲載されました。
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