The 17th volume of UTCP Booklet, Secularization, Religion and the State, was published in December 2010. This is a collection of papers presented at the Singapore workshop held in January 2010.

On November 29, 2010, UTCP held the twelfth lecture at Understanding Islam at the Komaba campus of the University of Tokyo. This time, we invited Prof. Satoshi Ikeuchi (Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, the University of Tokyo) and he gave a lecture titled “Mobilization and Identity According to Islamic Political Thought.”

On July 15, 2010, UTCP invited Dr. Rakesh Batabyal of Jawaharlar Nehru University (New Dehli, India). His lecture was titled “Secularisation and the Political: The Indian Context”.

On July 9, 2010, UTCP invited Dr. Thin Minh-Hoang Ngo from University of Province (France).

On June 16, 2010, UTCP held the eleventh lecture on Understanding Islam on the Komaba campus of the University of Tokyo.

In April 28, 2010, UTCP invited Professor Rikki Kersten (Modern Japanese Political History) from Australian National University. She gave us a lecture titled “Historical Trauma, Tenko (Apostasy) and Subjective Coherence: Yoshimoto Takaaki’s ‘1945 Complex’”.

On March 15, 2010, we held Dr. Meron Benvenisti’s lecture titled “Jews and Arabs: Intimate Enemies” on the Komaba campus of the University of Tokyo.

On January 21, 2010, the University of Tokyo Center for Philosophy (UTCP) and the Asia Research Institute of the National University of Singapore (NUS) co-organized the “Graduate Workshop on Secularization, Religion and the State” held at NUS’s Asia Research Institute. Prof. Masashi Haneda and UTCP research fellows gave presentations.

On November 11, 2009, UTCP held the tenth lecture on Understanding Islam at the Komaba campus of the University of Tokyo.