On November 13, the graduate symposium “Techniques of the Image” was held at McGill University in Montreal.

On March 2 in 2009, IDO Misato, SAKAGUCHI Sayaka and KAWAMURA Aya participated in the course “Print and Popular Culture” offered by the department of Art History and Communication Studies of McGill University in Montreal, Canada.

The conference ‘Image as History’ was held on February 27th in University of Ottawa. Three members from Ways of Image, one of the 短期教育プログラム(Short-Term Educational Programs) at UTCP, IDO Misato, SAKAGUCHI Sayaka and KAWAMURA Aya, presented their papers in a panel session, along with Professor Eric Allina-Pisano, who teaches African History at the University of Ottawa. This conference was organized by Viren Murthy (Department of History, University of Ottawa), who visited UTCP last summer for his research, in cooperation with Kouky Fianu from the University of Ottawa’s program of Medieval and Renaissance Studies.

We published the fourth volume of the UTCP Booklet, Utopia: Here and There.

On the 16th of June we had the pleasure of inviting Mr. Yoshihiro Suda, a contemporary artist famous for his "weeds" carved of wood.

2008年3月28日到29日，在纽约大学召开了研讨会“Age of Comparison”，通过哲学的、方法论的考察探讨比较和比较可能性。

The second report at the program “Contemporary China in Philosophy”was also on the theme of “Authority and Ritual”. The title of Misato Ido’s presentation was “Taue-zoshi [Book of Rice Planting]– Memory Carved into The Land”.
Misato Ido analyzed the work Taue-zoshi, a collection of songs for rice planting, discovered in the end of Taisho era, focusing on the social context and the fictional aspect interwoven into it, thus offering a new interpretation.