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 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 October 19, 2009, the eleventh session of the seminar “Secularization, Religion, and State” was held.

On June 10th, Dr. William Shang (Shinichi Yasuda) from the University of Tokyo gave a talk titled “Images from the Past: Imagination and Reality seen in Visual Records”. The lecture was part of the UTCP Academic English program.

On May 25, 2009, UTCP and the Todai-Yale Initiative invited Haun Saussy, Professor of Comparative Literature at Yale University, to give a talk titled “Two Perspectives on the ‘Thing’ in Poetry: Where Fenollosa and Pound Diverge.”