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 January 18, 2010, we held the seventeenth session of the seminar “Secularization, Religion, State”.

On October 5, 2009, we held the tenth session of the seminar “Secularization, Religion, State”.

On June 15, 2009, we held the sixth session of the seminar “Secularization, Religion, State”.

On June 4, 2009, the ninth lecture on Understanding Islam was held. The speaker was Francis Guinle, Professor Emeritus at the University Lyon 2, and the title of his talk was “Intercultural Exchanges between Western Europe and the Arab World: A Utopia?”.