12月19日，UTCP邀请Karim Douglas Sloan Crow氏（新加坡南洋理工大学S.拉惹勒南国际研究院）主讲第三次理解伊斯兰讲座，题目为《现代的穆斯林：意象与现实》。

12月17日，UTCP邀请American University的Jin Young Park教授做了题为《佛教与解构Buddhisms and Deconstruction》的讲演。

Masashi Haneda, member of UTCP has published a new book.

今天（12月13日）早晨，纽约大学的Looser老师和Hanawa老师来访。

2007年12月11日，这回邀请的是著有《快速阅读〈1〉尼采》一书的东京大学教授杉桥阳一，就“尼采与时代”发表讲演（不是“讲义”，正是讲演一词才合适）。

The Conflict of Faculties (1798) along with Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View is one of the last works Kant published in his lifetime. Several of the essays of the first edition were banned by the censorship and in the preface there is an excuse to Friedrich Wilhelm II, who did the censorship. A theory of the university is developed in the first part “Conflict of the Faculty of Philosophy and the Faculty of Theology”. Although only 20 pages in the Japanese translation it really poses an abundance of questions.

New report on our activities:
in the 1st Seminar: "Reading Levy's Neuroethics" Session 7, we discussed the chapter 4: 'Reading minds/controlling minds' in this book.
And in the 2nd Seminar: "Reading Gazzaniga's The Ethical Brain" Session 7, we read the chapter 6 and Session 8, we read the chapter 7.

New report on our activities:
In Session 8 of the 2nd Seminar: "Reading Gazzaniga's The Ethical Brain", we read the chapter 7.

New report on our activities:
In Session 7 of the 1st Seminar: "Reading Levy's Neuroethics", we discussed the chapter 4: 'Reading minds/controlling minds'.

New report on our activities:
In Session 7 of the 2nd Seminar: "Reading Gazzaniga's The Ethical Brain", we read the chapter 6.

“Okakura Tenshin’s English is so exquisitely Edwardian, almost archaic, and I wonder how his subtly nuanced writing can be translated into Japanese,” commented Rustom Bharucha after a lecture given at the symposium entitled “Another Asia: Beyond Tenshin’s Love and Friendship,” held at the Tokyo University of Fine Arts on Nov. 10th.

Report by Koichiro Kokubun on Takanori Hayao’s talk　“The Current State of the Straying "Jewish Country"”
Koichiro Kokubun wrote his comments about Hayao’s talk under the title “The Hope-Principle”、focusing on the issues of the change in the demographic composition of Israel, the separation wall, the activities of Picture Balata and the support of the olive harvest by a leftist group.

The bridge has always been considered as a metaphor of linking, but the bridge is also a metaphor for the very workings of metaphor, in the way that the edge can be associated with metonymical proximity.

Sarah Teasley from the Northwestern University gave a lecture on November 28th under the title “The Gender of Beauty in Architectural Discourse in Modern Japan” .