Yi Joung Jae published Korean Movies in Imperial Japan.

New report on our activities: In Session 2 of the 3rd Seminar: "Reading Prinz's The Emotional Construction of Morals", we discussed the chapter 1: "Emotionism".

　On 23rd June, we held the sixth session of the Seminar “Secularization, Religion, and State.”

The fifth session of the Seminar “Secularization, Religion, State” was held on June 16th. In this session,

Shunsuke Kadowaki, the former executive director of UTCP, published Philosophy of Being and Time 1

On May 30, there was a talk by Prof. Takashi Ikegami (Associate Professor of The University of Tokyo, Department of General Systems Studies). He has been mainly working on the fields of complex systems, artificial life, and robotics. The talk was about his recent book, Movement Creates Life (Ugoki ga Seimei wo Tsukuru).

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。

On June 9th, the fourth session of the Seminar “Secularization, Religion, State” was held.

　　The program of the 7th TCCP was text reading, and we read the preface and chapter 1 of J. J. Prinz’s book Gut Reactions: A Perceptual Theory of Emotion (2004).

On June 2nd, the third session of the Seminar “Secularization, Religion, State” was held.

5月27日，UTCP召开讨论会，就UTCP研究员早尾贵纪氏于今年3月出版的著作《犹太与以色列之间——民族／国家的难关》展开了讨论。

5月20日，UTCP邀请莱顿大学现代东亚研究所的施耐德教授做了题为《中国的保守主义：历史、民族认同与人的条件》的报告。

6月6日，理解伊斯兰讲座第五讲邀请饭塚正人教授（东京外国语大学亚非语言文化研究所）主讲，题目为《为何现在复兴伊斯兰——从近现代伊斯兰思想史的角度思考》。

On June 6, the fifth lecture on understanding Islam "Why Now the Revival of Islam? From the Perspective of Modern History of Islamic Thought" was held. The speaker was Masato Iizuka (Professor, Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies).

The UTCP Academic English Seminar (2008 Summer Semester) started.

On May 26th, the second session of the Seminar "Secularization, Religion, State" was held in the Komaba campus. We aimed to build common ground on "secularization", "religion" and "state" in this session.