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

On November 11, 2009, UTCP held the tenth lecture on Understanding Islam at the Komaba campus of the University of Tokyo.

Yasunari Takada published Critical Moment: The Origin of Critique and the Recognition of Criticality (Nagoya University Press).

Summary of Zed Adams (The New School for Social Research) lecture: "How to Argue for Color Relativism" (Jan. 19, 2009)

On December 7, Dr. Tobias Cheung (Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science, Berlin and Institute for Culture and Science, Humboldt-University, Berlin) gave a talk "How Humans Became Organisms: Some Reflections on the Transition from the Soul-Body-Problem to the Organism-Milieu-Interface."

1月11日，来自东京大学、纽约大学和北京大学的人文学科教授在北京大学中文系举行了主题为“全球化时代的人文科学反思”的三边学术交流与合作恳谈会。会谈由中文系党委书记蒋朗朗主持，北京大学常务副校长林建华出席会谈并发言，东京大学哲学中心主任小林康夫教授和纽约大学中国中心主任、东亚研究系系主任张旭东教授也分别代表东京大学和纽约大学表达了对三方建立可持续性合作关系的设想和建议。

A Small History of Japanese Philosophy edited and authored by Sumihiko Kumano was published in December.

On December 14th we held the 16th session of the seminar “Secularization, Religion, State."