We co-organized an international symposium “Metamorphosis and Catastrophe” at Sofia University, Bulgaria (from October 31 to November 2, 2013). The symposium was organized by Profs. Boyan Manchev (New Bulgarian University), Darin Tenev (Sofia University) and Yasuo Kobayashi (University of Tokyo). Around fifteen participants joined from Tokyo, Paris and Sofia.

We published the 3rd volume of UTCP-Uehiro Booklet, APF Series 1 Philosophizing Asia, edited by Tsuyoshi Ishii and Lam Wing-keung.

We organized a lecture by Prof. Richard Reitan, Franklin & Marshall College. Here is a message from Prof. Reitan.

We published the 2nd volume of UTCP-Uehiro Booklet, Philosophy of Disability & Coexistence: Body, Narrative, and Community, edited by Kohji Ishihara and Minae Inahara.

On November 6th, filmmaker Antoine de Mena gave a presentation entitled "Yamanaka Sadao's Cinema and Records of War Experience: An Example of Resistance to Narratives of Empire".

Yasuo Kobayashi's The World of Miquel Barceló: Form as Life / Matter and Violence has been published by Miraisha.