On May 18, 2009, we held a symposium "Modernism as movement" with New York University and East China Normal University. We had discussions in Chinese and English.

The eleventh volume of the UTCP Booklet, Whither Japanese Philosophy? Reflections through other Eyes, was published.

On January 25 and 27, 2009, a group of a dozen or so philosophers and other scholars sat around a table in the seminar room of the UTCP to listen me talk about some alternatives to oppositions in mainstream academic philosophy.

Prof. Emeritus John C. Maraldo of the University of North Florida visited UTCP in January and gave two seminars on Japanese philosophy. Here he is presenting his current project, a 'Sourcebook in Japanese Philosophy'. Prof. Maraldo is one of the co-editors of the project, which also includes contributions by UTCP prof. Nakajima Takahiro.

We published the fifth volume of the UTCP Booklet, The Revival of Traditional Culture and Confucianism in Contemporary China.

Dr. Thomas P. Kasulis (Ohio State University) made a presentation during the second session of the UCTP lecture series in Japanese Intellectual History on July 7th. The topic was “Writing a History of Japanese Philosophy: What I have learned”.

The final session of Profs. Thoraval and Nakajima's joint seminar was held on July 17th. In this session, they finished their lectures and discussed some problems with participants.

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。

2008年3月6日到7日，UTCP与CEFC(Centre d’Etudes Francais sur la Chine contemporaine)共同主办的国际研讨会“中国传统文化在当代中国的角色”在东京大学驹场校区举行。

From March 6 to 7, the international workshop "The Revival of Traditional Culture and Confucianism in China Today" was held by Centre d’Etudes Français sur la Chine contemporaine (CEFC) and UTCP.

Yi Youngjae made the third report at the middle-term program “Contemporary Philosophy in China” under the title “The Postcolonial Action Movie as a Contact Zone – A Lawless World”. From the perspective of her field, cinema studies, Yi suggested the possibility that the space of Manchuria, charged with a national history memory, through the contact with the Western genre functioned as a stage of violence, escaping from the state authority.

The second report at the program “Contemporary China in Philosophy”was also on the theme of “Authority and Ritual”. The title of Misato Ido’s presentation was “Taue-zoshi [Book of Rice Planting]– Memory Carved into The Land”.
Misato Ido analyzed the work Taue-zoshi, a collection of songs for rice planting, discovered in the end of Taisho era, focusing on the social context and the fictional aspect interwoven into it, thus offering a new interpretation.

In this program three teams are working at the same time. Reports from the fellows, relating their own research interests to the topic of “Authority and Heresy” will continue for a while. This problematic goes beyond the period and region of “Contemporary China”. Kim Hang did the first report on 2007/11/02.