Bernhard Waldenfels Seminar Series was held on November 18 (Wed),2009 and November 20 (Fri), 2009.

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

The workshop "What is the site for the Humanities?" has finished at the Research Machine Suyu+Trans in Seoul. Thanks to the solicitous preparation of Suyu+Trans, we had an excellent event. We express our hearty thanks.

The first meeting of the short-term education program "The Origins of Philosophy of History: Cosmology and Eschatology" was Tatsuya Nishiyama's talk "Heidegger and Cosmos: Starting from His 'Natorp Report'."

The new short-term education program "The Origins of Philosophy of History" starts. This program is organized mainly by Dan Morita and Koji Otake.

The third volume of the UTCP booklet Passages of the Epochs : Walter Benjamin Today under the edition of Kobayashi Yasuo came out.

The second meeting of the forum on the problematic of the “image” was held at the University of Kyoto under the sponsorship of Okada Atsushi’s laboratory of the University of Kyoto. The presenters were:
Hashimoto Azusa (The National Museum of Art, Osaka)
Yoneda Naoki (University of Tokyo Graduate School, The National Art Center, Tokyo)
Ueo Masamichi (Nagoya University of Art)
Morita Dan (UTCP)
Terada Kuniyuki (Osaka University, JSPS fellow)
Ohashi Kantaro (Assistant, University of Tokyo)

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