Paris 8 University and University of Tokyo has intellectually collaborated for some decades. On December 19, 2009, the symposium "L'Avenir des Sciences Humaines à l'Université" was held with the president and vice-president of Paris 8 University (organized by Patrick De Vos and Pierre Bayard; supported by Department of French and Italian Languages, University of Tokyo).

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Jun Takaka published The Political Aesthetics: Power and Representations (University of Tokyo Press).

Congratulations to Jun Tanaka, member of UTCP, for being awarded the prize of the Agency for Cultural Affairs for his recent book Poetics of the City – Memory and Symptom of the Place.

Jun Tanaka, a member of UTCP published The Urban Poetics – Analyses of Urban Representation from Tokyo University Press. This is a collection of his writings, serialized in the magazine 10+1 from 2004. The total number of pages is 430. A very exciting chapter “Towards an Imageology of the Nervous System” is included. It is a work of poetic analysis of the contemporary representational space. (Yasuo Kobayashi, English translation: Dennitza Gabrakova)