Participating in the 2019 Winter Institute(WI) held at Australia National University (ANU) in Canberra from January 7 to 11 was a great opportunity as well as such an inspiration in terms of exchanging thoughts and ideas on the theme titled “History, Culture and Contested Memories: Global and Local Perspectives,” which has grown crucial in recent years, among wonderful students and scholars from ANU, Peking University, New York University, and the University of Tokyo.

Personally, I should admit that it was not off to an exciting beginning due to the fact that I had suffered with a bad cold. However, when I arrived in Canberra, met with excellent students and scholars, and as I got exposed to participants’ academic zeal for the given theme, needless to say along with a very good weather --- we were very fortunate about it indeed, not very hot in the midst of summer while extremely hot temperature had been reported before we arrived---, I was getting better physically and got immersed in thought-stimulating lectures and presentations --- I am still not sure which happened first, feeling better and then started to get immersed, or vise versa. Anyhow, my first visit to Canberra finally geared up.

The Winter Institute 2019 was held at Australia National University, Canberra from 7 to 11 January. The professors and students from ANU, PKU, NYU and UTokyo discussed “History, Culture and Contested Memories: Global ad Local Perspectives”. As it was the first time for me to take part in international conferences, I was feeling a mixture of anxiety and excitement.

The conference began with Professor Masashi Haneda’s paper. Explaining his well-known book Toward Creation of a New World History (2011), Prof. Haneda stressed the sense of belonging to the earth in the (anti-)global age. He also cited the essay of Jeremy Adelman and suggested two aspects of globalization, which is, the integration and the resistance toward it. Finally, he referred to the positionality of historians, which is of critical importance to me because I major in the British history as a Japanese student. I would like to be careful about who I am and whom I am writing to through my academic career.

The motivations of my joining the 2019 Winter Institute could be described as followed. Firstly, the conference this year not only brought together outstanding scholars and young prospects from ANU, PKU, NYU, and UTokyo once again but also focused on the issue of “Nationalism, Culture, and Contested Memory”, which is closely relevant to my research. Therefore, I was longing for presenting my research at the conference with an eye to making contributions to the intellectual dialogue and also getting inspiration. Secondly, I was also looking forward to taking this chance to visit Australia, in which I found many similarities with my hometown, Taiwan, in regards to demographic structure and colonial legacy. Looking back on these days not so long ago, it is the aforementioned reasons that kept me motivated throughout the struggles and frustrations during the preparation processes.

Although only one month has passed after I attended this productive and unforgettable winter institute, I feel like describing an event happened years ago when starting to write this report. This is not only the first time for me to set foot into Australia but also to use academic English that intensively, which is a precious opportunity especially for students like me majoring in Tokugawa intellectual history. The language barrier was a challenge for me, yet atmosphere throughout the whole institute remained relaxing, in a sense that all student participants were allowed, or even encouraged to communicate actively with professors and fellow students.

The 17th volume of UTCP Booklet, Secularization, Religion and the State, was published in December 2010. This is a collection of papers presented at the Singapore workshop held in January 2010.

On November 29, 2010, UTCP held the twelfth lecture at Understanding Islam at the Komaba campus of the University of Tokyo. This time, we invited Prof. Satoshi Ikeuchi (Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, the University of Tokyo) and he gave a lecture titled “Mobilization and Identity According to Islamic Political Thought.”

On January 21, 2010, the University of Tokyo Center for Philosophy (UTCP) and the Asia Research Institute of the National University of Singapore (NUS) co-organized the “Graduate Workshop on Secularization, Religion and the State” held at NUS’s Asia Research Institute. Prof. Masashi Haneda and UTCP research fellows gave presentations.

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.

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

On November 9th we held the 13th session of the seminar “Secularization, Religion, State".

On October 26th we held the 12th session of the seminar “Secularization, Religion, State".

On October 19, 2009, the eleventh session of the seminar “Secularization, Religion, and State” was held.

On October 5, 2009, we held the tenth session of the seminar “Secularization, Religion, State”.

What is modernity? The stimulating lecture delivered by Professor Christian Uhl (Gent University, Belgium) on July 6th, titled “Religion and Modernity: The Case of Nishida Kitarô”, provides us with a thoughtful answer for the question.

On June 29, 2009, we held the 8th session of the seminar “Secularization, Religion, State”.

On June 22, 2009, we held the seventh session of the seminar “Secularization, Religion, State.”

On June 15, 2009, we held the sixth session of the seminar “Secularization, Religion, State”.

On 1st June, 2009, we held the forth session of the seminar “Secularization, Religion, State”.

On May 18 2009, we held the third session of the seminar “Secularization, Religion, State” .

On May 11th, the second session of the seminar “Secularization, Religion, State” was held.

The Seminar “Secularization, Religion, and State” held on 26th January, 2009 was the first session of this academic year.

Asian Port Cities 1600-1800: Local and Foreign Cultural Interactions, edited by Masashi Haneda (Singapore: NUS Press, 2009), was published. Table of contents is below.

We published the seventh volume of the UTCP Booklet, Sécularizations et Laïcités.

We published the sixth volume of the UTCP Booklet, Secularization and Laïcités.

We invited Prof. Jean Baubérot from November 23 till December 2, 2008 and hold two lectures and a symposium. This booklet collected these works.

The 17th session of the Seminar “Secularization, Religion, and State” was held on 26th January, 2009.

On January 19th, the sixteenth session of the Seminar “Secularization, Religion, State” was held.

The 15th session of the Seminar “Secularization, Religion, and State” was held on 15th December.

On December 8th, the fourteenth session of the Seminar “Secularization, Religion, State” was held.

On December 1st, the thirteenth session of the Seminar “Secularization, Religion, State” was held.

　　The 12th session of the Seminar “Secularization, Religion, and State” was held on 24th November.

The 11th session of the Seminar “Secularization, Religion, State” was held on November 17th.

11月7日召开了研讨会“解读生／性与权力制度”。只要社会是以再生产为基础的，那么“生”作为“性”的问题，就与权力密不可分地联系在一起。此次研讨会围绕着“生／性”与权力的关系，关注由葆有特定的认同的国民组成的近代国家的问题，力图从不同的社会结构的构成上加以分析。

On November 7, UTCP held a workshop titled “Considering the System of Life/ Sexuality and Power”.

On October 20th, the ninth session of the seminar “Secularization, Religion, State” was held.

On October 20th, the tenth session of the Seminar “Secularization, Religion, State” was held.

On July 18th, a debrief session of the program "Secularization, Religion and State" for this semester was held.

On July 7th, we held the eighth session of the seminar “Secularization, Religion, and State.”

On June 30th, the seventh session of the Seminar “Secularization, Religion, State” was held.

The fifth session of the Seminar “Secularization, Religion, State” was held on June 16th. In this session,

On June 9th, the fourth session of the Seminar “Secularization, Religion, State” was held.

On June 2nd, the third session of the Seminar “Secularization, Religion, State” was held.

6月6日，理解伊斯兰讲座第五讲邀请饭塚正人教授（东京外国语大学亚非语言文化研究所）主讲，题目为《为何现在复兴伊斯兰——从近现代伊斯兰思想史的角度思考》。

On June 6, the fifth lecture on understanding Islam "Why Now the Revival of Islam? From the Perspective of Modern History of Islamic Thought" was held. The speaker was Masato Iizuka (Professor, Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies).

　A seminar titled “Religion and Secularization in Germany” took place on May 12. The speakers of the seminar were Prof. Dr. Peter Muller and his wife Dr. habil. Anita Muller-Friese. Prof. Masashi Haneda took the chair in the seminar.
　

On April 28th, the first session of the Seminar “Secularization, Religion, State” was held.

The second volume of the UTCP booklet What are the Classics in Our Time? under the edition of Nakajima Takahiro and Kobayashi Yasuo came out.

Masashi Haneda, member of UTCP has published a new book.

I am in Paris to attend a workshop of two days at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. I arrived here on Tuesday evening and will go back to Tokyo with today(Thursday)’s flight.

UTCP工作室《古典的人之形象》的讨论从东洋编开始。

　UTCP Work Salon “Classical Views on Man” took place from the perspective of East Asia.

11月22日，UTCP理解伊斯兰讲座第二讲请羽田正教授主讲，题目为“《伊斯兰世界的创造》及其以后”。羽田教授以自己于2005年出版的著作《伊斯兰世界的创造》为主要题材，聚焦于“世俗化”和“世界史”这两个概念，重审伊斯兰理解的框架，提出以“共生的世界史”的形式来摸索回应时代要求的新型历史叙述的可能性。

The vice-leader Masashi Haneda was invited to give a lecture on November 22nd. Based on materials from his book The Creation of the Islamic World (2005), Haneda was questioning the framework of understanding Islam through the notions of “secularization” and “world history” in search of new possibilities to narrate history as “world history of coexistence”.