UTCP-Uehiro Booklet 7 has been published: Perspectives on Oshima Nagisa.

On December 1st, UTCP hosted a public screening of Frederick Wiseman's documentary At Berkeley (2013). Following the screening, Prof. Satō Yoshiaki and director Funahashi Atsushi joined Mark Roberts of UTCP for an in-depth discussion with the audience.

On June 2nd, Elise Domenach gave a presentation entitled "Denial and recognition in films on 3.11", focusing on several recent documentaries concerning the disaster in Tohoku.

On January 24th, UTCP hosted a public screening of Fujiwara Toshi's documentary No Man’s Zone. Following the screening, Fujiwara-san joined Mark Roberts and Élise Domenach of UTCP for an in-depth discussion with the audience.

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".

On July 22nd, UTCP was pleased to host a presentation by Max Ward (Middlebury College) entitled "Philosophical Conversion and the Displacement of History: An Unorthodox Reading of Tanabe Hajime’s Zangedō to shite no tetsugaku".

On June 26, Akira Mizuta Lippit (University of Southern California) gave a presentation entitled "Medium Disaster 311".

On April 19, Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano (Carleton University) gave a presentation entitled "2 + 1 Travelogues: Memories from the Empire of Japan".

On September 12th, 2012, UTCP hosted a public screening and discussion of Kamanaka Hitomi's documentary film Ashes to Honey. Following the screening, Kamanaka-san joined for a lengthy discussion with the audience, moderated by David McNeill of Sophia University, and Mark Roberts of UTCP.

On February 7th and 8th, I attended the Media Histories / Media Theories & East Asia symposium at U. C. Berkeley.

On November 28th, UTCP hosted a public screening of Funahashi Atsushi's documentary Nuclear Nation. Following the screening, Funahashi-san and Prof. Sato Yoshiaki joined for an in-depth discussion with the audience.

On May 28th, 2012, Professor Sandra Laugier gave a presentation entitled "Attention to Ordinary Others: Ethics of 'Care,' Vulnerability, and Human Security". Professor Laugier teaches philosophy at L'Université de Paris I, Sorbonne, and has worked as the deputy director at the Institut des sciences humaines et sociales (INSHS).

UTCP Booklet 23 has been published: Place and Space in Japanese Cinema: From Inside to Outside the Frame.

In this study group, we will examine some of the major topics and methods of twentieth-century critical and literary theory. We will explore and discuss a variety of critical approaches, situating them in larger debates, both historical and contemporary.

During summer vacation, young researchers at UTCP introduce themselves in the UTCP Juventus series. Today, Mark Roberts introduces his research interests and current project.

On June 22, M. Downing Roberts gave a presentation entitled "Modernism and Humor: Reflections on the Critical Cinema of the Shōwa 30s". Dr. Roberts is a research fellow at UTCP, and this presentation draws from his ongoing study of postwar cinema.

On April 26, 2011, Patrick Noonan gave a talk entitled “Being By Others: Cinema and Subjectivity in Yoshida Kijū’s Film Theory”. Mr. Noonan is a doctoral candidate at the University of California, Berkeley, and this talk was based upon his dissertation research. Many young international scholars joined the lecture, and participated in a discussion following the talk.

On December 14th, Michael Raine (University of Chicago) gave a presentation entitled Film as a 'Synthetic Art': Imitation, Copyright Infringement, and Masquerade in the Toho Film Musical. As a point of departure, Raine invites us to consider the theme of "deprovincializing film studies", not merely in the sense of exploring non-Western theories of film, but by recalling alternatives to auteurist and political modernist approaches to the study of cinema. This inquiry was developed through an intellectual exchange with Miriam Hansen, in particular around the concept of "vernacular modernism".

During summer vacation, young researchers at UTCP introduce themselves in the UTCP Juventus series. Today, Mark Roberts introduces his research interests and current project.

How has neoliberal discourse legitimated itself in Japan? How should we locate it as an historical and cultural phenomenon? What strategies may be fruitful for critiquing it? These are some of the questions addressed by Prof. Richard Reitan in this lecture.

On June 4, Jacqueline Lichtenstein gave a presentation entitled "La naissance de l’esthétique comme discipline philosophique" (The Birth of Aesthetics as a Philosophical Discipline). Starting from its appearance in Germany in the middle of the eighteenth century, Lichtenstein charts the importation of the notion of aesthetics to France, and its gradual acceptance as a philosophical concept.