The report is in Japanese only.

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.

Commentary of 「Shisō to shite no Gengo」 written by Takahiro Nakajima, Professor of Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia and UTCP

The report is in Japanese only.

This report is in Japanese only.

Report on the final day (22nd March 2017)

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Report on 17th March 2017

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Report on 14th March 2017

The World Consortium for Research on Confucian Cultures (WCRCC), an academic body dedicated to fostering the collaboration among international scholars on Confucian cultures and their application to real social practices, had the second meeting at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University – Ho Chi Minh City, on July 23 to 28, 2016.

The 11th East-West Philosophers’ Conference was held at the University of Hawaii, Manoa, between May 24 and 31, 2016.

2016年1月9日，由臺灣國立政治大學（NCCU）與東京大學（UTCP）共同主催的“《大乘起信論》與主體性：近代東亞哲學的形成與論爭”國際學術會議在東京大學東洋文化研究所順利舉行。

On 24 July 2015, Mr Kyle Peters from he University of Chiago gave the presentation "Beyond Authorial Death: Nishida Kitarō and the Self-Determination of the Author" at UTCP.

There was a workshop “Conceptual and Intellectual History: Recent Trends in East Asian Studies” at Asien-Afrika-Institut, Hamburg University on July 17–18, 2015.

The book Zhuangzi and the Happy Fish, edited by Roger Ames and Takahiro Nakajima, was published from University of Hawaii Press.

This is the report written by Ms. Chenyu Yao. This report shows how the lectures on 14th was given by Professor Takahiro Nakajima and Professor Roger Ames.

On 10th August, we had the first keynote lecture by professor Peter Hershock from University of Hawai'i, at Manoa. The next day, we went for the Halapepenui Trail hike with Dr. Sam Gon III. In this blog, these lecture and activity are reported by Ms. Yui Fujita.

The third week of the seminar was a one-week trip from Kanazawa to Tottori. On August 18th, we visited D.T. Suzuki Museum near Kanazawa city, and moved to Nishida Kitaro Museum in Ishikawa prefecture, where these two outstanding figures in modern Japanese philosophy were born. Ms. Rui's report is mostly about the lectures and experiences we had at the two Museums.

On August 14th, at the halfway of the three weeks seminar, we had an exciting lecture by professor Yasunari TAKADA at Komaba. The report written by Ms. Amakawa will tell us how Mr. Takada addressed the question that may make you feel awkward --"How to be a Perfect Japanese".

We published the first volume of UTCP-Uehiro Booklet, Papers from the 2012 University of Tokyo-University of Hawai'i Summer Residential Institute in Comparative Philosophy, co-edited by Roger T. AMES, Masato ISHIDA, Takahiro NAKAJIMA and Shinji KAJITANI.

On April 16th, 2013, UTCP invited Dr. Julia Jansen, University College Cork.

On February 22, 2013, an Asian Philosophy Forum workshop by Professor Yong Huang (Professor, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, Chinese Philosophy) and Professor John Tucker (Professor, East Carolina University, Japanese Philosophy) was held. Professor Tsuyoshi ISHII (UTCP) presided the workshop and MOON Kyungnam (UTCP) spoke as a commentator.

On February 15, 2013, Professor Rein Raud (Professor, the University of Helsinki) gave a presentation entitled "Rethinking Dōgen" at Komaba Campus.

NAKAJIMA Takahiro won the 25th prize of The Watsuji Prize for Culture by Praxis of Co-existence: State and Religion.

On November 17, 2012, a workshop entitled "Asian Philosophy Forum Workshop: Whither Chinese Philosophy?" was held. We, UTCP, invited Professor John Makeham who is a Professor at Australian National University and Dr. Fabian Heubel who is an Associate Research Fellow at Academia Sinica. Professor Tsuyoshi Ishii from UTCP moderated it, and Professor Takahiro Nakajima from UTCP and I, Kazuya Kawase, spoke as commentators there. This workshop was a stimulating experience for me, since I usually study Hegelian not Chinese philosophy.

Ravishing scenery, fresh breeze and gentle rain we had experienced during the past 10 days perfected the summer institute together with conflicting philosophical ideas. Now we have come to the last two days of the second week. Here is the report of August 9th and 10th.

On June 29, 2012, Dr. Zhong Yijiang gave a presentation entitled "Freedom, Religion and the Making of the Modern Japanese State" at Komaba Campus.

The Uehiro Research Division for Philosophy of Co-existence Opening Symposium "Ethics in Change" was held at the University of Tokyo on 16 June 2012. The symposium addressed the idea of co-existence between human beings, between human beings and nature, between human beings and technology, and between science and humanities. It brought these concepts together in a novel philosophical approach that encouraged an enthusiastic and fruitful discussion, a discussion that inspired deeper thought in this subject area, yet traversed the multitude of ideas with ease. Associate Professor Shinji Kajitani (University of Tokyo) was the leading moderator of the symposium.

We published the tenth volume of Collection UTCP, Practicing Philosophy between China and Japan, written by NAKAJIMA Takahiro.

A group of members from UTCP and the University of Tokyo attended the Tenth East-West Philosophers’ Conference (May 16-24, 2011) held by the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa and the East-West Center.

UTCP Symposium "Philosophy of Catastrophe" was held on April 15, 2011. We examined what we should do as philosophers in the face of the catastrophe which occurred on March 11, 2011 (The Great East Japan Earthquake).

“Asia Without Borders Ⅲ” was held at Yonsei University in Seoul between October 8 and 10, 2010.

On August 25th and 26th, a group of members from UTCP and the University of Tokyo attended ICCT Workshop “Rethinking Enlightenment in Global and Historical Contexts,” which was held at Peking University in Beijing, China.

中岛隆博氏《解构与重建——中国哲学的可能性》作为UTCP Collection 8于2010年3月出版。

Thanks to Professor Masayuki Sato (National Taiwan University)’s initiative, an international conference was held on March 20 and 21 at Harvard Yenching Institute, Cambridge, MA.

1月11日，来自东京大学、纽约大学和北京大学的人文学科教授在北京大学中文系举行了主题为“全球化时代的人文科学反思”的三边学术交流与合作恳谈会。会谈由中文系党委书记蒋朗朗主持，北京大学常务副校长林建华出席会谈并发言，东京大学哲学中心主任小林康夫教授和纽约大学中国中心主任、东亚研究系系主任张旭东教授也分别代表东京大学和纽约大学表达了对三方建立可持续性合作关系的设想和建议。

The conference was held between 14th and 16th December at Fudan University, Shanghai, co-hosted by National Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies of Fudan University, Modern East Asia Research Centre (MEARC) of Leiden University, and UTCP.

On November 13, the graduate symposium “Techniques of the Image” was held at McGill University in Montreal.

Here is a documentary film (directed by Yuji Nishiyama) on UTCP activities in Argentina in 2008.

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.

Takahiro Nakajima published Zhuangzi from Iwanami Shoten Publishers.

Here are published Frontiers of Janapese Philosophy 4: Facing the 21st Century (edited by LAM Wing-Keung and CHEUNG Ching-yuen, Nanzan Institute for Religion & Culture, Nagoya, 2009).

Takahiro Nakajima's new book Philosophy was published as a volume of a "Humanities" series (Iwanami Shoten).

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

On March 30th, a group of students from UTCP and Tokyo University, together with Prof. Nakajima, attended the symposium "Co-existence and Cultural Spheres: French Philosophy in Asia", which was held at the Academia Sinica in Taipei, Taiwan. I’d like to share here some my impressions of this event, based both on my own experience and on the impressions I received from my co-participants.

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.

On November 28th, Professor Michael Marra (UCLA) delivered a lecture titled ‘Aesthetic Categories: Past and Present’ as a UTCP seminar on Japanese Philosophy.

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

International Conference of “Envisioning Japanese and Chinese Philosophical Potentials in the 21st Century” was held in Hong Kong at December 13 and 14, 2008. Thanks to the great effort by two young colleagues in Hong Kong, LAM Wing Keung and CHEUNG Ching-yuen, this epoch-making conference was realized. This conference had an ambitious challenge to start a new type of study on Japanese Philosophy: to put the study on Japanese Philosophy in an international context and ask actual problematic through re-reading of Japanese Philosophy.

2008年10月1－3日，在有“南美的瑞士”之称的巴利洛切召开了第九届国际哲学会议“元哲学”。UTCP的分组会“亚洲思考的多种可能性——另一种元哲学”于2日举行，小林康夫、中岛隆博、西山雄二进行了发表。（会议主持人：弗兰西斯科•纳西塔德）

We published the fourth volume of the UTCP Booklet, Utopia: Here and There.

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。

Thanks to Professor Graham Parkes, UTCP had a chance to collaborate with scholars at University of Hawaii.

On April 11, we held a seminar by Mr. Muhammad Salleh (the Malaysian poet). The seminar was titled "Possibilities and Functions of Poetry." This is our first event of the new academic year.

The workshop started with Yasuo Kobayashi’s opening remarks on the problematic of “the epoch”.

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.

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

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.

A Conference “Asia without borders: Rethinking History, Anthropology and Politics” was held on 18th and 19th January, 2008 in Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi.

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.

This is a report from Leiden, the Netherland. The workshop “Marxism and Japanese Ideology: Takeuchi and Tosaka” was held at MEARC, Leiden University in November 16, 2007.

In May, a little before the launching of the new UTCP we discussed Benjamin in Shanghai under the title “Metropolis and Cultural Theory”. This vortex produced a new vortex and a letter from Luo Gang (East China Normal University) and Zhang Xudong (New York University) promoting further international exchange, research and education came to UTCP.

今年秋天开始展开工作的全球COE“求索共生的国际哲学教育研究中心（UTCP）”的启动研讨会于10月21日（日）在东京大学驹场校区举行。

We had the opening symposium of the UTCP on October 21. Below is a summary of the report originally written in Japanese.