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.

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).

We held a series of lectures by Dr. Lisa Bortolotti (University of Birmingham) for five days from the 23rd to 29th of October 2010.

The first lecture of "Advanced Sciences and Humanities" was held at November 9, 2010. The speaker was Akabayashi Akira, who is a professor of Faculty of Medicine, the leader of UT-CBEL, and the president of medical ethics board.

Prof. Maria Giuseppina Muzzarelli's lecture "Christine de Pizan, Prima donna laica intellettuale di professione: tre temi" was held on November 5, 2010.

UTCP Seminar on Japanese Philosophy "The Aesthetics of Urban Wandering in the Essays of Nagai Kafū and Zhou Zuoren" was held on June 23, 2010.

Technology Assessment Seminar was held on May 28, 2010.

At Florey Neuroscience Institutes in Melbourne, 6 UTCP members and Prof. Neil Levy had talks at Workshop “Brain Science and Ethics” held on March 23, 2010. This workshop was the final event of the UTCP Program in Brain Sciences and Ethics.

The 4th BESETO Conference of Philosophy was held on 7 and 8 January, 2010.

On April 21, 2010, Prof. Jie-Hyun LIM gave a talk titled “Victimhood Nationalism in Contested Memories: National Mourning and Global Accountability.”

UTCP Workshop “Sustainability and Ethics: Towards Establishment of New Metrics” was held on November 10, 2009.

UTCP Lecture "Limits of grammatical arbitrariness in Wittgenstein" was held on Octorber 14, 2009.

Prof. Alain-Marc Rieu's Seminar Series "The Question of Technology Today" was be held on June 5, 2009 and July 3, 2009.

Eisuke Nakazawa will release the 3rd article of the UTCP Juventus 2009.

We published the eighth volume of the UTCP Booklet, Enhancement, Society, Humanity.

In seminar 5 of the UTCP Education Program "Brain Sciences and Ethics", we examine Moral Minds by Marc D. Hauser. In session 2 of this seminar, we discussed the second half of chapter 1 (pp. 32-55).

The 3rd BESETO (Peking University, Seoul National University and the University of Tokyo) Conference of Philosophy was held on January 10–11, 2009 at the University of Tokyo, Komaba Campus. The theme of the conference was “Philosophy in the East Asian Context: Knowledge, Action, Death, and Life.”

The first annual meeting of the Neuroethics Society was held in Washington DC on November 13 and 14 in 2008. Four UTCP researchers paticipated in the conference.

A Perspective on Neuroethics, edited by Yukihiro Nobuhara and Saku Hara, was published (Keiso Shobo).

UTCP Education Program "Brain Sciences and Ethics" starts a new seminar. In this seminar, we read Jesse J. Prinz's The Emotional Construction of Morals.