Outlines

In the fiscal year 2002, a new 21st century COE program "Construction of Death and Life Studies Concerning Culture and Value of Life" was inaugurated and it is a program mostly consisted of disciplines in the Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology at the University of Tokyo participate as major members.

• purpose of the program

Our program is devided into four sections .

• Section1 :
  Re-thinking Death and Life Studies from the Perspective of Practical Philosophy
• Section2 :
  Images and Perspectives on Death and Life
• Section3 :
  Civilization and Values Concerning the Perspectives of Death and Life
• Section4 :
  Investigation of the Perspective of Human Beings as an Expression of Life Activities

Main activities of our program are as follows.The concrete contents of these activities should be introduced at each page of this website.

1. planning and managing symposium, workshop, special lecture, etc.
2. holding workshops of death and life studies by specially appointed researchers
3. publishing journals, booklets and newsletters, etc.

Some young scholars and students work in our program as "specially appointed researchers" and "assistants". They regularly hold workshops about Death and Life studies, and are in charge of various work such as management of symposium and editing booklets.

• specially appointed researchers & assistants

Our program stands as an expansion of "The Program of Applied Ethics Studies" which was established in 2002. We hope to corporate and support each other through interpersonal and organizational efforts.

• The Program of Applied Ethics Studies