Symposium

• December 16, 2006
  "Sacred Images:A Means Of Communication With The Hereafter"
• February 18-19, 2006
  "Death and Beyond: Dying with Willingness and Living with the Dead"
• November 26, 2005
  "Care and Self-decision"
• April 23, 2005
  "Life and Death in Confucianism"
• December 12, 2004
  Symposium "Consent and Decision concerning Life and Death"2nd section
  "Choices about Life and Death"
• December 11, 2004
  Symposium "Consent and Decision concerning Life and Death"1st section
  "The Philosophy of Facing Uncertainty:Epistemic Limits, Probability, and Decision"
• November 5, 2004
  "Learning from 'Beteru'"
• June 26, 2004
  "Perspectives on Death and Life and the Actuality of Providing Care" 2nd section :
  "The Clinical Aspect of Death and Perspectives on Death and Life"
• June 12, 2004
  "Perspectives on Death and Life and the Actuality of Providing Care" 1st section :
  "Issues of Care, Education and Culture of Living and Dying"
• May 16, 2004
  "Realms of the Living Reflected in Graveyards and Graves"
• November 28-29, 2003
  "The Co-Existence of the Dead and the Living"
• September 14, 2003
  "Perspective on Death and Life and Psychology"
• August 30, 2003
  "The Great Kanto Earthquake and Documentary Films"
• June 21, 2003
  "Death and Life Studies and Applied Ethics" 2nd section :
  "End of Life and the View of Death and Life"
• June 6-7, 2003
  "Death and Life Studies and Applied Ethics" 1st section :
  "Beginning of Life and the View of Death and Life"
• March 21, 2003
  "Visions of Afterlife in East and West: Art and Thoughts" (International Symposium)

Workshop

• October 2, 2006
  "La mort et les au-delàs II :
  conception et repreacute;entations de la mort dans les arts, la religion et la culture"
• September 26-29, 2006
  International Conference Series
  "Japanese and Asian Bioethics in Context"
• October 29, 2003
  "Bioscience and Spirituality -- a new approach to bioethics"
• June 4-5, 2003
  "Death and Life in Buddhism"

Special Lecture

• 30th June 2010�@
  Special Lecture: Biodiversity: What It Is and Why It Is Good?
• 10th April 2009�@
  �gThe 11th International Meeting of Hongo Metaphysics Club�h
• October 24, 2006
  Prof. Christian Steineck(Bonn University)
  "Japanese bioethics in a globalized world"
• August 29, 2006
  Prof. Rolf Verres(Heidelberg University)
  "Love, Transcendence and Spiritual Care"
• July 21, 2006
  Prof. Leora Batnitzky(Princeton University)
  "Levinas's View of Death and Its Relation to Judaism"
• June 15, 2006
  Prof. Peter Singer (Princeton University)
  "Changing Ethics in Life and Death Decision Making"
• June 12, 2006
  Prof. Bernard Faure(Columbia University)
  "The Jewel and the Sword: Symbols of Life and Death in Medieval Japan"
• May 9,10, 2006
  Prof. Nick Zangwill
  "The Indifference Argument"
  "Perpetrator Argument: Some Reflections on the Browning/ Goldhagen Debate"
• November 11-17, 2005
  Prof. John North(London University, University College of London, Department of history)
  "Death and Life View of Ancient Roman People and Its Transformation"
• June 30, 2005
  Prof.Neal Krause(Uehiro Chair in Practical Ethics at University of Oxford)
  "The Ethics of the Enhancement of Human Beings"
• May 31, 2005
  Prof. Julian Savulescu(Michigan University)
  "Religion, Aging, and Health"
• May 9, 2005
  Prof.Ann Mongoven(Indiana University)
  "Gift of Life versus Relay of Life: Implications of Organ Donation Rhetoric"
• April 8, 2005
  Prof.Iwao Hirose (Oxford University)
  "Aggregation and the Individualistic Restriction "
• October 30, 2004
  Prof.Waldemar Kippes&Werner Huth
  Prof.Werner Huth
  "Medical treatment and spirituality"
• October 14, 2004
  Prof.Roger Crisp
  "How to Allocate Health Care Resources: QALYs or the Virtues? "
• May 26, 2004
  Prof.Megumi Sakabe (honorary Prof., the University of Tokyo)
  "The Individualism of the Other --On the harukesa (or the farness) of life/death"
• May 25, 2004
  Prof.Allan Kellehear (La Trobe University, Australia)
  "Spiritual Care Debates in Western Palliative Care"
• May 18, 2004
  Prof.Alex Rosenberg (Duke University, U.S.A.)
  "Fitness, probability, and the principles of natural selection"
• April 8, 2004
  Prof.Grennys Howarth (University of Bath, U.K.)
  "Current Developments in Death Studies in the UK and Europe"
• March 8, 2004
  Prof.Peter Schaber (Zurich University)
  "The ethical problems of stem cell research"
• October 10, 2003
  Prof.Iwayumi Suzuki (Tohoku University)
  "Gazing from 'the World Beyond' -- Perspectives of Death and Life Embellishing iei"
• October 7, 2003
  Prof.Hugh Mellor (Cambridge University)
  "What does decision theory tell us ?"
• June 25, 2003
  Prof.Hillel Levine (Boston University)
  "From Plato to Ikiru"

Workshops of specially appointed researchers

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