FYI Colin ================================================================= Ars Vivendi E-mail Magazine No.71 (April 15, 2012) ================================================================= Academic year 2012 starts from this April and the Research Center for Ars Vivendi has the new dean, Prof. Nishi. He would like to deliver you the following message. With the adoption of our Ars Vivendi Program as a Global Center of Excellence (GCOE) Program by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Science, and Technology in Japan, the Research Center for Ars Vivendi of Ritsumeikan University was established on November 7, 2007. Our center pursued the sophistication and internationalization of its research activities using not only the grant of the Global COE Program but financial support from our university until March 2012, when the Global COE Program ended. From April 2012 our center restarts as one of the research centers within Ritsumeikan University, taking over the research accumulation, the network with research institutions in Japan and abroad we have had, and the collaboration with the graduate schools (mainly the Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences) within Ritsumeikan University. With this background our research center aims to deepen our research activities, expand our network, and transmit information concerning our research toward the rest of the world. Toward this fresh start, we newly set up the following four research themes: 1) modern history of ars vivendi (the art of living) 2) ethnography of ars vivendi 3) system / policy of ars vivendi 4) science / technology of ars vivendi I take over the director of our Center from Prof. Shin’ya Tateiwa, who was the director until March 2012. My specialization is comparative literature and during the age of “Global COE” I pursued the connection between ars vivendi and research of literature by focusing on “politics / culture of colonialism and minorities” and “terminal life in modern literature”. From now on I will be involved in 2) ethnography of ars vivendi. As director I will do my best not only to promote academic research of ars vivendi, which ranges from sociology / psychology to cultural anthropology / comparative literature but to secure outside funds. Your collaboration through research activities and your support toward our activities would be very much appreciated. Sincerely yours, Masahiko Nishi Dean, Research Center for Ars Vivendi, Ritsumeikan University *Please click below for more detailed information about our program. http://www.arsvi.com/a/index.htm http://www.ritsumei-arsvi.org/en/ We are eager to promote collaborative research projects with disabled patients' advocacy groups, non-profit organizations, as well as domestic and international researchers. [Ars Vivendi E-mail Magazine] For comments, subscription and cancellation of this e-mail magazine, please e-mail [log in to unmask] For past issues of our e-mail magazine, please take a look at http://www.arsvi.com/a/eme.htm General Editor : Masahiko Nishi Chief Editor : Minoru Kataoka Publication : Research Center for Ars Vivendi, Ritsumeikan University 56-1 Kitamachi, Tojiin, Kita-ku, Kyoto, Japan 603-8577 ________________End of message________________ This Disability-Research Discussion list is managed by the Centre for Disability Studies at the University of Leeds (www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies). Enquiries about list administration should be sent to [log in to unmask] Archives and tools are located at: www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/disability-research.html You can VIEW, POST, JOIN and LEAVE the list by logging in to this web page.