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================================================================== Ars Vivendi E-mail Magazine Inauguration Issue (December 24, 2008) ================================================================== "Introduction of Our Ars Vivendi Program" Global COE Program for Ars Vivendi at Ritsumeikan University was recognized by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in Japan as one of the programs to be supported form excellent educational and research base worldwide on June 15, 2007. Dear all, Now let us introduce our ars vivendi program. Peoples' life is marked by various forms of bodily differences and changes that they experience throughout their existence. It is an important moment of solidarity and gift of people and the same time is made the reason of antagonism. And it is difficulty of individual and is said risk and crisis of society. So it is an essential part that makes and changes people and society. The purpose of our proposed COE is to create a new study that we propose to name "Ars Vivendi: Forms of Human Life and Survival". For more details, please look at http://www.arsvi.com/a/indexe.htm We have held various kinds of events, such as the special public opening symposium "Narratives, Trauma and Ethics: Welcoming Dr. Arthur W. Frank" http://www.arsvi.com/a/200806e.htm and the workshop on "From SARS to Bird Flu: Public Health and Animal Diseases between Hong Kong and Guangdong" http://www.arsvi.com/a/e2008ae.htm#1204 *Please click below for more detailed information about our program. http://www.arsvi.com/a/index.htm http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/acd/re/k-rsc/ars_vivendi/english.html We are also eager to promote collaborative research projects with patients' advocacy groups, non-profit organizations, as well as domestic and international researchers, apply for competitive research grants and conduct research projects commissioned by governmental and private institutions. [Ars Vivendi E-mail Magazine] For Comments, subscription and cancellation of this e-mail magazine, please e-mail TAE01303@nifty.ne.jp General Editor : Shin'ya Tateiwa Chief Editor : Minoru Kataoka Publication : Research Center for Ars Vivendi, Ritsumeikan University 56-1 Kitamachi, Tojiin, Kita-ku, Kyoto, Japan 603-8577 |