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Ars Vivendi E-mail Magazine No.45 (March 31, 2011) ================================================================= We, Global COE Program Ars Vivendi, would like to let you know the following five news. 1) We have just made an English-version page of The Great East Japan Earthquake. http://www.arsvi.com/d/d102011-e.htm 2) We have made an English-version page of Sociology of "Social Support": Thoughts that Face the Fields. http://www.arsvi.com/b2000/0811sh-e.htm 3) Our student, Heekyoung Chong, visited the Research and Training Center on Independent Living in the U.S. in February to learn about independent living for people with disabilities in the United States. The organization's homepage introduces her visit. http://www.rtcil.org/international/HeekyoungChong.shtml 4) Our Center's website will be relaunched as of April 1, 2011. We will let you know its URL tomorrow. 5) Our program members have conducted various kinds of global research activities. The following is the brief report written by Professor Paul Dumouchel. March 9, 2011 During my stay in France, since January 16 I have been doing essentially two things. The most important is research on a project funded by Paris Advanced Studies Institute (Institut des Études Avancées de Paris or IEA Paris) on the early history of French psychiatry especially on the relationship between Pinel and Esquirol. In consequence much of my time has been spent in libraries consulting ancient manuscript. Mostly so far I visited the Library of History of Medicine in the Paris Faculty of medicine which has manuscripts on medicine all the way from 1534. I have now pretty much found all that could there and will from now on consult the French National Library (bibliothéque François Mitterand) and archives at the Salpétriere hospital. Apart from that I spent quite a bit of time giving conferences to promote my new book Le sacrifice inutile that just came out in France. This brought me to give conferences not only in France but also in the Netherlands and I am leaving today for Italy to promote both the book and the Italian translation of my first book which just came out under the title the Economies of Envy. Paul Dumouchel *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 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 TAE01303@nifty.ne.jp For past issues of our e-mail magazine, please take a look at http://www.arsvi.com/a/eme.htm 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 |