Past Lectures

This page gives you the detail of CISMOR lectures. We report on the past public lectures to return the results of our research to society.

As for closed meetings or workshops, click here for more information.
At the international workshop, a specific theme is discussed and studied in-depth with invited researchers from all over the world. Through these workshops, we hope to form a global network of researchers for the interdisciplinary study of monotheistic religions.

Date	Lecturer	Theme
October 17, 2009	Kazuko Watanabe	Contract, Oath, and Treaty in the Ancient Near East
July 25, 2009	Noboru Yamaguchi Kunihiko Miyake	Obama’s New Middle East Policy
June 27, 2009	Chikako Mori	The Issues of Islam among Youth of Immigrant Origins in French Suburbs
May 26, 2009	Hent de Vries	A Quest for the Universal Values in the Post-secular Age: Possibilities of Religion
February 28, 2009	Akio Tsukimoto	Myth and Religion in Ancient Mesopotamia: A Case of the Gilgamesh Epic
February 14, 2009	Yoko Hirose	The Recent Situation of the Caucasus: Focusing on the Political Movements, the Ethnic Conflicts, the Religions, and the Impacts of the Georgian War
January 31, 2009	Fumiaki Kubo Toshihiro Nakayama	Religious Factors in the 2008 US Presidential Election
January 24, 2009	Muhammed Al-Zeer, and 5 other speakers	Dialogue in Islam: Issue of Dialogue Adopted by Muslims and Future of Dialogue Efforts