Mar. 03, 2010
Place
Meiji University, Surugadai Campus, University Hall (8th floor Lecture Theater)
Co-host
The University of Tokyo Center for Philosophy
Takashi Sato (Seigakuin-University General Research Institute)
“The Jews in Berlin, the Berlin in Jews”
Kenji Kanno (Tokyo University of Science)
“Baghdad, Paris, Montreal – The Story of Naïm Kattan”
Mitsuharu Akao (Osaka University)
“Life in the Shtetl – an Epistemology of Space”
Moderator
Masato Goda (Meiji University: email – mg1957@kisc.meiji.ac.jp)
Lecture by Mr. Meron Benvenisti
“Jerusalem – City of Sacred Flames” (In English)
Moderator
Takanori Hayao (The University of Tokyo Center for Philosophy)
*Born in 1934, Mr. Meron Benvenisti is a political scientist from Israel who opposes Israel’s expansionist policies. He was Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem throughout the 1970s. He is the founder of the West Bank Data Project and the author of many books, including Jerusalem, the Torn City (1976), City of Stone (1996) and Sacred Landscape (2002).
