"Toward Creative Linguistic Science in the 21th Century"

Lecture：What made the evolution of language possible?

Mariko Hasegawa (Graduate University for Advanced Studies)

Symposium：The Universality and Variety of Language

Heizo Nakajima (Gakushuin University)

Shigeo Tonoike (Aoyama Gakuin University)

Yasuhito Hosaka (Tokyo Metropolitan University)

June 17th&18th
Open Forum(Kanda Campus)

"The Origin and Development of European Literature"

June 17th

"Ariosto as a Terminal"

Megumi Amano (Kyoto University)

"Aeneis and Rome"

Hiroyuki Takahashi (Kyoto University)

"Dante and the Shaping of Poetic Rhythm"

Stefano Colangelo (University of Bologna)

"On Possible Relationship between Orlando Furioso by Ariosto and Shakespeare's Plays"

Arnaldo Bruni (Professor, University of Florence)

June 18th

"Ariosto as a Terminal"

Megumi Amano (Kyoto University)

"Aeneis and Rome"

Hiroyuki Takahashi (Kyoto University)

"The Song of a Shade ―A Reading of Purgatory, II―"

Stefano Colangelo (University of Bologna)

"Notes on Ariosto's Good Fortune in England in the Elizabethan Period"

Arnaldo Bruni (Professor, University of Florence)

July 2nd
Open Forum(Kanda Campus)

"The Origins of European Art: Renaissance Art and Gregorian Chant"

Tadahiro Ikegami (Kyoritsu Women's University)

Tatsuo Minagawa (Rikkyo University)

July 23rd
International Colloquium (Kanda Campus)

"Linguistic Theory and Child Language Acquisition"

"The Rise and Fall of the Isomorphism"

Andrea Gualmini (Assistant Professor McGill University)

"The Acquisition of Quantifier Scope Interactions in Japanese"

Tetsuya Sano (Meiji Gakuin University)
　　　　 Kyoko Yamakoshi (Senshu University)

"The Coordinate Structure Condition as a Syntax-Semantics Interface Condition"

Ichiro Hirata (Senshu University)

November 3rd-5th
Medieval English Literature at Oxford

"Medieval English Literature at Oxford"

Day 1

"The Inheritance and Development of Anglo-Saxon Language"

Tomonori Matsushita (Senshu University)

"Some Characteristics of Germanic Languages"

Tadao Shimomiya (Gakushuin University)

"Medieval English Studies at Oxford: from Tolkien and C.S.Lewis to the Present Day"

A.V.C. Schmidt
(Bradley-Maxwell Fellow, Senior English Tutor and University C.U.F. Lecturer at Balliol College, Oxford)

Day 2

"Chaucer and National Identity: his sensibility of English"

Hisato Ebi (Kobe Women's University)

"History and Literature"

Mikiko Ishii (Kanagawa University)

"Questioning the Chivalric -Chaucer, Langland, the Gawain-poet and the Morte Arthure Poet"

A.V.C. Schmidt
(Bradley-Maxwell Fellow, Senior English Tutor and University C.U.F. Lecturer at Balliol College, Oxford)

Day 3

"Germania, Beowulf and The Battle of Maldon"

Kazutomo Karawasa (City University of Yokohama)

"Making of Middle English"

Toshihiro Yoshino (Rikkyo University)

"The Four Elements as a Structural Idea in Piers Plowman"

A.V.C. Schmidt
(Bradley-Maxwell Fellow, Senior English Tutor and University C.U.F. Lecturer at Balliol College, Oxford)

November 19th
Open Forum

"The Attraction of European Art"

"Manuscript Art in Medieval Europe - Manuscripts at Senshu"

Tomonori Matsushita (Senshu University)

"The Attraction of Dutch Art - Vermeer"

Yoriko Kobayashi (Mejiro University)