"The Dawn of European Modern Art"

"Chaucer and Manuscripts with Attractive Miniatures"

Tomonori Matsushita (Senshu University)

"Vivid Emotional Expression - Rembrandt and Tronie"

Yoriko Kobayashi (Mejiro University)

July 14th & 15th
International Open Forum (Kanda Campus)

"The Universality of Language"

July 14th

"Generative Grammar Meets Language Typology"

Masaru Kajita (Emeritus, Sophia University)

"The Consequences and Problems of the Minimalist Program"

Shigeo Tonoike (Aoyama Gakuin University)

"Universal 20 without the Linear Correspondence Axiom"

Ad Neeleman (University College London)

July 15th

"Swiping and Related Phenomena in English and Other Languages"

Hiroshi Hasegawa (Senshu University)

"Topic/Focus Movement as Comment/Background Making"

Ad Neeleman (University College London)

"Typological Change in the History of English"

"Learnability and Change: Evidence from the History of English"

Ian Roberts (University of Cambridge)

October 19th-21st
International Open Forum (Kanda Campus)

"Introduction to Sociolinguistics"

October 19th

"Irish Accents of English"

Hiroshi Miura (Senshu University)

"Contemporary English accents and what they tell us about historical phonology"

J. C. Wells (Emeritus, University College London)

October 20th

"A Study on the Method of Experimental Phonetics: Linguistics Research from the Viewpoint of Audience"

Hakutoro Jyoo (Tsukuba University)

"Pragmatics of Politeness: Japanese Culture in Comparison with its Anglo-Saxon Counterpart"

Sachiko Ide (Nihon Women's University)

"Exotic Sounds: a Journey around the IPA Chart"

J. C. Wells (Emeritus, University College London)

October 21st

"From Truth to Trust: Development of Understanding of Intention in Verbal Communication"

Tomoko Matsui (Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University)

"Communication, Inference and Neuroimaging"

Kunihiko Imai (Emeritus, Tokyo Metropolitan University)

"Pragmatics determinants of English intonation patterns"

J. C. Wells (Emeritus, University College London)

November 3rd & 4th
International Open Forum (Kanda Campus)

"The World of Medieval European Literature - Italy, Germany, and England"

November 3rd

"The Quest for Elegant Ideas - The Project The Development of the Anglo-Saxon Language and Linguistic universals"

Tomonori Matsushita (Senshu University)

"King Arthur and the Supernatural World"

Kimie Imura (Ex-Professor, Meisei University)

"The Place of the Poor in the Piers Plowman Tradition"

Helen Barr (Oxford University)

"General Evolutionary and Typological Characteristics of the Germanic Languages"

John Ole Askedal (University of Oslo)

November 4th

"In Search of Decameron in Tales of Genji"

Sukehiro Hirakawa (Emeritus, University of Tokyo)

"Chaucer's Destruction of Troy"

Helen Barr (Oxford University)

"Germanic Passive Constructions"

John Ole Askedal (University of Oslo)

To From April 2006 to March 2007

To From April 2008 to March 2009