"Introduction of Our Ars Vivendi Program"

Global COE Program for Ars Vivendi at Ritsumeikan University was recognized
by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in Japan
as one of the programs to be supported form excellent educational and
research base worldwide on June 15, 2007.

Dear all,

Now let us introduce our ars vivendi program.

Peoples' life is marked by various forms of bodily differences and changes that
they experience throughout their existence. It is an important moment of
solidarity and gift of people and the same time is made the reason of
antagonism. And it is difficulty of individual and is said risk and crisis of society.
So it is an essential part that makes and changes people and society. The
purpose of our proposed COE is to create a new study that we propose to name
"Ars Vivendi: Forms of Human Life and Survival".

For more details, please look at
http://www.arsvi.com/a/indexe.htm

We have held various kinds of events, such as the special public opening
symposium "Narratives, Trauma and Ethics: Welcoming Dr. Arthur W. Frank"
http://www.arsvi.com/a/200806e.htm
and the workshop on "From SARS to Bird Flu: Public Health and Animal Diseases
between Hong Kong and Guangdong"
http://www.arsvi.com/a/e2008ae.htm#1204

*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 also eager to promote collaborative research projects with patients'
advocacy groups, non-profit organizations, as well as domestic and
international researchers, apply for competitive research grants and conduct
research projects commissioned by governmental and private institutions.

[Ars Vivendi E-mail Magazine]
For Comments, subscription and cancellation of this e-mail magazine,
please e-mail TAE01303@nifty.ne.jp

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

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