12 – 5 p.m. Ytterboe Hall
Registration and check-in for residential guests
5 – 6 p.m. Kings’ Dining Room. Buntrock Commons, 3rd Floor
Registration and Social Hour for all participants
6 – 7 p.m. Kings’ Dining Room. Buntrock Commons, 3rd Floor
Opening Dinner
Greetings
James May, Provost and Dean of St. Olaf College
Gordon Marino, Curator, Hong Kierkegaard Library,
Professor of Philosophy, Boldt Distinguished Teaching Chair
in the Humanities, St. Olaf College
7:30 p.m. Viking Theater. Buntrock Commons, 1st Floor
Opening Address by George Pattison
The
Year 1838
George Pattison became Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford in January 2004 after two years of teaching at the University of Aarhus in Denmark. From 1991-2001, he was Dean of Chapel at King’s College, Cambridge. He is also a canon of Christ Church Cathedral. He has written a number of books on Kierkegaard, including Kierkegaard: The Aesthetic and the Religious and Kierkegaard’s Upbuilding Discourses. His new book, entitled The Philosophy of Kierkegaard, is to be published this summer. His other interests include the relationship between religion and visual culture, on which he has written the book Art, Modernity, and Faith as well as appearing with Sister Wendy Beckett on the television program “Pains of Glass.” He has also written about a range of issues in contemporary theology, the philosophy of religion, and the history of ideas. His most recent interest has been in the impact of technology on our habits of thinking, especially in relation to religion. This autumn Oxford University Press will be publishing the first fruits of this study in a book entitled Thinking about God in an Age of Technology.
Sunday
8 – 10 a.m. Continental Breakfast in Ytterboe Hall for residential guests
12 – 1 p.m. Kings’ Dining Room
Brunch for all participants
1– 5:30 p.m. Viking Theater
Dissertation Panels: Moderated by Gordon Marino
1– 3:00 p.m. Panel A
Tony Aumann, Indiana University
A Philosophical Introduction to Norman Maclean by Way of Kierkegaard’s Distinction
Between Fear and
Anxiety
Maria J. Binetti, CONICET [Consejo
Nacional de Investigaciones
Científicas y Técnicas] (PhD, Universidad de
Navarra)
The Power of
Freedom: A Study of Søren Kierkegaard’s
Thought with Special Reference
to the Journals
Jan
E. Evans, Baylor University (PhD,
Michigan State University)
The Formation of the
Self in Miguel de Unamuno’s Novels: A Kierkegaardian Reading
Book
Title: Unamuno and Kierkegaard: Paths to Selfhood in Fiction
Daniel Greenspan, Villanova University
Kierkegaard’s Tragic
Eudaimonism: Philosophy, Poetry, and the Therapy of the
Irrational
(with reference to Aristotle and
Sophocles)
Sharon Krishek, University of Essex
The Infinite Love of the Finite: Faith, Existence and Romantic Love
in the Philosophy of Kierkegaard
Jason Mahn, Duke University (PhD, Emory University)
Felix Peccabilitas: Fallibility and Christian Heroism in the Hamartiology of Soren Kierkegaard
3:00 – 3:30 p.m. Break
3:30 – 5:30 p.m. Panel B
R. Zachary Manis, Baylor University
Virtues, Divine Commands, and the Debt of Creation:
Towards a Kierkegaardian Christian Ethic
David D. Possen, University
of Chicago
Søren Kierkegaard and the Very
Idea of Advance Beyond Socrates
Bartholomew Ryan, Aarhus University
Kierkegaard’s Indirect Politics
Patrick Stokes, University of Melbourne
The Concept of “Interest” in
Kierkegaard’s Moral Psychology
Mark A. Tietjen, Baylor University
Practicing Edification: Kierkegaard’s Socratic Approach to the Virtues
Sophie Wennerscheid,
Nordeuropa Institut, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin
Desiring the Wound: Sexuality and Self in Kierkegaard
5:30 p.m. Dinner Break
7:45 – 8:45 p.m. Viking Theater
Julia Watkin
Remembrance Gathering
7:00 – 10:00 p.m. Kierkegaard Library open
7:15 – 8:45 a.m. Stav Hall. Breakfast for those on meal plan
9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Kierkegaard Library open
9 – 10:15 a.m. Session 1A. Viking
Theater
Presider: Greg Beabout, St. Louis University
1. Robert Puchniak, Drew University
Commentator: Lee C. Barrett, Lancaster Theological Seminary
2. David H. Hopper, Macalester College
If Kierkegaard Had
Read Calvin … A Theological Appreciation
and Critique
Commentator:
Curtis L. Thompson, Thiel College
Session 1B.
Dittmann 305
Presider: Anthony Rudd, St. Olaf College
3. Noel Adams, Marquette University
Kierkegaard’s Conception of Indirect Communication in “The
Dialectic
of Ethical and Ethical Religious Communication” of 1847
Commentator: Erik
Lindland, Depauw University
4. Jamie Turnbull, University of Hertfordshire
Indirect
Communication in the Notebooks
Commentator: Eric B. Berg, MacMurray College
10:15 – 10:30 a.m. Break
10:30 a.m. – 12 p.m. Session 2A. Viking Theater
Presider: David Cain, University of Mary Washington
5. Wanda Warren Berry, Colgate University
To Be the Truth:
Religious Existentialism and Søren Kierkegaard’s
Commentator: George Pattison, Oxford University
6. Marcia C. Robinson, Syracuse University
Commentator: Sylvia Walsh, Stetson University
Session 2B. Dittman 305
Presider: Steven M. Emmanuel
7. Lee C. Barrett, Lancaster Theological Seminary
The Significance of Doctrine and the Impossibility of Systematic
Theology in Kierkegaard’s Journals and Papers
Commentator: C. Stephen Evans, Baylor University
8. Kyle Roberts, Bethel Theological Seminary
Is the New
Testament Literally Regulative for Ordinary Human
Commentator: David H. Hopper, Macalester College
12 – 1 p.m. Lunch Break. Stav Hall for those on meal plan.
1– 1:45 p.m. Viking Theater
Presentation by Bruce H. Kirmmse, Professor of History at
Connecticut College, Chairman of the Editorial Board of
Kierkegaard’s
Journals and Notebooks
Kierkegaard’s
Journals and Notebooks: An Introduction and
Orientation
2 – 3:15 p.m. Session 3A. Viking
Theater
Presider: Brad Frazier, Lee University
9. Steven M. Emmanuel, Virginia Wesleyan College
Reading between
the Lines: An Interpretation of Kierkegaard’s Use
Commentator: Lee C. Barrett, Lexington Theological Seminary
10. Poul Houe, University of Minnesota
A Map of
Misreading: Kierkegaard’s JP Entry on Carsten Hauch’s
Drama Sostrene paa Kinnekullen
Commentator: Bruce H. Kirmmse, Connecticut College
Session 3B. Dittmann 305
Presider: Gary Wicks, St. Olaf College
11. Curtis L. Thompson, Thiel College
Eternal
Freedom Begetting Freedom: Reconstructing
Kierkegaard’s Dipolar
God
Commentator: David Cain, University of Mary
Washington
12. Clancy W. Martin, University of Missouri at Kansas City
Deception and
Self-Deception
Commentator: Robert L. Perkins, Stetson University
3:15 – 3:30 p.m. Break
3:15 – 3:30 p.m. Break
3:30 – 5:00 p.m. Session 4A. Viking Theater
Presider: Marc Robinson, St. Olaf College
13. Sergia K. Hay, University of Maryland
Johann Georg Hamann in Søren Kierkegaard’s
Journals and
Papers
Commentator: Michelle Kosch, University of Michigan
14. Darya Loungina, Moscow State University
The Idea of Temporality in the Journals of Kierkegaard and Tolstoy
Commentator: András Nagy, Hungarian Theater and Museum
Institute; Kierkegaard Cabinet, Budapest
3:30 – 5:30 p.m. Session 4B. Dittmann 305
Presider:
Sylvia Carullo, St. Olaf College
15.
Maria J. Binetti, CONICET [Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones
Científicas
y Técnicas], Buenos Aires
The “Book of the Judge”: The Importance of the Journals in
the Kierkegaardian Corpus
Commentator: Alvaro L. M. Valls,
UNISINOS [Universidade do Vale
do
Rio dos Sinos] Porte Allegre
16. Eric Pons, Université Paris I
Panthéon-Sorbonne
Papers Not Diaries
Joseph Westfall, Boston College
17. Vincent McCarthy, St. Joseph’s University
Questions of Kierkegaard’s Sexuality in the Journals and Papers
Commentator: Bruce H. Kirmmse, Connecticut College
5:15 – 6:15 p.m. Dinner Break. Stav Hall for those on meal plan.
5:30 p.m. President’s Dining Room. Buntrock Commons, 3rd floor
International Advisory Board Dinner
7 p.m. Viking Theater
Workshop on Kierkegaard and Buddhism
Shin Fujieda, Otani University, Kyoto
Kinya
Masugata, Mukogawa Women’s University, Nishinomiya
Joel Smith, Skidmore College
7 p.m. Norway Room. Buntrock Commons, 2nd Floor
A reading by Caroline Coleman O’Neill from her debut novel,
Loving Søren, told from the point of view of Regine Olsen,
published in May by Broadman Holman
7:15 – 8:45 a.m. Stav Hall. Breakfast for those on meal plan
9 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Kierkegaard Library open
9 – 10:15 a.m. Session 5A. Viking
Theater
Presider: Joseph Brown, Columbia Theological Seminary
18. Andrew J. Burgess, University of New Mexico
The Moravian Witness in Kierkegaard’s Late Journals
Commentator: Brian C. Barlow, Brenau
University
19. Alvaro L. M. Valls, UNISINOS
[Universidade do Vale do Rio
dos Sinos] Porte Allegre
P.W.
Lund in Brazil, S.A. Kierkegaard in Christendom
Commentator:
Robert L. Perkins, Stetson University
Session 5B. Dittmann
305
Presider: Eric B. Berg, MacMurray College
20. J. Michael
Tilley, University of Kentucky
The Possibility of
Community in Kierkegaard
Commentator:
George Connell, Concordia College at Moorhead
21. Karen D. Hoffman, Hood College
Nothing Ventured,
Nothing Gained: Reflection and Risk in
Kierkegaard’s Journals and Papers
Commentator: Steven M. Emmanuel, Virginia Wesleyan College
10:15 – 10:30 a.m. Break
10:30 a.m. – 12 p.m. Session 6A. Viking Theater
Presider: Rune Engebretsen, Concordia College at Moorhead
22. Bishop Per Lønning, Oslo
Kierkegaardian
Contemporaneity
Commentator: Andrew J. Burgess, University of New Mexico
23. Daphne Hampson, Cambridge University
Kierkegaard and Modernity
Commentator: Wanda Warren Berry, Colgate University
Session 6B.
Dittmann 305
Presider: Ed Mooney, University of Syracuse
24. Tonny Aagaard Olesen, Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre at
the University of Copenhagen
The Young
Kierkegaard on/as Faust: The Systematic Study
and the Existential Identification
Commentator: Leo Stan, McMaster
University
25. András Nagy, Hungarian Theater Institute and Museum;
Kierkegaard Cabinet, Budapest
“Numbers are
Unreliable”: The Role of Numbers in Kierkegaard’s
Late Journals
Commentator: Bruce H. Kirmmse, Connecticut College
12 – 1 p.m. Lunch Break. Stav Hall. All participants.
1 -- 2:15 p.m. Session 7A. Viking Theater
Presider: Ed Langerak, St. Olaf College
26. Pia Søltoft, Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre, University
of Copenhagen
Kierkegaard’s
Schleiermacher
Commentator: Richard E. Crouter, Carleton College
27. David Cain, University of Mary Washington
Converting
the Lecture to Conversation: The Dialectic of
Ethical and Ethical-Religious Communication
Session 7B.
Dittmann 305
Presider: John D. Spalding, Editor, somareview.com
28. Jacob Howland, University of Tulsa
Kierkgaard on Socrates in the Journals and Papers
Commentator: David D. Possen, University of Chicago
29. Ed Mooney, Syracuse University
Commentator: John Lippitt, University of Hertfordshire
2:15 – 2:30 p.m. Break
2:30 -- 4 p.m. Session 8A.
Viking Theater
Presider: Jason Mahn, Duke University
30. David D. Possen, University of Chicago
Kierkegaard’s
Relation to F.C. Baur Reconsidered:
A New Look at DD:75 and Thesis I of The Concept of Irony
Commentator: K. Brian Söderquist, Søren Kierkegaard Research
Centre, University of Copenhagen
31. Richard Purkarthofer, Johann Wolfgang
Goethe-Universität
Frankfurt
am Main, Fachbereich Evangelische Theologie
Some
Remarks on the Use of Kierkegaard’s Journals and
Commentator: Pia Søltoft, Søren Kierkegaard Research
Centre, University of Copenhagen
Session 8B. Dittmann 305
Presider: Robert Kehoe, Northwestern University
32. Erik Lindland, Depauw University
‘Marriage’ in the
Journals and Papers
Commentator: Paul Muench, Williams College
33. Mime Morita-Ikeda, Osaka Christian College
Re-reading of the
Relationship between Regine and Kierkegaard
from the Journals and
Papers of SK—A Feminist Interpretation of
Commentator: Grant Julin, Duquesne University
4:00 – 4:15 p.m. Break
4:15 – 5:30 p.m. Session 9A. Viking
Theater
Presider: John Lippitt, University of Hertfordshire
34. George Connell, Concordia College at Moorhead
Humor and
Pluralism
Commentator: Vincent McCarthy, St. Joseph’s University
35. Robert L. Perkins, Stetson University
Toward
a Kierkegaardian Politics: Readings in the Journals
and Papers
Commentator: Ed Mooney, Syracuse University
Session 9B. Dittman 305
Presider: Corliss Swain, St. Olaf College
36. Peter J. Mehl, University of Central Arkansas
Selfhood, Sociality and Spiritual Satisfaction in Kierkegaard
Commentator: Anthony Rudd, St. Olaf College
37. Narve Strand, Boston College
Neither-Nor
and Other False Dichotomies: The Problem of
Communication and
Choice with Reference to Kierkegaard’s
Papers and Journals
Commentator: John Poling, St. Mary’s University of Minnesota
5:30 – 6:15 p.m. Dinner. Stav Hall for those on meal plan
6 p.m. Free Time
Shuttles from Buntrock Commons (doors by parking lot) to
Northfield Bridge Square will run continuously from 6 to 7 p.m.
Bridge Square is in the center of downtown Northfield and there
are a number of local restaurants within easy walking distance.
Return shuttles will depart from Bridge Square continuously
from 9 to 11 p.m.
Transportation
to other destinations must be arranged privately.
7 – 10 p.m. Kierkegaard Library open
7:15 – 8:45 a.m. Stav Hall. Breakfast for those on meal plan.
9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Kierkegaard Library open
9 – 10:15 a.m. Session 10A. Viking
Theater
Presider: Leo Stan, McMaster University
38. Brian C. Barlow, Brenau University
Joyful Suffering: Religious
and Psychological Affections in the
Journals and
Discourses of Friedrich Scheiermacher and Søren
Commentator: Richard E. Crouter, Carleton College
39. Almut Furchert, Hochschule für
Philosophie, Munich
Thinking
through Suffering or From Trauma to Existence:
Commentator: David Vessey, University of Chicago
Session 10B. Dittmann 305
Presider: Jamie Schillinger, St. Olaf College
40. K. Brian Söderquist, Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre,
University of Copenhagen
The Truth and
Untruth of Irony—and Humor—in Kierkegaard’s
Early Journals
Commentator: David D. Possen, University of Chicago
41. Paul Martens, University of Notre Dame
Thoughts on Death and Suicide in Kierkegaard’s Journals:
A Live Option?
Commentator:
Rick Anthony Furtak, Colorado College
10:15 – 10:30 a.m. Break
10:30 a.m. – 12 p.m. Session 11A. Viking Theater
Presider:
Sergia K. Hay, University of Maryland
42. Sophie Wennerscheid, Nord-Europa
Institut, Humboldt-
Universität, Berlin
Emasculated Masculinity: Body-Politics in Kierkegaard’s
Journal Entries
Commentator: Celine Leon, Grove City College
43. Rev. Donald H. Fox, Pastor, Lower Coon Valley Lutheran
Church (ELCA), Stoddard, Wisconsin
The
Upbuilding versus the Upsetting—An On-going Internal Battle
in the Later Journals (1848-1855)
Commentator: Tamara Marks, Florida State University
12 – 1 p.m. Kings’ Dining Room
Closing Luncheon