International Kierkegaard Newsletter 1991

13 . Autumn 1991 ISSN 0108-3104

SÖREN KIERKEGAARD INSTITUTIONS:

Department of Søren Kierkegaard Research, Copenhagen University (N p 72):
For details of current and coming events/activities, please write to: The Department of Søren Kierkegaard Research, Institute of Systematic Theology, Copenhagen University, Købmagergade 44, 3. sal, 1150 Copenhagen K, Denmark.

Kierkegaard Library, St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota(N p 72):
Kierkegaard Library Summer Fellowships: free room and a stipend of $250 per month for board up to 9 weeks' study in the summer between June 1 and August 15. To apply, please send a letter explaining the proposed project with a cur. vit. to Prof. C. Stephen Evans, Kierkegaard Library, St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota 55057, U.S.A. Applications should be made as early as possible and not later than April 1.

SÖREN KIERKGAARD SOCIETIES AND GROUPS:

Australia:
There is interest in the formation of an Australian Kierkegaard Society. Any Australians interested in joining a Kierkegaard Circle/Society are asked to let me know. I will at once forward your names to two Australians who are taking the initiative in this matter.

Belgium:
Kierkegaard Werkgroep: at the Faculteit voor Vergelijkende Godsdienstwetenschappen, Wilrijk, Antwerp: (N p 72): Meetings (reading and discussion of texts and themes from Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling): 12.12.90; 30.1.91; 23.3.91; 30.4.91; 21.5.91 (at this last meeting also a discussion of how Kierkegaard should be read - methodology, hermeneutical criteria). Guest lecture 26.3.91: See under CONFERENCES AND LECTURES. First Autumn meeting: 15.11.1991: discussion of programme and business; book for the group's discussion: Johannes Climacus; reading on Kierkegaard's prayers. For further details of the Werkgroep please write: Secretary, E. Van Laerhoven, Faculteit voor vergelijkende Godsdienstwetenschappen, Bist 164, B-2610 Wilrijk-Antwerpen.

Canada:
The Kierkegaard Circle at Trinity College, Toronto (N p 72): October 1990: Vincent McCarthy: "Repetition's Repetition. Freudian and Structural Repetitions in Kierkegaard's Psychological Novella". Spring 1991: Anna Malkolkika: "Kierkegaard and Russian Literature".

Denmark:
Søren Kierkegaard Komiteen:
formand Jens Staubrand: (N p 72). Oplysninger om komiteens aktiviteter fra: Jens Staubrand, Søren Kierkegaard Komiteen, Prs. Maries Alle 16, 1. sal t.v., 1908 Frederiksberg C, Denmark.

Søren Kierkegaard Selskabet: (N p 72):
Lectures in 1991: 31.1.91: Ole Thomsen: Kierkegaard - en graeker med øje for det lette. 28.2.91: Bruce Kirmmse: Kierkegaard, jødedom og jøderne. 21.3.91: Niels Henningsen: Kierkegaard og Sokratesfiguren. 26.9.91: Isak Winkel Holm: Kierkegaard som idiosynkratiker. 31.10.91: Anders Moe Rasmussen: Kierkegaard i kontekst. En nyvurdering af Kierkegaards forhold til den tyske idealisme. 28.11.91: Niels Thomassen: Søren Kierkegaards begreb om lykke. Subscription: From 1992: 120 crowns a year; 60 crowns for foreign members and those outside Zealand; 25 crowns per guest ticket.

Finland:
Ilkka Tahko: "Kansainvalinen Kierkegaard-uutiskirje"; Teologinen Tutkimusseura, Helsinki; keskiviikkona, maaliskuun 6. paivana kello 17.30.

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Japan:
Søren Kierkegaard Society in Japan (Osaka): (N p 53): The Søren Kierkegaard Society's Commemoration Lectures, celebrating Kierkegaard-Studiet Nr. 20 and the Japanese Jubilee edition of Kierke- gaard's Samlede Vaerker, 5 May, 1991, in Kyoto: Shudo Tsukiyama: Nishidas og Tanabes filosofi i forhold til Kierkegaards eksistentielle taenkning; Tadayoshi Hayashi: Omkring Johannes Climacus-Papir; Masaru Otani: Metamorfosens dialektik i Kierkegaards "Krisen i en skuespillerindes Liv" - Fingerpeg til Kierkegaards religiøse konsekvens i sin forfattervirksomhed. Kierkegaard-Studiet: see under Journals.

Soviet:
Sovjetisk Selskab for Kierkegaard Forskning grundlagt efter den dansk-sovjetisk Kierkegaard-konference, Moskva, beg. december, 1990. Konferencen var blevet arrangeret af Undervisningsministeriet, Kulturministeriet, Udenrigsministeriet, Denmark; Konferencen blev holdt paa Moskva Universitets Institut for Historie og Verdenskultur. Bl. foredragsholdere var Finn Hauberg Mortensen og Jørgen Dehs. Konferencens foredrag udgives paa dansk og russisk, Slavisk Boghandel, København. (See also N pp 74 & 75).

U.S.A.:
The Kierkegaard Society: President: Stephen Dunning; Vice-President: M. Jamie Ferreira; Secretary-Treasurer: Mark Lloyd Taylor; Officers-at-Large: Merold Westphal & Stephen Crites (APA & AAR). Membership: $5 to: Mark Lloyd Taylor, School of Religion, Seattle Pacific University, Washington 98119, U.S.A.
APA Central Division Kierkegaard Society Meeting: In conjunction with the 1991 Central Division Meeting of the APA, Chicago, Palmer House, April 24-27, 1991. April 25. Chair: C. Stephen Evans; Papers: George Connell: "Kierkegaard, Trendelenburg, and Hegel on Movement in Logic"; Steven Emmanuel: "Reading Kierkegaard: Modern and Postmodern Approaches to the Pseudonymous Authorship".
APA Central Division Kierkegaard Society Meeting: In conjunction with the 1992 Central Division Meeting of the APA, Louisville, Kentucky, April 23-25, 1992. Ronald Hall: "Spirit and Presence: A Kierkegaardian Analysis"; Arnold B. Come: "Trendelenburg: Kierkegaard's Special Philosopher".
APA Eastern Division Kierkegaard Society Meeting: In conjunction with the APA Eastern Division in Boston, Dec. 27-30, 1990. Dec. 28: Chair: John Donnelly. Papers: Bernard Zelechow: "Kierkegaard, the Aesthetic, and Mozart's Don Juan"; George Pattison: "Subjectivity: Point of View, Language Game, or Form of Life?" Respondents: Ron Hall; Charles Creegan.
APA Eastern Division Kierkegaard Society Meeting:In conjunction with the APA Eastern Division in New York, December 27-30, 1991. Speakers: Robert R. Williams: "Morality and God: Kierkegaard's Teleological Suspension of the Ethical"; Martin J. Matustik: "Habermas' Reading of Kierkegaard: the Possibility of a Communicative and Existential Ethic".
Those interested in APA Kierkegaard Society meeting plans should write to: Prof. Merold Westphal, Dept. of Philosophy, Fordham University, 441 East Fordham Road, Bronx, New York, NY 10458, U.S.A. Kierkegaard Society at AAR November Annual Meeting: November 22, 1991, Kansas City, Missouri. Papers on The Concept of Irony. Papers: Robert L. Perkins: "'What a Hegelian Fool I Was:' The Influence of Hegel in Kierkegaard's Dissertation"; Vanessa Rumble: "Socrates Unbound: Irony and Personality in Kierkegaard's Begrebet Ironi"; Mark Lloyd Taylor: "Kierkegaard and the Sexual Politics of Irony". Respondents: Vincent McCarthy; Stephen Crites; Sylvia Walsh.

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