International Kierkegaard Newsletter 2001

No. 23 . October 2001 ISSN 0108-3104

CONFERENCES AND LECTURES:

BELGIUM: International Colloquium: Leuven - Antwerp, October 10th - 13th, 2001. Immediacy and Reflection in Kierkegaard's Thought. Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Hoger Instituut voor wijsbegeerte & Universiteit Antwerpen Faculteit Letteren en Wijsbegeerte. Papers: October 10, 2001 (Leuven), 14.00-16.45: Niels Jørgen Cappelørn: Introduction; Paul Cruysbergs: Must Reflection be Stopped? Can it Be Stopped? Short papers; Harvey Ferguson: Anxieties of the Present Age: Between Immediacy and Reflection. Oct. 11: (Leuven): 9.00 - 16.15: Heiko Schulz: Second Immediacy: A Kierkegaardian Account of Faith; André Clair: Penser l'immédiateté après la réflection. L'homme du stade religieux; Rudi Visker: Demons and the Demonic: Kierkegaard and Heidegger on Anxiety and Sexual Difference. Short papers; Jamie Ferreira: Immediacy and Reflection in Works of Love. October 12 (Antwerp) 10.30-16.15: Johan Taels: A More Primitive Thinking: Word and Speech Act in Kierkegaard; Arne Grøn: Mediated Immediacy? The Problem of a Second Immediacy; Karl Verstrynge: The Hysteria of Spirit. Immediacy and Reflection in Melancholia. Short Papers. Sylvia Walsh: Immediacy and Reflection as Gendered Categories in Kierkegaard's Thought. October 13 (Leuven) 10.00 - 14.00 Merold Westphal: The Role of Reflection in Second Immediacy. Short Papers. Debate (William Desmond (moderator), George Pattison, Robert Perkins, begonya Saez Tajafuerce, Ignace Verhack) Debate on the Actuality of Kierkegaard's Theories of Immediacy and Reflection. Conference supported by the Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek-Vlanderen, the Joseph Van de Wiele Foundation, the Raad van Beheer UFSIA, and the Danish Embassy.

DENMARK: Aarhus Universitet: Institut for Systematisk Teologi: Studiedag: 26.3.01: Joakim Garff fortaeller om sit arbejde med Kierkegaard-biografien SAK. Foredrag også af Pia Søltoft og Peter Widmannn. Jette Knudsen og Niels Jørgen Cappelørn taler om arbejdet fra manuskript til kommenteret tekst i Søren Kierkegaards Skrifter. (Se også Kristeligt Dagblad, 23.3.01).

Askov Højskole, Maltvej 1, 6600 Vejen: Joakim Garff: Søren Kierkegaards kritik af dannelseskulturen i Religion og livsoplysning, kursus 14. - 20. januar, 2002. (Oplysninger om kursus: Askov Højskole: Tlf.: 7696 1800; Fax: 7536 5441, email: askov@grundtvig.dk; www.askov-hojskole.dk).

Cinamateket og Studentermenigheden ved Trinitatis (www.danbbs.dk/~smk) Cinamateket, Gothersgade 55: 21.11.01, kl. 19.15-23.30: Don Giovanni og S&oslsh;ren Kierkegaard: Oplaeg ved Erik A Niel sen om Kierkegaards fortolkning af Mozarts opera Don Giovanni i Forførerens Dagbog. Efter oplaegget vises Joseph Loseys film Don Giovanni.

Copenhagen University: Kierkegaard på KUA. Blå Tirsdag: 3.4.01, 14.00-17.00 i Palmehaven. Arrangør: Institut for Nordisk Filologi. En eftermiddag om og med forskere fra Søren Kierkegaard Forskningscenteret. Joakim Garff: At tegne en nisse med den hat, der gør ham usynlig. Om velsignelser og forbandelser i arbejdet med 'SAK. Søren Aabye Kierkegaard. En biografi'. Pia Søltoft: Kierkegaards etik - et svimlende bekendtskab. Om bogen 'Svimmelhedens Etik - forholdet mellem den enkelte og den anden hos Buber, L&eacut;vinas og isaer Kierkegaard'. Johnny Kondrup: Tilbage til kilderne - og frem med kommentarerne. Om 'Søren Kierkegaards Skrifter' - en ny videnskabelig udgave af de samlede vaerker, journaler, papirer og breve.

Copenhagen University: Forårssemestret 2001: Øvelse: Pia Søltoft: Indføring i Kierkegaards pseudonyme forfatterskab (Ons. 17-20); Øvelse:Ulrich Knappe (for Arne Grøn): Kant and Kierkegaard on moral life (Man. 13-15); Kursus: Brian Soderquist: Introduction to Søren Kierkegaard (Ons. 15-17). See also under Søren Kierkegaard Forskningscentret above.

Copenhagen University: Åbent Universitet ved Det Teologiske Fakultet: Forårssemestret 2001 (Feb-Maj) Indføring i Søren Kierkegaards opbyggelige forfatterskab. Ons. 17.20; Kursus nr. 2002002. Det Teologiske Fakultet, Købmagergade 44.46, 1150 Copenhagen K.
Efterårssemestret 2001: Kursus nr. 727002-E01: Pia Søltoft: Indføring i Søren Kierkegaards opbyggelige forfatterskab (sept. - dec.), onsdage 17-20, Det Teologiske Fakultet, Købmagergade 44-46, 1150 København K. Kursus nr. 727009-E01: Joakim Garff: Søren Kierkegaard og dannelseskulturen (sept. - dec.) mandage 17-20, Det Teologiske Fakultet, Købmagergade 44-46, 1150 København K. Forårssemestret 2002 har også Søren Kierkegaard-studier. Oplysningerne om Åbent Universitet: tlf.: 3532 3667 eller 3532 3607.

Forum for Eksistientiel Psykologi og Terapi: Bjarne Jacobsen: "Søren Kierkegaard-krise ved somatisk sygdom": Københavns Universitet på Amager: 2.5.01, kl. 19.30. (www.psykologi.dk/eksistens).

Grundtvigs Højskole Frederiksborg: (IKN 230): Kierkegaard-kursus (i samarbejde med Søren Kierkegaardselskabet): Angst og kaerlighed: Sommerkursus 26. juni - 2. juli, 2001: 26.6: Slåbrokaften presentation af kurset og SK vaerker; 27.6: Kim Faurschou: Angsten ved hemmelighedens h(j)emmelighed, om angstbegrebet hos Freud og Kierkegaard; studiekredse; Judy Gammelgaard: Faldet - en psykoanalytisk diskussion af Camus og Kierkegaard; Joakim Garff: Biografens forestillinger om SAK, et causeri; 28.6: Kirsten Klercke: Angstens ambivalens og troens forsoning. Imellem psykologi og kristendom; studiekredse; Finn Frandsen: Con amore - om Søren Kierkegaard og den italienske filosof Luigi Pareyson; Katrine Lilleør: Din Cordelia - om fantasi og forførelse hos Søren Kierkegaard; 29.6: Pia Søltoft: Angst og kaerlighed; udflugt; studiekredse om Kjerlighedens Gjerninger; 30.6: Birgit Bertung: Angst og køn; Niels Jørgen Cappelørn: Angstens søde beaengstelse; koncert; 1.7: gudstjenesten i Frederiksborg Slotskirke; Jan Petersen: Kierkegaard versus Schopenhauer - SA vs. AS - Hvad kan den kristne taenker laere af den nihilistiske ateist? Skolen plejer at holder Kierkegaard kurser hvert år og de kan også kombineres med andre kurser som 14 dage kurser. Ydl. oplysninger: Grundtvigs Højskole Frederiksborg, Frederiksvaerksgade 147, 3400 Hillerød; Tlf.: + 45 48 26 87 00; Fax: + 45 48 26 89 49; email:info@grundtvigs.dk; internet: www.grundtvigs.dk

Helleruplund Sognegård, Sehestedsvej 1, Hellerup: Sognepraest Roar Larvik, Graested: Tredie temaaften Søren Kierkegaard, foredrag: Søren Kierkegaards nadverpraksis.

Holte: Aften om Kierkegaard: Joakim Garff: gaest på Hovedbiblioteket (Holte Midtpunkt), d. 5.9.01, kl. 19.30. (S&oslassh;ndagsavisen 2.9.01 Regionen rundt).

Kongens Lyngby: Foredrag: Lyngby Sognegård, Stades Krog 9, 27.3.01, 19.30: Sognepraest Leif Bork Hansen fortalte om en faelles eksistentiel problemstilling hos Søren Kierkegaard og Hannah Arendt.

Kongens Lyngby: Foredrag: Lyngby Sognegård, Stades Krog 9, 5.12.00, 19.30: Sognepraest Leif Bork Hansen Søren Kierkegaard og Sigmund Freud. (Søndagsavisen 3.12.00).

Sankt Lukas Uddannelsesafdeling: Sankt Lukas Stiftelsen, Bernstorffsvej 20, 2900 Hellerup. (Tlf: 3945 5200; web: www.sanktlukas.dk; e-post: uddan@sanktlukas.dk): 28.-30. september, 2001: Tidens mangel på ånd Hovedtanker hos Søren Kierkegaard: Tiden og kirken; Mennesket og livet; Lidelsen og håbet. Kursus på Refugium Smidstrup Strand med Arne Hvid, Niels Nymann Eriksen og Benny Birk Mortensen.

Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre, Copenhagen University: Research Seminar, August 16th - 19th, 2000 on The Concept of Anxiety - also on August 19th: a seminar on Kierkegaard and Schelling. At the University of Copenhagen, main building, Frue Plads, room 1.
Note that the Research Centre holds internal seminars with reference to Søren Kierkegaard every other Tuesday, 13.15-15.00 (Danish and English and some German). The Seminars are open to all Honours level students interested in Kierkegaard. The seminar consists of an hour's presentation by researchers at the Centre. After this there is an hour's discussion. Contact: Mette Skakkebaek, St. Kannikestraede 15, 1169 Copenhagen K, Denmark. Check with the Centre in the middle of February about current programmes.

Teologisk Forening: 30.10.01, kl. 19.30: Joakim Garff: SAZK -anti-humanismens taenker? Købmagergade 44, o.g., forsamlingslokalet. (www.teol.kudk/fak/nyheder/Kalendar/ar1p.htm).

Testrup Højskole: Kierkegaard og taenkningen i det 20. Århundrede: 1.7.01-7.7.01: Foredrag: Joakim Garff: Kierkegaards Biograf; Pia Søltoft: Den anden - Buber, Levinas og Kierkegaard; Jørgen Hass: Subjektiviteten som problem - Kierkegaard, Hegel og Heideggere; Hans Jørgen Thomsen: Hiin enkelte og det universelt singulaere - Kierkegaard, Sartre, Løgstrup og Derrida; Jakob Bøggild: Kierkegaard som kritisk teoretiker i praksis - Kierkegaard, Benjamin og Adorno; Johan de Mylius: Kunstneren og praesten. - Med ryggen vendt mod Gud. Tråde fra Søren Kierkegaard til Karen Blixen; Mogens Pahuus: Fra umiddelbarhed over refleksion til genvunden umiddelbarhed - et forsøg på en sammentaenkning af Kierkegaard og Løgstrup; Kjeld Holm: Kierkegaards betyding i en afkristnet verden; Ole Morsing & Peter Aaboe Sørensen: Den talende tavshed - Kierkegaard, Nietzsche og Wittgenstein; Bent Mikkelsen: At blive et Selv. Aftenarrangementer: Christian Bundegaard: Kierkegaard - Bundegaard Taenke, skrive, bede, pløje. Operauddrag af Mozart, Gounod og Wagner: Lone Rasmussen, Morten Frank Larsen, Jan Ole Christiansen. Ydl. oplysninger: Testrup Højskole, 8320 M'rslet; Tlf.: 8626 0355; Fax: 8629 4399; web: www.testrup.dk; email: testrup@testrup.dk

Vangede kirke: Joakim Garff: 24.10.01 kl. 19.30: om Kierkegaard og andre betydningsfulde teologer og filosoffer fra guldalderen. (Kristeligt Dagblad 19.10.01 Kierkegaard på programmet).

Videnskabernes Selskab, H.C. Andersens Boulevarde 35, Copenhagen: 5.2.2001, 19.30: Niels Jørgen Cappelørn: "Om Kierkegaards Vaerker og journaler - nyudgivet og kommenteret".

ESTLAND: Tartu Universitet: Seminar om Søren Kierkegaard, arrangeret i samarbejde med Skandinavistisk afdeling af Tartu Universitet. 5.12.00.

JAPAN: Kierkegaard Society: The First Academic Conference was held in the Autumn of 2001. Speakers: Shinich Tsuru: Le language comme un rapport a autrui --- Kierkegaard et Levinas; Ritsuki Miyata: Indirect Communication in Kierkegaard; Akira Miyata: Interpretations of Genesis 22 and Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling; Masaya Honda: The Otherness of the Neighbour in Kierkegaardian Faith: --- response to Levinas' Criticism of Kierkegaard's Religiousness; Takaya Suto: On the "Self-Love in Kierkegaard: Mamoru Yamada: Ishizu Teruji on Kierkegaard. See the Society's Website at: http://kierkegaard.cs.kyoto-wu.ac.jp/

Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre in Japan: Korea-Japan International Kierkegaard Conference, arranged by The Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre in Japan and The Søren Kierkegaard Society in Korea: November 27 and 28th 2000 at Kwansei Gakuin University, Nishinomiya, Japan. Main conference theme: 'Wareware wa Kyerukegoru Kara Nani wo Manabu ka' What should we learn from Søren Kierkegaard? Program: 27.11: 18.00: Opening dinner; 28.11: 11-12.20: Pyo Chai-Myung: Kankoku ni okeru Zeren Kyerukegoru (Søren Kierkegaard's Reception in Korea); Kim Yong-Il: Kyerukegoru no Jitsuzon-tetsugaku to Konnichi no Kankoku Kyokai ga kare kara Manabanakerebanaranai Kyokun (Søren Kierkegaard's Existential Philosophy and his Meaning for Christian Churches in Korea Today); 13.10-16.20: Symposium: 'Wareware wa Kyerukegoru Kara Nani wo Manabu ka' What should we learn from Søren Kierkegaard? Panelists: Hwang Philip (Korea); Kawakami Shoshu (Japan); Commentators: Kang Yung-An (Korea); Enokida Tatsumi (Japan). There were more than 250 participants. 7 professors from Korea including Pyo Chai-Myung.

KOREA: The Søren Kierkegaard Society in Korea. (See above under Japan).

LETLAND: 4.12.00: Seminar: Søren Kierkegaard: Seminar med deltagelse af Pia Søltoft og Joakim Garff, Velga Vevere, Mara Rubene. Kulturinstituttet Riga.

POLAND: Seminar: Søren Kierkegaard. arrangeret i samarbejde med Det Teologiske Akademi. 26.9.01, Warszawa.

U.K.: Anglia Polytechnic University: : One-Day Conference on Søren Kierkegaard, Cambridge, Feb. 24th, 2001. Stephen Mulhall: Abraham's Silence; George Pattison: Reading the "18 Upbuilding Discourses" Philosophically; Jonathan Ree: Becoming a Philosopher; Nick Walker: the Curious Case of Lessing and Kierkegaard. Location: The Large Room, Eastings Building on East Road, Cambridge. 1st paper at 10.30 a.m. Contact details: Dr. Katerina Deligiorgi, Dept. of Philosophy, Anglia Polytechnic University: (email: K.Deligiorgi@anglia.ac.uk).

The Søren Kierkegaard Society of the U.K.: Kierkegaard: Between Ethics and Religion. The second international conference of the Søren Kierkegaard Society of the U.K. Tetley Hall, University of Leeds, 5-8 July, 2001. 5.7.01: Welcome by Hugh Pyper; Daphne Hampson: Kierkegaard and Modernity; Merold Westphal: Levinas as a reader of Kierkegaard. 6.7.01: Panel session: Kierkegaard after Wittgenstein; John Lippitt: Exemplarity and moral perception in Fear and Trembling; Anthony Rudd: Warming up the cool place: Kierkegaard, Wittgenstein and D.Z. Phillips; C. Stephen Evans: Divine commands and a vision of the good: Kierkegaard and the foundations of ethics; George Pattison: Kierkegaard's Upbuilding Discourses: Between ethics and religion; Roger Poole: Half way between ethics and religion: the conceptual problem with John Caputo's Against Ethics. Please note that John Lippitt and Steven Shakespeare cease from office after July 2001. (See the Society's website: http://members.tripod.co.uk/Kierkegaard).

U.S.A.: Augusta State University: Kierkegaard Conference: Either--Or...Continental (or deconstructive) readings of Kierkegaard, (IKN 231): An International Kierkegaard Forum celebrating (untimely) Jacques Derrida's 70th birthday; at Augusta State University, Georgia, March 1-3, 2001: Papers: 1.3.01: Calvin O. Schrag: Either-Or and Kierkegaard's Ethic of the Gift; 2.3.01: Roger Poole: Reading Either-Or for the very first time; David Wood: Tales of innocence and experience: Kierkegaard's spiritual accounting; Pat Bigelow: "b b"; Elsebet Jegstrup: A Rose by any other name...Kierkegaardian Ironies; John Caputo: Either/Or, Neither/Nor, and Undecidability; 3.3.01: Mark Dooley: Begging for the Impossible: The Passions and Loves of Søren Kierkegaard and Jacques Derrida; Vanessa Rumble: Love and difference: the either-or of Kierkegaard's Works of Love; Joakim Garff: The aesthetic is altogether my element; Richard Kearney: Imagination and Desire in Either/Or. Sponsored by Augusta State University and the Georgia Continental Philosophy Circle. Coordinator: Elsebet Jegstrup. http://www.aug.edu/~hishpv/Kierkegaard.html; email: jegstrup@aug.edu

Howard and Edna Hong Kierkegaard Library: St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota: The Fourth International Kierkegaard Conference 2001, June 9-13, 2001: A Symposium sponsored by the Howard V. and Edna H. Hong Kierkegaard Library, St. Olaf College. June 9-13. Papers, themes: Kierkegaards views on and /or practice of communication. Kierkegaard and hermeneutics broadly defined (including his own hermeneutics and exploration of his connection with the hermeneutical tradition). Keynote address; Papers; Dissertation panel. Seminario Iberoamericana: Escritos de Søren Kierkegaard (Spanish Translation Seminar) theme: vols. 2 & 3 of Escritos, O bien o bien I and II. June 9: 7.30 p.m. Keynote speaker: Alastair Hannay. June 10: 10 a.m. - noon Spanish translation seminar; 2 - 4.30 p.m. Dissertation research presentations and comments. June 11: 9 a.m. to noon & 2 - 5 p.m. papers on Communication and/or Hermeneutics; 7 p.m. Spanish translation seminar. June 12: 10 a.m. - noon Spanish translation seminar; 2 - 4.30 p.m. Dissertation research presentations and comments; 7 p.m. Papers. June 13: 8.30 - noon: papers.
Call for papers, commentators and dissertation panelists: contact Gordon D. Marino, marino@stolaf.edu To participate in the seminar contact Begonya Saez Tajafuerce: email: bsaez@seneca.uab.es
Conference information: Cynthia Lund lundc@stolaf.edu Online registration and information www.stolaf.edu/services/conferences/kierkegaard

Kierkegaard, Religion and Culture Group at the AAR Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado, November 17-20, 2001. Three sessions of the Kierkegaard, Religion and Culture Group: Nov. 17: 1 - 3.30 p.m. Setting the Self and Other in Context: papers: Stacey Ake, Vanessa Rumble, Avron Kulak, Helene Tallon Russell. Eric Ziolkowski in chair. Respondents Stephen Dunning and Mark Wallace.
Nov. 18, 1-3.30: The Challenge of The Moment: Kierkegaard on Faith and Religion. Papers: Brian Barlow, Donald Dayton, Christian Collins Winn, Wanda Warren Berry. Chair Lissa McCullough. Respondent, Lee Barrett. Following this session Sylvia Walsh presiding at the group's business meeting.
Nov. 19: 1 p.m.-3.30 p.m the Kierkegaard, Religion and Culture Group and the Theology and Religious Reflection Section co-hosting a panel discussion - theme: Kierkegaard and Postnationalism. Panelists Patricia Huntington, Robert L. Perkins, Gary M. Simpson. Chair, Paul F. Lakeland. Respondent: Martin J. Beck Matustik.

Nineteenth-Century Theology Group, at the AAR Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado, November 17-20, 2001. November 18: During session: 9.00-11.30 a.m.: Craig Q. Hinkson: Kierkegaard, Socrates, and the Maieutic Art.

The Society for Philosophy of Religion: 72nd Annual Meeting, 22-24 February, 2001, Hilton Ocean Front Resort Hotel, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina: 22.2, 9.00-10.30 a.m. (Chair: James F. Harris): Dewi Z. Phillips: "Kierkegaard and Loves that Blossom"; commentator: M. Jamie Ferreira.

WALES: British Comparative Literature Association, Ninth International Conference, Swansea University, July 23-26, 2001. Abrahim Khan (University of Trinity College, Toronto, Ontario, Canada): Kierkegaard on Money and Mercy.

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