International Kierkegaard Newsletter 2002

No. 24 . October 2002 ISSN 0108-3104

CONFERENCES AND LECTURES:

DENMARK

Copenhagen University: Institut for Systematisk Teologi: 11.3.02, 15.00-17.00, vaer. 321, Købmagergade 44-46, 3. sal.: Wenche Marit Quist: projektseminar. Opponent: Henrik Vase Frandsen. Emne: Tid og eksistens. Tidsstrukturens faenomenologiske betydning for selvet hos Kierkegaard og Heidegger.

Copenhagen University: Church and Culture in Missiological Perspective. Special Programme in Contextual Theology for English Speaking Guest Students, August 15 - November 15, 2002, Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen. Introduction to Søren Kierkegaard, by Ass. Prof. Brian Soderquist. Contact details about this and the rest of the programme were available from: Jørn Henrik Olsen, Faculty of Theology, Købmagergade 46, 1150 Copenhagen K, Denmark. Fax: + 45 35 32 36 84; (email: jho@teol.ku.dk).

Grundtvigs Højskole Frederiksborg Kierkegaard-kursus (i samarbejde med Søren Kierkegaard Selskabet) 2.juli-8.juli 2002: Lidenskab og valg: 7: 'Slåbrokaften' - en praesentation af kursets medvirkende og Kierkegaards vaerker; 3.7: Kim Faurschou: Store og små lidenskaber; Studiekredse; Pia Søltoft: 'Valget' og 'den anden' hos Kierkegaard og Sartre; Henrik Rasmussen: 'At vaelge ikke at ville vaere sig selv'; 4.7: Birgit Bertung: 'Det lidenskabelige valg og lidelsen'; Studiekredse; Leif Bork Hansen: 'Lidenskaben - trådt i karakter i kirkekampen'; Koncert med Isabel Piganiol og Viggo Kanding; 5.7: Jacob Rendtorff: 'Valg og lidenskab - om Sartres Kierkegaard inspiration'; Udflugt; Studiekredse; 6.7: Viggo Kanding: 'Essentiel eller eksistentiel - 'Lidenskab har dog en underlig magt''; Bjarne Troelsen: 'Lidenskab og Ånd - om lidenskabs-begrebet i 'Skyldig?-ikke Skyldig?'; Peter Thielst: 'Det gode'; 7.7: Isak Winkel Holm: 'Lidenskaben Hos Kierkegaard og Kafka'; Lars Tjalve: 'Lidenskab og humor'; Festmiddag og afslutningsfest; 8.7: morgenmad og afrejse. 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

Grundtvig - Kierkegaard uge: Grundtvig Kierkegaard uge En Samtale på høje tid: 6.-12. maj, 2002. Byvandringer: d. 9. maj, 8.30-9.45 a.m. Lars T. Bjørn: Grundtvigs København; Joakim Garff: Kierkegaards København; Gudstjenester: d. 9. maj: Vor Frelsers Kirke, kl. 10.00: Niels Thomsen; Helligåndskirken, kl. 10.00: Niels Jørgen Cappelørn; & d. 12. maj Vor Frelsers Kirke, kl. 10.00: Mogens Hansen; Helligåndskirken kl. 10.00: Johannes Møllehave; 9.5.02: Vartov: kl. 10.00: Torben Damsholt; 12.5.02: Emmanuelskirken: kl. 10.00: Torben Damsholt. Hver af ugens aftner: musik, sang, oplaesning eller foredrag med relation til Grundtvig og Kierkegaard. Foredragene finder sted: Thorvaldsens Museum, forhallen, 6. & 7. maj; Borups Højskole, foredragssalen, 8. & 9. maj; Christiansborg, landstingssalen, 10. maj; Det. Kgl. Bibliotek, Dronningesalen, 11. maj; Glyptoteket, festsalen, 12. maj. Arrangeres af Grundtvig Akademiet og Søren Kierkegaard Forskningscenteret med støtte fra Kirkeligt Samfund, Nørgaard på Strøget, Nørhaven A/S, Viborg og Per Marquard Otzen. Prisen for ugen 500 kr. 100 kr. pr. dag. Frokost: 100 kr. Middag: 100 kr. Grundtvig Kierkegaard Ugen, Vartov, Farvergade 27, 1463 København K. Tlf.: 33 13 76 70; Fax: 33 73 00 95; Email: vartov@vartov.dk
Temaerne: Menneskesyn: Ordstyrer: Jørgen Carlsen: Niels Henrik Gregersen, Niels Jørgen Cappelørn, Ebbe Kløvedal Reich, Bente Hansen. Kristendomssyn: Ordstyrer: Jens Ole Henriksen: Theodor Jørgensen, Pia Søltoft, Ole Jensen, Sven Ove Gade. Kirkesyn: Ordstyrer: Inge-Lise Pedersen: Kim Arne Pedersen, Kresten Drejergaard, Leif Bork Hansen, Morten Kvist. Historiesyn: Ordstyrer: Knud Riis: Britta Schall Holberg, Ejvind Larsen. Politik: Ordstyrer: Ove Korsgaard: Peter Tudvad, Svend Auken, Kristian Hvidt, Marianne Jelved. Kunst, poesi: Ordstyrer: Fl. Lundgreen-Nielsen: Henrik Wigh-Poulsen, Joakim Garff, Hans Edvard Nørregaard-Nielsen, Sven Erik Werner. Søndag: Johannes M&oslassh;llehave. Aftenstemaer: Guldaldersang i Vor Frue Kirke: Københavns Drengekor, Ebbe Munk; O, dejlige Land i Vor Frelsers Kirke: Mogens Hansen, Jens E. Christensen; Henrik Dahl; Jørgen I. Jensen; Frygt og Baeven i Helligåndskirken: Niels Jørgen Cappelørn, Hans Ole Thers; Koncert i Dronningesalen, Det. kgl. Bibliotek: Kim Sjögren & The Mermaids. Tilmelding og information: www.sk.ku.dk./grundtvig-kierkegaard/ (Tilmelding ved April 1. 2002). Se også Claus Vincents: "Giganternes kirkemøde Foredrag i en hel uge om Grundtvig versus Kierkegaard" i Kristeligt Dagblad, 12.3.2002.

Jaegersborg Kirkes Sognegård: 30.1.02, 19.30: Pia Søltoft: Kjaerlighedens gjerninger. Om Søren Kierkegaards kaerligheds-taenkning. (I foredraggserien Kaerlighedens mange ansigter).

Krogerup Højskole: I kursus om Eksistens - tid, stadier og erkendelse: Leif Bork Hansen (17.7.02): 'At traede i karakter'. Øjeblikket som afgørelsen hos Søren Kierkegaard. (Se også Kristeligt Dagblad, 22.7.02, Danmark: Morten Mikkelsen: "Kierkegaard for alle aldersklasser").

Lyngby: Lyngby Sognegård, Stades Krog, 9: 29.1.02, 19.30: Leif Bork Hansen fortaeller om Søren Kierkegaard og Martin A. Hansen. (Se også Søndagsavisen, 27.1.02).

Naerum: Naerum kirke på Kirke Åsen: 19.2.02, 19.30: Joakim Garff: om Søren Kierkegaards velsignelser og vanskeligheder. (Se Søndagsavisen, 17.2.02: Garff om Kierkegaard).

Sankt Lukas Stiftelsen, Hellerup: Etik og kristendom hos Søren Kierkegaard. 1. - 2. november, 2002. Medvirkende: Arne Hvid; Pia Søltoft; Niels Jørgen Cappelørn. Oplysningerne ang. Sankt Lukas Uddannelsesafdeling programmer: www.sanktlukas.dk; (epost: uddan@sanktlukas.dk).

Selskabet for Kunst og Kristendom: 8.4.02, kl. 20.00, Kaelderkafeen, Købmagergade 44, Copenhagen: Ragni Linnet: Imago Dei - Kierkegaards skjulte Gud. Om Søren Kierkegaards forhold til den religiøse kunst.

Studentermenighed på Amager: 9.4.02: kl. 19.30: Hans Tausens Kirke, Copenhagen: Pia Søltoft: Kaerlighed og etik. Kierkegaard og Levinas.

JAPAN:

The Kierkegaard Society in Japan (Kyoto) held an annual conference on November 10th, 2002 at Campus Plaza Kyoto. Takaya Suto: On the complementarity of ethics and Christianity in Kierkegaard's thought; Masaya Honda: Getting Temporality --- the relation between Eros and Agape in Kierkegaard's Faith; Yoshiko Hosoba: Watsuji Tetsuro on Kierkegaard; Kiyoshi Ito: The Pedagogical Significance of Kierkegaard's 'despair'; Hiroko Ootoshi: Kierkegaard and Schelling on Freedom; Kazuma Tanaka: Books on Adler. (See the Society's website: http://kierkegaard.cs.kyoto-wu.ac.jp/).

UNITED KINGDOM:

The Søren Kierkegaard Society of the United Kingdom: One Day Conference on Kierkegaard and Modern European Thought (supported by the Philosophy Dept. University of Essex), Saturday May 11th, 2002, University of Essex from 10.00 a.m.
Programme: Rudi Visker: Kierkegaard, Anxiety and Contemporary Philosophy; (reply: Espen Hammer); Genia Schoenbaumsfeld: Sense and Ineffabilia: Kierkegaard and Wittgenstein on Nonsense and Paradox; Patrick Sheil: Forgiveness and Resentment: Kierkegaard, Levinas and Weil. Registration details: Barbara Crawshaw, Philosophy Dept., University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, Essex, CO4 3SQ. Email: craws@essex.ac.uk Ph: 01206 872703; Conference fee 10 pounds, students five pounds. Free to Society members.
Søren Kierkegaard Society: Dr. John Lippitt, Philosophy Group, Dept. of Humanities, University of Hertfordshire, Watford Campus, Aldenham, Watford, Herts., WD2 8AT. Tel: 44 (0) 1707 285682; Fax: 44 (0) 1707 285616; email: j.a.lippitt@herts.ac.uk
One Day Conference: 'Kierkegaard and The Stages': Advance Notice and Call for Short Papers. Friday 27th June, 2003, King's College London. Speakers: C. Stephen Evans; Hugh Pyper; Peter Vardy. In addition to the three keynote addresses, the day will include a panel discussion on the following thesis: 'Kierkegaard's Stages is the work of one who seeks to guide a reader to a personal understanding of penitence and faith.' Short papers of 10 minutes duration are invited on the defence or refutation of this thesis. Please provide an indication of your interest in presenting a paper, along with a brief statement of your proposed argument to: Dr. Murray Rae (email: murray.rae@kcl.ac.uk). To receive further registration details contact: Dr. Murray Rae at the above email address.

U.S.A.:

Howard and Edna Hong Kierkegaard Library: St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota: The Fourth International Conference at the Hong Library June 9-13, 2001, St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota. Hosted by the Hong Kierkegaard Library. 9.6.01: 2 p.m. International Advisory Board Meeting; 6 p.m. Opening dinner comments: James Pence, Howard V. Hong, Gordon D. Marino, Jamie Lorentzen, Vanessa Rumble. 7.30 p.m.: Opening Address: Alastair Hannay: Something on Hermeneutics and Communication After All; 10.6.01: Dissertation panels, moderated by Gordon Marino: Panel A: Brad Frazier: Irony and Moral Commitment: A Kierkegaardian Account; Rick Anthony Furtak: Truth, Love, and Falsity: Kierkegaard and the Stoics on the Reliability of Emotion; Rafael Garcia Pavon: The Concept of Contemporaneity in Philosophical Hermeneutics from the Dialogue between Søren Kierkegaard and Hans-Georg Gadamer; Nicolae Irina: The Ethical Implications of the Concept of Choice in Kierkegaard's Works with Particular Attention to Either/Or; Ulrich Knappe: The Problem of the Unity of Subjectivity: Kant and Kierkegaard on Selfhood. Panel B: Erik N. Lindland: Kierkegaard's Metaphysics of the Self with Particular Attention to The Sickness unto Death; Wenche Marit Quist: Human Being in Time - An Analysis of the Temporality of Existence with Continual Reference to Søren Kierkegaard and Martin Heidegger; Kyle Roberts: A Kierkegaardian Hermeneutics of Appropriation: Looking at Oneself in the Mirror of the Word; Marcia C. Robinson: 'Ars Divina': Kierkegaard's Conception of Christian Poetic Living; Joseph Westfall: Writing as the Paradox: The Passion of Søren Kierkegaard. Papers: Session 1: Presiding: Robert Entenmann & Paul Sponheim: Edward Mooney: Can a Glance Begin Our History? Mutual Reflective Recognition in the Constitution of Human Temporality (Commenter: Robert L. Perkins). Sylvia Walsh: Kierkegaard's Erotic Hermeneutics as a Proto-feminish Alternative to Hegelian, Nietzschean, and Derridean - Deconstructive Hermeneutics (Commenter: Wanda Warren Berry); David J. Gouwens: Kierkegaard's Hermeneutics of Discipleship: Communal and Critical Uses of Scripture in the 1854-55 Attack (Commenter: Lee Barrett); David Goicoechea: Kierkegaard's Leap out of the Hermeneutical Circle (Commenter: Ronald E. Hustwit); Session 2: Presiding: Anne Sabo & Gary Wicks. David Cain: Kierkegaard's Visceral Hermeneutics of Contemporaneity and Confrontation (Commenter: Marcia C. Robinson); Marius G. Mjaaland: Ars Moriendi: The Hermeneutics of aporia in The Sickness unto Death (Commenter: David J. Gouwens); Peter J. Mehl: Edifying Hermeneutics: Kierkegaard's Existential 'Method' and Its Limits (Commenter: Andrew Burgess); Christopher Simpson: A Way between Freeplay and Totality: Kierkegaard on Faith and the Other (Commenter: Andras Nagy); 11.6.01: Session 3: Presiding: Walter Stromseth & David Cain. Satoshi Nakazato: Kierkegaard's Thoughts and the Outlaw-Traditions: The Hermeneutical Approach to the Origins of 'den enkelte' from the Ideal History of Northern Europe (Commenter: Richard Nelson); Poul Houe: Communication between Two Ages: Kierkegaard, McLuhan, and Problems of Hermeneutics (Commenter: Stacey Ake); Matt Frawley: The Essential Role of the Holy Spirit in Kierkegaard's Biblical Hermeneutic (Commenter: James E. Loder); Alvaro L.M. Valls: Between Socrates and Christ: On Irony and Love in Kierkegaard (Commenter: Paul Muench); Session 4: Presiding: Edward B. Rogers & William Poehlmann: Brian C. Barlow: The Apocalyptic Kierkegaard, Or, The Dogmatic and Deconstructive Religious and Psychological Dimensions in the Thoughts of Petrus Minor and Søren Kierkegaard in The Book(s) on Adler (Commenter: Michael Plekon); Vanessa Rumble: Freedom, Nature, and Suspended Identities: Hermeneutics in Søren Kierkegaard and Paul Ricoeur (Commenter: Pia Søltoft); David Kangas: Conception and Concept: The Two Hermeneutics of The Concept of Irony and the Place of Socrates (Commenter: Timothy Polk); Claire Katz: Unraveling the Binding of Isaac: Reading Levinas and Kierkegaard on the Akedah [paper read by Daniel Conway] (Commenter: Sinead Ladegaard Knox); Session 5: Presiding: Bruce Kirmmse & Rick Fairbanks: Michael Plekon: Kierkegaard and the Holy Communion of the Eucharist (Commenter: Niels Jørgen Cappelørn); Andras Nagy: Angels, Present and Absent; Kierkegaardian Paradoxes and Their Reflections in 20th Century European Literature (Commenter: Søren Bruun); Sophia Scopetea: Direct vs. Indirect Communication in Kierkegaard (Commenter: Poul Lübcke); John Poling: Kierkegaard and Communication (Commenter: Greg Beabout); Session 6: Presiding: Richard Nelson & Amy Peters. K. Brian Soderquist: Irony and Morality in Copenhagen (Commenter: Poul Houe); Clancy Martin: A Common Mistake about Kierkegaard's 'The Seducer's Diary' (Commenter: Sylvia Walsh); Daniel W. Conway: Going Further? The Confessional Drama of Fear and Trembling (Commenter: Matt Frawley); Hiroko Otoshi: The Practice of Communication in Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling (Commenter: Edward Mooney); 6 p.m.: International Advisory Board Dinner Meeting. 7 p.m.: Spanish Translation Seminar, including a paper by Alvaro L.M. Valls: El Seductor Reflectido y Don Juan. 7 p.m. Special Presentation: Joel R. Smith: Workshop on Kierkegaard and Buddhism. 12.6.01: Session 7: Presiding: Carl Isaacson & James May: Leticia Valadez: The Esthetical-Religious Problem of Silence in Fear and Trembling (Commenter: Gordon Steffey); Patricia Dip: Faith and Communication in Fear and Trembling: The Paradoxical Function of Language (Commenter: John Lippitt); Tatiana Schitzova: Trying and Upbringing: Ambivalent Truth of the Ethical Communication (Commenter: Martin Andic); Andrew Burgess: Kierkegaard and the Classical Oratorical Tradition (Commenter: George Connell); Session 8: Presiding: John Poling & Charles Taliafero: Pia Søltoft: The Power of Eloquence: On the Relation between Ethics and Rhetoric in Preaching (Commenter: David J. Gouwens); Tonny Aagard Olesen: The Hermeneutics of Humor: Remarks Concerning Understanding the Postscript (Commenter: K. Brian Soderquist); David Possen: Anti-Climacus and Medical Maieusis (Commenter: Alastair Hannay); Poul Lübcke: A Defense of Moderate Anti-Intentionalism (Commenter: Alastair Hannay); Special Presentation: Niels Jørgen Cappelørn: Kierkegaard's Journals and Notebooks Rediscovered, Reconstructed, and Reedited: A Presentation of the New Scholarly Edition of Søren Kierkegaard's Skrifter. Session 9: Presiding: Michael Bielmeier & Corliss Swain: John Lippitt: Satire, Communication and the Ethics of the Comic (Commenter: Poul Lübcke); Ettore Roca: The Secret: Communication Denied, Communication of Domination (Commenter: K. Brian Soderquist); William McDonald: Indirection and Parresia - The Roles of Socrates' Daimonion and Kierkegaard's Styrelse in Communication (Commenter: Vanessa Rumble); Greg Beabout: Author-Personalities and the Task of Becoming a Person (Commenter: Noel Adams); Session 10: Presiding: Solveig Zempel and Vicki Harper: Lee Barrett: Only Some Things Can Be Said: Authorial Voices and the Limits of Communication in Kierkegaard's 'Signed' Literature (Commenter: Brian Barlow); Søren Bruun: Communicating a Self: Kierkegaard between Reality and Fiction (Commenter: Claus Andersen); Paul Muench: Climacus' Socratic Art of Taking Away (Commenter: Rebecca Jiggens); Darya Loungina: Loud and Silent Omissions of Philosophical Fragments: The Correlation of the Communicational and Philosophical Devices (Commenter: Bruce Kirmmse); 5.30 p.m. Dinner/Excursion on the Mississippi. 13.6.01: Session 11: Presiding: Jonathan Hill & Jack Schwandt: Kevin Hoffman: Suffering and Discourse Ethics in Kierkegaard's Religious Stage (Commenter: Jamie Lorentzen); Rebecca Jiggens: Revelation in Revocation: Contemplating Climacus' Philosophical Punchline (Commenter: Michael Lotti). Donald Fox: Kierkegaard as Preacher - An Unused Homiletical Model, "Proposed to this Age"; With special reference to the four published discourses which he "preached" before a congregation in a church (Commenter: Pia Søltoft); Dale Patrick: Divine Discourse and the Knowledge of God: Reflections on Philosophical Fragments and the Old Testament (Commenter: Wayne Marshall); Session 12: Presiding: Edmund Santurri & Carl Isaacson. Stacey Ake: Does God Exist or Does He Come to Be? (Commenter: Amy Peters); Simonella Davini: Art Beyond Aesthetics: Kierkegaard and the Communicative Form of the 'Experiment' (Commenter: Ettore Rocca); Noel Adams: How Is an Existence-Communication Possible? (Commenter: John Poling); Richard Nelson: Preserving Time: The Hermeneutics of Choice (Commenter: William McDonald).
The Ellefson Lutheran Heritage Lecture for 2002, St. Olaf College: October 30th: Speaker: Bruce H. Kirmmse: "What Would Luther Do? Reflections on Church and State" (Søren Kierkegaard and Dietrich Bonhoeffer).

Kierkegard, Religion and Culture Group: at the AAR Toronto Canada 2002 Annual Meeting November 23 - 26, 2002: Saturday afternoon November 23rd, 1.00 - 3.30 p.m.: David J. Gouwens Presiding; Theme: Sources of the Self: Charles Taylor and Søren Kierkegaard; Panelists: Edward F. Mooney; Stephen Crites; Marilyn Piety; Abrahim H. Khan; Responding: Stephen N. Dunning.
Sunday afternoon November 24th,1.00- 3.30 p.m.: Hugh Pyper Presiding; Theme: Kierkegaard and the Media; Edward K. Kaplan: Kierkegaard and Baudelaire: Empathy, Irony and the Religious; Lissa McCullough: Kierkegaard: Prophet of the New Media? Brian C. Barlow: Søren Kierkegaard, C.S. Lewis, and the Present Age: On the Literary Critique of Media, Culture and Character in Modernity; Responding: Amy Laura Hall. Business Meeting: Timothy H. Polk presiding.

Kierkegaard Session at the APA: at the annual Eastern Division meeting of the APA, December 27 - 30, 2002, in the Philadelphia Marriot, Philadelphia, PA. Kierkegaard session on December 28th from 5.15 p.m. - 7.15 p.m. Topic: Kierkegaard, Reading, and Interpretation. Chair: C. Stephan Evans. Speakers: Merold Westphal: The Many Faces of Levinas as a Reader of Kierkegaard. Norman Lillegard: Kierkegaard on Interpretation, Application, and Authority. Comments: John Davenport. The annual business meeting of the Kierkegaard Society held after the APA papers.

Wingate College, Wingate, N.C.: Robert L. Perkins: "Kierkegaard and Habermas: Religious Subjectivity, Postnationalism, and Multiculturalism"; paper given to the Baptist Association of Philosophy Teachers (BAPT) at Wingate College, 13.10.02.

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