International Kierkegaard Newsletter 1998

No. 20 . October 1998 ISSN 0108-3104

CONFERENCES AND LECTURES:

DENMARK:
Copenhagen University: Faculty of Theology: : Church and Culture in the 20th Century: Special Programme in Contextual Theology for English-Speaking Guest Students, Autumn Term, 1998: Orientation course: Pia Søltoft:
Introduction to the Theology of Søren Kierkegaard with emphasis on the ethical and religious aspect. For details of the entire course which is run as a regular programme of the university, contact: Programme coordinator Hans Raun Iversen, Faculty of Theology, Købmagergade 46, 1150 Copenhagen K, Denmark.
Copenhagen University: Institut for Systematisk Teologi: efterårssemestret, 1998: Søren Kierkegaard-Kurser: Etik og religionsfilosofi: Pia Søltoft: Kierkegaards pseudonyme forfatterskab (internt, sept.-dec., også åbent universitet - foråret 1999 findes der: Kierkegaards opbyggelig forfatterskab, feb.-juni); Pia Søltoft & Holger Bernt Hansen: Introduction to Kierkegaard (in English, internal); Joakim Garff: Projektvejledning: Søren Kierkegaards forfatterskab (internt).
Copenhagen: Studenterkredsen: Gaesteforelaesning: Arne Grøn: Kierkegaards metaforer, 29.10.97, kl. 20, Vartov.
Copenhagen: Årlig kulturnat d. 9.10.98: bidrag af 2 foredrag fra Det teologiske Fakultet. 1 foredrag handlede om Søren Kierkegaards billedsyn. (Naevnt i Kristeligt Dagblad, 2.10.98).
Den Internationale Højskole: Kierkegaard in the course Introduction to Denmark; Den Internationale Højskole/The International People's College, Montebello Allé 1, 3000 Helsingør; Tlf: 49 21 33 61; Fax: 49 21 21 28; email: jpc3000@cybernet.dk; http://www.ipc.dk
Denmark's International Study Program: affiliated with Copenhagen University (IKN 175): 98/99: offers to course participants: Kierkegaard: Philosophy and the Meaning of Life; instructor: Marilyn Gaye Piety. For details, see the DIS programme of studies: DIS Vestergade, 7, 1456 Copenhagen K. Ph.: (+45) 33 11 01 44; Fax: (+ 45) 33 93 26 24; email: dis@disp.dk (or U.S.A.: dis@tc.umn.edu); website: http://ww.disp.dk
Folkeuniversitetet: For courses on Kierkegaard at the various branches of the Folkeuniversitet starting in the Autumn, please see the Folkeuniversitets guides and note information on the website at: http://sunsite.auc.dk/fu/ which will give you the mail and email addresses of the Folkeuniversitet in: Copenhagen, Odense, Roskilde, Aalborg and Aarhus. Otherwise write to Folkeuniversitetets Landssekretariat, Odense Universitet, 5230 Odense M. Ph.: + 66 15 86 00; Fax: + 66 15 98 88 and email: sekr@fu.dk
Folkeuniversitetet i København: Sommerkurser: Kirsten Klercke: Du SKAL elske - Søren Kierkegaards 'Kjerlighedens Gjerninger' 6/7-10/7.1998, kl. 10.00-14.45 hver dag, Købmagergade 50, København.
Poul Lübcke: Søren Kierkegaards filosofi 13/7-17/7.1998, kl. 10.00-14.45 hver dag, Købmagergade 50, København.
Grundtvigs Højskole Frederiksborg: Kierkegaard-kursus: Kierkegaard-inspiration: 19.6.98-25.6.98. Bidrag af: Poul Lübcke, Mads Storgaaard Jensen, Joakim Garff, Hans Hauge, Birgit Bertung, Søren E. Jensen, Fritz Norlan, m.fl. (Kursus kunne kombineres med Dostojevskij-kursus d. 26.6.98-2.7.98). Ydl. oplysninger om programmer: Grundtvigs Højskole Frederiksborg, Frederiksvaerksgade 147, 3400 Hillerød; Tlf: 42 26 87 00; Fax: 42 26 89 49; email: info@grundtvigs.dk
Højskolernes Sekretariatet: For information about coming Kierkegaard courses at the various H¿jskoler, go to: http://www.folkehojskoler.dk and do a search on 'Kierkegaard' or email hs@grundtvig.dk The secretariat also publishes a paper brochure that should be available at local libraries in Denmark.
Lyngby: Søren-Kierkegaard aften: 12.3.98, kl. 19.30: Leif Bork Hansen om Kierkegaard og kirkekampen. (Søndagsavisen 8.3.98).
Religionspaedagogisk Center: Frederiksberg: Kirkeh¿jskole: Leif Bork Hansen: Kierkegaard og nutiden, 15.9.98; Kalundborg: Kirkehøjskole: Pia Søltoft: Indføring i Søren Kierkegaards forfatterskab, 7.11.98; Arne Grøn: Søren Kierkegaards 'Kjerlighedens Gjerninger', 28.11.98; Leif Bork Hansen: Søren Kierkegaards 'Begrebet Angest', 9.1.99; Ernest W. Andersen: Søren Kierkegaards 'Sygdommen til Døden', 30.1.98. Adressen på centret: Religionspaedagogisk Center, Frederiksberg Allé 10 A, 1820 Frederiksberg C; Ph. 33 24 92 50; fax: 33 25 06 07.
Testrup Højskole: Søren Kierkegaard - en dansk taenker i Europa 28.6.98-4.7.98. Med Joakim Garff, Isak Winkel Holm, Henrik Stampe Lund, Ole Morsing, Jens Glebe-Møller, Asger Schnack, Kathrine Lilleør Petri, Peer E. S&oslassh;rensen, Kjeld Holm, Nis Bank Mikkelsen, Inger Guldbrandt Jensen. Kursusledere: Bent Mikkelsen og Peter Aaboe Sørensen. Kursus 1999: Kierkegaard og Kafka 27.6.99-3.7.99. Yderligere oplysninger fås: Testrup Højskole, 8320 Mårslet; Tlf: 86 29 03 55; Fax: 86 29 43 99. Se også under Højskolernes Sekretariatet.

POLAND:
Seminar: Søren Kierkegaard's Universe: Gdansk University, March 1998 (IKN 176).

UNITED KINGDOM:
Kierkegaard and Freedom. International Conference of the British Society for the History of Philosophy, Madingley Hall, University of Cambridge, 3-5 July, 1998. Papers: Michael Weston: Kierkegaard: The Literature on Freedom; David Campbell: Kierkegaard, Free Will, and Self-interpretation; George Pattison: Sublimity and the Experience of Freedom; James Giles: Anxiety and Entangled Freedom; Begonya Saéz Tajafuerce: Seduce me and Set me Free? Paul A. Bauer: Freedom, Motion, and the Self; Anthony Rudd: Perspectives on Freedom: Theoretical and Existential; D.Z. Phillips: Freedom and Self-deception in Purity of Heart; Jörg Disse: Autonomy in Either/Or; Peter Rogers: Indirect Communication: Training in Freedom? Details concerning publication of the conference proceedings with other papers: Dr. James Giles, Roskilde University, P5 Institute for Philosophy, Marbergvej 35, Postbox 260, 4000 Roskilde, Denmark. Tel: +45 46 74 2228; Fax: + 45 46 75 32 12; email: jlg@ruc.dk

U.S.A.:
AAR Annual Meeting: Orlando, Florida, Nov. 21-24, 1998:
Computer Assisted Research Group: November 21: Abrahim H. Khan: McKinnon and the Computer Tackles the Text.
Kierkegaard, Religion and Culture Group at the AAR Annual Meeting (IKN 178): The AAR has renewed this group for another five-year term (1998-2002).
Call for Papers: The Group invites submissions for future meetings. Reading time is 25 mins. Quotes used must be from Hong KW translations. A wide range of exploratory and critical interpretative methods is encouraged. Proposals for papers to: Prof. Edward Mooney, 1564 Milvia St., Berkeley, California 94709, U.S.A. 1999 AAR Group Meetings: themes will be 1: The Point of View for My Work as an Author and/or Prefaces; 2: Kierkegaard and Theology: The 20th Century and the Next. (Audio Cassette tapes are available of the 1997 sessions [IKN 178]: A88 Kierkegaard's Without Authority AR97166ab, and A198 Kierkegaard as Religious Psychologist AR97251ab, Enquiries to: ACTS Inc., 14153 Clayton Road, Town & Country, MO 63017; fax: 314 394-9381; email: acts@inlink.com; URL: http:// www.iwc.com/acts).
AAR Annual Meeting at Orlando, Florida:
Nov. 21-24: Nov. 22: The Dialectics of Possibility: Presiding: Eric J. Ziolkowski; Papers: Helen T. Russell: Kierkegaard and Process Theology; John C. Ries: Tomorrow's Possibility: Unraveling the Possibility of Repetition in Kierkegaard's Repetition; Peter J. Mehl: Personhood and Possibility: The Promise and Peril of Kierkegaard's Theological Anthropology. Respondent: Stephen Crites.
Nov. 24: Christian Discourses and Its Critics: Presiding: Marcia C. Robinson; Papers: Andrew Burgess: The Law/Gospel Dialectic of Kierkegaard's Christian Discourses; Brian C. Barlow: The Wound and the Cure: Method and Theme in Kierkegaard's Liturgical Theology; Charles L. Creegan: Kierkegaard, Certainly. Respondent: David Cain. (Business Meeting: David Cain presiding).
Apologies for an error: Kierkegaard, Religion and Culture Group at the AAR Annual Meeting (IKN 178): instead of: 'Presiding: Marcia C. Robinson' and 'respondent: Marcia C. Robinson' there should read: 'paper: Marcia C. Robinson: Anticipating the Self Before God: The Lily of the Field as Worshiper of God".' Many apologies.
APA American Philosophical Association: Pacific Division, Los Angeles, California, March 25-28, 1998; March 27, 4.00-6.00 p.m.: Invited Symposium: Kierkegaard: Chair: Ronald McIntyre, California State University, Northridge; Speakers: Alastair Hannay: Kierkegaard and What we Mean by 'Philosophy'; Andrew Cross: Kierkegaard and Moral Psychology; Commentator: Frederick Neuhouser.
Augusta State University is planning a Kierkegaard Conference for the year 2000, March 23-26: working title: Either-Or I...Continental (Deconstructive) Readings of Kierkegaard. Further details: Dr. Elsebet Jegstrup, Augusta State University. Email: jegstrup@aug.edu
Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy: 37th Annual Meeting, University of Colorado, Denver, Colorado, October 8-10, 1998: Session 8: The Feminine as Self-abnegation and/or Self-transformation in Kierkegaard and Beauvoir. Moderator: Yoko Arisaka; Sylvia Walsh: Feminine Devotion and Self Abandonment: Simone de Beauvoir and Søren Kierkegaard on the Woman in Love; Céline Léon: The (In)Appropriateness of the Feminine Paradigm in Kierkegaard; Guillemine de Lacoste: Johannes' (Un)Successful Perversion of the Real Erotic and its Partial Blossoming in The Seducer's Diary. 'Person' in a 'Postmodern' Era, conference at Wesleyan Center, Point Loma Nazarene College, January, 1997: Charles Creegan: Kierkegaard's Relations with Postmodernism and Feminism.
20th World Congress of Philosophy: Boston, U.S.A., Aug. 10-16, 1998: Roundtable: Kierkegaard sessions: Human Movement (Motus Humanus) in Kierkegaard's Thought (2 sessions): Aug. 11, 1998 12.00-4.00 p.m. Organizer: Abrahim H. Khan. Session 1: Chair: Abrahim H. Khan; Discussants: Abrahim H. Khan; Andrew Burgess; Vincent McCarthy, Kinya Masugata. Session 2: Chair: Abrahim H. Khan; Discussants: Lee Barrett; David Cain; Guillermine Lacoste; David Goicoechea. The aim of the sessions was to identify and explore connections between human motion and communication as presented in the Kierkegaard corpus. To faciliate discussion of them, Abrahim Khan identified different kinds of movements employed: ('Human Action Metaphor in Kierkegaard's Thought: To Follow'), Andrew Burgess discussed laughter, Lee Barrett looked at standing and moving, Vincent McCarthy decoded "A" is for Augustine, Kinya Masugata contrasted two forms of temptation: anfaegtelse and fristelse, Guillermine de Lacoste distinguished between the masculine and feminine and leaps in the Diary, David Cain considered dance imagery, and David Goicoechea drew attention to quality and quantity of the leap.

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