International Kierkegaard Newsletter 1999

No. 21 . October 1999 ISSN 0108-3104

CONFERENCES AND LECTURES:

BELGIUM:
Leuven University: Universitaire Campus Kortrijk (KULAK): 20.11.99: Het Centrum voor cultuur en filosofie van de Kulak, in samenwerking met het Centrum voor ethiek van de Ufsia, heeft het genoegen u uit te nodigen, op de universitaire campus te Kortrijk: Een studiedag over: 'Hoe te spreken? Het probleem van de communicatie bij Kierkegaard'. Papers: Karl Verstrynge: Met Kierkegaard tegen Kierkegaard. Essentieel auteurschap en existentielle mededeling; co-referaat: A. Leijen; Johan Taels: De stijl is de mens. Indirectheid bij Søren Kierkegaard en Ludwig Wittgenstein; co-referaat: U. Doedens; Cyril Lansink: De betekenis vanonthechting in de filosofie van Søren Kierkegaard en Arthur Schopenhauer; co-referaat: I. Bocken; Paul Cruysbergs: Hoe te zwijgen? Geslotenheid in het oeuvre van Kierkegaard; co-referaat: R. Visker.

BRAZIL:
Rio de Janeiro: May 14, 15 & 16, 1999: Third Brazilian Symposium of the Practice of Existential Psychotherapy - Theme: "Rethinking Existential Psychotherapy from the Time of Kierkegaard to the Start of the Third Millenium" [The Society of Existential Analysis and Psychotherapy -Sociedade de Analise Existencial E Psicomaieutica], Guanabara Palace Hotel conference facility, Rio de Janeiro. Guest speaker: Julia Watkin: "Søren Kierkegaard's Psychology of the Self"; "The Idea of Fate in Kierkegaard's Thought"; "The Concept of 'Gjennemsigtighed' in Kierkegaard's Authorship". Marco Antonio Sales: Desespero Humano e Crises Existenciais: Uma visão de triunfo em Kierkegaard; Ana Maria Feijoo: Os Paradoxos da Existência e a Psicoterapia. [See also SAEP Jornal Existencial, Ano II, No. 5, Abril de 1999].

CANADA:
Brock Philosophical Society, Brock University, St. Catherine's, Ontario: 12.2.99: Two Accounts of Marriage in Kierkegaard.

DENMARK:
Copenhagen Kierkegaard Centre and Roskilde University: Visiting Professor Kinya Masugata from Osaka-Kyoiku University, Osaka, Japan: February 10-20, 1999: lectures included: 'Text as a Seducer by Kierkegaard'.

Copenhagen University, Institut for Systematisk Teologi: Købmagergade 46: 12.4.99, kl. 13.15: John de Gruchy, Cape Town: Bonhoeffer, Kierkegaard and the Recovery of Aesthetic Existence.

Copenhagen University, Institut for Systematisk Teologi: Introduction to Søren Kierkegaard (8 weeks) Autumn semester, 1999.

Copenhagen University: Faculty of Theology: Church and Culture at the Entrance to the 3rd Millenium: Special Programme in Contextual Theology for English-Speaking Guest Students: August 20 - October 13, 2000. Brian Soderquist: Introduction to Søren Kierkegaard (Introduces Kierkegaard's analysis of art, society, philosophy and religion through an examination of his writings and reference to the Kierkegaard's cultural context. Students interested in the programme (which contains several other courses) should contact the programme secretary (as soon as possible and by the end of April 2000 latest): Hans Raun Iversen, Faculty of Theology, Købmagergade 46, DK-1150 Copenhagen K, Denmark. Fax: + 44 35 32 36 84; email: hri@teol.ku.dk

Copenhagen University: ÅU Teologi (åbent Universitet): Det teologiske Fakultet ved Københavns Universitet: (IKN 191): Foråret 1999: Kierkegaards opbyggelige forfatterskab. Kierkegaards teologi (IKN 191). Efteråret 1999: Kursus nr. 727003-E99: Søren Kierkegaard og guldalderen: Laerere: Joakim Garff, Bruce Kirmmse, Hermann Schmid; tirsdage kl. 17-20, Det Teologiske Fakultet, Købmagergade 44-46, 1150 Copenhagen K.
Om Kierkegaard og påbent Universitet (Kandidatniveau), spørg: tlf.: 3532 3623 ell. 3532 3607 ell. skriv: Det Teologiske Fakultet, Købmagergade 44-46, 1150 København K. Ansøgningsfrist ang. kurser forår 2000: 1.1.2000.

Denmark's International Study Program: affiliated with Copenhagen University (IKN 191): 99/00: 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://www.disp.dk

Folkeuniversitetet i Danmark: (IKN 192): Om Kierkegaard kurser ved Folkeuniversitet henvises der til Folkeuniversitets programmer i København, Odense, Århus, Roskilde og Aalborg. Skriv: Folkeuniversitetets Landssekretariatet, Odense Universitet, 5230 Odense M. Ph. + 66 15 86 00; Fax: + 66 15 98 88 og email: sekr@fu.dk Se også på internettet: http://sunsite.auc.dk/fu/

Grundtvigs Højskole Frederiksborg: Kierkegaard-kurser: (IKN 192): Skolen plejer at køre Kierkegaard uger i juni-måneden. Ydl. oplysninger: Grundtvigs Højskole Frederiksborg, Frederiksvaerksgade 147, 3400 Hillerød; Tlf: 42 26 87 00; Fax: 42 26 89 49; email: info@grundtvigs.dk

Helligaandskirken på Strøget, København: 11.11.1998: På Søren Kierkegaards fødselsdag: Niels Jørgen Cappelørn oplaeste udvalgte Kierkegaard-tekster, som fortolkes i Orgelimprovisationer af Hans Ole Thers.

Højskolernes Sekretariatet: (IKN 192): For information about coming Kierkegaard courses at the various Højskoler, 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.

Islamisk-Kristent Studiecenter, Sortedam Dossering 5, st., 2200 København N: 24.2.1999: Safet Bektovic: Kierkegard og Islam.

Lyngby: Sognegård, Stades Krog 9: 19.11.1998, kl. 19.30: Pastor Leif Bork Hansen: Søren Kierkegaards forhold til teatret.

Lyngby: Sognegård, Stades Krog 9: 21.1.1999, kl. 19.30: Pastor Leif Bork Hansen: Søren Kierkegaard og Adolph Peter Adler.

Møllevangskirken, Århus: (Studentermenighed): 10.2.99: Pia Søltoft: Det etiske hos Kierkegaard.

Sankt Lukas Stiftelsens Uddannelsesafdeling: Kierkegaard for menigmand: 12-14.11.99: medv.: Arne Hvid; Rita Nielsen; Benny Birk Mortensen. 12.11: Arne Hvid: Søren Kierkegaard - person og forfatterskab I. En oversigt og introduktion til Kierkegaard; 13.11: Arne Hvid: Søren Kierkegaard - person og forfatterskab II. Centrale begreber hos Kierkegaard; Rita Nielsen: Laesninger i Kaerlighedens Gerninger. Hovedtanker fra et af Kierkegaards centrale skrifter; Rita Nielsen: Kaerlighedens Gerninger - fortsat. 14.11: Arne Hvid: Kierkegaards enmands revolution Kirkekampen m.m.

Skaerum Mølle ved Vemb, Jylland: Kierkegaard seminar 13.-15. august, 1999: foredrag, musik og udflugt til Saedding Kirke. Kierkegaard-seminar er ledet af Peter Aaboe Sørensen (omtale: Kristeligt Dagblad 5.8.99).
(Kierkegaard mindestuen findes på Raekker Møllegård).

Søren Kierkegaard Forskningscentret ved Københavns Universitet: Kierkegaard-seminar: Foredrag over Kierkegaards Opbyggelige Taler, August, 1999. (Se Kristeligt Dagblad, 5.8.99).

Testrup Højskole: Kierkegaard og Kafka: 27.6.99-3.7.99: Med foredrag af: Niels Jørgen Cappelørn, Kjeld Holm, Isak Winkel Holm, Henrik Stampe Lund, Johan de Mylius, Per Aage Brandt, Peer E. Sørensen, Ole Morsing, m.fl.
Yderligere oplysninger fås: Testrup Højskole, Testrupvej 110, 8320 Mårslet; Tlf: 86 29 03 55; Fax: 86 29 43 99. Email: testrup@testrup.dk Se også http://www.testrup.dk

ESTONIA:
Tallinn: Det Danske Kulturinstitut og Søren Kierkegaard Center: Forår 2000: Seminar om Søren Kierkegaard. Tallinn: Forår 2000: Praesentation af Søren Kierkegaard "Begrebet Angest".

GERMANY:
Munich: Institut für Nordische Philologie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München (Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1, 80539, München). Symposium: June 7-8, 1999: Sören Kierkegaard. Dichtung - Philosophie - Leben. Organizer: Stig Olsen. Papers: Hermann Schmid: Die Revolte des Gleichgültigen - Zur Frage des Schriftstellers bei Sören Kierkegaard; Alexandra Tischl: Zwischen Erinnern und Durcharbeiten - Die 'Wiederholung' als 'Versuch in der experimentierenden Psychologie'; Joakim Garff: 'Das Aesthetische is 'berhaupt mein Element' - Probleme und Perspektiven in Sören Kierkegaards Begriff des Aesthetischen; Arne Grøn: Subjektivität des Sehens - Kierkegaards Theorie der Subjektivität; Anton Bösl: Das Scheitern der Freiheit - Kierkegaards Aesthetisches Stadium als Phänomenologie von Unfreiheit und Selbstverfehlung; Jörg Disse: Ethik als Lebensstadium. Evening (7.6) readings from: Tagebuch des Verführers, introduced by Hermann Schmid.

HUNGARY:
Budapest: Eötvös Loránd University: 13.10-16.10, 1999. Conference: Crossroads in Kierkegaard's Thinking: 13.10: Opening lectures: Welcome: Béla Bacsó lectures: Niels Jørgen Cappelørn: Søren Kierkegaards Skrifter. A New Tool for Kierkegaard Researchers and Translators; Zoltán Gyenge: Kierkegaard-Forschung in Ungarn: Vergangenheit und Gegenwart; Ágnes Heller: The Concept of Truth in Kierkegaard. 14.10: Kierkegaard's Aesthetics: Moderator: Ágnes Heller; András Nagy: Kierkegaard and the Angel of Aesthetics; George Pattison: Representing Love: From Poetry through Rhetoric to Martyrdom; Joakim Garff: A Man of Letters: The Aesthetic Kierkegaard; Begonya Sàez Tajafuerce: Kierkegaard's Autobiography: On the Literary Reflection of the Self; Darío González: Au miroir des mots; Yvette Jankó; Szép: What are Don Juans Made of? Dezsô Csejtei: Kierkegaard and Unamuno; Sándor Radnóti: Kierkegaards Werkinterpretation.
PhD Students Session: Moderator: Jon Stewart: Richard Purkarthofer: Metapher, Bild und Gleichnis in argumentativen Zusammenhängen in den Erbaulichen Reden; Anita Soós: Narration-Verführung-(Be)deutung; Brian Söderquist: The Aesthetic and the Eternal in the Concept of Irony; Tibor Pintér: Kierkegaard's Relation to Mozart's Don Giovanni. 15.10: Kierkegaard and Existentialism: Moderator: Niels Jørgen Cappelørn; István Czaké: Das Problem des Glaubens und Geschichte in der Philosophie Kierkegaards und Karl Jaspers; Gábor Kardos: Qui peut être penseur? Béla Bacsó: Angst als existentielle Kategorie: Kierkegaard und Heidegger; István Fehér: Heidegger und Kierkegaard; Pia Søltoft: Ethics in Sartre and Kierkegaard. Kierkegaard and German Idealism: Moderator: Béla Bacsó Zoltán Gyenge: Wirklichkeit der Existenz; Jacques Colette: Art et religion: Kierkegaard et les penseurs d'Iena (1800); Jon Stewart: Kierkegaard, Hegel and Mediation; Béla Bacsó and Niels Jørgen Cappelørn: Closing Words. 16.10: The Kierkegaard Cabinet in Budapest: Moderator: András Nagy: Roundtable Discussion: Plans for the Kierkegaard Cabinet.

JAPAN:
Toyo University (Tokyo): Japanese Research Society for the History of Ideas in Northern Europe: Symposium: 16.7.1999: 6.30-8.30 p.m.: Is Kierkegaard Dead? Panelists: Noritake Hase, Takaya Sudo, Kazuataka Yonezawa, Satoshi Nakazato: analysis of the concept of 'existence' and of its relevance to academic study and to life. Commentator: Jun Yamadate and Noriko Minamoto: cultural anthropological analysis and Kierkegaard study and motives for undertaking Kierkegaard research. The Symposium was followed by a social gathering.
Details about the Society from: Dr. Satoshi Nakazato: Fax: 81-03-3922-4743; email: fwkk6787@mb.infoweb.ne.jp

ROMANIA:
Bucharest Universitet: Det filosofiske fakultet, 23. - 24. april, 1999: Seminar om forsknings- og udvekslingssamarbejdet mellem Bucharest Universitet og Søren Kierkegaard Forskningscenter ved Københavns Universitet. Symposium: Kierkegaard Today: 23.4: Opening Session: Chairman: Valentin Muresan; Niels Jørgen Cappelørn: Søren Kierkegaards Skrifter: A New Tool for Kierkegaard Researchers and Translators; Jon Stewart: Kierkegaard's Criticism of Martensen in the Philosophical Fragments; Adrian Arsenevic: Philosophizing about the Philosophy of Translating a Philosophical Text. Plenary Session: Chairman: Alexandru Boboc; Darío González: L'esprit et la lettre; Madalina Diaconu: Kierkegaard-Rezeption in Rumanien; Pia Søltoft: Before God and Before Man; Vasile Macoviciuc: Le concept 'desespoir' chez Kierkegaard. 24.4: Plenary Session: Chairman: Niels Jørgen Cappelørn; Christian Tolstrup: Kierkegaard's Socrates and Christ - Irony and Incarnation; Mihaela Pop: Kierkegaard's Concept of 'the Moment'; Nicolae Irina: Der Begriff 'Wahl' in Enten-Eller. Plenary Session: Chairman: Jon Stewart; Alexandru Boboc: Welt und Zeit bei Kierkegaard und Nietzsche; Begonya Sàez Tajafuerce: 'Without Authority': On Kierkegaard's Ethical Assignment; Stan Florin Leonard: Kierkegaard's Concept of 'Repetition'; Valentin Muresan and Niels Jørgen Cappelørn: Final Words.

POLAND:
Warsaw: Det Polske Videnskabsakademi: 20.5.98-21.5.98: Og dog kan jeg ikke sige "jeg": Seminar om Søren Kierkegaards forfatterskab (dansk-polsk forskere). Det Danske Kulturinstitut i samarbejde med Søren Kierkegaard Forskningscenter i København. (See also under Books).

U.S.A.:
Howard and Edna Hong Kierkegaard Library, St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota: The Library hosted a seminar of invited Spanish-speaking scholars from Spain and Latin-America for discussion concerning the first volume of Escritos de Søren Kierkegaard, to be published by Eds. Trotta, Madrid:
17-19 July, 1999. 17.7: Welcome: Gordon Marino; Begonya Sàez Tajafuerce: En torno a la traducción de De los papeles de alguien que todavìa vive y la edición de los Escritos de Søren Kierkegaard. Alvaro Valls: En torno a la traducción de Sobre el concepto de ironía; Visita de la Hong-Kierkegaard Library a cargo de Cynthia W. Lund. Søren Kierkegaard, película a cargo de Anne Regitz Wivel.18.7: Montserrat Negre: Reflexiones sobre la ironìa y el mito en Sobre el concepto de ironía; Rafael Larrañeta: La ironía y la fundametación kierkegaardiana de la ética. Lectura de Eliseo Pérez; Darío González: Lo visible y lo invisible en Sobre el concepto de ironía. Lectura de Rafael García; Contribuciones a la presentación de Montserrat Negre; Begonya Sàez Tajafuerce: Kierkegaard y la Ética de la escritura. 19.7: Contribuciones a la presentación de Rafael Larrañeta; Contribuciones a la presentación de Darío González; Contribuciones a la presentación de Begonya Sàez Tajafuerce.
2001 CONFERENCE: Note that in 2001 the Hong Kierkegaard Library will be sponsoring a conference, June 9-13, on: Søren Kierkegaard and Hermeneutics and Søren Kierkegaard and Communication. Keynote address will be by Alastair Hannay.

Kierkegaard, Religion and Culture Group at the AAR Annual Meeting (IKN 192): Two sessions: 1.: 20.11.99: 3.45-6.15 p.m. Kierkegaard's influence on the 20th century and beyond. Presiding: Lee Barrett; papers by: Alex Hawkins: A Kierkegaardian Postmodernism for the Twenty-First Century; Masaya Honda: Words to the Other: Linguistic Turn in Kierkegaard's and Levinas' Thought; Gitte Butin: Abraham-Knight of Faith or Counterfeit? Abraham Figures in Kierkegaard, Kafka and Derrida; D.Z. Phillips: Kierkegaard: Religious Thinker or Contemplative Philosopher. 2. 21.11.99: 1.00-3.00 p.m. Before and After Writing: Prefaces and Point of View. Presiding: Edward Mooney; Papers: Stephen Crites: The Unfathomable Stupidity of Nicolaus Notabene; Avron Kulak: Writing-Before and After-Writing: The Point of View and Deconstruction; Brian Barlow: Writing and Insanity: Postmodern Worship in Søren Kierkegaard's The Point of View and Catherine Pickstock's After Writing: On the Liturgical Consummation of Philosophy. Respondent: Sylvia Walsh.
Call for Papers: Wanda Warren Berry, Dept. of Philosophy and Religion, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY 13346-1398: OF: 315-228-7722; email: wberry@mail. colgate.edu

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 (IKN 193).

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