International Kierkegaard Newsletter 2004

No. 26 . October 2004 ISSN 0108-3104

SOCIETIES & INSTITUTIONS:

AUSTRALIA: SØREN KIERKEGAARD RESEARCH UNIT AUSTRALIA, University of Tasmania: Contact: Dr. Julia Watkin (Email: Julia.Watkin@utas.edu.au). From 2004 the book collection belonging to the former research unit is at the Joint Theological Library, Ormond College, University of Melbourne. This will enable a much wider access for research and other students and greater development possibilities for Kierkegaard research in Australia. See also Societies and Institutions and under Conferences. Please contact at the JTL: Philip Harvey (email: pharvey@jtl.vic.edu.au). Here follows Philip Harvey's account of the transfer:
"Søren Kierkegaard Comes to Melbourne: The Joint Theological Library (JTL) in Parkville, Victoria, has received the very handsome donation of a research level collection on the great Danish theologian Søren Kierkegaard. Known as The Kierkegaard Malantschuk Memorial Collection, it has been the resource of the Søren Kierkegaard Research Unit of the University of Tasmania. (Gregor Malantschuk was one of the preeminent writers on Kierkegaard in the 20th century.) The Collection was single-handedly brought together by Dr Julia Watkin, who recently retired from teaching philosophy full-time at the University. Dr Watkin is one of the world's leading authorities on Søren Kierkegaard, author of many books and articles on the subject, and editor of the International Kierkegaard Newsletter (IKN) , now an online publication. (See www.utas.edu.au/docs/humsoc/kierkegaard/ newsletters.html). Her two most recent titles are the introductory 'Kierkegaard' (G. Chapman, 1997, Continuum 2001) and her magnificent reference work 'Historical dictionary of Kierkegaard's philosophy' (Scarecrow, 2001). It was an enquiry to Dr Watkin about the current status of the IKN that led to prolonged email correspondence, which included her concerns about the ultimate destiny of The Kierkegaard Malantschuk Collection, not least because over the years the collection had been increased by gifts from several sources. The IDE institute in Denmark, The Queen Margrethe and Prince Henrik foundation and several Kierkegaard scholars (Grethe Kjær, Robert L. and Sylvia Walsh Perkins, Alastair McKinnon, William McDonald, Craig Hinkson) donated books, dissertations and resources. The suggestion that JTL would be an appropriate home was met with great interest. Kierkegaard is always a buying area for the Library and it already has considerable holdings in the subject. Friendly negotiations ensued and shortly before Christmas 2003, forty boxes of Kierkegaard arrived at the doorstep. Overnight JTL became the largest library of Kierkegaard material in Australia. Students, researchers and scholars will find here a Kierkegaard collection the equal of any in the world. (The notable exceptions to this claim are some Danish collections, as well as the large Howard V. and Edna H. Hong Kierkegaard Library at St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota, USA.). Serious interest in Søren Kierkegaard, his theology and ideas, goes from strength to strength. Dr Watkin herself gives an excellent summation of his current standing in the Introduction to her Dictionary (p. 1): "It is likely that if Søren Kierkegaard had written in a major language and in a straightforward manner, his name would have achieved international significance even in his own time. Today, he is acclaimed all over the world as an important philosopher, religious thinker, psychologist, and literary figure. He is studied by people of many cultures, viewpoints, and disciplines, all of whom find that Kierkegaard has something essential to say about life or about their particular discipline. Kierkegaard called himself nothing more than a Digter or "creative writer". He made it clear he was entirely without divine or human authority to support his insights, he refused to label himself a Christian, and (despite a long university education spanning a wide range of subjects) he never held a position. Yet, he is now recognized as a genius who penetrated deeply into human psychology and spirituality, a man whose literary profundity alone would be sufficient to secure him international recognition. For many, he is the Shakespeare of Denmark." The collection can be described as roughly one half Danish and one half English. Primary source materials include the collected works in Danish and many editions of individual titles, as well as the Princeton University Press Writings series in English and translations in many hands of the works. It was decided to begin cataloguing the secondary sources first, both critical and biographical. These include a wealth of literature produced in Scandinavia generally and an exceptionally good coverage of English language publications, including a set of the International Kierkegaard Commentary series. The reference materials include a comprehensive range of bibliographies. Special mention must be made of Dr Watkin's accumulation of dictionaries. Two Danish dictionaries from Kierkegaard's own time (Molbech and Meyer) are vital for those reaching after Kierkegaardian usages. There is also a complete set of 'Ordbog over det danske Sprog' (1919-1956), sometimes known as the Great Danish Dictionary; the writer is cited throughout the dictionary where he has made original and specific uses of words, Kierkegaard being one of the masters of Danish language. Serials in the collection include a complete run of Kierkegaardiana (1955- ), possibly the only one publicly available in this part of the world, as well as its predecessor, Meddelelser of the Søren Kierkegaard Society in Copenhagen. Amongst its other riches, the Collection contains the works of other Danish writers of the period who knew Kierkegaard or were influential in Danish cultural and philosophical life. There has been a concerted effort to acquire works that describe the broad panorama of what has come to be called Golden Age Denmark."
Please note that other activities of the research unit have been transferred to the Søren Kierkegaard Society of Australia, and see also below under JAPAN (Kierkegaard Society Japan (Kyoto)) and also under Conferences.

BRAZIL: SOBRESKI: SOCIEDADE BRASILIERA DE ESTUDOS DE KIERKEGAARD: IV Jornada, 02, 10 e 11 de Outubro, 2003, Pocinhos de Rio Verde- MG, Brasil. Meeting: Marcio Gimenes de Paula, President of Sobreski: Introductory remarks. Moderators: Illana Viana de Amaral, Alvaro Luis Montenegro Valls, Ricardo Quadros Gouvea, Fransmar Costa Lima, Marcio Gimenes de Paula. Presentations: Marcos Grillo: Precariedade e fé: a existêcia humana segundo Kierkegaard e Unamuno. Henri Nicolai Levinspuhl: Prólogo de A Doça Moral (O Desespero Humano). Jonas Ross: Razão e Fé no pensamento de Sören Kierkegaard: O paradoxo e suas relações. Illana Viana do Amaral: O Prosaico Esado do Mundo no mundo do Estado, do sentido da Ironia e do Humor em G.W.F. Hegel e S.A. Kierkegaard. Joãe Emiliano Fourtaleza de Aquino: A ambigüidade e o desvio: algumes questões em torno da letuura de Guy Debord des Migalas Filosóficas de Sören Kierkegaard. Antonio Vieira de Silva Filio: De ironia socrática em Hegel e des objeções Kierkegaardianas. José Wilson da Silva: O Livro I da República: o negativo a cominho da ivde a ou momento de eivrwnei, a absoluta? Edouardo Coutinho Lourenço de Lima: A escolha no tempo. Maria José: Binetti: El Singular y el otro. Elisabete Sousa: Criticas e Variações: Schumann, Berlioz, Liszt e Kierkegaard sobre Mozart. Ana Maria Lopes Calvo de Feijó: Analise Psicológica do personagem Kierkegaardiano Johannes no romance "Di´rio de um Sedutor". Elaine Lopes de Feijó: Analise Psicológica de Adão am "Um conceito de Angústia". Maria Bernedete Medeiros Fernandes Lessa: Johannes Climacus em "É preciso duvidar de tudo". Myriam Moreira Protasio: Abraão em "Temor e Tremor". Marcio Gimenes de Paula: O Livre sobre Adler e Sobre a diferença entre um gênio e um apóstolo. Algumas reflexões que se encontram. Fransmar Costa Lima: Sobre a Fé: Uma reflexão sobre os dois discursos edificantes de 1843. Álvaro Luis Montenegro Valls: O Crucificado encontra Dionisio-Discursos Cristãos Cristicidade e Nietzsche. Ricardo Quadros Gouvêa: "A Reptição Reflexões sobra uma obra menor de Kierkegaard".
The Society will hold its 5th session on Kierkegaard in Sao Leopoldo, November 11-13, 2004. Location: UNISINO (Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos) and EST (Escola Superioa de Teologia). Please also note two publications by Alvaro L.M. Valls: Do despero silencioso ao elogio do amor desinteressado [From Silent Despaior to Distinterested Love's Apology: Aphorism, Novels, and Discourses of Søren Kierkegaard]. Also an article by Alvaro Valls: Kierkegaard in Brazil. For further details about the meeting and also publication details of the new publications by Alvaro Valls, please contact: Marcio Gimenes de Paula (email: mgpaula@hotmail.com), or see the Society's website Sobreski at: www.kierkegaardbrasil.hpg.com.br
(Society website: Sobreski at http://www.kierkegaardbrasil.hpg.com.br). (Note also the Society's email address: sobreski@ig.com.br). For further information contact Marcio Gimenes de Paula at mgpaul@hotmail.com (or Fransmar Costa Lima at fransmar@vol.com.br).

CANADA: THE KIERKEGAARD CIRCLE: Meeting: April 2, 2004; 7:30 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. Topic: Knowledge Through Suffering in Kierkegaard (for abstract see: www.utoronto.ca/kierkegaard). Meeting: November 5, 2004, 7.30 p.m. - 10.00 p.m. Meetings held in: Combination Room, Trinity College, 6 Hoskin Avenue (St. George Campus) University of Toronto. (Phone: 416-978-2522 for directions). Inquiries: Abrahim H. Khan, Trinity College.Tel. 416 978-3039 (O), 416 978-2133 (off. asst) (E-mail: khanah@chass.utoronto.ca).

DENMARK: SØREN KIERKEGAARD RESEARCH CENTRE: Copenhagen University: Centre Director: Niels Jørgen Cappelørn: The Research Centre is producing a new critical edition of Kierkegaard's writings and promotes international Kierkegaard research. This year the Centre celebrates its ten year jubilee, and also the possibility of permanent continuence as a Kierkegaard research centre. The jubilee has been celebrated with a seminar and a reception at the Carlsberg Academy.
Internal seminars: Spring 2004 (13.15-15.00):
17.2.04: Benjamin Olivares Bøgeskov: "The concept of Happiness in Kierkegaard"; 24.2.04: Finn Janning: "Framing as Seduction"; 18.3.04: Dario Gonzalez: "Vigilius Haufniensis' reading of Repetition and Fear and Trembling"; 27.4.04: Iben Damgaard: "Kierkegaard and the Bible"; 11.5.04: Sophie Wennerscheid: "Angst und Begehren in frühen Texten Kierkegaards"; 18.5.04: Inger Christiansen: "Intet er ikke så lidt! Logiske 'betragtninger': Rasmus Nielsen, A.P. Adler og J.L. Heiberg" ; 25.5.04: David D. Possen: "The relation between Kierkegaard's understanding of Christianity's rigor and his general conception of rigor in communication"; 15.6.04: Klaus Gjørup: Guddommelighedserfaring hos Kierkegaard.
Research Seminar/Forskerseminar, August 10th-13th, 2004, Vartov, Farvergade 27, Entrance H, 1st floor. Programme:
10.8.04:Niels Jørgen Cappelørn: Words of Welcome. Afternoon Session: Chairperson: Niels Jørgen Cappelørn. Kim Ravn: The Genesis of the Concluding Unscientific Postscript; Anders Holm: The Contemporary Grundtvig: An Addition to Climacus's Critique in Concluding Unscientific Postscript; Morten Kvist: N.F.S. Grundtvig's Conception of Historical Christianity: Subjectivity and Objectivity in Grundtvig and Climacus.
11.8.04: Morning Session: Chairperson: Bruce H. Kirmmse. Hugh Pyper: Kierkegaard's Canon: The Constitution of the Bible and of the Authorship in Concluding Unscientific Postscript; John Lippitt: Telling Tales: Johannes Climacus, Narrative, and Self-Understanding.
Afternoon Session: Chairperson: Joakim Garff. Lasse Horne Kjældgaard: Aesthetic Communication in the Postscript; Stefan Egenberger: "The Poetic Representation of the Religious in Kierkegaard's Postscript with Special Regard to E. T. A. Hoffmann's Concept of Humor"; Jan Evans: Passion, Paradox, and Indirect Communication: The Influence of the Postscript on Miguel de Unamuno.
12.8.04: Morning Session: Chairperson: Jon Stewart. Pierre Bühler: Warum braucht das Pathetische den Humor? Humor und Religiosität bei Johannes Climacus; Paul Cruysberghs: Did Hegel Bring his System to Completion "without having an Ethics"? On Climacus's Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of World History.
Afternoon Session: Chairperson: Pia Søltoft. Richard Purkarthofer: Trendelenburg: Traces of a Profound and Sober Thinker; Kirsten Klercke: The Principle of Contradiction according to Climacus-and Hegel-in the Postscript; David Cain: An Appreciation of Roger Poole.
13.8.04: Morning Session: Chairperson: Hermann Deuser. Christine Axt-Piscalar: Über Sünde und/oder Inkarnation in der Nachschrift; Ingolf U. Dalferth: Becoming a Christian According to the Postscript: Kierkegaard's Christian Hermeneutics of Existence.
Afternoon Session: Chairperson: George Pattison. Michael Hjersing Olesen: The Climacean Alphabet: Reflections on Religiousness A and B from the Perspective of the Edifying; Roy Wiklander: The Problem of Free Will in the Postscript; Jack Mulder, Jr.: Satori in Climacus? Christian Existence and the Zen Charge of Dualism. Niels Jørgen Cappelørn: Closing Words.
Festschrift for Alastair Hannay, University of Copenhagen, 14.8.04. Vartov, Farvergade 27, Entrance H, 1st Floor.
Niels Jørgen Cappelørn and Ed Mooney: Welcome and Opening Remarks. Morning Moderator: Pia Søltoft. Rick Furtak: Love and the Discipline of Philosophy; Jamie Ferreira: The Problematic Agapeistic Ideal-Again; George Pattison: Philosophy and Dogma; John Davenport: Fear and Trembling: Faith as Eschatological Trust. Response: Alastair Hannay.
Afternoon Moderator: K. Brian Söderquist. Arthur Cody: The Infinitely Comical Man; Michelle Grier: The Comically Infinite Man; Marilyn Piety: The Dangers of Indirection: Søren Kierkegaard and Leo Strauss; Bruce Kirmmse: Affectation, or the Invention of the Self: A Modern Disorder; Ed Mooney: Personality in the Postscript. Response: Alastair Hannay.
Research centre address: Store Kannikestræde 15, DK-1169 Copenhagen K, Denmark. Fax: + 45 33 76 69 10; Phone: + 45 33 76 69 00; email: Secretary: sec@sk.ku.dk or Director Niels Jørgen Cappelørn: njc@sk.ku.dk (Website: http://www.sk.ku.dk). See also Kirsten Boas: Flere penge til forskning i Kierkegaard & Kierkegaard på alle etager, 10-års jubilæum, Kristeligt Dagblad, 5.2.04; also Niels Jørgen Cappelørn: Arven efter Kierkegaard, mål, midler og forskning, i Under luppen, Politiken 3.8.04; Kristen Skriver Frandsen: Især for de forskningsinteresserede, Kristeligt Dagblad, 25.9.04; Anne M. Sørensen: 32 mand frem for Søren, i Kultur i Politiken, 1.10.04. See also under Journals and Series.

SØREN KIERKEGAARD SELSKABET: Formand: Pia Søltoft, Tlf.: 3376 6905; email: ps@sk.ku.dk; Næstformand: Viggo Kanding; Sekretær: Wenche Marit Quist,. Tlf.: 3532 3713 ell. 3585 2785; email: wmq@teol.ku.dk; Kasserer: Birgitte Kvist Poulsen, Tlf.: 3834 2487; email: sk_kasserer@hotmail.com; og Poul Behrendt, Kirsten Klercke, Tonny Aagaard Olesen, Birgit Bertung, Hermann Schmid. (Selskabets hjemmeside: http://www.sk.ku.dk/selskab/). Lectures 2004: (kl. 19.30): 29.1.04: Søren Bruun: 'Viljens dialektik' - vilje og frihed hos Kierkegaard. 26.2.04: Jon Stewart: Kierkegaards forhold til Hegel genovervejet; 25.3.04: Karin Andersen: Kierkegaards prædikener og prædikenlære; [Generalforsamlingen findes sted 25.3. kl. 17, Købmagergade 44-46, 3. sal, vær. 319]; 29.4.04: Alex Fryszman: Kierkegaard og russiske digtere; Jens Glebe-Møller: "Den Kjerlighedens Gjerning at erindre en Afdød" - en fortolkning af Søren Kierkegaards begravelse. 30.9.04: George Pattison: Kærlighedens blik: Synderinden, forføreren og Kristus; 28.10.04: Peter Tudvad: Kierkegaards København - Københavneren Kierkegaard; 25.11.04: Wenche Marit Quist: Evighedog/eller endelighed: Kierkegaard og Heidegger; 27.1.05: Viggo Kanding: Det akustiske bedrag - Troen mellem ortodoksi og rationalisme iflg. Kierkegaard. Alle foredragene finder sted i Kældercafeen, Købmagergade 44, over gården. See also under IKN 2004 Conferences and Lectures Grundtvigs Højskole.

HUNGARY: KIERKEGAARD CABINET IN BUDAPEST founded by Peter Nadas. The centre is an independent foundation aiming to support Kierkegaard scholarship in Hungary and Central Eastern Europe; also to help the translation of Kierkegaard's works into Hungarian. The Cabinet has a special library and an electronic database. Members of the board: Chair: Andras Nagy; Bela Bacso, Thomas Berntsen. Sponsors: The Royal Danish Embassy, The Danish Cultural Institute, The S"ren Kierkegaard Research Centre Copenhagen, the Hong Kierkegaard Library. Address: Kierkegaard Cabinet, c/o ELTE Muveszettudomanyi Intezet, Muzeum korut 6-8. (-136), Budapest 1088, Hungary. Phone: 36.1.266.9100/5855; email: cabinet@emc.elte.hu website:http://kierkegaard.elte.hu/ Hours: Wed. and Thurs during the academic year, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. (Other times by appointment). Contact: Andras Nagy: (andrasnagy@mail.matav.hu ). For further information about the Kierkegaard Cabinet or to offer Kierkegaard material to the Cabinet, please contact Andras Nagy at his email address.

JAPAN: KIERKEGAARD SOCIETY IN JAPAN (KYOTO): The Kierkegaard Society met in Kyoto May 9th, 2004. The Society is sponsoring an international Kierkegaard conference in Melbourne, Australia, December 3rd-6th, 2005. This will be the first Kierkegaard conference and the first international Kierkegaard conference to be held in Australia. It will also be the Society's first international conference. For further information with the call for papers see under Conferences. (See also http://www.kierkegaard.jp/conference2005.html.en) Note also the Society's general contact details: http://www.kierkegaard.jp/ (Secretary: email: eguichi@kyoto-wu.ac.jp) Phone and fax: + 81 75 531 9163.

MEXICO: SOCIEDAD IBEROAMERICANA DE ESTUDIOS KIERKEGAARDIANOS: Apartado Postal 86-582, Col. Villa Coapa, 14391 Mexico, D.F., Mexico. Email: siek@prodigy.net.mx President: Prof. Luis Guerrero. Secretary: Dr. Leticia Valadez de Guerrero. Email: luis.guerrero@uia.mx Prof. Guerrero's address is: Universidad Iberoamericana, Prol. Paseo de la Reforma 880, Lomas de Santa Fe, 01210 Mexico, D.F. Society's website: http://www.angelfire.com/fl3/kierkegard/siek.htm See also under Journals.

UNITED KINGDOM: THE SØREN KIERKEGAARD SOCIETY OF THE UNITED KINGDOM: Secretary: Simon Podmore, Department of Theology and Religious Studies, King's College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS. (Email: sd.podmore@virgin.net). (Society's internet site: http://www.kierkegaard.org.uk).
Annual one day conference on Saturday 8th May 2004, 10.30 a.m. - 5.00 p.m., hosted by Dr. David Law at the University of Manchester. The topic is 'Kierkegaardian Images of Christ'. Place: Stopford Room, Refectory, Oxford Road campus of the University of Manchester. The cost is 10 pounds (waged) 5 pounds (unwaged). Papers: Steven Shakespeare: Christ the Aesthete? Kierkegaard's Poetic Christology. Søren Landkildehus: The Forsaken Image - Discourse on the Discourses at the Communion on Fridays. David Law: Kierkegaard's Kenotic Christology. George Pattison: Christ - the Look of Love? To register please contact the Society Secretary, Simon Podmore: sd.podmore@virgin.net Please also contact Simon Podmore if you are a member and have any issue you would like raised at the Society's Annual General Meeting, which will be held on the same day.
The informal postgraduate study day for Kierkegaard PhD. research students is on Friday 26th March at King's College, London (10-30 am - 5pm, Room 20CB, Strand Campus. Nearest tube stations: Temple, Embankment, Charing Cross, Holborn. The main entrance is on the Strand and Room 20CB will be signposted from there). The cost will be £5 to cover basic expenses, payable on the day. The price includes light refreshments, but not lunch. (Cheques to be made out to 'The Søren Kierkegaard Society of the United Kingdom'). The day will provide the opportunity for students to present their research to fellow students and a small panel of scholars. The panellists are: Dr. Hugh Pyper, Dr. John Lippitt, and Dr. Murray Rae. Proposed timetable: 10.30 - 11.00 registration and coffee. 11.00 - 12.00 Jamie Turnbull, The Subject of Truth (response from Dr. Murray Rae, followed by open discussion). 12.00 - 1.00 Soonseok Oh, Kierkegaard and Barth: the Dynamics of Their Respective Dialectics (response from Dr. John Lippitt, followed by open discussion). 1.00 - 2.00 Lunch hour. 2.00 - 3.00 Simon Podmore, The Second Severance: The Wholly Other and the Chasmic Abyss (response from Dr. Hugh Pyper, followed by open discussion). 3.00 - 4.00 Søren Landkildehus, 'Angst Shall Beget Enduring Joy' (response from Dr. Hugh Pyper, followed by open discussion). 4.00 - 4.30 Coffee. 4.30 - 5.30 Reading of Text together, from Fear and Trembling (from 'Problem 1' and 'Problem 2' ). (It will be helpful if participants bring their own copies if possible). After the day there will be an opportunity for an inexpensive shared dinner. All participants welcome. Anyone interested in presenting research, joining the panel, or simply attending should please send Murray Rae (murray.rae@kcl.ac.uk) or Simon Podmore (sd.podmore@virgin.net) an email. Presentations should be approximately 1/2 hour, to be followed by 1/2 hour of discussion. It is hoped to round off the day by reading a text from Kierkegaard together.
See also the Society's website:http://www.kierkegaard.org.uk

U.S.A.: HOWARD AND EDNA HONG KIERKEGAARD LIBRARY, St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota, 1510 St. Olaf Ave., Northfield MN 55057-1097. Gordon Marino, Director, Howard and Edna Hong Kierkegaard Library, St. Olaf College, 1510 St. Olaf Avenue, Northfield, MN 55057-1097, U.S.A. Fax. 507-646-3858 (Email: marino@stolaf.edu).
Challenge: Matching Grant Challenge: A much-needed one million dollar challenge grant has been offered St. Olaf College in aid of the Hong Kierkegaard Library. The success of the scheme depends on the Hong Kierkegaard Library raising specific matching funds by specific dates. The current target remaining for 2004 is that of 80 thousand US dollars by December 31. Can you help? Will you consider a gift to help meet the challenge? Your support will be greatly appreciated. Please call 1.800.733.6523 to make a credit card gift over the phone, specifying that your gift is for the Hong Kierkegaard Library. Please do help this important project if you can. Even a small donation will help. Or can you think of any foundation the Hong Kierkegaard Library might apply to for help? For further details please contact: Dr. Gordon Marino (email: marino@stolaf.edu).
Danish Courses, 2004, 2005: Dr. Sinead Ladegaard Knox of Copenhagen offered a month-long Danish course at the Kierkegaard Library (June 28th-July 23rd, 2004). Dr. Knox will offer again in 2005 or 2006 another month-long intensive Danish course at the Hong Kierkegaard Library. In 2004 the course concentrated on learning how to read Kierkegaard in Danish. The cost (tuition and board) is $1,200. Please let Dr. Gordon Marino (email: marino@stolaf.edu) know of your interest. There is also a possibility of an additional second-level class.
Kierkegaard House Foundation Residency Fellowship: the primary aim of the Foundation is to augument the Visiting Scholars Programme at the Library. The Foundation offers housing and financial assistance to long-term resident scholars. Advanced graduate students, professors, writers, and other serious students of Kierkegaard's writings are also eligible. These Fellowships provide living quarters and $1,500 U.S. per month for periods of four to twelve months (with the possibility of extension). Applications for September 2005 are due April 1st, 2005. Please send a c.v., a plan of work at the Kierkegaard Library and two letters of recommendation to Director Dr. Gordon Marino, Kierkegaard Library, St. Olaf College, 1510 St. Olaf Avenue, Northfield, MN 55057, U.S.A.
Kierkegaard House on Campus: The Kierkegaard House Foundation and St. Olaf College have acquired the Kierkegaard House for Kierkegaard House Foundation scholars. Researchers using the house will be advanced scholars in residence from 4 months to a year. The free housing fellowship also includes a stipend of $1,500 US a month.
The Kierkegaard Library Fellowship Programme, 2004: Summer fellowships for research in residence are offered to scholars for use of the collection between June 1 and November 15. The awards include campus housing and a $250.00 U.S. per month stipend. Scholarships are also available at other times of the year. To apply, send a letter describing the proposed research project and reasons for wanting to use the collection and a c.v. Two academic letters of recommendation are normally required.
Summer Fellowship Program 2005: Summer fellowships for research in residence are offered to scholars for use of the collection between June 1 and November 15. The awards include campus housing and a $300 U.S. per month stipend for scholars in residence more than 30 days not supported by their home institutions). A limited number of scholarships are also available at other times of the year. To apply, send a letter describing the proposed research project and reasons for wanting to use the collection and a c.v. Two academic letters of recommendation are normally required. Please let Dr. Gordon Marino know as soon as possible if you are interested in the 2005 programme (email: marino@stolaf.edu).
See also IKN 2004 Conferences and Lectures and Journals and Series. (Note the Kierkegaard Library website address is: www.stolaf.edu/collections/kierkegaard/).

SØREN KIERKEGAARD SOCIETY: Søren Kierkegaard Society Meeting at the Eastern APA, Boston, MA, December 2004. Kierkegaard sessions: Kierkegaard Society Meeting on either December 28th, 2004, 7.30 p.m. - 10.30 p.m. at Tufts (Third Floor): Session title: Kierkegaard, Alterity and Love. Chair: John Davenport. Papers: John Lippitt (key note address): Getting the Story Straight: Alterity, Narrative and Self-Understanding; Andrew Jones-Cathcart: Where Art Thou? An Evaluation of Buber's Critique of Kierkegaard; J. Michael Tilley: Kierkegaard and Buber: On the Relationship between the Individual and the Community; Sergia Hay: Silence and the Imperative to Love. Note: The new APA representative for the Kierkegaard Society is John Davenport (Davenport@Fordham.edu).
APA Western Division: The Kierkegaard Society plans to schedule a session on Kierkegaard and his Postmodern Critics (Heidegger, Levinas, and Derrida) at the Western APA in San Francisco, April 2005.
APA Central Division: The next Kierkegaard Society session will be at the Central APA meeting, Spring 2006. Topic to be made known later.
At the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, San Antonio, Texas, November 20-23, 2004: Annual Søren Kierkegaard Society Banquet, November 19th, 6-10 p.m., Rio Plaza restaurant Riverwalk, 245 E Commerce St., San Antonio: Paper: David Wood: A Singular Life? Kierkegaard Society Session, November 20th (morning) : Kierkegaard: A Life of Writing: Marcia Robinson will chair a panel discussion on Kierkegaard and biography with reference to: Alastair Hannay: Kierkegaard: A Biography, 2001, and Joakim Garff: SAK: Søren Aabye Kierkegaard, En Biografi, 2000. Panelists: David Conway, Joakim Garff, Alastair Hannay, Elsebet Jegstrup, Edward Mooney. Kierkegaard, Religion, and Culture Group: led by Marcia Robinson and Timothy Polk.
Session 1: Nov. 21, 1.00 p.m.: Kierkegaard and society and gender: Chair: Timothy H. Polk. Papers: Avron Kulak: Between God, Self, and Neighbor: The Twofold Ethics of Fear and Trembling; Sylvia I. Walsh: Godly and Ungodly Women: Gender and Sexual Politics in Kierkegaard and American Fundamentalism; Keith Hyde: Keeping Your Distance: Kierkegaard and Social Reform; Kevin Hoffman: Compassion and the Descent of Love: Reading Kierkegaard Through Nussbaum. Business meeting chaired by Timothy H. Polk.
Session 2 (co-sponsored with the Nineteenth-Century Theology Group): Nov. 20, 1.00 p.m.: A critical discussion of Jon Stewart: Kierkegaard's Relations to Hegel Reconsidered 2003. Chair: Andrew Burgess. Papers: Robert L. Perkins: Jon Stewart's Mediated Kierkegaard; David Kangas: Which Hegel? Reconsidering Hegel and Kierkegaard; Stephen N. Dunning: A Response to Jon Stewart on Kierkegaard and Hegel; Rick Anthony Furtak: Ancient Passion, Modern Abstraction: Kierkegaard on the Hellenistic and the Hegelian Conceptions of Philosophy. Respondent: Jon Stewart. Papers for this session in the program book of the Nineteenth-Century Theology Group available from Dr. Charles Talar (email talarc@stthom.edu): See: Papers of the Nineteenth Century Theology Group, 2004 Annual Meeting of the AAR. Vol. XXXV. Ed. Andrew J. Burgess, David D. Schultenover, Daniel W. Hardy and Theodore Vial. Wipf and Stock Publishers, 199 West 8th Ave., Eugene OR 97401.: Papers: Jon Stewart: Kierkegaard's Relations to Hegel Reconsidered, pp. 1-3; Robert L. Perkins: Jon Stewart's Mediated Kierkegaard, pp. 4-14; David Kangas: Which Hegel? Reconsidering Kierkegaard and Hegel, pp. 15-34; Stephen N. Dunning: Response to Kierkegaard's Relation to Hegel Reconsidered, pp. 35-52; Rick A. Furtak: Ancient Passion, Modern Abstraction: Kierkegaard on the Hellenistic and the Hegelian Conceptions of Philosophy, pp. 53-69.
Søren Kierkegaard Society officers: President: Vanessa Rumble, Philosophy Dept., Carney Hall, Boston College, 140 Commonwealth Ave., Chestnut Hill, MA 02167 (email: rumble@bc.edu). Vice-President/President elect: Vice-President/President elect: Bruce Kirmmse, Dept. of History, Connecticut College, P.O. Box 5487, New London, CT 06320 (email: bhkir@conncoll.edu). Secretary-Treasurer: David Kangas, Dept. of Religion, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306 (email: dkangas@mailer.fsu.edu). AAR Representative: Marilyn Piety (email: marilyn.piety@drexel.edu). APA Representative: John Davenport (email: davenport@fordham.edu). (Society web site: http://libnt2.lib.tcu.edu/staff/bellinger/SK_Society.htm).

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