Kierkegaard: Acts of philosophy - the Second Ereignis Conference
How can we enlist the literary image to move readers to act in the world, and how may a philosophical life serve as a theatre in which ideas are enacted? These are key questions for our second Ereignis conference, to be held on-site in Gdynia, Poland, and online on Saturday, June 11, and online-only on June 12, 2022. Hosted by Ereignis Center for Philosophy and the Arts, and headlined by internationally acclaimed speakers on literary and political philosophy, this conference seeks to show a wide array of philosophical, literary, and social junctures where Kierkegaard’s philosophy meet with contemporary concerns.
Saturday 11 June: on-site in Gdynia, Poland
All times CET (Warsaw)
Time
Content
09h45
Welcome
Dr. Torgeir Fjeld, Ereignis Center for Philosophy and the Arts
10h00
Keynote
Prof. Jørgen Veisland, University of Gdańsk, Poland: “What's in a name. A Kierkegaardian approach to Herman Melville's Billy Budd, Albert Camus' The Myth of Sisyphus and Paul Auster's City of Glass” Abstract
11h00
Session 1
Santiago de Arteaga, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile and University of Leiden: “To die being oneself: The literary image of the ‘teacher of earnestness’ and its place in self-becoming”
Dr. Adam Staley Groves, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore: “Lord of the Door: Kierkegaard and the poetry of thought”
Christine Hsiu-Chin Chou, Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan: “Interfusion between Narrative and Existence: A Hermeneutic of ‘Guilty or Not Guilty’ in Stages on Life’s Way”
Moderator: Gisle Selnes.
12h30
Keynote
Dr. Kresten Lundsgaard-Leth, International People's College, Denmark: “For the Love of God? On Hägglund’s misunderstanding of Fear and Trembling” Abstract
13h30
Break
14h30
Keynote
Prof. Gisle Selnes, University of Bergen, Norway: “Job’s Modernity; or Ereignis & Repetition: a Lacanian re-view, with discontinual reference to the Assange case” Abstract
15h30
Roundtable: The philosophical act
How can Kierkegaard’s work and acts serve to exemplify the ways in which a philosophical life can become a theatre of ideas that are relevant in our time?
Prof. Jørgen Veisland, University of Gdańsk, Poland.
Dr. Kresten Lundsgaard-Leth, International People's College, Denmark.
Prof. Gisle Selnes, University of Bergen, Norway.
Moderator: Torgeir Fjeld.
16h30
Day 1 ends
Sunday 12 June: online on Zoom videoconferencing platform
10h45
Welcome
Dr. Torgeir Fjeld, Ereignis Center for Philosophy and the Arts
11h00
Keynote
Prof. Christopher Norris, University of Cardiff, Wales: “Neither/Nor: Kierkegaard Between Philosophy and Literature” Abstract
12h00
Session 2
Dante Clementi, University of St Andrews, UK: “Disorienting Upbuilding: Ricoeur and Kierkegaard on Spiritual Transfiguration through Reading”
Giulia Zerbinati, University of Pisa/Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy: “Aesthetic images as the reconnection of the self with the world: an Adornian approach to Kierkegaard”
Moderator: TBA
13h00
Session 3
Huang Yufeng, University of Macau: “The Divinatory and the contemporaneity: different thoughts of Schleiermacher and Kierkegaard on hermeneutics”
Gorica Orsholits, European Graduate School: “Elucidating humour in Kierkegaard’s philosophy”
Moderator: TBA
14h00
Concluding words
Dr. Torgeir Fjeld, Ereignis Center for Philosophy and the Arts closes the conference.
14h15