Living in Uncertainty: Kierkegaard and Possibility
Living in Uncertainty: Kierkegaard and Possibility
Senate House University of London, London WC1E 7HU
https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/19252
PROGRAMME
Thursday 12 September
12:30 Welcome and coffee
13:00 Rick Furtak (Colorado College, US): ‘Despair and the Phenomenology of Possibility’
Kresten Lundsgaard-Leth (University of Aalborg, Denmark): ‘The Evolution of Possibility in Kierkegaard’s Thought’
14:30 Coffee
14:45 Iben Damgaard (University of Copenhagen): ‘On Hope and Seriousness’
Erin Plunkett (University of Hertfordshire, UK): ‘Kierkegaard’s Poetics of the Possible’
16:15 Hjördis Becker-Lindenthal (Cambridge University, UK): ‘How to Cooperate with Possibility: Kierkegaard on Detachment, Imagination, and Hope’
John Lippitt (University of Hertfordshire, UK): ‘‘Beyond possibility? Expectancy and substantial hope in the task of forgiveness’
18:00 Evening reception at the Danish Embassy(by invitation only; conference speakers)
55 Sloane Street, London, SW1X 9SR
Friday 13 Sept
9:00 Welcome and coffee
9:30 Claudine Davidshofer (High Point University, US): ‘Kierkegaard’s Rethinking of Hegel’s Modal Categories’
Jakub Marek (Charles University, Prague): ‘On Being Educated by Possibility in Kierkegaard’s Concept of Anxiety’
Atsuya Matoba (Kyoto University, Japan): ‘Possibility and Human Love in Works of Love’
11:30 Coffee
11:45 Guiditta Corbella (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan): ‘Possibility and existence in the recently published Heidegger’s Anmerkungen zu Sein und Zeit’
Eleanor Helms (California Polytechnic, US): ‘Kierkegaard´s Metaphysics: A Defence of Abstract Possibilities’
13:15 Lunch
14:30 Daniel Conway (Texas A&M, US): ‘Defiance: The Death of Possibility and the Rise of Dark Authenticity’
Hugh Pyper (Sheffield University, UK): ‘Who Then Can Be Saved?’
Anna Westin (Boston College, US): ‘Kierkegaard’s Possibility in an Age of Environmental Anxiety’
16:15 Coffee
16:30 Robert Reed (Boston College, US): ‘Spiritual Trial in Kierkegaard: Religious Anxiety and Levinas’s Other’
Vanessa Rumble (Boston College, US): ‘Subjects of contention: Voices of Good and Evil in Kierkegaard’s Spiritual Exercises’
18:00 Close – OptionalDrinks Locally (at own expense)
Saturday 14 Sept
10:00 Joakim Garff (University of Copenhagen): ‘On Aesthetic and Religious Illusions’
Antony Aumann (Northern Michigan University, US): ‘Personal Ideals and the Dangerous Power of Art’
Ruth Signer (Université de Genève, Switzerland): ‘To Luxuriate in Possibility: Kierkegaard and the Potential of Literature’
11:45 Coffee
12:00 Jeff Hanson (Harvard University, US): ‘From Possibility to Actuality and Back Again: Kierkegaard’s Ontology of the Possible and the Actually Ideal’
Eskil Elling (PhD, Northwestern University, US): ‘Mood, Morality, and Modality: The constitutive dilemma of the aesthetic in Kant and Kierkegaard’
13:30 Lunch
14:30 Tatiana Badurová (Charles University, Prague) ‘Kierkegaard’s Abraham or the Possibility of the Gift’
Frances Maughan-Brown (College of the Holy Cross, US): ‘Possibility and Prototype: On Kierkegaard’s Uncertain Patterns’
16:00 Coffee
16:15 Mélissa Fox-Muraton (ESC Clermont/Université Clermont Auvergne, France): ‘Kierkegaard and Beauvoir on uncertainty, freedom, and equality’
Sebastian Hüsch (Aix-Marseille Université, France): ‘Truth as a possibility: meaningful existence between metaphysics and experience’
17:45 Close of conference
The conference is generously supported by the Danish Embassy of London, the Kierkegaard Society of the UK and the University of Hertfordshire.
Online registration required at https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/19252 Flat rate for 2½ day conference:
Standard conference ticket £55 | Student and unwaged conference ticket £35 | Speaker ticket £55