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.
It is not possible to submit proposals for this event at this time.
Download the Conference Programme as PDF.

The conference was held on-site, at Hotel Antares in Gdynia, Poland, and on-line, on the Zoom videoconferencing platform, on June 11 and 12, 2022. Registration was required through eventbrite.co.uk/. Watch videos of the keynotes or read articles from the conference published in Inscriptions.

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Keynotes

  • Dr. Kresten Lundsgaard-Leth, International People’s College, Denmark: “For the Love of God? On Hägglund’s misunderstanding of Fear and Trembling” Abstract;
  • Prof. (Emeritus) Christopher Norris, University of Cardiff, Wales: “Neither/Nor: Kierkegaard Between Philosophy and Literature” Abstract;
  • 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;
  • Prof. Dr. 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.

Sessions

Papers are timed to 20 minutes and followed by a Q&A with the audience. Each session is moderated. See the conference programme for details.

Conference fee

  • General attendance: €80 (standard fee);
  • Reduced fee: €40 (students and the unwaged).

Organisers

This event is hosted by Inscriptions — a journal for contemporary thinking on art, philosophy and psycho-analysis, and Ereignis Center for Philosophy and the Arts.

Scholastic committee:

  • Prof James Bahoh, University of Memphis;
  • Dr Mehdi Parsa, Ereignis Center for Philosophy and the Arts;
  • Dr Simon Smith, British Personalist Forum;
  • Dr Torgeir Fjeld, Ereignis Center for Philosophy and the Arts.

Sponsor

The 2022 Ereignis Conference is generously sponsored by Adrianex.

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