Prof Jørgen Veisland

@veisland

University of Gdańsk, Poland

Joined Apr 2023

Active member Conference Committee Faculty
Biography

Jørgen Steen Veisland is associate professor of Scandinavian, American and Comparative Literature at the University of Gdańsk, Poland, where he has been employed since 1992. Previous appointments include The International People’s College, Denmark; The University of Wisconsin-Madison; The University of California, Berkeley, and Fudan University, Shanghai. He is a member of The International Association for Scandinavian Studies and The International Association for Ethical Literary Criticism. He is the author of numerous articles on Scandinavian and American literature and of several books.

Academic Activity
Ereignis Institute
Not available Modernism and metaphysics (Instructor)
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Talks
Upcoming Talk Claude‘s Constitution: Matter and form as artifice at artifices (8 August 2026)
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Entropy as the primal physical and metaphysical force: Introducing Dror Pimentel’s Aesth-Ethics: Of Hospitality in Art, reading Stephen Crane’s “The Blue Hotel” at Aesth/Ethics (9 August 2025)
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On geopolitical states of power, surveillance, and of freedom of speech, with reference to George Orwell’s 1984 at Ereignis Seminar (2 October 2024)
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The silence of the black guitar. Pathos in Jon Fosse’s Stengd gitar. at Pausing Time/Timing the Pause (10 August 2024)
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Transcendence in Cormac McCarthy’s novels The Crossing and Stella Maris at Ereignis Seminar (1 November 2023)
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Spacetime in Søren Kierkegaard's Repetition at Beyond dualism (9 May 2023)
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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 at Kierkegaard (1 July 2022)
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The appropriation of being: dismantling totalitarianism in Unto Madness, Unto Death by Kirsten Thorup at Event and Becoming (1 July 2021)
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Publications
editor Wuthering Heights (2020)
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editor Oliver Twist (2019)
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translator The Black Wall (2019)
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author “On Geopolitical States of Power, Surveillance, Freedom of Speech, with Reference to George Orwell’s 1984” in Working papers (2024)
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author “The silence of the black guitar: Pathos in Jon Fosse’s Stengd gitar” in Proceedings 2024 (2024)
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