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Events

Teaching

  • Fall 2022: International course in Philosophy: “Kierkegaard and modern existentialism” (Anders Moe Rasmussen, Hannah Lang)
  • Fall 2021: Elective interdisciplinary course in Ethics, Philosophy of Religion, and Biblical Theology: Kierkegaard, eksistenstænkning og livskriser (Claudia Welz, Bjarke Mørkøre Stigel Hansen, René Falkenberg)
  • Fall 2020: International course in Philosophy: Kierkegaard and modern existentialism (Anders Moe Rasmussen, Niels Wilde Langballe, Claudia Welz)

Seminars in a Danish context

  • November 8, 2023: Workshop: “How do we read Kierkegaard today?” in room 1453-415. Registration via mail to Bjarke Mørkøre Stigel Hansen (bmh@cas.au.dk).
  • March 22, 2023: Book presentation: "Dialektik af G.W.F. Hegel", edited by Anna Cornelia Ploug and William Mathorne. Poster can be found here. The seminar will be in Danish. If you are interested in participating, please contact wm@cas.au.dk.

  • December 1, 2022: Presentation of PhD project on Kierkegaard & Sløk by Mikael Brorson (registration via mail to clw@cas.au.dk)

  • October 13, 2022. Workshop: "Beginning, Birth and Motherhood in Søren Kierkegaard". The program can be found here here. The workshop will be in Danish. If you are interested in participating, please contact Hannah Lang hl@cas.au.dk or Cæcilie Varslev-Pedersen cille.varselv@gmail.com.

  • May 6, 2022: Inaugural lecture by Claudia Welz. For further information look here

  • December 8, 2021: Presentation of PhD project by Hannah Lang (registration via mail to hl@cas.au.dk)

International conferences & seminars

  • May 30-31, 2024: PhD course & conference: "Humor, Education, and the Quest for a Good Life”. See poster here. Deadline for proposals for PhD papers: April 5, 2024. Registration at https://au.phd-courses.dk/CourseCatalog/ShowCourse/1466/
  • May 15-16, 2024: PhD & postdoctoral course & conference: "Existential Orientation and Meaning in Life". See program and poster here. Deadline for proposals for PhD papers: March 20, 2024.
  • May 15, 2024, 1-3 p.m.: Lecture by René Rosfort (University of Copenhagen): “Kierkegaard’s Existential Approach: The Single Individual Between Faith and Reason”. The lecture is a part of the series: “Kierkegaard’s Methodology in the Context of the History of Philosophy”. In Studenterhuset. See poster here.
  • December 12, 2023, 2-4 p.m.: Lecture by Elizabeth Li (University of Copenhagen):  ’How Do You Read?’ Typography and Existence in Kierkegaard´s Postscript” in Studenterhuset. The lecture is a part of the series: “Kierkegaard’s Methodology in the History of Philosophy”. Please reigster by mail to Anders Moe Rasmussen (filamr@cas.au.dk). Poster.
  • May 16, 2023, 2-4 p.m.: Lecture by Clare Carlisle (King’s College London): “Auto-Philosophy and Life-Writing: Kierkegaard as Artist”. The lecture is a part of the series: “Kierkegaard’s Methodology in the Context of the History of Philosophy”. See the program here. (Please reigster by mail to Claudia Welz: clw@cas.au.dk)

  • April 11, 2023, 5-7 p.m.: Zoom-lecture by Claudia Welz (Aarhus University) for Dynamis: “The Role of Language and Second-Personal Encounters in Kierkegaard’s Phenomenology of Freedom (please register by mail to Anne Eggert Stevns: filaes@cas.au.dk).

  • August 15-16, 2022. The inter-disciplinary PhD & postdoctoral course & conference “Truth and truthfulness: Biblical, philosophical, and theological approaches, which was originally scheduled for the middle of January, has been postponed to August 15-16, 2022. Here, Claudia Welz will be giving a paper on Kierkegaard with the title ”Being Truthful vis-à-vis Each Other:  Existential, Pragmatic, and Dialogical Approaches to Truth in Kierkegaard, Rosenzweig, and Buber.” See the program and register here. Online- or physical participation is possible upon registration.

  • June 15-16, 2022: PhD & postdoctoral course & conferenceEpistemic Virtues and the Practice of DialogueFor further information and registration look here. Heiko Schulz will be giving a paper on Kierkegaard on June 16 with the title ”Transition, Emotion, and Reason: Kierkegaard on the Rationality of Becoming a Christian.” Before that we will discuss his paper on Kierkegaard: ”Changing One’s Mind”. See the program here and a poster here. Online- or physical participation is possible upon registration.

  • April 22, 2022: Lecture by Roe Fremstedal (Trondheim): “Kierkegaard on Faith and Reason.” For further information look here.

  • March 30 – April 1, 2022: Conference: “Romanticism Today: Realism, Nature, and Existence in Romantic Philosophy.” For further information look here.

  • March 4, 2022: Opening Seminar of the Research Unit for Kierkegaard Studies, Aarhus University: Kierkegaard’s Methodology in the Context of the History of Philosophy.” Lecture by Philipp Schwab: “ 'Working against Oneself': Kierkegaard's Indirect Method between Hegel and Nietzsche.” For further information look here.

Reading Group

  • Spring 2022: Reading group for students in philosophy and theology on a selected work by Kierkegaard, hosted by PhD student Hannah Lang (registration via mail to hl@cas.au.dk). Further information here.