Archived Events
Events which have already happened are listed here. Most have resources from the event (links to articles or videos) that may be of interest.
In person presentation of research from visiting summer scholars. All are welcome.
When: Friday, July 19th from 2:00-3:00 pm
Where: Hong Kierkegaard Library (Steensland Hall)
Who: Presley Martins (2023-2024 Kierkegaard House Fellow)
What: Presley will lead a seminar on the topic of “Faith, Love, and Hope in the Valley of Shadow and Death: A Kierkegaardian Existential Perspective.”
In person presentation of research from visiting summer scholars. All are welcome.
When: Friday, July 26th from 2:00-3:00 pm
Where: Hong Kierkegaard Library (Steensland Hall)
Who: Wendy Hao Wang (2024 KSI Research Fellow)
What: Wendy will lead a seminar on the topic of “Stephen Mulhall on Kierkegaard and Wittgenstein: Analogical Nonsense and Living the Great Riddle of Our Life.”
Events which have already happened are listed here. Most have resources from the event (links to articles or videos) that may be of interest.
2024 Internal Seminars were led by the following Kierkegaard Summer Institute (KSI) Research Fellows:
6.7.2024 – Jeff Matheson led a seminar on the topic of Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling.
6.14.2024 – Suzan ten Heuw led a seminar on the topic of “Kierkegaard’s Thinking About the Self in Light of His Relation to Fichte.”
6.21.2024 – Noah Valdez led a seminar on the topic of “Nemo contra deum nisi deus ipse: Or, Kierkegaard, Schmitt, and the Closure of the Problem of Political Theology.”
7.5.2024 – Z Quanbeck led a seminar on the topic of “Doubt’s Despair: Kierkegaard on Moral Responsibility for Believing.”
7.10.2024 – David Heckerl led a seminar on the topic of “Vouching for the Unconditional.”
7.12.2024 – Christopher Nelson led a seminar on the topic of “This disastrous confusion of politics and Christianity,” Revisited, Again.
Utech Seminar Title: On the Truth of Truth: Exploring Kierkegaard’s Epistemological Anarchism
Speaker: Begonya Saez Tajafuerce, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Thursday, June 27 (2:00 – 4:00 pm) Seminar session I: A Kind of Magic: Irony and Image on Display
Friday June 28 (2:00 – 4:00 pm) Seminar session II: The Image of the Self or Kierkegaard as an Illusion
Location: Regents 290
Embracing Uniqueness: Finding and Loving Your “Essential” Self and Contribution
Speaker: Deidre Green, Assistant Professor, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA
4:00 pm CDT on ZOOM
Self-Development is Not a Sin: The Christian’s Calling to Selfhood
Speaker: Deidre Green, Assistant Professor, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA
11:30 am – 12:30 pm ZOOM
Engendering Joy: Kierkegaard as Catalyst for Overcoming Complacency
Speaker: Deidre Green, Assistant Professor, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA
7:00 pm, Sun Ballroom, Buntrock Commons, St. Olaf
Learn more about the lecture series.
March 13-15, 2024: 8:00-12:00 CDT (Minnesota) / 14.00-18.00 CET (Copenhagen) via ZOOM
View our past speakers and lecture topics, as well as select recordings. Events date back to 2016.
The Ninth International Kierkegaard Conference was virtually hosted by the Hong Kierkegaard Library from May 6-8, 2022. 26 speakers delivered lectures and led discussion on a wide range of topics, addressing the conference’s theme: “Kierkegaardian perceptions and prescriptive on mental health issues”.
The Eighth International Kierkegaard Conference was hosted by the Hong Kierkegaard Library at St. Olaf College from June 13 to 17, 2018. Speakers addressed the topic, “The Wisdom of Kierkegaard: What Existential Lessons have you Learned from Him?”.