Current Events

048 — The Kierkegaard Library hosts lecture and other research activities throughout the year. Here, you will find details to upcoming events. Please feel free to email hkl@stolaf.edu with any questions.

Steensland-Interior-2022-1 — Events which have already happened are listed here. Most have resources from the event (links to articles or videos) that may be of interest.

Biannual Lecture Series in honor of Kierkegaard Scholar Julia Watkin. See here for more details.

When: Tuesday, November 12, 2024 from 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM CST (Minnesota) / 18:30-19:30 CET (Slovakia)

Where: Virtual Event via ZOOM (recording)

Who: Jon Stewart, Institute of Philosophy, Slovak Academy of Sciences

What: “The Enigma of Adler’s Revelation“

Annual banquet sponsored by the Friends of the Kierkegaard Library.

When: Wednesday, October 16th from 6:00-8:00pm

Where: Buntrock Commons 210 Trollhaugen

Who: Dr. Maxwell Parlin (Fall 2024 HKL Advance Research Fellow) will present a talk titled “Kierkegaard and Dostoevsky on Heaven and Earth” and our Summer 2024 CURI students will present their research projects.

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.

7.19.2024 – Presley Martins led a seminar on the topic of “Faith, Love, and Hope in the Valley of Shadow and Death: A Kierkegaardian Existential Perspective.”

7.26.2024 – Wendy Hao Wang led a seminar on the topic of “Stephen Mulhall on Kierkegaard and Wittgenstein: Analogical Nonsense and Living the Great Riddle of Our Life.”

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

March 19, 2024

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

April 11, 2024

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

May 9, 2024

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.

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”.

View the conference’s program here.