International News

Exterior of the Hong Kierkegaard Library with a dark blue sky in the background. — The International Kierkegaard Community continues to be active around the world, throughout the year. To the right are upcoming events and recent publications of interest. Should you wish to include your news on this page, email Director Anna Söderquist, soderq3@stolaf.edu.

*Please note, these events are not hosted by the Kierkegaard Library, rather they are ongoing events in the broader Kierkegaard community.*

Please find information below regarding the Call for Papers for the 2026 Søren Kierkegaard Society, USA (SKS) APA sessions at the Eastern and Central Meetings.

APA Eastern Division Meeting
January 7-10, 2026
Location: Baltimore, Maryland

For this session, the SKS is issuing an open call for papers. We are seeking papers that present new research directions as well as advancement in current conversations within Kierkegaard scholarship. Abstracts should be approximately 500 words and should be emailed to amberleabowen@gmail.com by August 15, 2025, for full consideration.

APA Central Division Meeting
February 18-21, 2026
Location: Chicago, Illinois

Topic: Kierkegaard on SufferingThis session is dedicated to philosophical scholarship on Kierkegaard and suffering. It can include explorations in or dialogue with the Kierkegaardian authorship concerning the problem of evil, virtues and vices in the context of suffering, phenomenological accounts of suffering, explorations in social epistemology on suffering, and more. Abstracts should be approximately 500 words and should be emailed to amberleabowen@gmail.com by September 15, 2025, for full consideration.

The Research Unit for Kierkegaard Studies at Aarhus University is hosting a hybrid lecture series on “Kierkegaard’s Methodology in the History of Philosophy.”

Upcoming event:

June 3, 2025, 13:15-15:00 CET: Lecture by Bjarke Mørkøre Stigel Hansen (Søren Kierkegaard Research Center, University of Copenhagen): “Modalities of Expectancy and Patience: On Temporality and Futurity in Kierkegaard’s Edifying Discourses from 1843-44”. In room 1451-225 and online. More information here.

Hereby a warm invitation to everyone interested!

The SKC Annual Conference 2025 will be held August 13-15 at The Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre, Copenhagen University. The conference theme is “Kierkegaard, “the Religious,” and Religions”.

If you wish to present a paper at the SKC Annual Conference 2025, please submit a paper proposal including a title and a short description of your paper (max 350 words) before March 15, 2025, to Bjarne Still Laurberg: bsl@sk.ku.dk

“The work examines the presence and significance of Kierkegaard in Heidegger’s work. After setting out the context of Heidegger’s reception of the Danish thinker and examining his likely knowledge of his writings, the work first examines key Kierkegaardian concepts that are explicitly present in Being and Time, including existence, ‘idle talk’ (Gerede), anxiety, the moment of vision, repetition, and the existential significance of death. It is seen that Heidegger regarded Kierkegaard as an essentially religious writer whose work was only indirectly relevant to Heidegger’s own project of fundamental ontology. Subsequently, the work considers the place of Kierkegaard in Heidegger’s writings from the 1930s onwards, concluding with consideration of the paper Heidegger submitted for the 1963 Paris UNESCO conference marking the 150th anniversary of Kierkegaard’s thought.”

Please see here for more information about this new book by George Pattison.

“This is the second volume in a three-volume work dedicated to exploring the influence of G.W.F. Hegel’s philosophical thinking in Golden Age Denmark. The work demonstrates that the largely overlooked tradition of Danish Hegelianism played a profound and indeed constitutive role in many spheres of the Golden Age culture. This second tome treats the most intensive period in the history of the Danish Hegel reception, namely, the years from 1837 to 1841.”

Learn more about Jon Stewart and his other projects.

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Elements in the Philosophy of Søren Kierkegaard includes titles that are organized around particular themes, and others that are more historically organized – about specific Kierkegaardian texts. Both well-established and emerging scholars contribute to this series, combining decades of expertise with new and different perspectives.

See the website for more information about this new series.

July 16 – 17, 2025 at Princeton University

Invited Speakers: Daniel Brinkerhoff Young (Union College), Lara Buchak (Princeton University), Marilyn Piety (Drexel University)

For submission information and other details, please see here.

Questions can be addressed to conference organizers: Hans Halvorson (hhalvors@princeton.edu) or Z Quanbeck (zquanbeck@princeton.edu)

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.

The Faculty of Arts at Aarhus University (Denmark) hosts a two-day intensive course for PhD students. PhD candidates will present their papers, attend lectures, and participate in discussions throughout.

View more information. Please register by April 30th.

Notable lectures

“Irony, Humor, and the Quest for the Good Life” – Bernhard Obsieger of Saint Louis University, Madrid – 10:30 on May 30th

“Kierkegaardian Humor’s Way to Self-Knowledge” – Dr. Tami Yaguri of Ono Academic College – 14:00 on May 31st

The Søren Kierkegaard Centre hosts their annual conference in Copenhagen, sponsored by the Carlsberg Foundation. This year’s topic is “Kierkegaard Between Individuality and Sociality”. There are many speakers from the international community, of which each lecture is followed by discussion.

View the conference’s program.

October 8, 2024, 13:00-15:00 (Copenhagen time):

Seminar on neighborly love with Claudia Welz (Aarhus University) and Michael Au Mullaney (Fordham University): “Kierkegaard, Løgstrup and Phenomenology” (hosted by the Aarhus Phenomenology Research Group) in room 1467-616 and online.

Please register with Nicolai Krejberg Knudsen knudsen@cas.au.dk to receive the texts on which the discussion will be based.

Topic:	Not Telling Everything: Kierkegaard’s Indirect Communication and Chan Buddhism’s bu shuo po
Speaker:	Jizhang Yi, PhD Adjunct Professor Faculty of Divinity, Trinity College University of Toronto
Time:	Friday, December 6, 2024 5:00 pm –7:00 pm (Toronto time) EDT
Place:	Combination Room Trinity College University of Toronto
Inquiry:	Adjunct Prof. Jizhang Yi, jizhang.yi@utoronto.ca, 778-858-8720 Prof. Abrahim H. Khan, khanah@chass.utoronto.ca, cell: 905-706-0569 Faculty of Divinity, Trinity College, University of Toronto 6 Hoskin Avenue, Toronto, Ontario 416-978-6522https://sites.utoronto.ca/kierkegaard/upcoming.htm