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.
Wojciech Kaftanski and Jeffrey Hanson are organizing an event at New College of Florida in Sarasota on “Kierkegaard and Imagination” on May 8-9, 2026. All are welcome to attend. See poster for relevant details.
Call for papers: SKC Annual Conference 2026 in Copenhagen
12th – 14th August
TOPIC: Kierkegaard – and Kierkegaard: Totality and Plurality
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 April 1, 2026, to Bjarne Still Laurberg: bsl@sk.ku.dk
For more information, visit: https://teol.ku.dk/skc/english/events/2026/skc-annual-conference-2026/
The Kierkegaard Circle of Trinity College, University of Toronto has an upcoming event:
| Topic: | Jacobi in Kierkegaard’s Thought: Some remarks on a recent publication |
| Speaker: | Paolo Livieri Research Fellow at COSPECS University of Messina Italy |
| Time: | Friday, March 27, 2026 5:00 pm-7:00 pm |
| Place: | Divinity Common Room (DCR)* Trinity College, University of Toronto 6 Hoskin Avenue, Toronto |
| Inquiry: | Prof. Abrahim H. Khan, khanah@chass.utoronto.ca, cell: 905-706-0569 Adjunct Prof. Jizhang Yi, jizhang.yi@utoronto.ca, 778-858-8720 Faculty of Divinity, Trinity College, University of Toronto 6 Hoskin Avenue, Toronto, Ontario 416-978-2522 *DCR located by stairs to dining room. Ask at Welcome Desk. |
Paolo Livieri (PhDs, McGill and Uni. of Pauda) is a research fellow at the Dept. of Cognitive Sciences, Psychology, Education and Cultural Studies, University of Messina. His publications on Hegel’s logic and Jacobi’s philosophy has issued in monographs as well as translations and shorter essays. He is currently working on an introduction to Hegel’s philosophy of religion for Cambridge University Press.
ABSTRACT
A consideration of how Kierkegaard takes up Jacobi’s figure of the salto mortale, developing it into his own concept of the leap, which defines both the transition into religious existence and the dialectic of decision and repetition. It draws on M. Feldmeier, Freiheit und Rationalität. Zur Rolle F. H. Jacobis im Denken Søren Kierkegaards (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023).
More information here.
The following persons have been elected as incoming officers of the Søren Kierkegaard Society, USA:
Jeff Hanson, Associate Professor of Philosophy at New College of Florida: Vice-President/President-Elect
Claudia Welz, Professor of Ethics and Philosophy of Religion at Aarhus University: AAR Representative
Thomas J. Millay, Senior Research Fellow at the Hong Kierkegaard Library: Treasurer
Congratulations to Jeff, Claudia, and Tom, and thank you very much to all the excellent candidates willing to stand for election. Thank you also to all the SKS members who voted.
With this original translation of Two Ages, readers of English can explore the novella’s influence on the socio-political philosophy of Kierkegaard’s “Review,” all while enjoying one of the literary masterpieces of Golden Age Denmark. This publication, of particular interest to scholars of Kierkegaard and Golden Age Denmark, will be available on November 27th, 2025.
See her for Call for Papers: Søren Kierkegaard and the philosophies of existence
Authors interested in publishing their works are invited to send them via e-mail as attachments in WORD and PDF format to the Director of the journal, Prof. Pio Colonnello (pio.colonnello@unical.it) and to the Editorial Staff (bollettinofilosofico@gmail.com).
The deadline for submitting articles is April 30, 2026. The journal issue will be published by December 2026.
For further information please contact: bollettinofilosofico@gmail.com
“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.
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.
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.
An online event based in Milan, Madrid, and Copenhagen, “Søren Kierkegaard and the Philosophy of Existence,” will take place on June 3, 2025. The seminar will be held in English and can be attended remotely.
This event is a joint initiative by the Università Cattolica of Milan, the Complutense University of Madrid, the University of Copenhagen, and the Pegaso Online University.
For more information, visit the event page: https://filosofia.ucm.es/file/seminario-kierkegaard-3-de-junio
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!
Conference hosted by l’Institut Français.
The Passion of Possibility. Studies on Kierkegaard’s Post-metaphysical Theology
A Seminar at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Milan, Italy
René Rosfort delivers a lecture for the series “Kierkegaard’s Methodology in the Context of the History of Philosophy” at Aarhus University, 13:00-15:00 local time.
This is the first event of the Ethics of Doubt project, hosted at the University of Southhampton.
Visit the project’s website and view the workshop’s program.
Sponsored by the American Society of Aesthetics. Confirmed speakers include Antony Aumann, Kathleen Higgins, Alex King, Hans Mars, Sandra Shapshay, and Yuriko Saito. Submissions are due February 1, 2024.
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.
A conference organized by the Institut Français du Danemark and supported by the Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre, University of Copenhagen.
Projects and submissions must be submitted by June 1, 2024. Learn more and read the conference’s aims.
A workshop organized by the Research Unit for Kierkegaard Studies at Aarhus University.
For more details and registration information, please see: Plakat.Kierkegaard.Nature.11-2024.