Please view the following archives of events including Julia Watkin Memorial Lectures, the Utech Seminars, the Poul Lübcke Memorial Lecture Series, and other talks by Kierkegaard scholars. Recordings are included when available. For upcoming events and lectures, please see our News & Events page.
Julia Watkin Lecture Series
2006–present
- Spring 2025 “Where’s the Archimedean Point? Kierkegaard on Existential Orientation in Life’s Crises” (more information)
- Speaker: Claudia Welz, Aarhus University, Denmark
- Fall 2024 “The Enigma of Adler’s Revelation“ Recording
- Speaker: Jon Stewart, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia
- Spring 2024 “The Kierkegaardian Text“ Recording
- Speaker: Joakim Garff, Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre, University of Copenhagen. Learn more.
- Fall 2023 “The Existential Need of Anxiety: Kierkegaard and the Current Mental Health Crisis” Recording
- Speaker: René Rosfort, Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
- Spring 2023 “Thought Projects and Imaginary Constructions: Kierkegaard’s Experimenting Mind” Recording
- Speaker: Eleanor Helms, California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, California
- Fall 2022 “My Walk with Kierkegaard: Agreements and Disagreements” Recording
- Speaker: Gordon Marino, Hong Kierkegaard Library, St. Olaf College, Minnesota
- Fall 2021 “Dare to Rejoice” Recording
- Speakers: Carson S. Webb, Piedmont University, and Gordon Marino, Hong Kierkegaard Library, St. Olaf College
- Spring 2021 “Kierkegaard and Luther: What Søren Kierkegaard Lauded, Lanced, Missed, and Misjudged of Martin Luther” Recording
- Speaker: David Coe, Concordia University, Minnesota
- Fall 2020 “The Responsibility to Revolt: Søren Kierkegaard and the Politics of Love” Recording
- Speaker: Jamie Aroosi, New York University, New York
- Spring 2020 “Kierkegaard’s Critique of Nationalism Reconsidered” Recording
- Speaker: Thomas J. Millay, Baylor University, Texas
- Fall 2019 “Kierkegaard on the Transformative Power of Art” (transcript)
- Speaker: Antony Aumann, Northern Michigan University, Michigan
- Spring 2019 “What Makes Kierkegaard ‘Biblical’?” Recording
- Speaker: Carl Hughes, Texas Lutheran University, Texas
- Fall 2018 “Crashing Into One’s Self: Decisive Encounters with the Wisdom of Kierkegaard & the Value of First Person Responses” Recording
- Speaker: Jamie Lorentzen, Hong Kierkegaard Library, St. Olaf College, Minnesota
- Spring 2017 “Kierkegaard and Nature” Recording
- Speaker: Anthony Rudd, St. Olaf College, Minnesota
- Spring 2016 “Kierkegaard on Narcissism and Self-Love” Recording
- Speaker: Sergia Hay, Pacific Lutheran University, Washington
- Fall 2015 “Kierkegaard and His Reader” Recording
- Speaker: John Poling, Saint Mary’s University, Minnesota
- Fall 2014 “Kierkegaard Crumbs: ‘For to be in Existence is Always a Bit Inconvenient'” Recording
- Speaker: Dr. David Cain, University of Mary Washington, Virginia
- Fall 2013 “Søren Kierkegaard: In the Wake of the Flying Geese” Recording
- Speaker: Dr. Rune Engebretsen, Kierkegaard House Foundation
- Fall 2012 “Inherited Sin: Kierkegaard on Guilt Against Generations”
- Speaker: Ronald Green, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire
- Fall 2011 “Kierkegaard and the Subjectivity in Being the Truth”
- Speaker: Poul Lübcke
- Fall 2010 “Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling: The Poetry of Suffering”
- Speaker: Vanessa Rumble, Boston College, Massachusetts
- Fall 2009 “Bonhoeffer to His Fiancée: ‘Take a Strong Dose of Kierkegaard!'”
- Speaker: Andrew Burgess, University of New Mexico, New Mexico
- Fall 2008 “Poetry, History, and Humanity: A Historian Reads Kierkegaard”
- Speaker: Bruce Kirmmse, Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre, Cøpenhagen
- Fall 2007 “Kierkegaard: Father of Existentialism or Critic of Existentialism”
- Speaker: Stephan Evans, Baylor University, Texas
- Fall 2006 “‘With the Help of Ideals—Against Illusions: For Eternity!’ Kierkegaard’s Critique of Christendom”
- Speaker: Robert Perkins, Stetson University, Florida
Utech Seminar Series
2010–present
- 2025 – Mark Wrathall, Oxford University (more information)
- July 22: “Time, Eternity, and the Moment: Kierkegaard and the Temporality of Existence”
- July 23: “Kierkegaardian Temporality and 20th Century Phenomenologies of Time”
- 2024 – Begonya Saya Tajafuerce, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
- “On the Truth of Truth: Exploring Kierkegaard’s Epistemological Anarchism” (advertised flier)
- June 27: “A Kind of Magic: Irony and Image on Display”
- June 28: “The Image of the Self of Kierkegaard as an Illusion”
- “On the Truth of Truth: Exploring Kierkegaard’s Epistemological Anarchism” (advertised flier)
- 2023 – Iben Damgaard, Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre, University of Copenhagen
- June 13 & 15: “The question of dignity and recognition in Kierkegaard’s Works of Love“
- 2022 – Roe Fremstedal, , Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
- June 23rd: “Kierkegaard’s ‘Naked Abstract Self’: Minimal, Transcendental, Ironic, or Narrative Self?”
- July 27th: “Kierkegaard on Faith and Reason”
- 2021 – Sharon Krishek, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- 2020 – Clare Carlisle, King’s College, London
- July 9 & 10 – “Kierkegaard: Writing a Life”
- 2019 – Jacob Howland, McFarlin Professor of Philosophy (emeritus) at the University of Tulsa, Oklahoma
- Kierkegaard Reflections on “The Sickness Unto Death”
- 2017 – Patrick Stokes, Deakin University
- 2016 – Vincent McCarthy, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Saint Joseph’s University, Pennsylvania
- Kierkegaard and Psychology before Psychology
- Did Heidegger Plagiarize Kierkegaard?
- 2015 – Poul Lübcke
- Aesthetics, Religion, and the Crisis of Metaphysics
- 2014 – Lee Barrett, Lancaster Theological Seminary, Pennsylvania
- St. Augustine and Kierkegaard
- 2013 – Richard Crouter, Professor Emeritus at Carleton College, Minnesota
- Schleiermacher and the Persistence of Romanticism
- 2012 – John Davenport, Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University, New York
- 2011 – Jon Stewart, Institute of Philosophy, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia
- 2010 – Ed Mooney, Professor at Syracuse University, New York
Poul Lübcke Memorial Lecture Series
2020
- October 2020
- Nigel Hatton, University of California, Merced
- Recording—Kierkegaard and the Ethics of Advocating on Behalf of Others
- September 2020
- Patrick Stokes, Deakin University, Melbourne
- Recording—”To Eternity by Telegram: Time and Judgment in The Sickness unto Death“
- July 2020
- Deidre Green, Graduate Theological Union, California
- J. Aaron Simmons, Furman University, South Carolina
- Troy Wellington Smith, St. Olaf College, Minnesota
- June 2020
- Gordon Marino, Professor Emeritus at St. Olaf College, Curator of the Hong Kierkegaard Library
- Vanessa Rumble, Boston College, Massachusetts
- Sergia Hay, Andover College, Massachusetts
- Charles Djordevic
Other Recorded Lectures
Summer 2021 Lecture Series
- June 9 – Marcia Robinson, Syracuse University
- Recording—“Out over 70,000 Fathoms with the Lilies and the Birds: Easter as Philosophia in Kierkegaard’s 1849 Discourses on the Lilies and the Birds”
- June 16 – Frances Maughen-Brown, College of the Holy Cross
- Recording—“The Call in the Response: Kierkegaard’s Patterns”
- June 23 – Antony Aumann, Northern Michigan University
- Recording—“Kierkegaard on Risk, Loss, and Finding Happiness”
- June 30 – Jason Mahn, Augustana College
- Recording —“Kierkegaard and Camus on Neighbor Love through Pandemics”
- July 14 – Rick Furtak, Colorado College
- Recording—“Love of the Individual”
- July 21 – Ulrika Carlsson, freelance writer in Athens
- Recording —“You are what you love”
- July 28 – Matias Tapia Wende, Universidad de Los Andes
- Recording – “‘Hazlo en el nombre de Dios’: El asunto de conciencia en Kierkegaard“ / “‘In God’s Name Do So’: Kierkegaard on Matters of Conscience.”
- 2020 – Virtual Event – “Taking Kierkegaard Personally”
- 2017 – Paul Houe – “Liberal Democracy between Absolutism and Populism“
- 2017 – David Lappano – Leading a talk on his book Søren Kierkegaard’s Theology of Encounter