The Søren Kierkegaard Society

The Søren Kierkegaard Society (U.S.A.)

APA Conference Announcements and Calls for Papers

SK Society USA
(main page)

APA
AAR
Kierkegaard, Religion, & Culture group in AAR

SK Library (St. Olaf)
SK Society UK
SK Research Center
Kierkegaard Circle

President:
Lee Barrett
lbarrett@
lancasterseminar.edu

Vice-President:
John Davenport
davenport@
fordham.edu

Secretary-Treasurer:
Louise Carroll Keeley
lkeeley@assumption.edu

AAR Rep:
Amy Laura Hall alhall@
div.duke.edu

APA Rep:
George Connell
connell@cord.edu

General Information about the Kierkegaard Society Sessions at
the American Philosophical Association (APA) Meetings

The Kierkegaard Society (U.S.A.) currently plans to hold sessions at two out of three American Philosophical Assoication (APA) meetings each academic year. We hold a session at the Eastern APA each December, and a session each spring either at the Central APA or at the Pacific APA (alternating). This rotation will continue for the foreseeable future, at the discretion of the Society's APA representative and Executive Committee.

The topics and themes are chosen by the APA representative in consultation with the Executive Committee, and noteworthy scholars are often invited to give keynote addresses. Sometimes themes connected with work by a particular scholar will be the focus of a session (see the history of recent sessions below). Suggestions for topics and keynote speakers are welcome.

If you do not see or receive a call for papers by March of the academic year before the conference for which you want to submit, please contact the Society's APA representative:

George Connell, Professor of Philosophy, Concordia College, connell@cord.edu, 218.299.3097

The deadline for the Eastern APA will generally be in early April.
The deadline for the Pacific or Central will generally be late May.

Since we do not have an email for everyone who may be interested, this Call for Papers will also be posted on the Society’s webpages, and we will try to include it in SK Society Newsletters, as well as bulletins from the Kierkegaard Library at St. Olaf College. Please circulate this page or link to it from other sites. Those who have not spoken at recent Society sessions at the APA and AAR, and European scholars, are especially encouraged to submit.

Please note that unfortunately the Society does not have money to provide travel funds for speakers at the APA meetings. Speakers are encouraged to seek travel funds from their home institutions whenever possible. Society dues are low and pay mainly for the newsletter plus some programming at annual AAR meetings.

This page is divided into Calls for Papers for future conferences, Upcoming Sessions already planned for APAs, and Past APA sessions. In each of these three subdivisions, the events are listed from furthest in future to farthest in past.

CALL FOR PAPERS (for 2010 - 2011)

Søren Kierkegaard Society Meeting at the Eastern APA
December 27‑30, 2010, Boston, MA. ‑ Marriott Copley Place
Session Theme: TBA.
Reading time: 20-25 minutes max.
Deadline for submission: April 20, 2010. Two open slots plus commentator.

Søren Kierkegaard Society Meeting at the Pacific APA
April 20-23, 2011, San Diego
Session Theme: TNA
Reading time: 20-25 minutes max.
Deadline for submission: June 5, 2010. Two open slots.

Any submission broadly related to these topics will be considered. Scholars, including graduate students, who have not spoken recently at an APA group meeting of the SK Society are especially encouraged to submit. No more than one submission per person, please.

Please submit papers in Word form (as an email attachment) or in hardcopy to George Connell at the Department of Philosophy, Concordia College, 901 8^th St S, Moorhead, MN 56562 -- connell@cord.edu

SK Society Sessions Planned for Upcoming APAs in 2009-2010:

Kierkegaard Society Group Meeting: Eastern APA
December 27‑30, 2009, New York, NY. ‑ Marriott Hotel
Session Title: Kierkegaard and Authenticity (Heidegger, Nietzsche, etc).

Chair: J. Aaron Simmons (Hendrix College)

Presenters:

1. Adam Buben (University of South Florida): "Heidegger, Kierkegaard, and Authentic Being-towards-Death"

2. Noreen Kawaja (Stanford University), “Kierkegaard and Heidegger on Authenticity”

3. Noel Adams (Marquette University): "Towards a Muslim Concept of Authenticity? Some Kierkegaardian Reflections on Contemporary Islam's Confrontation with Modernity"

Comments: J. Aaron Simmons (Hendrix College)

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Kierkegaard Society Group Meeting: Central APA
Feb.17 -20, 2010: Chicago, IL -- Palmer House Hilton
Session Title: Kierkegaad and Time

Chair: George Connell (Concordia College) Chair

Presenters:

1. Keynote Address: John Davenport (Fordham University): “Earnestness, Loyalty, and Purity of Heart: Narrative Unity through Infinite Pathos”

2. Grant Julin (St. Francis University): "Kierkegaard’s Ethics of Repetition"

3. Nathan Carson (Baylor University): "Artistic Representation and Inner-Historical Time: Kierkegaard on the Temporal Limitations of Art and the Task of the Literary Artist"

Comments: Jason Mahn (Augustana College)

Past SK Society Group Sessions at Recent APAs (2009 - 2005):

Pacific APA, April 8 - 12, 2009, Vancouver, BC

Westin Bayshore Hotel

Session Title: Kierkegaard, Autonomy, and Freedom

Presenters:

1. Keynote Address: Anthony Rudd (St. Olaf College): "To Kant and Kierkegaard's Conceptions of Theoretical Truth."

2. Eric Hanson (Purdue University), “Is Kierkegaard’s Comparison of Kant to Sancho Panza a Critique of the Law of Autonomy?”

3. Paul Carron (Baylor University): "Freedom, Emotions, and Second-Order Desires in Kierkegaard's Christian Discourses"

Comments: Michelle Kosch (Cornell University)

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Eastern APA, December 28, 2008, Philadelphia, PA

Session Title: C. Stephen Evans on Kierkegaard, Faith, and Love

Chair: John Davenport (Fordham University)

Presenters:

1. Keynote Address: Edward Mooney (Syracuse University):“Kierkegaard at the APA: Comments on Evans”

2. Sarah Cabral (Loyola University of Chicago): "The Aesthetic Judge and the Ethical Poet: A Response to C. Stephen Evans' Reading of Either/Or in Kierkegaard's Ethic of Love"

3. Michael Cantrell (Baylor University): "Was Socrates a Christian before Chris? Kierkegaard and the Problem of Christian Uniqueness"

Comments: C. Stephen Evans (Baylor University)

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Central APA, April 18, 2008 (7 - 10pm) (Program pp.54-55)

Palmer House Hilton Hotel, Chicago, IL

Session Title: Kierkegaard and German Idealism

Chair: Dan Johnson (Baylor University)

Presenters:

1. Antony Aumann (Indiana University), "Kierkegaard on the Irrelevance of Philosophy"

2. Shannon Nason (Purdue University), "Contradiction, Opposition, and Mediation in Hegel & Kierkegaard"

3. Michael Matthis (Lamar University), "Autonomy and Heteronomy: Kant and Kierkegaard on Freedom"

Comments: Noel Adams (Marquette University)

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Eastern APA, December 28-30, 2007

Baltimore, Maryland.

Friday Dec. 28; 8:15 – 11:15 pm James room (4^th floor)

Session Title: Kierkegaard and World Religions

Chair: C. Stephen Evans (Baylor University)

Presenters:

1. Keynote Address : Steven Emmanuel (Virginia Wesleyan College): "Kierkegaard and Buddhism."

2. Peter Mehl (University of Central Arkansas): "Can Kierkegaard Speak to a Theologically Pluralistic World?"

3. J. Michael Tilley (University of Kentucky): "Divided Against Oneself? Faith and Politics in Qutb and Kierkegaard"

Comments: David Cain (University of Mary Washington)

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Pacific APA, April 5, 2007

St. Francis Hotel: San Francisco, CA.

Session Title: Furtak and Others on Kierkegaard, Wisdom, and Love

Chair: Noel Adams (Marquette University)

Presenters:

1. Keynote Address: Robert C. Roberts (Baylor University), "Emotions as Epistemic Ground: Comments on Furtak’s Wisdom in Love"

2. Michael Strawser (University of Central Florida), "Striving for Love in Spinoza and Kierkegaard"

3. Mark McCreary (Loyola University -- Chicago), "Kierkegaard on the Obstacles to Faith and Love:
The Terrifying Truth and the Possibility of Offense"

Response to Critics: Richard Anthony Furtak (Colorado College)

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Eastern APA, December 29, 2006

Washington, D.C. Marriott Wardman Hotel.

Session Title: Faith and Despair: Fear and Trembling and Sickness Unto Death

Chair: Martin B. Matustík (Purdue University)

Presenters:

1. Keynote Address: Sheridan Lynneth Hough (The College of Charleston): "To Begin Where Thought Stops: Faith’s Knowledge as Epistemic Flexibility."

2. Andrew Nam (Baylor University), "Does Choosing Despair Mean Annihilation of the Self? A Critique of Poul Lübcke View of Despair and the Self."

3. Michael Cantrell (Baylor University), "The Unbearable Anxiety of Belief: Fear and Trembling as a Study in the Sociology of Knowledge"

Comments: Merold Westphal (Fordham University)

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Central APA, April 28, 2006

Palmer House Hilton Hotel, Chicago, IL.

Session Title: Kierkegaard and Epistemology

Chair: Ian Duckles (Indiana University of Pennsylvania)

Presenters: (Ulrich Knappe was not able to present at this conference, due to personal reasons).

1. Mark Tietjen (Baylor University), "Doubts about Doubting: Kierkegaard's Response to Skepticism in Works of Love."

2. Thomas Carroll (Boston University), "Fideism and the Nature of Truth in Kierkegaard's Philosophical Fragments and Concluding Unscientific Postscript"

Comments: Rick Furtak (Colorado College)

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Eastern APA, December 29, 2005

Hilton New York City

Session Title: James Conant and his Critics on Kierkegaard's Authorship(s)
Chair: M. Jamie Ferreira (University of Virginia)
Presenters:

1. Edward Mooney (Syracuse University): "To Revoke a Text and Keep It Too: A Curtain Call for Climacus."

2. Paul Muench (Williams College): "Understanding Kierkegaard=s Climacus in the Postscript: Mirror of the Reader's Faults or Socratic Exemplar?"

3. Colin Patrick (University of Chicago): "Reflected Existence: The Difficulties of the Concluding Unscientific Postscript."

Comments: Genia Schönbaumsfeld (University of Southampton, UK)
Response: James Conant (University of Chicago).

	The Søren Kierkegaard Society (U.S.A.) APA Conference Announcements and Calls for Papers
SK Society USA (main page) APA AAR Kierkegaard, Religion, & Culture group in AAR SK Library (St. Olaf) SK Society UK SK Research Center Kierkegaard Circle President: Lee Barrett lbarrett@ lancasterseminar.edu Vice-President: John Davenport davenport@ fordham.edu Secretary-Treasurer: Louise Carroll Keeley lkeeley@assumption.edu AAR Rep: Amy Laura Hall alhall@ div.duke.edu APA Rep: George Connell connell@cord.edu	General Information about the Kierkegaard Society Sessions at the American Philosophical Association (APA) Meetings The Kierkegaard Society (U.S.A.) currently plans to hold sessions at two out of three American Philosophical Assoication (APA) meetings each academic year. We hold a session at the Eastern APA each December, and a session each spring either at the Central APA or at the Pacific APA (alternating). This rotation will continue for the foreseeable future, at the discretion of the Society's APA representative and Executive Committee. The topics and themes are chosen by the APA representative in consultation with the Executive Committee, and noteworthy scholars are often invited to give keynote addresses. Sometimes themes connected with work by a particular scholar will be the focus of a session (see the history of recent sessions below). Suggestions for topics and keynote speakers are welcome. If you do not see or receive a call for papers by March of the academic year before the conference for which you want to submit, please contact the Society's APA representative: George Connell, Professor of Philosophy, Concordia College, connell@cord.edu, 218.299.3097 The deadline for the Eastern APA will generally be in early April. The deadline for the Pacific or Central will generally be late May. Since we do not have an email for everyone who may be interested, this Call for Papers will also be posted on the Society’s webpages, and we will try to include it in SK Society Newsletters, as well as bulletins from the Kierkegaard Library at St. Olaf College. Please circulate this page or link to it from other sites. Those who have not spoken at recent Society sessions at the APA and AAR, and European scholars, are especially encouraged to submit. Please note that unfortunately the Society does not have money to provide travel funds for speakers at the APA meetings. Speakers are encouraged to seek travel funds from their home institutions whenever possible. Society dues are low and pay mainly for the newsletter plus some programming at annual AAR meetings. This page is divided into Calls for Papers for future conferences, Upcoming Sessions already planned for APAs, and Past APA sessions. In each of these three subdivisions, the events are listed from furthest in future to farthest in past.
	CALL FOR PAPERS (for 2010 - 2011) Søren Kierkegaard Society Meeting at the Eastern APA December 27‑30, 2010, Boston, MA. ‑ Marriott Copley Place Session Theme: TBA. Reading time: 20-25 minutes max. Deadline for submission: April 20, 2010. Two open slots plus commentator. Søren Kierkegaard Society Meeting at the Pacific APA April 20-23, 2011, San Diego Session Theme: TNA Reading time: 20-25 minutes max. Deadline for submission: June 5, 2010. Two open slots. Any submission broadly related to these topics will be considered. Scholars, including graduate students, who have not spoken recently at an APA group meeting of the SK Society are especially encouraged to submit. No more than one submission per person, please. Please submit papers in Word form (as an email attachment) or in hardcopy to George Connell at the Department of Philosophy, Concordia College, 901 8^th St S, Moorhead, MN 56562 -- connell@cord.edu
	SK Society Sessions Planned for Upcoming APAs in 2009-2010: Kierkegaard Society Group Meeting: Eastern APA December 27‑30, 2009, New York, NY. ‑ Marriott Hotel Session Title: Kierkegaard and Authenticity (Heidegger, Nietzsche, etc). Chair: J. Aaron Simmons (Hendrix College) Presenters: 1. Adam Buben (University of South Florida): "Heidegger, Kierkegaard, and Authentic Being-towards-Death" 2. Noreen Kawaja (Stanford University), “Kierkegaard and Heidegger on Authenticity” 3. Noel Adams (Marquette University): "Towards a Muslim Concept of Authenticity? Some Kierkegaardian Reflections on Contemporary Islam's Confrontation with Modernity" Comments: J. Aaron Simmons (Hendrix College) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kierkegaard Society Group Meeting: Central APA Feb.17 -20, 2010: Chicago, IL -- Palmer House Hilton Session Title: Kierkegaad and Time Chair: George Connell (Concordia College) Chair Presenters: 1. Keynote Address: John Davenport (Fordham University): “Earnestness, Loyalty, and Purity of Heart: Narrative Unity through Infinite Pathos” 2. Grant Julin (St. Francis University): "Kierkegaard’s Ethics of Repetition" 3. Nathan Carson (Baylor University): "Artistic Representation and Inner-Historical Time: Kierkegaard on the Temporal Limitations of Art and the Task of the Literary Artist" Comments: Jason Mahn (Augustana College)
	Past SK Society Group Sessions at Recent APAs (2009 - 2005): Pacific APA, April 8 - 12, 2009, Vancouver, BC Westin Bayshore Hotel Session Title: Kierkegaard, Autonomy, and Freedom Presenters: 1. Keynote Address: Anthony Rudd (St. Olaf College): "To Kant and Kierkegaard's Conceptions of Theoretical Truth." 2. Eric Hanson (Purdue University), “Is Kierkegaard’s Comparison of Kant to Sancho Panza a Critique of the Law of Autonomy?” 3. Paul Carron (Baylor University): "Freedom, Emotions, and Second-Order Desires in Kierkegaard's Christian Discourses" Comments: Michelle Kosch (Cornell University) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eastern APA, December 28, 2008, Philadelphia, PA Session Title: C. Stephen Evans on Kierkegaard, Faith, and Love Chair: John Davenport (Fordham University) Presenters: 1. Keynote Address: Edward Mooney (Syracuse University):“Kierkegaard at the APA: Comments on Evans” 2. Sarah Cabral (Loyola University of Chicago): "The Aesthetic Judge and the Ethical Poet: A Response to C. Stephen Evans' Reading of Either/Or in Kierkegaard's Ethic of Love" 3. Michael Cantrell (Baylor University): "Was Socrates a Christian before Chris? Kierkegaard and the Problem of Christian Uniqueness" Comments: C. Stephen Evans (Baylor University) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Central APA, April 18, 2008 (7 - 10pm) (Program pp.54-55) Palmer House Hilton Hotel, Chicago, IL Session Title: Kierkegaard and German Idealism Chair: Dan Johnson (Baylor University) Presenters: 1. Antony Aumann (Indiana University), "Kierkegaard on the Irrelevance of Philosophy" 2. Shannon Nason (Purdue University), "Contradiction, Opposition, and Mediation in Hegel & Kierkegaard" 3. Michael Matthis (Lamar University), "Autonomy and Heteronomy: Kant and Kierkegaard on Freedom" Comments: Noel Adams (Marquette University) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eastern APA, December 28-30, 2007 Baltimore, Maryland. Friday Dec. 28; 8:15 – 11:15 pm James room (4^th floor) Session Title: Kierkegaard and World Religions Chair: C. Stephen Evans (Baylor University) Presenters: 1. Keynote Address : Steven Emmanuel (Virginia Wesleyan College): "Kierkegaard and Buddhism." 2. Peter Mehl (University of Central Arkansas): "Can Kierkegaard Speak to a Theologically Pluralistic World?" 3. J. Michael Tilley (University of Kentucky): "Divided Against Oneself? Faith and Politics in Qutb and Kierkegaard" Comments: David Cain (University of Mary Washington) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Pacific APA, April 5, 2007 St. Francis Hotel: San Francisco, CA. Session Title: Furtak and Others on Kierkegaard, Wisdom, and Love Chair: Noel Adams (Marquette University) Presenters: 1. Keynote Address: Robert C. Roberts (Baylor University), "Emotions as Epistemic Ground: Comments on Furtak’s Wisdom in Love" 2. Michael Strawser (University of Central Florida), "Striving for Love in Spinoza and Kierkegaard" 3. Mark McCreary (Loyola University -- Chicago), "Kierkegaard on the Obstacles to Faith and Love: The Terrifying Truth and the Possibility of Offense" Response to Critics: Richard Anthony Furtak (Colorado College) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eastern APA, December 29, 2006 Washington, D.C. Marriott Wardman Hotel. Session Title: Faith and Despair: Fear and Trembling and Sickness Unto Death Chair: Martin B. Matustík (Purdue University) Presenters: 1. Keynote Address: Sheridan Lynneth Hough (The College of Charleston): "To Begin Where Thought Stops: Faith’s Knowledge as Epistemic Flexibility." 2. Andrew Nam (Baylor University), "Does Choosing Despair Mean Annihilation of the Self? A Critique of Poul Lübcke View of Despair and the Self." 3. Michael Cantrell (Baylor University), "The Unbearable Anxiety of Belief: Fear and Trembling as a Study in the Sociology of Knowledge" Comments: Merold Westphal (Fordham University) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Central APA, April 28, 2006 Palmer House Hilton Hotel, Chicago, IL. Session Title: Kierkegaard and Epistemology Chair: Ian Duckles (Indiana University of Pennsylvania) Presenters: (Ulrich Knappe was not able to present at this conference, due to personal reasons). 1. Mark Tietjen (Baylor University), "Doubts about Doubting: Kierkegaard's Response to Skepticism in Works of Love." 2. Thomas Carroll (Boston University), "Fideism and the Nature of Truth in Kierkegaard's Philosophical Fragments and Concluding Unscientific Postscript" Comments: Rick Furtak (Colorado College) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eastern APA, December 29, 2005 Hilton New York City Session Title: James Conant and his Critics on Kierkegaard's Authorship(s) Chair: M. Jamie Ferreira (University of Virginia) Presenters: 1. Edward Mooney (Syracuse University): "To Revoke a Text and Keep It Too: A Curtain Call for Climacus." 2. Paul Muench (Williams College): "Understanding Kierkegaard=s Climacus in the Postscript: Mirror of the Reader's Faults or Socratic Exemplar?" 3. Colin Patrick (University of Chicago): "Reflected Existence: The Difficulties of the Concluding Unscientific Postscript." Comments: Genia Schönbaumsfeld (University of Southampton, UK) Response: James Conant (University of Chicago).