Programme and Abstracts – Kierkegaard and Issues in Contemporary Ethics

8:30 Welcome participants/coffee (ESC Clermont, Room 250)
9:00 Opening words

SESSION 1: ETHICS AND RELIGION (Room 250)

9:15 Roe Fremstedal (The Arctic University of Norway) Religion Reduced to Ethics? Moral Overridingness and the ‘Teleological Suspension of the Ethical’
10:00 Shai Frogel (Kibbutzim College of Education & Tel Aviv University) Either religion or ethics
10:45 Coffee break
11:00 Tomer Raudanski (Humboldt University) Two Meanings of Nihilism in Kierkegaard’s Aporia of Inoperative Death
11:45 Liam Hughes (Independent Researcher) Reflections on Kierkegaard’s internalist perspective and its relation to social change

12:30 Lunch

SESSION 2: MEDIA AND POLITICS (Room 250)

14:00 Wojciech Kaftanski (Husserl-Archives, KU Leuven) Kierkegaard and Role Models: Imitation, Admiration and Moral Vision
14:45 Christopher Black (Texas A&M University) Choosing for Yourself in the Age of the Social Media Echo Chamber
15:30 Coffee break
15:45 Andrzej Słowikowski (Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Science) Can a refugee be one’s neighbor in an ethical sense?
16:30 Paul Michael Whitfield (San Francisco State University) Kierkegaardian Reflections on Love and the State

SESSION 3: KIERKEGAARD ET LES ENJEUX DE L’ETHIQUE EXISTENTIELLE (Auditorium)

18:30 Accueil
19:00 Mélissa Fox-Muraton (ESC Clermont/Université Clermont Auvergne) Kierkegaard: une éthique existentielle pour notre époque?
19:45 Karl Verstrynge (Free University of Brussels, VUB) Déconnecte ta vie. Une approche kierkegaardienne de la détox digitale

20h30-22h RECEPTION for all conference participants and guests

SESSION 4: SELF AND OTHER (Room 250)

9:00 Oliver Norman (Université de Poitiers) Despair and Gender Identity: Reading The Sickness Unto Death in a Queer Light
9:45 Deidre Green (Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, BYU) (Divine) Love at a Distance: Kierkegaard’s Maternal Metaphors and Feminist Ethics
10:30 Coffee break
10:45 René Rosfort (Copenhagen University) The Strength of a Fragile Mind: Kierkegaard and Psychiatric Ethics
11:30 Viktoras Bachmetjevas (LSMU Emmanuel Levinas Center) Clemency over Forgiveness: Assessor Wilhelm’s Response to Vladimir Jankelevitch

12:15 Lunch

SESSION 5: ETHICAL LIFE AND DIVERSITY (Room 250)

13:45 Bernhard Obsieger (Saint Louis University) A Kierkegaardian Approach to Ethical Life
14:30 Jakub Marek (Charles University Prague) Creatures of Habit: On Hereditary Sin and the Development of ‘Moral Faculties’ in Kierkegaard
15:15 Coffee break
15:30 Michael Glass (Temple University) Kierkegaard and Interreligious Understanding
16:15 Charles Blattberg (Université de Montréal) Kierkegaard’s Deep Diversity: The One and the Many
17:00 Closing words

19:30 Conference dinner for speakers