KIERKEGAARD SEMINAR
[12 January 2009.]

The Hungarian Theater Institute in cooperation with the Soren Kierkegaard Research Centre
at the University of Copenhagen will host a two-day seminar on Wednesday and Thursday, January 14-15, 2009.

This seminar will be dedicated to exploring the different aspects of art in the thought and writings of Soren Kierkegaard. The seminar will feature papers from leading Hungarian and international experts in the fields of drama, literature, the visual arts, music and aesthetics.
All interested parties are welcome. The seminar is free of charge. The languages of the seminar will be English and German.

Location:
The Seminar will take place at the Bajor Gizi Színészmúzeum—
Gizi Bajor Actor Museum, Stromfeld Aurél út 16, H-1124 Budapest
The Seminar is organized by Országos Színháztörténeti Múzeum és Intézet— The Hungarian Theatre Museum and Institute, Krisztina körút 57, H-1013 Budapest, Hungary, www.oszmi.hu and The Soren Kierkegaard Research Centre at the University of Copenhagen Farvergade 27D, DK-1463 Copenhagen K, Denmark www.sk.ku.dk

Contact Persons:
András Nagy, andrasnagy@t-online.hu
Jon Stewart, js@sk.ku.dk

Program
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
10:00-10:15 Words of Welcome: András Nagy
10:15-10:30 Introductory Lecture: Péter Nádas
10:30-10:45 coffee break
Visual Arts and Drama
Chairperson: András Nagy
10:45-11:15 Ragni Linnet (University of Copenhagen, Department of the History of Art)
”The Decisive Moment: Performativity, Theatricality, and Temporality in
Kierkegaard’s Pictures”
11:15-11:30 discussion
11:30-11:45 coffee break
11:45-12:15 Kirsten Wechsel (Humboldt Universität Berlin, Nordeuropa Institut)
” ’Exempler paa asthetisk Bestialitet.’ Soren Kierkegaard on Actresses, Theater
Audiences and Consumption”
12:15-12:30 discussion
12:30-14:00 lunch break
Chairperson: Katalin Nun
14:00-14:30 András Nagy (Hungarian Theatre Museum and Institute, Budapest)
”Outside God’s Private Theater: A Suggestion for Explaining Theater as
Metaphor, Model and Paradigm in Kierkegaard’s oeuvre”
14:30-14:45 discussion
14:45-15:00 coffee break
15:00-15:30 George Pattison (Oxford University)
”Why Kierkegaard Never Wrote a Play? An Old Question Revisited”
15:30-15:45 discussion
15:45-16:30 Guided Tour of the Hungarian Theatre Museum: András Nagy
16:40-17:30 Reception
19:00 Dinner
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Aesthetics and Literature
Chairperson: István Czakó
10:00-10:30 Jon Stewart (Soren Kierkegaard Research Centre, Copenhagen)
“Kierkegaard and Hegel’s Aesthetics: Some Enigmatic Entries in Notebook 8”
10:30-10:45 discussion
10:45-11:00 coffee break
11:00-11:30 Darío González (University of Copenhagen, Department of the History of Art)
”Aesthetics and the Temporality of Experience”
11:30-11:45 discussion
11:45-13:00 lunch break
Chairperson: Jon Stewart
13:00-13:30 Judit Bartha (Eötvös Loránd University Budapest, Institute for Art Theory and
Media Studies)
”Kierkegaard’s Concept of Romantic Irony with special regard to E. T. A.
Hoffmann”
13:30-13:45 discussion
13:45-14:00 coffee break
14:00-14:30 Markus Kleinert (Akademie der Bildenden Künste, München)
”Märtyrer und Hanswurst. Kierkegaard und das Motiv des Narren in Christo”
14:30-14:45 discussion
14:45-15:00 coffee break
15:00-15:30 K. Brian Söderquist (Soren Kierkegaard Research Centre, Copenhagen)
”Kierkegaard, Schlegel and the Concept of the Interesting”
15:30-15:45 discussion
15:45-16:00 Closing Words: András Nagy