The 1st International Conference of the Kierkegaard Society in Japan(Kyoto)
2 -5 December 2005 at Ormond College
University of Melbourne
Program
Dec.2nd (Fri.)
17:30 Registration Quadrangle (or Scott &JM Young Rooms if rain)
18:30 Evening Welcome Reception in Dinner
Dec.3rd(Sat)
JCR
8:30-9:00 Welcome
9:00-9:50 Prof. Satoshi Nakazato (Toyo University)
“M.P.Kierkegaard’s Curse on God and Soren Kierkegaard’s Concept ‘Sin’
-An Interpretation from Northern Ideal Historical Point of View-
9:50-10:40 Dr. Chris Danta (University of New South Wales, Australia)
“Transuming Abraham: The Problem of Figuring Genesis 22 in Kierkegaard“
10:40-11:10 Coffee
11:10-12:00 Kazutaka Yonezawa ( Tohoku University)
“The notion of aesthetic media on Either/Or”
12:00-12:50 Pfof. Andrew J. Burgess (University of New Mexico, USA)
“Kierkegaard’s Socrates as Comic and Tragic Figure”
12:50-14:00 Lunch
14:00-14:50 Takaya Suto (Hitotsubashi University)
“Kierkegaard and Foucault on Subject”
14:50-15:40 Pr. Seung-Goo Lee(Kukje Theological Seminary,Korea)
“Becoming a Self in Kierkegaard’s Religion A and Schleiermacher’s Religion
in Contact to Becoming a Self in Religion B”
15:40-16:10 Coffee
16:10-17:00 Prof. Em. Eshin Nishimura (Hanazono University)
“Zen Understanding of Kierkegaard’s Existential Thought“
17:00-19:00 Joint Paper: Prof. McDonald, Prof. Em. Pyo, Prof. Masugata
Prof. W. McDonald(University of New England, NSW): “From the Individual to the
Institution to the Individual: Contribution to Kierkegaard’s philosophical Reception
in Australia”
Prof. Em. Pyo Jae-Myeong (Korea) : “Kierkegaard in Korea”
Prof. Masugata(Mukogawa Women’s University): “Kierkegaard Reception in Japan”
19:00- Supper
Dec.4th(Sun)
JCR
8:30-9:00 Announcements
9:00-9:50 Dr.Hassan Jafri (Azadshahr Islamic Azad University,IRAN)
“A Philosophical Study of Kierkegaard’s Concept of God”
9:50-10:40 Prof. Em. of Osaka Prefecture University Eiko Hanaoka (Nora Sangyo University)
“Substantial and Non-substantial Way of Thinking through Kierkegaard
and Nishida”
10:40-11:20 Coffee
11:20-12:10 Dr. Ian Mills
“AETERNO MODO: The Congruence of Meaning and Method as ‘Eternal Dialectic’- in ‘Either/Or’ Both Dogen and Kierkegaard”
12:10-13:00 Dr. Archie Graham (Ontario College of Art and Design)
“Truth, Paradox and Silence: Hakuin and Kierkegaard
13:00-14:10 Lunch
14:10-15:00 Prof. Syudo Tsukiyama (Otani University)
“ “Religious Thoughts of Kitaro Nishida and Soren Kierkegaard”
15:00-17:15 Panel Discussion: Prof. James Giles, Prof. Fujimoto, Pro. Yamashita
Prof. James Giles (University of Guam): “A Comparison of SK and Dogen using the Purity of
Heart and Sections of the Shobogenzo Like Sansui-Kyo and Genjo-Koan”
Prof. Fujimoto (Bukkyo University): “Japanese Buddhism and Søren Kierkegaard―Faith and
its practice as an existential decision―”
Prof. Hidetomo Yamashita (Shizuoka University): “On the Horns and Thorn- A comparative
study of Japanese Pure Land Buddhism and the thought of Kierkegaard”
18:00-19:15 Supper at restaurant Lygon St.
20:00- Carols Service
Dec.5ｔｈ(Mon)
JCR
8:30-9:00 Announcements
9:00-10:00 Library Tour
10:10-11:00 Patrick Stokes (University of Melbourne)
“Kierkegaard’s Mirrors : The Immediacy of Moral Vision”
11:00-11:30 Coffee
11:30-12:20 Dr. Adam Buben (Graduate assistant, University of New Mexico)
“Living with the Thought of Death: Kierkegaard and the Samurai”
12:20-13:20 Lunch
13:20-14:10 Prof. Makoto Mizuta (Fukuoka Dental College)
“Hideo Kobayashi”
14:10-15:00 Prof. Mime Morita (Osaka Christian College)
“Kierkegaard and Arimasa Mori ‘Experience and Existence’”
15:00-15:50 Prof. Kinya Masugata (Mukogawa Women’s University)
“Masaru Otani – A Kierkegaard συμπαρανεκρώμενος(Fellow of the Dead);
15:50-16:20 Farewell