Augusta State Hosts International Philosophy Conference

Augusta State will host an international conference on philosophy March 1-3 with speakers from universities and research centers throughout the world. The International Kierkegaard Forum, sponsored by ASU and the Georgia Continental Philosophy Circle, will take place in the Maxwell Performing Arts Theatre on the Walton Way campus.

The conference presents 10 speakers addressing different aspects of Danish philosopher and religious thinker Soren Kierkegaard, particularly his work, Either/Or. The presenters have extensive research experience, having published more than 80 books on philosophy topics.

John D, Caputo, the David R. Cook Professor of Philosophy at Villanova University will be the featured speaker at an 8 p.m. presentation Thursday, March 1, entitled Either/Or, Neither/Nor, and Undecidability. The program will be followed by a 10 p.m. reception at the Augusta Museum of History.

The conference resumes on Friday, March 2, at ASU's Maxwell Performing Arts Theatre with the following schedule:

10:00 a.m. - Roger Poole, University of Nottingham, Reading Either-Or for the very first time.

11:45 a.m. - David Wood, Vanderbilt University, Tales of innocence and experience: Kierkegaard's spiritual accounting.

2:30 p.m. - Pat Bigelow, Austin, Texas, bb.

4:15 p.m. - Elsebet Jegstrup, Augusta State University, A Rose by any other name... Kierkegaardian Ironies.

8:00 p.m. Joakim Garff, Soren Kierkegaard Research Center, Copenhagen, The aesthetic is altogether my element.

Saturday, March 3

10:00 a.m. - Mark Dooley, University College-Dublin, Begging for the Impossible: The Passions and Loves of Soren Kierkegaard and Jacques Derrida.

11:45 a.m. - Robert Gibbs, University of Toronto, I or You -- the Dash of Ethics.

2:30 p.m. - Vanessa Rumble, Boston College, Love and difference: The either-or of Kierkegaard's Works of Love.

4:15 p.m. - Richard Kearney, Boston College, Imagination and Desire in Either/Or.

Registration for the conference is $35; admission is free with valid ASU student identification. Contact the conference coordinator, Dr. Elsebet Jegstrup, Augusta State University, for more information, 706-737-1710.