Lectures, talks, papers

This little reading angel sits in front of an old house in Straßberg (2019)

13.11.2003       “The Presence of the Transcendent – Transcending the Present” Subjectivity and Transcendence, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

24.07.2004       “‘Umgang mit dem Unumgänglichen’ – Kierkegaards Ethik als Antwort auf die Theodizeefrage?” Kierkegaard-Kolloquium, University of Frankfurt, Germany.

08.02.2005       “How Can the Present Ever be (a) Present? The Co-Presence of the Other and the Limits of Husserlian Phenomenology” CFS, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

11.03.2005       “Beyond Synchrony and Temporal Totality? Rupture, Renewal, and Relations: Rosenzweig and Levinas on the Constitution of Co-Presence” Jewish Philosophy of Religion: Levinas and Rosenzweig, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

18.03.2005       “Reasons for Having No Reason to Defend God – Kant, Kierkegaard, Levinas and their Alternatives to Theodicy” Evil in Religion: Origins, Forms and Coping. Case Studies and Reflections, The Free University of Amsterdam, Netherlands.

25.05.2005       “‘Angst’ bei Søren Kierkegaard – eine ‘Emotion’?” Collegium Helveticum/Institute for Hermeneutics and Philosophy of Religion, University of Zürich, Switzerland.

20.09.2005       “Jean-Luc Marion’s Phenomenology of the Invisible” CFS, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

24.09.2005       “Anmerkungen zu Robert C. Roberts’ Emotionstheorie” Collegium Helveticum/Institute for Hermeneutics and Philosophy of Religion, University of Zürich, Switzerland.

29.10.2005       “(Re-)Presentation of Salvation – an Impossible Gift?” Vergegenwärtigung des Heils. Repräsentationstheorien in systematisch-theologischem, praktisch-theologischem und religionsphilosophischem Kontext, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany.

21.01.2006       “Welche Macht ist mächtiger als Ohnmacht? Auf den Spuren dessen, was sich den Zeichen entzieht“ Sprachen der Macht. Gesten der Er- und Entmächtigung in Text und Interpretation, Zürcher Kompetenzzentrum Hermeneutik, University of Zürich, Switzerland.

03.10.2006       “God’s (Non)Phenomenality and the Problem of Theodicy” CFS, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

05.10.2006       “Über die Grenzen der Selbst-Verständlichkeit und mögliche Grenzüberschreitungen“ Verstehen über Grenzen hinweg, TAP conference, Evangelische Akademie Baden, Bad Herrenalb, Germany.

23.10.2006       “Seeing Oneself in the Mirror of Conscience” CFS, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

25.10.2006       “Works of Love – Kierkegaard’s ‘Phenomenology of Spirit’?” Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

05.01.2007       “Extra nos esse in Emotion and Spirit: Luther and Kierkegaard on Sin and Self-Transcendence” Spirit and Spirituality, 15th Nordic Conference in Systematic Theology, organized by the University of Copenhagen, in Hillerød, Denmark.

09.02.2007       “Conscious of Conscience? The Invisible Mirror of the Self-Other-Relation” Despite Oneself. Subjectivity and its Secret in Kierkegaard and Levinas, CFS, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

19.02.2007       “Philosophical Discourse on Evil: Problems and Prospects” Danish School of Education, Copenhagen, Denmark.

21.04.2007       “Being Moved Beyond Oneself? Heidegger, Levinas and Ricoeur on Relational Ontology” Self and Other, 5th annual conference of the Nordic Society for Phenomenology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

11.05.2007       “Conscience as a Means of Self-Disclosure in Luther, Heidegger and Ricoeur” Section of Systematic Theology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

24.05.2007       “The Self as Conflict: Guilt, Recognition and Reconciliation” Conflict, Communication and Emotion, PPS workshop, Philosophy Department, University of Aarhus, Denmark.

10.06.2007       “God – A Phenomenon? Theology as Semiotic Phenomenology of the Invisible” Hermeneutics and Phenomenology. Perspectives on the Philosophy of Religion, 1st Nordic Conference on Philosophy of Religion, University of Oslo, Norway.

01.11.2007       “Levinas, ‘the Others’ and Intercultural Dialogue” Europe and ‘the others’ (Forskerskolen i Kultur, Litteratur og Kunstfag), University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

03.11.2007       “Klage und Vertrauen: Sich verlassen auf Gott in Gottverlassenheit?” Klage, organized by the University of Bamberg, in Heilsbronn, Germany.

11.12.2007       “Kierkegaard and Levinas on Conscience, Love, and the Limits of Self-Understanding” CFS, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

17.12.2007       “Terminological Clarifications and Questions: Trust, Familiarity, Confidence, Reliance” (Meeting of the CFS research group on trust, University of Copenhagen, Denmark)

24.01.2008       “Emotion, Memory, Identity” Provstikonvent, Glostrup, Denmark.

08.02.2008       “God’s Givenness and Hiddenness. Franz Rosenzweig on Human Experience and Divine Deception” The Presence and Absence of God, Claremont Graduate University, USA.

27.-30.04.2008 “Witnessing Self-Transformation: Conscience, Communication, and Co-Presence” Witnessing. Cultural Roots, Media-Related Forms and Cultural Memory, International Research Symposium, organized by the University of Bochum and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, at the Villa Vigoni, Menaggio (Como), Italy.

13.05.2008       “Conscience and Self-Conscious Emotions” CFS, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

23.05.2008       “(De)Formed by Feelings: The Self in Love, Guilt, and Shame” Feeling and Form, Philosophy Department, University of Aarhus, Denmark.

21.08.2008       “Identity as Self-Transformation: Emotional Conflicts and their Metamorphosis in Memory” Understanding Conflicts: Cross-Cultural Perspectives, University of Aarhus, Denmark.

29.08.2008       “Love as Gift and Self-Sacrifice” Sacrifice, 17th Conference of the European Society for Philosophy of Religion, University of Oslo, Norway.

07.10.2008       “Identity as Self-Transformation” CFS, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

29.10.2008       “Trust, Faith, and Doubt” Meeting of the CFS research group on trust, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

18.11.2008       “Luther: Om mennesket” Provstikonvent, Holbæk/Tølløse, Denmark.

05.12.2008       “Trust as Basic Openness and Self-Transcendence” Trust, Sociality, Selfhood, CFS, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

29.01.2009       “Frihed til kærlighed – Luther og Kierkegaard” Søren Kierkegaard Selskabet, Copenhagen, Denmark.

09.05.2009       “Love’s Afflictions” Love – Beyond ’Works of Love’, Annual Seminar of The Søren Kierkegaard Society of the UK, Christ Church College, University of Oxford, England.

19.05.2009       “Becoming Oneself vis-à-vis the Other: Trust and Self-Transformation in Kierkegaard and Rosenzweig” Nous et les Autres, Conference of the International Rosenzweig Society, University of Paris, France.

23.05.2009       “Seeing Oneself in the Mirror of Conscience” Internationales Wissenschaftsforum Heidelberg, University of Heidelberg, Germany.

28.08.2009       “Shame and the Hiding Self” Atrocities, Emotion, Self, CFS, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

20.10.2009       “Varieties of Self-Deception: The Self, Its In-Visibility and Problematic Unity” CFS, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

14.11.2009       “Mennesket mellem selvafsløring og selvbedrag” San Cataldo, Scala, Italy.

26.11.2009       “Tillid, subjektivitet og socialitet” San Cataldo, Scala, Italy.

11.12.2009       “Das Gewissen als Instanz der Selbsterschließung” (Probevorlesung) University of Zürich, Switzerland.

16.01.2010       “Love, Ipseity, and the Second-Person Perspective” CFS, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

03.03.2010       “Über das radikale Böse in der menschlichen Natur: Kant zwischen Luther und Levinas” Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

08.03.2010       “Phenomenology of Religious Life: Kierkegaard and Heidegger” Christ Church College, University of Oxford, England.

10.03.2010       “Quaestio mihi factus sum: Phenomenology of Religious Life as Hermeneutics of Human Existence” Philosophy of Religion and Phenomenology, CFS, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

27.05.2010       “Response to Thomas Brudholm’s ‘An Anatomy of Hatred’” Institute for Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

01.06.2010       “A wandering dog as ‘the last Kantian in Nazi Germany’ – Revisiting the debate about Levinas’ supposed anti-naturalistic humanism” CFS, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

06.07.2010       “Vertrauen und/oder Gewissheit? Kontroverstheologische und religionsphilosophische Fragen im Anschluss an Luther, Kierkegaard und Wittgenstein” Arbeitstagung Glaube, Hoffnung, Vertrauen, Institut für Hermeneutik und Religionsphilosophie & Collegium Helveticum, University of Zürich, Switzerland.

20.08.2010       “Becoming and Overcoming Oneself: Kierkegaard and the Puzzles of Self-Deception” Kierkegaard: Being and Becoming a Self, Kierkegaard Research Centre, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

21.09.2010       “On Certainty and Uncertainty: Difficulties in Explaining Delusions” CFS, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

06.10.2010       “Det teologiske projekt” Studienævnets temadag: Det teologiske projekt, Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

22.10.2010       “Human Perfection: Overcoming Oneself. A Discussion of Kierkegaard’s Four Upbuilding Discourses from 1844” Centro de Filosofia, University of Lisbon, Portugal.

26.10.2010       “Imago Dei – References to the Invisible” Department of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK.

01.11.2010       “Imago Dei – Bild des Unsichtbaren” (Inaugural lecture as Privatdozentin), University of Zürich, Switzerland.

06.11.2010       “Methodische und konzeptionelle Probleme der Vertrauensforschung aus theologischer Perspektive” Interdisziplinäre Forschungstagung: Vertrauen im Streit der Interpretationen – Hermeneutische und methodische Probleme heutiger Vertrauensforschung, University of Zürich, Switzerland.

13.11.2010       “Self-Examination before the Searcher of Hearts” Phenomenology and Spiritual Practice: A Symposium, University of Oxford, England.

03.12.2010       “Scenes of Shame, Social Roles, and the Play with Masks” Shame and the Self, CFS, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

20.01.2011       “Im Blick des Anderen: Ethische Implikationen menschlicher Un-Sichtbarkeit” Workshop of the research group In-visibilis: Visibility and Transcendence in Religion, Arts and Ethics, Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

26.01.2011       “Im Blick des Anderen: Ethische Implikationen menschlicher Un-Sichtbarkeit” Dahlemer Gespräche zum Ethikunterricht, Institut für Vergleichende Ethik, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.

04.03.2011       “Fortidens fremtid: Erindring, glemsel og personlig identitet” (Inaugural lecture as Professor with special responsibilities in Systematic Theology), Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

18.03.2011    “Voices and Selves: Identification and Alienation” Figures of Passivity, University of Oxford: Centre for Theology and Modern European Thought, England.

24.05.2011    “Mennesket som imago Dei” Helsingør Stiftskonvent, Grundtvigs Højskole Frederiksborg, Denmark.

25.06.2011       “The Future of the Past: Memory, Forgetting, and Personal Identity” TIME: Past and Future in the Philosophy of Religion, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

21.09.2011       “Billedforbud, gudbilledlighed og kristologi” Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

12.10.2011       “Den tabte tro – negativitetens sår i post-Holocaust teologi” Studienævnets temadag: Teologi og traumer, Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

09.11.2011       “Billedforbud og gudbilledlighed: Jødiske og kristne tilgange til en u-synlighedens etik” Religion mellem synlighed og usynlighed: Offentlig forelæsningsrække, Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

20.01.2012       “Et spørgsmålstegn mellem Gud og menneske: at tro på trods og at elske for intet” Guds virkelighed og menneskets – udfordringer til metafysikken: Et offentligt seminar i anledning af Jakob Wolfs 60-årsdag, Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

22.02.2012       “Tro og forståelse” TrosForum, Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

07.03.2012       “Kierkegaard og Luther” Public lecture series Lutherbilleder i dansk teologi, Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

07.08.2012       “Phronesis, conscientia and Gewissen: From Aristotle to Luther and Heidegger” 12th International Congress for Luther Research, University of Helsinki, Finland.

08.08.2012       “Imago Dei – An Image Lost or Distorted, to be Recreated or Restored?” 12th International Congress for Luther Research, University of Helsinki, Finland.

04.09.2012       “Kierkegaard om selvbedrag” Provstikonvent Godthåbskirken, Copenhagen, Denmark.

06.09.2012       “Gebet, Theologie und die Stimme der Stille – Elazar Benyoëtz’ Sandkronen” Faculty of Theology and “Studentermenigheden”, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

05.10.2012       “Imago Dei – A Self-Concealing Image” In-visibilis: Visibility and Transcendence in Religion, Arts and Ethics, Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

19.10.2012       “The Challenge of Witnessing: Memory, Trauma, and (Re-)Presentation between Co-Presence and Absence” Cultures of Transition: Presence, Absence, Memory, 16th Biennial Conference of the International Society for Religion, Literature and Culture, Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

22.10.2012       “Phronesis, conscientia and Gewissen: From Aristotle to Luther and Heidegger” Senior seminar at Section of Systematic Theology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

25.10.2012       “Samvittighed, selvbedrag og autenticitet hos Kierkegaard” Søren Kierkegaard Selskabet, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

30.10.2012       “At give stemme til det usynlige: Overvejelser over bønnens sprog” Teologisk Forening, Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

05.11.2012       “Bøn som tale med Gud” Provstikonvent Hyltebjergkirke, Vanløse, Denmark.

Interactive mirror by Jeppe Hein in Kurpark, Bad Homburg

14.02.2013       “At give stemme til det usynlige: Overvejelser over bønnens sprog” Kapitelkonvent Domkirke, Roskilde, Denmark.

18.04.2013       “Samvittighed og selvbedrag hos Kierkegaard” Lecture series (‘fyraftensforelæsninger’) at Rundetårn on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of Kierkegaard’s birth, Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

30.04.2013       “Trauma, memory and problems of self-recognition” Center for Subjectivity Research, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

22.05.2013       “Conscience, Self-Knowledge and Self-Deception in Kierkegaard and Freud” Kierkegaard’s Philosophical Psychology: ‘The Sickness unto Death’, Conference on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of Kierkegaard’s birth, Institute of Philosophy, University of Reykjavík, Iceland.

29.05.2013       “Bønnen og hjertets uro” Teologisk temadag, Bispegården, Copenhagen, Denmark.

20.8.2013         “Die (An-)Ökonomie der Gabe: Gegenwart in Liebe, Gebet und Vergebung” Von Gabentausch, Anerkennung, Macht und Versöhnung: Interdisziplinäre Forschungen zum Phänomen der Gabe, University of Erfurt, Germay.

03.09.2013       “Ethical Implications of Human In-Visibility: Human Dignity, Reciprocal Regard, and Feelings of Shame” Research Seminar: Danish Network for Holocaust and Genocide Researchers, Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

04.09.2013       “At leve med arven fra dengang: Erindring og glemsel” 70års jubilæet af redningsaktionen oktober ’43, Library at Gilleleje, Denmark.

17.12.2013       “Communication and Self-Transformation: Kierkegaard, Buber, and Rosenzweig” Jewish Readings of Søren Kierkegaard in the 20th century, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

16.01.2014       “Skabelse i den jødiske tradition – før og efter Auschwitz” Lecture Series on ’Skabelse’, Vartov Valgmenighed & Grundtvigsk Forum, Copenhagen, Denmark.

15.02.2014       “Healing through Hope? Trauma, Memory, and Mental Imaging” 35th Annual Philosophy of Religion Conference: Hope, Claremont Graduate University, USA.

13.03.2014       “How to relate to a traumatic past? Language, silence, and hopeful imagination” Alumni event: Holocaust Memory and Re-Presentations of the Past, KUs Alumneforening, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

27.08.2014       “Difficulties in Defining the Concept of God – Kierkegaard and Jewish Philosophy of Religion” Kierkegaard and the Conception of God in Contemporary Thought, August conference at the Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

18.09.2014       “Imago Dei and Crimes against Humanity: Jewish Perspectives on an Ethics of In-Visibility” Re-Imagining Human, The 17th Biennial Conference of the International Society for Religion, Literature and Culture (ISRLC), University of Leuven, Belgium.

29.10.2014       “Sprachdenken und Worterlebnis: Das ‚Zwischen’ der Begegnung bei Rosenzweig, Buber und Ebner” After the ‘Star of Redemption’: Franz Rosenzweig in Frankfurt. ‘Bildung’ – Speech Thinking – Translation (International Congress of the Franz Rosenzweig Society), Goethe Universität Frankfurt, Germany.

26.03.2015       “Trauma, Memory, Testimony” Judaic Studies in the Nordic Countries Today: Roundtable seminar at the Donner Institute for Research in Religious and Cultural History in Åbo/Turku, Finland.

04.05.2015       Invitation to deliver the sermon at memorial service on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of Denmark’s liberation from German occupation in 1945 in Gilleleje Church, Denmark.

26.05.2015       “Post-traumatic growth? Tavshed og tale i omgang med afmagt, angst og sorg” Stiftspræstestævne, Roskilde Stift, Liselund, Denmark.

06.11.2015       Response to Johanne Stubbe Teglbjærg Kristensen’s AAR-paper “Hope and the Body: Jürgen Moltmann’s Eschatology of Resurrection from the Perspective of the Phenomenology of the Body” Research Seminar, Section of Systematic Theology, University of Copenhagen.

18.08.2016       “The Voice of Conscience, Kierkegaard’s Theory of Indirect Communication, and Buber’s Philosophy of Dialogue” SKC Annual Conference: Reconsidering the Existential: The Aesthetic, the Ethical, the Religious, Kierkegaard Research Centre, University of Copenhagen.

20.08.2016       “A Voice Crying out from the Wound – With or Without Words: On Trauma, Speech, and Silence” Endangered Selves and Societies: Theologies of Tragedies and Disasters, COPE / Research group Changing Disaster, University of Copenhagen.

23.09.2016       “Theologische Aspekte der Menschenwürde und deren Bedeutung angesichts von schwerer Krankheit” (Plenarvortrag) at the Jahrestagung der Akademie für Ethik in der Medizin (AEM): Auf Augenhöhe – Zur Bedeutung der Menschenwürde in Medizin und Gesundheitswesen, Bielefeld University, Germany.

6.10.2016         “Facing the Problem of Evil: Visual, Verbal, and Mental Images of (In)Humanity” The Problem of Evil and Images of (In)Humanity, CJMC, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

04.11.2016       “Gudbilledlighed, menneskeværd og medicinetik” Research Seminar, Section of Systematic Theology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

07.11.2016       “‘Der Zweifel ist ein Abweichen, kein Ausweichen’: Intellektuelle Redlichkeit und die Unglaublichkeit des Glaubens bei Elazar Benyoëtz” Zitat und Zeugenschaft: Tagung zum Werk von Elazar Benyoëtz, Universität Bern, Switzerland.

05.01.2017       “Divine and Human Suffering: The Wound of Negativity in Post-Holocaust Theology” (keynote lecture) The Enigma of Suffering: Empirical, Phenomenological, and Theological Approaches, co-organized by Australian Catholic University, Boston College, and Harvard University Seminar, ACU Rome Center, Italy.

20.01.2017       “Samvittighedens stemme – mellem inderlighed og offentlighed” & “Emotion, erindring og etik” Provstiseminar Vor Frue & Vesterbro Provsti, Copenhagen, Denmark.

16.05.2017       “Elazar Benyoëtz, Margarete Susman und das Hiobproblem” Symposion zum 80. Geburtstag des Dichters Elazar Benyoëtz, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Germany.

20.10.2017       “God’s ‘voice’ and ‘silence’ after Auschwitz” Phenomenology of Listening (no. 1): Theology, CJMC Research Seminar, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

02.11.2017       “Freedom, Responsibility, and Religion in Public Life” (keynote lecture) Rethink Reformation, Aarhus University, Denmark.

08.12.2017       “Conscience, Self-deception, and the Question of Authenticity in Kierkegaard” Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

13.03.2018       “Was heißt Hören auf Gott? Im Gespräch mit einer vielzeitigen Ewigkeit” (keynote lecture) Zeit – Sprache – Gott, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität & Hochschule für Philosophie München (Schloss Fürstenried).

22.03.2018       “At lytte til den indre stemme: Kierkegaard, Luther og Hannah Arendt” Søren Kierkegaard Society, Denmark.

26.05.2018       “Purity of Heart – Harmony with Oneself? Søren Kierkegaard and Hannah Arendt” Conference Kierkegaard’s Upbuilding Discourses, École Pratique des Hautes Études – Sorbonne & The French Søren Kierkegaard Society, Paris, France.

17.08.2018       “Listening to Resounding Silence: Post-Traumatic Languages of the Unsayable” Phenomenology of Listening (no. 4): Silence and Resonance, CJMC Research Seminar, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

06.09.2018       “Freud’s ‘telephone receiver’ and Reik’s ‘third ear’ – listening to the unconscious” Phenomenology of Listening (no. 5): Psychoanalysis and Logotherapy, CJMC Research Seminar, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

07.11.2018       “An Ethical Phenomenology of Listening: Søren Kierkegaard and Hannah Arendt on the ‘Voice’ of Conscience” Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia.

07.01.2019       “Listening, Responsibility, and Love of Neighbor: Kierkegaard and Levinas” Department of Philosophy, Tel Aviv University, Israel.

17.01.2019       “Communication and Self-Transformation: Kierkegaard, Rosenzweig, and Buber” Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Centre for German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel.

20.03.2019       “Søren Kierkegaard zur ethischen Bedeutung des Gebets” Religious Ethics Colloquium, Theologische Fakultät, Universität Bern.

10.04.2019       “Expressing the ‘Ineffable’: Existential Hermeneutics and Artistic Transfigurations of Mental Suffering” Wonder-based Ethics and Care Ethics on Phenomenological Ground: Practices in Health, Education and Welfare, Research seminar at the Faculty of Humanities and Education, Agder University, Kristiansand, Norway.

12.04.2019       “Listening, Communication, and Self-Transformation – Phenomenological and Dialogical Approaches” Research seminar at the Department of Education, Agder University, Kristiansand, Norway.

25.04.2019       “Listening, Responsibility, and Love of Neighbor: Kierkegaard and Levinas” Lecture at the Faculty of Humanities and Education, Agder University, Kristiansand, Norway.

11.05.2019       “Gottesgewissheit, Zweifel und Anfechtung – im Gespräch mit Barths Einführung in die evangelische Theologie” (keynote lecture) Emdener Barth-Tagung 2019: Gotteserschütterung – Gottesvergewisserung. Die Gegenwartsrelevanz der Gotteslehre Karl Barths, Germany.

06.06. 2019      “Das Problem der Ethik in Karl Barths Römerbriefkommentar – im Vergleich mit Søren Kierkegaards Ethik der Liebe” (keynote lecture) Karl Barth’s Römerbrief 100 years later – Retrospect and Prospect, University of Geneva, Switzerland (see https://mediaserver.unige.ch/play/120270).

20.06.2019       “Imagination and Ethical Orientation” Department of Philosophy, Tel Aviv University, Israel.

25.10.2019       “From Confusion to Clarity: Paradoxes of Orientation as Courageous Beginnings” Inauguration speech in honor of Werner Stegmaier at the launch of the Hodges Foundation for Philosophical Orientation in Nashville, Tennessee, USA (see https://youtu.be/zufs7DRKDOk).

22.11.2019       “Freiheit und Sünde bei Kierkegaard, Rosenzweig, Ricœur und Heschel” Internationale Tagung Freiheit statt Erbsünde? Von einer möglichen Verabschiedung der Erbsündenlehre, Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Germany.

05.12.2019       “Religious positioning in Judaism and Christianity – considering the 1916 correspondence between Franz Rosenzweig and Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy” Fellow-colloquium, Kollegium Humanwissenschaften Bad Homburg, Germany.

11.12.2019       “Gehör für das Unsichtbare. Gebet als ethisch-religiöse Reorientierungspraxis” Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Germany.

University of Hamburg, Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies

29.01.2020       “Leben als Sterbenlernen: Von Heidegger und Levinas zu Hannah Arendt und Simone Weil” Philosophie am Mittag, Philosophisches Seminar, Universität Siegen, Germany.

23.06.2020       “Gott ‘und’ das Böse – Paul Tillich, Karl Barth, Franz Rosenzweig und Abraham Joshua Heschel” (s. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aCy51BSDmI&feature=youtu.be) Paul-Tillich-lecture: Gott ‚und‘ das Böse denken – ein Missverständnis?, Goethe-University & Evangelische Akademie Frankfurt, Germany.

24.11.2020       “How to Speak of That Which Transcends Language? Skepticism and Its Refutation in Levinas’s Philosophy” Reading Evening, Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies, Universität Hamburg, Germany.

08.12.2020       “Kierkegaard – A Transcendental Phenomenologist? Response to Merold Westphal” Virtual session of the American Kierkegaard Society, American Academy of Religion, USA.

19.02.2021       “Imago Dei-motivets skabelsesteologiske og etiske aspekter i Amanda Gormans digt The Hill We Climb” Faglig fredagsbar, Department of Theology, Aarhus University, Denmark.

03.03.2021       “Epistemological Aspects of ‘Dialogue’: Exploring the Potential of the Second-Person Perspective” Project presentation by the PI, Department of Theology, Aarhus University, Denmark.

20.05.2021       “Traumeteorier – og posttraumatisk vækst” Lecture at the Centre for Pastoral Education and Research in Copenhagen, Church of Denmark.

31.05.2021       “Hören und Erhört-Werden: ‘Der das Ohr gepflanzt hat, sollte der nicht hören‘?” Ringvorlesung: ‘Offener nichts als das geöffnete Ohr’: Motive einer Theologie des Hörens, Theologische Fakultät, Universität Bern, Switzerland.

19.07.2021       “Religionsdialog og religionskonflikt” Kristendommen i verden. Sommerstævne I anledning af Løgumkloster Refugiums 60-års jubilæum, Løgumkloster, Denmark.

03.09.2021       “Between You and Me: Listening, Love of Neighbor, and Second-Personal Poetics” (keynote lecture) Neighbor-Love: Poetics of Love and Agape, Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquity, Stockholm, Sweden.

22.09.2021       “Schöpfung und Wiedererschaffung – im Dialog mit Amanda Gormans Gedicht The Hill We Climb” Konstruierte Schöpfung? Tagung der AG katholische Dogmatik und Fundamentaltheologie, Akademie der Diözese Rottenburg-Stuttgart in Stuttgart-Hohenheim, Germany.

12.10.2021       “’Skulle han, som plantede øret, ikke høre’? Bønnens teologi og fænomenologi” Semesterforelæsning at Menighedsfakultetet Aarhus, Denmark.

29.10.2021       “Sjælesorg – at lytte livsmodet frem” Sjælesorg i bevægelse: En introduktion til hovedspor i sjælesorgens teologi og praksis i Danmark (book launch)Folkekirkens uddannelses- og videnscenter/Pastoralseminar Aarhus, Denmark.

09.11.2021       “Eksistentiel orientering i livskriser: Sorgbearbejdelse i ’dialog’ med Gud?” Teologisk Forening, Aarhus University, Denmark.

16.02.2022       “Vertrauen, Glaube und Zweifel” Seminar an der Theologischen Fakultät der Humboldt-Universität Berlin, Germany.

23.03.2022       “Ansvar som etisk responsivitet” Discussion of Ulrik Nissen’s book Kærlighedens ansvar: Grundlag og områder for kristen etik, Department of Theology, Aarhus University, Denmark.

06.05.2022       “At høre det uhørte: Teologisk epistemologi som dialogisk livsorientering” Inaugural lecture at Faculty of Arts, Aarhus University, Denmark (video available online at https://projects.au.dk/dialogue/webinars-and-videos).

18.05.2022       “Trustful Faith in God – An Example of ‘Religious Emotion’?” Theology & Rationality-workshop: The Concept and Forms of Religious Emotion in Judaism, Christianity and Islam, Goethe-University Frankfurt/Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften Bad Homburg, Germany.

17.06.2022       “Imagining sustainable worlds: A dialogical approach to environmental education” (together with Essi Ikonen) Creation and Crisis: 20th Nordic Conference for Systematic Theology. Meeting of Danish and Norwegian colleagues, Aarhus University, Denmark.

19.06.2022       “Burning Issues in Eco-Theology” Creation and Crisis: 20th Nordic Conference for Systematic Theology. Roundtable discussion with representatives from all five Nordic countries, at Aarhus University, Denmark.

15.-16.8.2022   “Being Truthful vis-à-vis Each Other: Existential, Pragmatic, and Dialogical Approaches to Truth in Kierkegaard, Rosenzweig, and Buber” (keynote lecture) Truth and Truthfulness: Biblical, Philosophical and Theological Approaches, Aarhus University, Denmark.

15.09.2022       “Listening to Nature: Possibilities and Limits of Buber’s Dialogical Approach to Our Environment” (together with Essi Ikonen) Philosophy, Nature, and Climate Change, Aarhus University, Denmark.

05.10.2022       “Trust in God – A Religious Emotion?” Meeting of DFG-Network on Religion and the Emotions, Faculty of Theology, Humboldt University Berlin.

26.10.2022       “Possibilities and Limits of Dialogue in a Postcolonial Age: How to Achieve Epistemic Growth? ” Contribution to the conference 60 years after the Algerian War: Spaces of “Inter” in Times of “Post” at Katholische Akademie Berlin, co-organized by The Berlin Center for Intellectual Diaspora, the research group Minor Cosmopolitanism (Universität Potsdam), and the research project RePLITO (Freie Universität & Humboldt-Universität Berlin). 

24.11.2022       “De profundis: Zur Theologie und Phänomenologie des Gebets” Gemeindeverein St. Petri Kopenhagen, Denmark.

21.12.2022       “Hospitable Listening: Philosophical and Religious Resources” (together with Bjarke Mørkøre Stigel Hansen) Interdisciplinary seminar Religion, Migration, and Hospitality, Department of Theology, Faculty of Arts, Aarhus University, Denmark.

23.01.2023       “Hospitable Listening and the Ethics of Communication: Philosophical and Religious Resources” ERC Synergy-workshop at University of Hannover, Germany.

25.05.2023       “Eksistentiel orientering i livskriser: Kierkegaards vidnesbyrd om et arkimedisk punkt udenfor verden” Søren Kierkegaard Society in Copenhagen, Denmark.

07.06.2023       “Methodological Reflections on Nature, Religion, and Environmental Ethics” (keynote lecture) Religion and Nature: Biannual conference of the Nordic Society for Philosophy of Religion, hosted by Faculty of Theology, University of Oslo & MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion, and Society in Oslo, Norway.

07.06.2023       “Listening to Nature: Possibilities and Limits of Buber’s Dialogical Approach to Our Environment” (short paper, together with Essi Ikonen) Religion and Nature: Biannual conference of theNordic Society for Philosophy of Religion, hosted by Faculty of Theology, University of Oslo & MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion, and Society in Oslo, Norway.

03.07.2023       “‘Öko-Emotionen‘ und ethische Orientierung” Interdisziplinäre Vorlesungsreihe ETHIK und EMOTION: Was haben unsere Gefühle mit der Ethik zu tun?, University of Rostock, Germany.

17.07.2023       “Listening to Nature: Buber’s Philosophy of Dialogue and Environmental Ethics” (short paper, together with Essi Ikonen) Contribution to the conference Women Write Buber: 100th Anniversary of ‘I and Thou’ at The Bucerius Institute for Research of Contemporary German History and Society, University of Haifa, Israel, co-organized by The Leo Baeck Institute Jerusalem for the Study of German Jewish History and Culture, Stiftung Schwarz Schütte Potsdam, School of Jewish Theology at University of Potsdam, and University of Leipzig, Germany.

25.08.2023       “En dialogisk tilgang til traumer: Sjælesørgeren som et medfølende vidne, der lytter livsmodet frem” Book launch of Det medfølende vidne: Sjælesorg og traumer by Lone Vesterdal and Hanne Pahuus at the publishing house Forlaget Eksistensen, Frederiksberg, Denmark.

03.09.2023       “Erfahrung mit der Erfahrung – und über sie hinaus: Phänomenologische Methodologie und göttliche Transzendenz” (keynote lecture) Internationale Tagung zum Methodendiskurs der französischen Phänomenologie / Phenomenological methods as an instrument to explore divine transcendence, University of Münster, Germany.

05.09.2023       “Religion, resonans, demokrati” Teologisk Tænkning LIVE, Grundtvig-Akademiet in Copenhagen, Denmark.

05.10.2023       “Post-traumatic growth? Coping with anxiety, grief, and powerlessness” Meeting of DFG-Network on Religion and the Emotions, Faculty of Theology, Humboldt University Berlin.

27.10.2023       “Hören, Zuhören, Zugehören: Gedanken zu Bubers Dialogphilosophie und Relationalen Ontologie” Buber-Symposion zum 100-jährigen Jubiläum von Ich und Du (1923), Universität Bern, Switzerland.

08.11.2023       “Kierkegaard og sjælesorg: Eksistentiel orientering i livskriser” Sønderborg Provstikonvent, Denmark.

15.11.2023       “Næstekærlighed hos Kierkegaard og Levinas” Interdisciplinary research seminar at Department of Theology, Aarhus University, Denmark.

23.11.2023       “Eksistentiel orientering i livskriser og Kierkegaards tanker om tro” Løgstør Church, Denmark. 

14.12.2023       “Listening to the Inner Voice of the Other: Buber’s Philosophy of Dialogue, Psychotherapy, and Trauma Studies” Dialogue as Trans-Disciplinary Concept and Bridge-Building Practice, Aarhus University, Denmark.

26.01.2024       “Eksistentiel orientering og dømmekraft i opbrudstider” (opening lecture) Winter academy at Farum Sogn: Om dømmekraft i opbrudstider, Denmark.