Lectures, talks, papers

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.