For this 2025 edition of the Existential Philosophy in Times of Change and \;Crisis cycle\, we invite scholars\, researchers\, and practitioners to submit abstracts for an interdisciplinary conference examining the themes of anxiety and trauma and relations to existential philosophy. We eagerly await submissions in the context of Kierkegaard&rsquo\;s philosophy and that of subsequent existential thinkers\, but also encourage more modern approaches exploring how these ideas can be expanded and reinterpreted in contemporary thought and contexts. We aim for this conference to initiate a dialogue between philosophy (anxiety as a philosophical concept)\, theology (anxiety in relation to religion and the divine)\, psychology (anxiety\, trauma\, neurodivergence\, etc.)\, and related disciplines to address the persistent and urgent issues of existential anxiety and trauma in our modern world. \;
\nThis conference will consider Kierkegaard&rsquo\;s and existential philosophy&rsquo\;s contributions alongside modern theories of anxiety and trauma\, engaging with questions such as: How can Kierkegaard&rsquo\;s understanding of anxiety inform current conversations about individual anxiety\, psychological\, cultural and social trauma? In what ways can existential insights be expanded or challenged by modern perspectives\, including psychoanalysis\, neuroscience\, existentialist perspectives and post-structuralist thought? Can existential philosophy provide pathways for therapy\, for healing in the face of individual and collective trauma?
\nTHURSDAY\, 22 May 2025\n9:00-9:50 &mdash\; \;James Cartlidge
Behold\, All Things Have Become New: Repetition\, Anxiety\, and Hauntology
9:50-10:40 &mdash\; \;Jö\;rg Disse
\;Anxiety: Sø\;ren Kierkegaard's &lsquo\;Either/Or&rsquo\; and Cognitive Psychology
Coffee Break
\n10:55-11:45 &mdash\; \;Andrzej Słowikowski
\;The Dialectic of Anxiety and Existential Crisis
11:45-12:35 &mdash\; \;Moritz René\; Pretzsch
A New Understanding of Kierkegaard's Concept of Despair for Our Present Day
Lunch Break 12:40-14:30
\n\n14:30-15:20 &mdash\; \;Yannick Marszalek
Between Existence and Transcendence: The Role of Existential Anxiety in the Philosophy of Karl Jaspers
15:30-16:20 &mdash\; \;Milan Petkanič
\;Kierkegaard&rsquo\;s Dialectics of Despair as a Self-Alienation
Coffee Break
\n16:30-17:10 &mdash\; \;Mé\;lissa Fox-Muraton
Beyond the Existential and the Psychological: A Critique of the Concept of Anxiety through the Lens of Neurodivergence
17:10-18:00 &mdash\; \;Malwina A. Tkacz
\;Anxiety and Trauma in the Time of Pandemic: A Kierkegaardian Perspective
18:00-18:50 &mdash\; \;Maciej Kałuża
Dizziness of Numbness: Kierkegaard on Antidepressants &ndash\; A Phenomenology of Loss of Anxiety
9:00-9:50 &mdash\; \;Amanda Platek
\;Tell Me What to Do: \;Technological Freedom and Kierkegaardian Anxiety
9:50-10:40 &mdash\; \;Cé\;cilia Lombard
Anxiety\, Desire and Corruption &ndash\; Kierkegaard on the Therapeutic Considerations of Child-Like Sexbots
Coffee Break
\n10:55-11:45 &mdash\; \;Marcus J. Carney
Implication as Distinction &mdash\; The Implicated Subject as Boundary of Contemporary History
11:45-12:35 &mdash\; \;L. N. Wyman
Between Death: Kierkegaard\, Seigel\, and Heidegger on Suicide and Social Death
Lunch Break 12:40-14:30
\n\n14:30-15:20 &mdash\; \;Edyta Kuzian
Trauma as Rupture and Revelation: An Exploration of Embodied Perception
15:30-16:20 &mdash\; \;Cassandre Caballero
When One&rsquo\;s Secret Inwardness Becomes a Commodity: Kierkegaardian and Marxist Perspectives on Religious Trauma
Coffee Break
\n16:30-17:20 &mdash\; \;Dominik Kulcsá\;r
Controlled Irony and Measured Anarchy &ndash\; Thinking Kierkegaard and Camus in the Time of Democratic Decline
17:20-18:10 &mdash\; \;Katarzyna Sanak-Kosmowska &\; Hanna Nasielska
Rationality &\; Beyond. How anxiety models memory and how it affects freedom - Kierkegaard and Cioran versus contemporary research.
Conference Organizers:
\n\nMé\;lissa Fox-Muraton\, Clermont School of Business/PHIER\, University Clermont Auvergne \;
\nJakub Gomułka\, AGH University of Krakow
\nMaciej Kałuża\, Krakow University of Economics \;
\nHanna Nasielska\, \;Krakow University of Economics\, \;Doctoral School \;University of the National Education Commission\, Krakow
\n\nOrganizational and Scientific Committee:
\n\nKatarzyna Baran\, Krakow University of Economics \;
\nKatarzyna Sanak-Kosmowska\, Krakow University of Economics \;
\nBartłomiej Kossakowski-Kisiel\, Doctoral School \;University of the National Education Commission\, Krakow
ORGANIZER;CN="Mélissa Fox-Muraton";CN=Jakub Gomulka;CN="Maciej Kałuża";CN=Hanna Nasielska: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR