Summer Symposium

Wednesday 11th June 2025

 

In May 2025 the Heidegger and Classical Thought research project concluded its fifth annual reading group. The project itself was initiated by Laurence Hemming and Aaron Turner in October 2019 when we hosted a monthly seminar in Senate House, London to discuss Heidegger’s 1924/25 lectures on Plato’s Sophist (GA 19), which was unceremoniously cut short by the coronavirus pandemic. For the 2021/22 academic year we moved things online and began a weekly reading group, which looked at Heidegger’s 1932 lectures on Anaximander and Parmenides (GA 35). In 2022/23 we worked through Heidegger’s 1943/44 lectures on Heraclitus (GA 55) and in 2023/24 we focused on his 1935 lectures on the Introduction to Metaphysics (GA 40). Following the conclusion of this year’s reading of Heidegger’s 1934/35 lectures on the poetry of Friedrich Hölderlin (GA 39) we will host a one-day symposium in which our participants have been invited to present papers based on our discussions of these various texts.

Please find below the full programme. If you would like to register for the symposium, please send an email to aaron.turner@knappfoundation.ac.uk and we’ll add you to the mailing list. 

 

Programme
(all times are UK time)

 

12:00-12:40 – Laurence Hemming (Knapp Foundation / Lancaster University)

Heidegger’s Greek. Is he? How Is Being Greek or German Understood?

 

12:40-13:20 – Lasha Kharazi (Georgian-American University, Tbilisi / Knapp Foundation)

The Untrembling Heart of Ἀλήθεια: Heidegger’s Path to the Other Inception

 

13:20-14:00 – Michael Fagenblat (Open University of Israel)

Of Dwelling Prophetically: Towards the Hebraic Origin of Heidegger's Secret Spiritual Germany

           

14:00-14:30 – Break

 

14:30-15:10 – Ana Rita Figueira (Universidade de Lisboa)

Heilig trauernde: Rethinking Heidegger’s Holy Mourning with Achilles’ Representations in Attic Vase Painting

 

15:10-15:50 – Aaron Turner (Knapp Foundation / Royal Holloway, University of London)

Der Abbruch des Philosophierens: Heidegger’s “Turn” to Ground

 

15:50-16:20 – Break

 

16:20-17:00 – Yuqi Zhang (Lancaster University)

The Way to Seyn: Echoes of Parmenides’s Ways in Heidegger’s Beyng

 

17:00-17:40 – David Schur (City University of New York)

            Preparing, Attempting, Beginning, and Approaching

 

17:40-18:10 – Break

 

18:10-18:50 – Alberto Moreiras (Texas A&M University)

            Moira:  Thinking the Impossible

 

18:50-19:30 – Antoine Cantin-Brault (Université de Saint-Boniface)

The “counter-striving harmony” of Being and Nothing: A dialogue between Heidegger and Hegel

 

19:30 – End of symposium