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Kierkegaard, the Uncanny and Nordic Noir

17 May 2013, 12:00 am

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17 May 2013

When:
17 May 2013, 10am-5pm

Where:
UCL Pearson Building
(North East Entrance)
Lecture Theatre, Room G22

Registration:
The event is free but seats are limited. Email Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen.
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Unsettling Copenhagen in Philosophical Writing and Contemporary Drama

5 May 2013 marks the bicentenary of the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard's birth. The aim of this symposium is to explore Kierkegaard's writing on Copenhagen in relation to the theme of the uncanny. This will be done by superimposing the Copenhagen found in Kierkegaard's writings with a contemporary and notoriously unsettling representation of this city: the TV-drama The Killing.

The symposium is organised by UCL Scandinavian Studies and generously supported by the Danish Agency for Culture and the Embassy of Denmark.