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Heidegger Circle History
The first meeting of the Heidegger Circle (sometimes known as the North American Heidegger Conference) was held at Drew University, Madison, NJ, in April 1964. Manfred Frings then organized two Heidegger conferences, in the fall of 1965 at Duquesne University and in 1966 at DePaul University, respectively. The Proceedings were published with messages from Martin Heidegger, by Duquesne University Press, and subsequently by Quadrangle Books, Chicago. The participants at the Heidegger conference at DePaul University in 1966 agreed that meetings should be held annually for the purposes of sharing current research interests on and discussion of Heidegger's works. Charter members of the Heidegger Circle were:
Subsequent to the DePaul conference of 1966,
annual meetings of the Heidegger Circle have been
hosted by the following universities:
Each year, a faculty member at the hosting
university functions as convener.
Attendance at the conference is open to all who register. All
interested scholars are welcome to submit papers, which are
blind-reviewed. Papers are collected in proceedings and are
delivered consecutively at the conference. The secretary-treasurer
maintains a mailing list;
Theodore Kisiel (tkisiel@niu.edu)
maintains a conference archive.
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