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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:

John M.Anderson
John Bailiff
Bernard Boelen
Manfred Frings
Theodore Kisiel
Joseph Kockelmans
Thomas Langan
L. Leonard
William J. Richardson
Calvin O. Schrag
Bernard Toussaint
Cyril Welch

Subsequent to the DePaul conference of 1966, annual meetings of the Heidegger Circle have been hosted by the following universities:
1967 The Pennsylvania State University
1968 University of Pittsburgh
1969 DePaul University
1970 Trinity College (Connecticut)
1971 University of Toronto
1972 DePaul University
1973 Hunter College
1974 Duquesne University
1975 Wilfried Laurier University
1976 DePaul University
1977 Tulane University
1978 Villanova University
1980 University of Toronto
1981 The Pennsylvania State University
1982 Loyola University of Chicago
1983 University of New Hampshire
1984 University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
1985 Loyola University of New Orleans
1986 DePaul University
1987 George Mason University
1988 University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
1989 University of Notre Dame
1990 Seattle University
1991 Vanderbilt University
1992 Loyola University of New Orleans
1993 SUNY at Stony Brook
1994 Brigham Young University
1995 Skidmore College
1996 University of New Hampshire
1997 The Pennsylvania State University
1998 Villanova University
1999 DePaul University
2000 Marshall University
2001 Fordham University
2002 Southern Connecticut State University
2003 Old Dominion University
2004 University of New Orleans and Louisiana State University
2005 Goucher College (Photos and conference program)
2006 Boston University (Conference program)
2007 DePaul University (Photos and conference program)
2008 Northern Illinois University (Photos and conference program)
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.