Previous Workshops — West Coast Heidegger Workshop

Spring 2026 Online Presentations

May 8
Daniel Dahlstrom, Boston University
Ethical Notes in Heidegger’s Existential Analysis: What is the Good of Being and Time?
June 12
Julia Ireland, Whitman College
Fragments from the Shattered Temple: Heidegger and Caspar David Friedrich, and it will be focused on the different versions of the Origin of the Work of Art.

San Francisco Hilton, Financial District

Keynote 1

Richard Polt

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Xavier University

Heidegger’s “Das Dasein und der Einzelne”: The Decoupling of Dasein and Humanity, the Strangeness of Being, and the Will to World

Keynote 2

Charles Bambach

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University of Texas, Dallas

Heidegger’s Hölderlin Lectures: The River Hymns

Andrew Mitchell, Emory University
The Language of the Four Notebooks Project GA 104
Ian Alexander Moore, Loyola Marymount University
Heidegger and the Problem of Medieval Metaphysics
Alex Levine, Independent Scholar
From Aristotelian Judgment to Platonic Education: The Evolution of Heidegger’s Thinking of the Political
Rex Gilliland, Southern Connecticut State University
Cohesion and Dissolution in Heidegger’s Conceptions of World
David Abergel, Boston College
The Young Heidegger’s Phenomenology as the Original Science of Life
Hakhamanesh Zangeneh, California State University, Stanislaus
Karl Jaspers and the Non-kairological Augenblick in 1919
Richard Ackerman, Independent Scholar
Heidegger’s Line Between Animal and Human: The Devolution of an Ontological Boundary
Susanne Schilz, California State University, Stanislaus
Heidegger’s Note on Walter Gerlach, BzP §78

Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles

Keynote 1

Francisco Gonzalez

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University of Ottawa

What Happened to Heidegger’s Ontology of Life? The Strange Fate of De Anima in the Projected Book on Aristotle

Keynote 2

Robert Bernasconi

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Penn State University

Heidegger’s Lecture “Poverty”: The Saying of a Turning

Richard Polt, Xavier University
From the Epochal to the Ecstatic: Heidegger’s Notes on Time from 1947
Chet Mlcek-Sauvage, Loyola Marymount University
Entity Individuation and Independence in Heidegger’s “The Argument against Need”
Shane Ewegen, Trinity College
(Re)Writing the World: Heidegger and the Inscription
Rex Gilliland, Southern Connecticut State University
Puzzling Aspects of Formal Indication
Karl von der Luft, University of Chicago
Heidegger and Anti-Psychologism
Ian Alexander Moore, Loyola Marymount University
Heidegger and the Problem of Metaphysics as Ontotheology
Hakhamanesh Zangeneh, California State University, Stanislaus
Anomalies of Seinsgeschichte: From Medieval to Modern Truth
Susanne Schilz, California State University, Stanislaus
Versuch and Experiment in Heidegger’s Beiträge
Benjamin Brewer, University of Toronto
Gegen den Atomtod! Heidegger and the Bomb, of All Things.
Andrew Mitchell, Emory University
Heidegger, Terroir, and the Politics of Taste

California State University, Stanislaus

Keynote 1

Andrew J. Mitchell

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Emory University

Heidegger and the Renunciation of the Renaissance: Dürer, Raphael, and German Nationalism

Keynote 2

Daniel Dahlstrom

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Boston University

Essence and Metaphor

Joshua D. Fahmy Hooke, Memorial University
Reflection and Reluzenz in the Frühe Freiburger Vorlesungen, 1919–1923
Christopher Sauder, Providence College
Heidegger on Phronesis as the Hermeneutical Intuition of Factical Life
Ian Alexander Moore, Loyola Marymount University
Being and Time in Heidegger’s Unpublished Seminars on Medieval Philosophy and Its Aristotelian Inheritance (1924–1927)
Susanne Schilz, California State University, Stanislaus
Anklang as Anfang
Asadullah Khan, University of Ottawa
Evolution in Heidegger’s Understanding of Truth (From GA 9 to GA 80.1)
Rex Gilliland, Southern Connecticut State University
The Evolution of Heidegger’s Conception of Facticity
Addison Ellis, The American University in Cairo
The Kantian Heritage of Heidegger’s Nothing
Hakhamanesh Zangeneh, California State University, Stanislaus
Time and Truth / Certitude, Imagination and Apperception