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The annual conference of the Hegel Society of Great Britain will be held on 3 – 4 September, 2026 at St Edmund Hall.

The topic of this year’s conference is Hegel and the Modern World.

A Call for Abstracts for the Early Career session will be circulated soon.

Registration for the conference will open later in the spring.

Conference Programme

Thursday, 3rd September

12.45: Conference registration

1.30-3.00: Josh Wretzel (Penn State University): “‘Only Hegel is Fit for America’: Hegel and Brandom on Conscience and the Beautiful Soul”

Coffee break

3.30-5.00: Karen Koch (Universität Basel): “Hegel’s Conception of the Earth”

5.30-7.00: Thomas Khurana (Universität Potsdam): “Hegel in the Anthropocene”

7.30: Dinner

8.45 AGM

Friday, 4th September

9.30-11.00: Jan Kandiyali (University of Durham): “Unity in Difference? A Critique of Hegel on Work and Solidarity”

Coffee break

Early Career Session

11.30-12.15: Sara Wexler (Columbia University): “Hegel on Abstract Labor and the Gut des Ganzen”

12.15-1.00: Matthew J. Delhey (KU Leuven): “Automation and the Ethics of Work: Hegel’s Critique of Abstract Labor”

1.00: Lunch

2.00-3.30: Caroline Bowman (Columbia University): “Hegelian Autonomy and Resistance to Oppression”

3.30 Conference ends

Registration

To register for the conference, please enter your details below and pay via PayPal. See below for alternative payment options.

Registration will close at 10 pm on Friday, 21 August 2026.

Alternative payment options

If you would prefer an alternative payment option, please submit a registration form to: Stephen.Houlgate@warwick.ac.uk, or return it by post to:

Prof. Stephen Houlgate, 13 Rouncil Lane, Kenilworth CV8 1FF UK. 

Please pay by including a cheque (in UK pounds) with your registration form, or by bank transfer

Beneficiary name: HSGB

Bank sort code: 60 70 03

Bank account number: 50186809

Reference: Your name

“Hegel and his Critics”

A Conference of the Hegel Society of Great Britain

September 4 – 5, 2025 at St Edmund Hall, Oxford

Conference Programme

Thursday, 4th September

12.45: Conference registration

1.30-3.00: Dan Watts (University of Essex): “Paradoxes at the Limits: Kierkegaard’s Corrective to Hegel”

Chair:

Coffee break

3.30-5.00: Sebastian Stein (Universität Heidelberg): “Two recent Marxist appropriations of Hegel”

Chair:

5.30-7.00: Stephen Houlgate (University of Warwick): “Schopenhauer and Hegel”

Chair:

7.30: Dinner

8.45 AGM

Friday, 5th September

9.30-11.00: Claudia Wirsing (Technische Universität Braunschweig / Universität Münster): “The Difference between Brandom’s and Hegel’s Concepts of Legal Norm Justification”

Chair:

Coffee break

Early Career Session

Chair:

11.30-12.15: Shangrong Li (Universität Bonn): “Hegel’s Concept of Freedom in the Critique of the later Schelling”

12.15-1.00: Marco Rienzi (Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milano): “The Groundless Ground: Hegel contra Deleuze” 

1.00: Lunch

2.00-3.30: Robb Dunphy (University of Sussex): “Contradiction in Hegel’s Thought: On the Alien Structure of the Rational”

Chair:

3.30 Conference ends

September 5 – 6, 2024 at St Edmund Hall, Oxford 

Conference Programme 

Thursday, 5th September

12.45: Conference registration

1.30-3.00:  Joe Saunders (Durham University): “Stern’s System: Metaphysics, Normativity and Obligation”

Coffee break

3.30-5.00: Charlotte Alderwick (UWE Bristol): “Schelling on freedom, evil, and exhibition: A response to Stern”

5.30-7.00: Clare Carlisle (King’s College London): “The Dialectics of Love: Hegel’s Phenomenology in Middlemarch”

7.30: Dinner

8.45 AGM

Friday, 6th September

9.30-11.00: Wayne Martin (University of Essex): “Recognitive Volitional Practices and the Ontology of the Will”

Coffee break

Early Career Session

11.30-12.15: Rory Phillips (UCL): “Luther and Hegel on Being with God”

12.15-1.00:  Colette Olive (University of Cambridge): “Make Love not War: Hegel and Murdoch on Encountering the Other”

1.00: Lunch

2.00-3.30: Christoph Schuringa (Northeastern University London): “Negation”

3.30 Conference ends

September 2023 at St Edmund Hall, Oxford

Conference Programme

Wednesday, 6 September:

4.30: Conference registration

5.30-7.00:  Karen Ng (Vanderbilt University): “Self-Consciousness as Species-Consciousness”.

Chair: Jessica Leech, Pontigny Room

7.30: Dinner

Thursday, 7 September:

9.30-11.00: Parallel sessions.

Session 1: Chair: Christoph Schuringa, Old Dining Hall

Jensen Suther (Harvard University): “The Concept of Rational Life in Hegel and Marx”.

Kobe Keymeulen / Iben Bollaert (Ghent University): “The Supreme and Ultimate Purpose of Science. On the Teleology and Immanency of Hegel’s Logic”.

                        Session 2: Chair: John Callanan, Pontigny Room

Stephen Howard (KU Leuven): “Kant on the regulative use of the cosmological ideas for the investigation of nature”.

Mathis Koschel (University of Southern California): “The Essential Open-Endedness of Nature”.

Coffee break

11.30-1.00: Joe Saunders (University of Durham): “Freedom in Kant: A Practical Critique”.

Chair: Jonathan Head, Pontigny Room

1.00 Lunch

2.00-3.30: Parallel sessions. 

Session 3: Chair: Richard Bell, Old Dining Hall 

Lorenzo Sala (Universität Trier): “In what sense does Hegel’s Philosophy of Nature proceed entirely a priori?” 

George Webster (University of Oxford): “Hegel and Quantum Gravity”. 

                        Session 4: Chair: Martin Sticker, Pontigny Room

Matthew King (University of Bristol): “Kant and Crimes against Nature”.

Michael Walschots (Martin Luther Universität Halle-Wittenberg): “Kant on Moral Impossibility”.

Coffee break

4.00-5.30: Julia Peters (Universität Heidelberg): “Hegel and Kant on human natural drives and inclinations”. Chair: Eliza Starbuck Little, Pontigny Room

6.00-7.00: HSGB AGM, Old Dining Hall / UKKS AGM, Pontigny Room

7.30: Dinner

Friday, 8 September:

9.30-11.00: Parallel sessions.

Session 5: Chair: Andrew Jones, Old Dining Hall

John Callanan (King’s College London): “Thinking of Things in Themselves”.

Ahilleas Rokni (University of Warwick): “The Contingency of Nature: A Refutation”.

                        Session 6: Chair: Susanne Herrmann-Sinai, Pontigny Room

Simone Nota (Trinity College Dublin): “Kant the Naturalist?”

Connie Wang (Columbia University): “Seele as Nature Which Has Sublated Itself: Hegel’s Conception of the Soul in Light of the Transition Between Hegel’s Philosophy of Nature and Anthropology”.

Coffee break

11.30-1.00: Parallel sessions.

Session 7: Chair: Sebastian Stein, Old Dining Hall

Lorenzo Spagnesi (Universität Trier): “Natures and Essentialism in Kant”.

Achim Wamssler (Freie Universität Berlin): “Hegel on the Problem of Nature’s Diversity”.

                        Session 8: Chair: Jan Derry, Pontigny Room

Martin Sticker (University of Bristol): “Kant on Being a Useful Member of the World and Universal Basic Income”.

Tatiana Llaguno Nieves (University of Groningen): “Environmental Exhaustion as Bad Infinity: A Hegelian Approach to Sustainability and Freedom”.

 1.00 Lunch

2.00-3.30: Peter Dews (University of Essex): “Nature, Potentiality and Freedom in Hegel and Schelling”. Chair: Stephen Houlgate, Pontigny Room

3.30 Conference ends

This conference is generously supported by the British Society for the History of Philosophy and the Aristotelian Society.

Jointly organized with the INTERNATIONALE HEGEL-VEREINIGUNG

September 1–2, 2022

St Edmund Hall, Oxford

Conference Programme

Thursday, 1st September

12.45: Conference registration

1.30-3.00:  Andreja Novakovic (University of California, Berkeley): “Hegel’s Answer to the ‘Academy’ Question: Is it Permissible to Deceive a People?”

Coffee break

3.30-5.00: Richard Bourke (King’s College, Cambridge): “The Passage from Feudal to Constitutional Monarchy in Hegel”

5.30-7.00: Dina Emundts (Freie Universität Berlin): “The Comprehension of Right and of the History of Right”

7.30: Dinner

8.45 AGM

Friday, 2nd September

9.30-11.00: Charlotte Baumann (University of Sussex): “Hegel on the Market Economy”

Coffee break

Early Career Session:

11.30-12.15: Jason Yonover (Johns Hopkins University): “Hegel and King on History and Contradiction”

12.15-1.00: Leonard Weiss (University of Sheffield): “Does Hegel’s Organic Conception of the State Cancel Individual Difference?”

1.00 Lunch

2.00-3.30: Stephen Houlgate (University of Warwick): “Civil Society and its Discontents: Hegel and the Problem of Poverty”

3.30 Conference ends

Registration

To register for the conference:

a) please complete the registration form that can be downloaded here, and submit as instructed on the form: 2022 Registration Form
b) pay for registration either using PayPal below, or by sending in a cheque with the registration form

Please note that the number of en-suite rooms is very limited, so if you want one of those please check availability before registering, by contacting Sebastian Stein (sebastian.stein@oxon.org). The deadline for registration has been extended to 16th August 2022.

Graduate Bursaries

Graduate bursaries are also available, with an extended deadline of 16th August 2022. Please download the application form here, and follow the instructions on the form: HSGB Graduate Bursary application 2022

Due to the continuing Covid situation, we have decided to hold the 2021 conference online, using mainly speakers who were postponed from 2020.

There will be a series of online talks as follows:

Monday, 11 Oct. 2021, 5.30-7.00 pm UK time: Robert Pippin (University of Chicago) — “The Phenomenology and the Logic of Life: Heidegger and Hegel”

“Hegel and Freedom”

A Joint Conference of the Hegel Society of Great Britain and the Society for German Idealism and Romanticism

September 2 – 3, 2019 at St Edmund Hall, Oxford

Conference Programme

Monday, 2nd September

9.00 Conference registration

9.30-11.00: John McCumber (UCLA): “Freedom and the Logic of Identity in Hegel”

Coffee break

11.30-1.00: Eliza Starbuck Little (University of Chicago): “The Self-Exhibition of Freedom: Hegel’s Reinterpretation of Kantian Reflective Judgment”

1.00 Lunch

2.00-3.30: Alison Stone (Lancaster University): “Freedom and Nature in Hegel and Schelling”

Coffee break

4.00-5.30: Héctor Ferreiro (Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina): “Hegel’s Compatibilist Theory of Freedom”

5.45-7.15: Robert Stern (University of Sheffield): “‘This is the very essence of the Reformation: Man is in his very nature destined to be free’. Hegel, Luther and Freedom”

7.30 Dinner

8.45 AGM of HSGB

Tuesday, 3rd September

9.30-11.00: Angelica Nuzzo (Brooklyn College, CUNY): “Hegel on the Actuality of Freedom: Beyond Ideal Theory”

Coffee break

11.30-12.15: Simon Schüz (University of Tübingen): “Being Free as Setting Free: The Balancing of Realism and Anti-realism about Moral Norms in Hegel’s Critique of ‘Conscience’”

12.15-1.00:Ana-Silvia Munte (University of Tübingen): “Spirit’s Liberation from Nature — A Matter of the System”

1.00 Lunch

2.00-3.30: Thomas Khurana (University of Essex): “The Life of Freedom: Hegel’s Dialectical Naturalism”

3.30 Conference ends

REGISTRATION

To register for the conference:

(a) please complete the registration form that can be downloaded here: HSGB 2019 Registration and submit as instructed on the form.

And

(b) pay for registration either using PayPal below, or by sending in a cheque with the registration form

Please note that the number of en-suite rooms is very limited, so if you want one of those please check availability before registering, by contacting Sebastian Stein (sebastian.stein@oxon.org). The registration deadline is 8th August 2019.

GRADUATE BURSARIES

Graduate bursaries are also available, with a deadline of 9th August 2019. Please download the application form here, and follow the instructions on the form: HSGB Graduate Bursary application 2019.

“Hegel and the Greeks”

September 3 – 4, 2018 at St Edmund Hall, Oxford

Conference Programme

Monday, 3rd September

1.00-1.30 Conference registration

1.30-3.00 Andrea Kern (Universität Leipzig): “Self-conscious Life. Varieties of Neo-Aristotelianism”

Coffee break

3.30-5.00 Tobias Dangel (UniversitätHeidelberg): “Hegel’s reception of Aristotle’s Theology”

5.30-7.00 Julia Peters (Universität Tübingen): “Modern Selves, Ancient Sculptures: Hegel on understanding ourselves through Classical Art”

7.30 Dinner

8.30 AGM

Tuesday, 4th September

9.30-11.00 Anton Friedrich Koch (Universität Heidelberg): “Hegel and the Greeks on Being and Negation”

Coffee break

11.30-12.15 Bernardo Ferro (Universidade de Coimbra): “Plato, Hegel, and the Reinvention of Dialectics”

12.15-1.00 Dino Jakušić (University of Warwick): “The Science of Being or Beings: Hegel and Aristotle on First Philosophy”

1.00 Lunch

2.00-3.30 Michael Inwood (University of Oxford): “‘A perfect contradiction is mysterious for the clever and for fools alike’: Did Hegel contradict Aristotle?”

3.30 Conference ends

REGISTRATION

Download registration form here:
https://hegel-society.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/2018_hsgb_registration.doc

To register for the conference, please e mail the registration form to: sebastian.stein@oxon.org or return it by post to: Dr Sebastian Stein, Unterer Fauler Pelz 3, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany. Then please pay by Pay Pal (see below) OR by sending the appropriate payment to Dr Stein at the above address. However you choose to pay, please send a completed registration form to Dr Stein. Otherwise, we will not have a record of your registration. All registration forms should reach Dr Stein by Monday, August 6th 2018.

Cheques should be made payable to ‘Hegel Society of Great Britain’. Receipts will be issued by e mail.

GRADUATE BURSARIES

Graduate bursaries are also available: download the application form here:
https://hegel-society.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Graduate-Bursary-application-2018.doc

Please note the deadline to apply for bursaries is 10th August 2018.

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September 1, 2016 to September 2, 2016
At St Edmund Hall, Oxford

Conference Programme