Category: conference

Thursday, 3rd September

1.00-1.30 Conference registration
1.30-3.00 Paul Redding (University of Sydney): “Hegel’s Subjective Logic as a Logic for (Hegel’s) Philosophy of Mind”
3.30-5.00 Karen Ng (Vanderbilt University): “Life and Mind in Hegel’s Subjective Spirit”
5.30-7.00 Markus Gabriel (Universität Bonn): “What Kind of Idealist (If Any) Is Hegel?”

Friday, 4th September

9.30-11.00: Molly Macdonald (Queen Mary, University of London): “Hegel and Psychoanalysis: Negation, Thirdness and the Binding of Subjects”
11.30-1.00 Lucia Ziglioli (Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand): “Subjective Knowing: The Challenges of Hegel’s Philosophical Psychology”
Max Winter (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena): “‘Time is the Being of the Subject itself’. Hegel on the Temporality of Spirit”
2.00-3.30 Mark Alznauer (Northwestern University): “Natural and Spiritual Defect in Hegel”

Thursday 4th September

1.00-1.30 Conference registration

1.30-3.00 Dean Moyar (Johns Hopkins, Baltimore): “Law as the Public Conscience: A Hobbesian Theme in Hegel’s Philosophy of Right”

3.30-5.00 Jean-François Kervégan (Paris 1): “Hegel’s Political Epistemology”

5.30-7.00 Frank Ruda (Freie Universität, Berlin): “What Is to Be Done (with Hegel’s Monarch)?”

Friday 5th September

9.30-11.00 Rahel Jaeggi (Humboldt, Berlin): “Normativity and History”

11.30-1.00 Sebastian Stein (Heidelberg): “Untouchable Dogma or Historical Relativity? On the Revisability of the Philosophy of Right’s Institutions”

Susanne Hermann-Sinai (Leipzig / Oxford): “Does Hegel have a Notion of Practical Knowledge?”

2.00-3.30 Thom Brooks (Durham): “Justice for Stakeholders: Lessons from Hegel’s Philosophy of Right”

Monday 2nd September

1.00-1.30 Conference registration

1.30-3.00 John Burbidge (Trent), “Hegel’s Logic as Metaphysics”

3.30-5.00 Stephen Houlgate (Warwick), “Hegel and Quantity”

5.30-7.00 Friederike Schick (Tuebingen), “Freedom and Necessity: The Transition to the Logic of the Concept”

Tuesday 3rd September

9.30-11.00 Angelica Nuzzo (CUNY), “The Meaning of Logical Advancement in Hegel’s Logic”

11.30-1.00 Robert Pippin (Chicago), “Logic and Metaphysics: Hegel’s ‘Realm of Shadows’”

2.00-3.30 Christopher Yeomans (Purdue), “Hegel’s Response to Metaphysical Problems: Solution vs Therapy”

Tuesday 4th September

1.00-1.30 Conference registration

1.30-3.00 Robert Hanna (Colorado), “Kant, Hegel, and the Fate of Non-Conceptual Content”

3.30-5.00 Katerina Deligiorgi (Sussex), “Philosophical Retellings of the Fall: Kant, Hegel and the Good”

5.30-7.00 Allen Speight (Boston), “Artisans, Artists and Hegel’s History of the Philosophy of Art”

Wednesday 5th September

9.30-11.00 Paul Franks (Yale), “‘Immediately Before the Gates of Salvation’: Phrenology, the Jewish People, and Resistance to Sublation in Hegel’s Phenomenology”

11.30-1.00 Fred Rush (Notre Dame), “Hegel’s ‘Evil’”

2.00-3.30 Daniel Dahlstrom (Boston), “The Self Before Self-Consciousness”

Monday 5th September

1.00-1.30 Conference registration

1.30-3.00 Will Dudley (Williams College)
“Hegel’s Critical Naturalism”

3.30-5.00 Alexis Papazoglou (Cambridge)
“Hegel, the Space of Reasons and the Realm of Nature”

5.30-7.00 Paul Redding (Sydney)
“Hegel: Naturalist-leaning Forms of Idealism
and Idealist-leaning Forms of Naturalism”

Tuesday 6th September

9.30-11.00 Sebastian Roedl (Basel)
“The Self-Determining Concept”

11.30-1.00 Alison Stone (Lancaster)
“Hegel, Philosophy of Nature and Naturalism”

2.00-3.30 Kenneth Westphal (UEA)
“Aspects of Philosophical Naturalism
in Hegel’s 1807 Phenomenology of Spirit”

Wednesday, 1 September

12.30-13.00 Conference registration

13.00-14.15 Pauline Kleingeld (Leiden): Kant and Cosmopolitanism

14.30-15.45 Parallel session:
Alexander Rueger (Alberta): Systematicity and Symbolization in the Deduction of the Judgment of Taste
Ulrich Schloesser (Toronto): Action, Language, and Confession in the Phenomenology of Spirit

16.15-17.30 Parallel session:
Ralf Bader (St Andrews): Pragmatic Imperatives and the Value of Happiness
Julia Peters (ECLA): Hegel on Natural Beauty
Liesbet Vanhaute (Antwerp): How Biological is Human History? Kant’s Use of Biological Concepts and its Implications for History as Moral Anthropology
Reed Winegar (Pennsylvania): An Unfamiliar Positive Law: On Kant, Schiller, and Hegel

18.00-19.15 Robert Stern (Sheffield): Unholy Wills? Kant and Hegel on the Struggle to be Good

Thursday, 2 September

09.00-10.15 Karin de Boer (Groningen): Transformations of Transcendental Philosophy: Wolff, Kant, and Hegel

10.45-12.00 Parallel session:
John J. Callanan (KCL): Normativity and the Acquisition of Categories
Ralph Palm (KUL): Problems of Contradiction and Sublation in Hegel’s Science of Logic

12.15-13.30 Sebastian Gardner (UCL): Kant’s Practical Postulates and the Development of German Idealism

14.15-15.30 Fabian Freyenhagen (Essex): The Empty Formalism Revisited

15.45-17.00 Parallel session:
Susan Songsuk Hahn (Concordia): Logical Considerations Applied to Ethics: Hegel’s Empty Formalism
Reidar Maliks (Oxford): Revolution and Human Rights

17.30-18.45 Karl Ameriks (Notre Dame): Kant, Human Nature, and History after Rousseau

Friday, 3 September

09.30-10.45 Katrin Flikschuh (LSE): What is Innate Right?

11.15-12.30 Parallel session:
Michaela Bordignon (Padova): Infinite Judgement and Absolute Knowing
Timothy Quandt (Claremont): Kant’s Determining Self
J. L. Shaheen (Michigan): Hegel, Humility, and the Possibility of Intrinsic Properties
Milla Emilia Vaha (EUI): The Idea of the Moral State in Kant

13.30-14.45 Parallel session:
Dietmar Heidemann (Luxemburg): Hegel on the Relation between Scepticism and Dialectic
Kenneth R Westphal (Kent): Kant’s Cognitive Semantics, Newton’s Rule Four of Philosophy, and Scientific Realism

15.00-16.15 Howard Williams (Aberystwyth): A Kantian Critique of Contemporary Hegelian Just War Theory

Thursday, 3rd September

30th Annual Conference

• 1.00–1.30 Conference Registration
• 1:30–3.00 Clare Carlisle (Liverpool)
  Kierkeggard and the Question of Motion: The Sphere of Thought and the Sphere of Freedom
• 3.00–3.30 Tea/coffee
• 3.30–5.00 Genia Schönbaumsfeld (Southampton)
  Kierkegaard contra Hegel on the “Absolute Paradox”
• 5:00–5:30 Break
• 5.30–7.00 George Pattison (Oxford)
  Antigone and the End of Art
• 7.30 Dinner
• 6.30–11.30 Bar open
• 8.30–9.00 Annual Meeting of the Hegel Society of Great Britain (All welcome)

Friday, 4th September

• 8.00–9.00 Breakfast
• 9.30–11.00 Paul Cruysberghs (KU Leuven)
  Soul-Consciousness-Mind in Hegel, Rosenkranz and Kierkegaard
• 11.00–11.30 Tea/coffee
• 11.30–1.00 Dan Watts (Essex)
  Subjective Thinking: Kierkegaard on Hegel’s Socrates
• 1.00–2:00 Lunch
• 2:00 –3:30 Jon Stewart (Copenhagen)
  Kierkegaard’s Notion of Actuality and the Criticism of Hegelian Abstraction

Conference Organiser: Dr Thom Brooks, Department of Politics, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU

Monday, 1st September

29th Annual Conference

• 1.00-1.30 Conference Registration
• 1.30-3.00 Robert Williams (University of Illinois at Chicago)
  Recognition and Self-Acutalisation in Hegel’s Philosophy of Spirit

• 3.00-3.30 Tea / Coffee
• 3.30-5.00 Gilles Marmass (Paris-Sorbonne)
  The Relationship between Spirit and Nature in Hegel’s Encyclopaedia
• 5.00-5.30 Break
• 5.30-7.00 John Burbridge (Trent University)
  Transforming Representations into Thoughts and Thoughts into Concepts
• 7.30 Dinner
• 6.30-11.30 Bar open
• 8.30-9.00 Annual Meeting of the Hegel Society of Great Britain (all welcome)

Tuesday, 2nd September

• 8.00-9.00 Breakfast
• 9.30-11.00 Dean Moyar (Johns Hopkins University)
  Naturalism in Ethics and Hegel’s Distinction between Subjective and Objective Spirit
• 11.00-11.30 Coffee / Tea
• 11.30-1.00 Marina Bykova (North Carolina State University)
  The Problem of Intersubjectivity in the Encyclopaedia Phenomenology
• 1.00-2.00 Lunch
• 2.00-3.30 Richard Dien Winfield (University of Georgia)
  Hegel, Mind and Mechanism: Why Machines Have No Psyche, Consciousness, Nor Intelligence

Monday, 10th September

28th Annual Conference

• 1.00-1.30: Conference Registration
• 1.30-3.00: Stephen Houlgate (Warwick)
  From Consciousness to Self-Consciousness: A Critique of Brandom’s Reading of Hegel’s ‘Phenomenology’
• 3.00-3.30: Tea / Coffee
• 3.30-3.45: Nick Walker
  H.S. Harris: An Appreciation
• 3.45-5.15: Ken Westphal (Kent)
  Harris on the Structure of Hegel’s ‘Phenomenology’
  Chair: Katerina Deligiorgi (Sussex)
• 5.15-5.45: Break
• 5.45-7.15: Graduate Papers:
  Brett A Fulkerson-Smith: Kant’s Skeptical Method and Hegel’s Phenomenological Method: A Reply to Kenneth Westphal
  Julia Peters: Two Dialectics of Art?
  Chair: Dennis Schulting (Amsterdam)

• 7.30: Dinner
• 8.30: Conference wine reception (sponsored by Oxford University Press)
• 6.30-11.30: Bar oepn

Tuesday, 11th September

• 8.00-9.00: Breakfast
• 9.30-11.00: Catherine Malabou (Paris-Nanterre)
  Is Confession the Accomplishment of Recognition?
  Chair: Karin de Boer (Groningen)
• 11.00-11.30: Tea / Coffee
• 11.30-1.00: Robert Pippin (Chicago)
  Can there be a “Logic of Experience”? On Hegel’s ‘Phenomenology of Spirit’
  Chair: Stephen Houlgate (Warwick)
• 1.00-2.30: Lunch
• 2.30-4.00: Ludwig Siep (Münster)
  Recognition in Hegel and Beyond
  Chair: Gary Browning (Oxford Brookes)
• 4.00-4.30: Tea / Coffee
• 4.30-6.30: Round table on Yirmiyahu Yovel, Hegel’s Preface to the ‘Phenomenology of Spirit’ (Princeton UP, 2005)
  Thom Brooks (Newcastle); Evangelia Sembou (Oxford); Yirmiyahu Yovel (New School/Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
  Chair: Kenneth R. Westphal (Kent)
• 7.00: Dinner
• 6.00-11.30: Bar open
• 8.30-9.00: Annual Meeting of the Hegel Society of Great Britain (all welcome)

Wednesday, 12th September

• 8.00-9.00: Breakfast
• 9.30-11.00: James Kreines (Yale)
  Hegel: Metaphysics without Pre-Critical Monism
  Chair: Thom Brooks (Newcastle)
• 11.00-11.30: Coffee / Tea
• 11.30-1.00: Cinzia Ferrini (Trieste)
  On Hegel’s Confrontation with the Sciences in “Observing Reason”
  Chair: thomas Posch (Vienna)
• 1.00: Conference closes

Monday, 4th September

27th Annual Conference

• 1.00-1.30: Conference registration
• 1.30-3.00: James Clarke (University of York)
  Fichte and Hegel on Recognition
• 3.00-3.30: Tea / Coffee
• 3.30-5.00: Claudia Melica (University of Trento)
  Striving to Unity: Hegel and Hemsterhuis
• 5.00-5.30: Break
• 5.30-7.00: Paul Franks (University of Toronto)
  Ancient Scepticism and Modern Nihilism in Hegel’s Early Writings
• 7.30: Dinner
• 6.30-11.30: Bar open
• 8.30-9.00: Annual Meeting of the Hegel Society of Great Britain (all welcome)

Tuesday, 5th September

• 8.00-9.00: Breakfast
• 9.30-11.00: Wayne Martin (University of Essex)
  In Defence of Bad Infinitude: A Fichtean Response to Hegel’s Differenzschrift
• 11.00-11.30: Coffee / Tea
• 11.30-1.00: Evangelia Sembou (University of Oxford)
  The Young Hegel on ‘Life’ and ‘Love’
• 1.00-2.00: Lunch
• 2.00-3.30: Dennis Schulting (University of Amsterdam)
  The Functionality of Christian Life