HSGB Annual Conference 2007: “Hegel and the Phenomenology of Spirit”

September 1, 2007 to September 2, 2007
At St. Edmund’s Hall, Oxford

Conference Programme

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)

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)

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