September 3, 2009 to September 4, 2009
At St. Edmund’s Hall, Oxford

Conference Programme

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