“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: Vanessa Wills (The George Washington University): “Marx’s Critique of Hegel and the Prospects for Hegelian Marxism”
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
Registration
To register for the conference:
1. Please complete the registration form and submit as instructed on the form to Sebastian Stein (sebastian.stein@oxon.org)
Registration Form: https://hegel-society.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/2025-HSGB-registration.docx
2. Pay for registration using the form below, or by sending in a cheque with the registration form
If you pay by PayPal, please make sure to submit a registration form too, as we will otherwise not have a record of your preferences (including your dietary preferences). The registration form should be sent to Sebastian Stein (sebastian.stein@oxon.org).
Please note that the number of en-suite rooms is limited, so if you want one of these, please check availability before registering, by contacting Sebastian Stein (sebastian.stein@oxon.org).
The deadline for registration is Friday, 22 August 2025.
Graduate Bursaries
There are a few graduate bursaries available to defray some of the conference costs. If you would like to be considered, please complete an application form and send it to Stephen.Houlgate@warwick.ac.uk by Monday, 18 August 2025.
Graduate bursary application form: https://hegel-society.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/2025-Graduate-Bursary-application.doc
Membership of the HSGB is not a requirement of participation. More information on membership.