“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.