We are glad to give notice that the Hegel Society of America 27th biennial Conference, Hegel’s Relevance Today, will take place on October 11th-13th, 2024, at Boston University.
To register for the conference, please visit this link.
Below you can find the full conference program, which can also be downloaded here.
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Friday, October 11th
Room: PHO 906
1:15 pm
Opening Remarks
Jeffrey Church (University of Houston)
Sally Sedgwick (Boston University)
C. Allen Speight (Boston University)
Room 1 – PHO 906
1:30 pm
C. Allen Speight (Boston University): “Hegel and the Philosophy of Culture: Contemporary Questions”
Chair: Daniel Dahlstrom (Boston University)
2:30 pm
Dylan Shaul (Yale University): “Hegel after Post-Structuralism: From Absolute Idealism to New Materialism”
Chair: Bernard Yack (Brandeis University)
4:00 pm
Tim Brownlee (Xavier University): “Publicity and Ideology: the Limits of Critique in Hegel’s Social Theory”
Chair: Michael Rosen (Harvard University)
5:00 pm
Plenary Address
Klaus Vieweg (Universität Jena): “A completely different history of philosophy: Hegel’s logically founded, ideal-typical-paradigmatic conception”
Chair: Kevin Thompson (DePaul University)
Room 2 – School of Theology (STH) 625
1:30 pm
Andrew Buchwalter (University of North Florida): “Hegel on Time, History, and Environmental Intergenerationalism”
Chair: William Desmond (Villanova University)
2:30 pm
Jim Vernon (York University): “’The Very Stones Cry Out and Raise Themselves to Spirit’: Hegel, Crystals, and the Emancipatory Magic of Natural New Beauty”
Chair: Yan Mikhaylov (College of Southern Nevada)
4:00 pm
Giulia Battistoni (Boston University): “New Insights on Biodiversity from Hegel to Jonas”
Chair: Giovanni Pietro Basile (Boston College)
Saturday, October 12th
Room 1 – PHO 906
9:00 am
Viren Murthy (University of Wisconsin, Madison): “Hegelian Critiques of Capitalism: Rethinking Modernity through Speculative Metaphysics”
Chair: Alex Adamson (Babson College)
10:00 am
Günter Zöller (Ludwig Maximilians Universität, München): “Res Publica Abstracta. Hegel’s Distinction. Between Civil Society and the Political State and the American Polity Today”
Chair: Mark Alznauer (Northwestern)
11:30 am
Presidential Address
Kevin Thompson (DePaul): “Hegel and the Problems of Nature”
Chair: Jere Surber (University of Denver)
12:30-2:20 pm
Meeting of the HSA Executive Council
Room 2 – PHO 206
9:00 am
Susan Hahn (Bentley University): “Dialectical Law and Optical Law”
Chair: Richard Dien Winfield (University of Georgia)
10:00 am
Michael Baur (Fordham University): “Hegel’s Relevance for Contemporary Critical Theory”
Chair: Jay Gupta (Northeastern University)
Room 1 – PHO 906
2:30 pm
Jere Surber (University of Denver): “Foucault, Deleuze, and the ‘Escape from Hegel’”
Chair: Anna-Lisa Sander (University of Tübingen and Heidelberg)
3:30 pm
Jay Miller (Warren Wilson College): “Hegel and Contemporary Identity Politics”
Chair: Senem Saner (Cal State, Bakersfield)
5:00 pm
HSA Business Meeting
Room 2 – PHO 206
2:30 pm
Nadine Mooren (University of Münster): “Embedded Individuality: Hegel’s Concept of Personal Experience and the Relevance of Intersubjectivity”
Chair: Lenny Moss (UNAM)
3:30 pm
Shannon Hoff (Memorial University): “Hegel, Ethical Life, Conscience, and Colonialism”
Chair: Amod Lele (Northeastern University)
Sunday, October 13th
Room 1 – PHO 906
9:00 am
Emmanuel Chaput (Johns Hopkins University): “The Relevance of System and Life in Hegel”
Chair: Daniel Mendez (Bridgewater State University)
10:00 am
Daniel Luna (University of Toronto): “Hegel and the Ethical Moment of the Pandemic”
Chair: Tim Brownlee (Xavier University)
11:30 am
Stephanie Takata-Struble (Stony Brook University): “Dog Goes ‘Woof,’ Cat Goes ‘Meow,’ But Do They Speak? An Examination of the Animal Voice, the Cry, and the Soul in Hegel’s Philosophy of Nature and Anthropology”
Chair: James K.A. Smith (Calvin University)
Room 2 – PHO 206
9:00 am
Ana Vieyra (Emory University): “Conceptual Truth and the Idea in Hegel”
Chair: Andrew Buchwalter (University of North Florida)
10:00 am
Paul Wilford (Boston College): “The Poverty of Contemporary Political Philosophy”
Chair: Shterna Friedman (Harvard University)
11:30 am
Tyler van Wulven (Santa Clara University): “The Road to Hell”
Chair: Jeffrey Church (University of Houston)
