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HSGB Annual Conference: “Hegel and Freedom” (2-3 September, 2019)

We are glad to inform you that the annual conference of the Hegel Society of Great Britain will be held at St Edmund Hall (Oxford) on September 2-3, 2019. The topic of the conference will be “Hegel and Freedom”.

The registration deadline is 8th August 2019.

You can find the conference programme below.

 

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Monday, 2nd September

9.00 Conference registration

9.30-11.00: John McCumber (UCLA): “Freedom and the Logic of Identity in Hegel”

Coffee break

11.30-1.00: Eliza Starbuck Little (University of Chicago): “The Self-Exhibition of Freedom: Hegel’s Reinterpretation of Kantian Reflective Judgment”

1.00 Lunch

2.00-3.30: Alison Stone (Lancaster University): “Freedom and Nature in Hegel and Schelling”

Coffee break

4.00-5.30: Héctor Ferreiro (Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina): “Hegel’s Compatibilist Theory of Freedom”

5.45-7.15: Robert Stern (University of Sheffield): “‘This is the very essence of the Reformation: Man is in his very nature destined to be free’. Hegel, Luther and Freedom”

7.30 Dinner

8.45 AGM of HSGB

 

Tuesday, 3rd September

9.30-11.00: Angelica Nuzzo (Brooklyn College, CUNY): “Hegel on the Actuality of Freedom: Beyond Ideal Theory”

Coffee break

11.30-12.15: Simon Schüz (University of Tübingen): “Being Free as Setting Free: The Balancing of Realism and Anti-realism about Moral Norms in Hegel’s Critique of ‘Conscience’”

12.15-1.00:Ana-Silvia Munte (University of Tübingen): “Spirit’s Liberation from Nature — A Matter of the System”

1.00 Lunch

2.00-3.30: Thomas Khurana (University of Essex): “The Life of Freedom: Hegel’s Dialectical Naturalism”

3.30 Conference ends

 

 

For further information, please, visit the conference website.

 

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