We are glad to give notice that the Third Biannual Conference of the Australian Hegel Society: Confronting Crisis, hosted by the New South Wales University Sydney and the Macquaire University, will take place online on 2-3 December, 2021. The conference is organized in cooperation with Critique -Network in Social, Political and Legal thought at UNSW Sydney.
Keynote Speakers: Rahel Jaeggi (HU Berlin); Karen Ng (Vanderbilt)
To register and receive the link, please email theaustralianhegelsociety@gmail.com
For further information, please visit the website of the Australian Hegel Society
Below you can find the program of the conference.
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Thursday 02 December 2021 – Australian Eastern Daylight Times (GMT+11)
Welcome and opening words 9:30
Session 1: Logic and Life 10:00-13:00
10:00 Ana María Guzmán Olmos (Bonn): Hegel’s Topology of Thought and the Genesis of the Concept
10:40 Carlos Schoof Alvarez (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú): Is the Science of Logic an exercise in immanent critique?
11:20 Break
11:40 Gene Flenady (Monash): Endless Striving or Infinite Ends? Implications of Hegel’s Logical Critique of the Is/Ought Distinction
12:20 Andy Blunden (Melbourne): Hegel on Cognition and the One
13:00 Lunch
Session 2: Hegel and Critical Theory 14:40-17:50
14:40 John Grumley (USyd): Márkus’s Critique of Habermas’s Excursus to The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity
15:20 Tivadar Vervoort (KU Leuven): Standpoint Theory and Crisis: Two Competing Crisis Theories for Political Contestation
16:00 Break
16:30 Daniel Badenhorst (Macquarie): The Crisis has not yet Matured: Crisis in the Young Hegel
17:10 Louis Carré & Frédéric Monferrand (FNRS, Namur): Confronting Adorno and the ecological crisis: the critical idea of Naturgeschichte
Keynote 19:00-20.30
Rahel Jaeggi (HU Berlin): History, Normativity and Progress: Re-Thinking Hegel’s Theory of History
Session 3: Critique, Discourse and Mastery 21:00-23:00
21:00 Giovanna Luciano (UFRGS): Hegel’s idea of philosophy as critique of the present
21:40 Mariana Teixeira (Freie Universität): Masters, Slaves, and Us: On the Ongoing Allure of Hegel’s Struggle for Recognition
22:20 Giulia Battistoni (Verona): Conciliating Private and Public Autonomy: From Habermas’ Discursive Ethics back to Hegel’s Morality and Ethical Life
Friday 03 December 2021
Keynote 9:00-10:30
Karen Ng (Vanderbilt): Species-Being and Ethical Life
Session 4: Concrete Conceptuality and Madness 11:00-12:20
11:00 Connie Wang (Columbia): Hegel on Madness as a Sickness of the Soul
11:40 Anna Cornelia Ploug (Roskilde): Hegel, de Beauvoir and the critical methodology of ‘concrete conceptuality’
12:20 Lunch
Session 5: Critique of Political Economy and its Implications 13:30-15:30
13:30 Kevin Thompson (DePaul): Hegel’s Hermeneutical Form of Social Critique and the Problem of Poverty
14:10 Bernardo Ferro (Warwick): Freedom Beyond Liberalism: Reviving Hegel’s Critique of Modern Political Economy
14:50 Viren Murthy (Winsconsin-Madison)): Hegel, Reality and the Implications of our Present Crisis
17:30 Break
Meeting of the Hegel Society of Australia 16:00-16:40
Session 6: Ethical Life, Justice and a Crisis of Values 16:40-18:40
16:40 Ayumi Takeshima (Okayama): Recognition Against the Current Crisis: Ethical Life in the Philosophy of Right.
17:20 Diego Bubbio (WSU): Hegel’s notion of Entäußerung as active justice
18:00 Finish
