We are glad to give notice that the Fourth Biennial Conference of the Australian Hegel Society: The Labour of the Negative, hosted by the New South Wales University Sydney, will take place online and on campus on November 30 and December 1, 2023. T
Keynote Speaker: Jean-Philippe Deranty (Macquarie)
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 30 November 2023 (UNSW campus and hybrid)
Morven Brown Building Room 209
Welcome 8:50
Keynote 9:00-10:30
Jean-Philippe Deranty (Macquarie): ‘Not and Notwendigkeit: necessity, work, freedom’
Session 1
11:00 Mathew Abbott (Federation): ‘Coming Round to Ourselves: Labour and
Education in the Anthropocene’
11:40 Andrew Benjamin (Melbourne): ‘Bataille’s Hegel. Delimiting the Work of the
Negative’
12:20 Lunch
Session 2: Early Career and Graduate Student Session
13:35 *Darren Rosso (UNE): ‘Hegel’s Phenomenology: The Road to the Infinite of
Immanent Production’
14:00 Bryan Cooke (Melbourne) ‘Hegel’s Apocalypse and the Obscure Disaster of a World without End’
14:25 Brendan Duncan-Shah (Melbourne): ‘Rendering determinate and sundering
determinacy: the origin of Hegel’s principle’ that ‘determinateness is negation’
14:50 Lachlan Wells (Melbourne): ‘The force of negation in the logoi and
the mathemata: Jean Hyppolite’s footnote on Jean Cavailles’s “nearly Hegelian
terms.”’
15:20 Break
Session 3
16:00 *Kazuya Kawase (Miyazaki Municipal University): ‘Labour as a form of
human action’
16:40 *Michael Lazarus (Monash): ‘The Philosophy of Right and the critique of political
economy’
17:20 Finish
Friday 1 December 2023 (On-line)
Session 4
9:00 Michael Baur (Fordham): ‘Hegel, Negativity, and Psychoanalysis as a Model for Critical Theory’
9:40 James Sares (Kentucky): ‘Hegel’s Logic as a Phenomenology of Pure
Thinking’
10:20 Break
Session 5
11:00 Viren Murthy (Wisconsin-Maddison): ‘Rethinking Normativity in Hegel and Marx: Labor, Negativity and the Subject of History’
11:40 Clark W. Wolf (Marquette): ‘Labor and Self-Formation in Hegel’s ‘Lordship and Bondage’
12:20 Jarrad A. Felgenhauer (Seattle): ‘Hegel’s Freedom: The Labor of Negativity or the Labor of Difference?’
13: 00 Break
Session 6: Early Career and Graduate Student Session
16:00 Rutwij Nakhwa (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay): ‘The Labour of the Negative as the Work of Truth’
16:25 Cynthia Cruz (European Graduate School): ‘Madness and Subjective
Destitution’
16:50 Ana María Guzman Olmos (Bonn): ‘The Negation of the Machine. Hegel’s concept of labor in light of the Science of Logic’
17:15 Charlotte Nóra Szasz (Leuphana Universität Lüneburg) ‘Master, slave and the negative power of the unconscious’
17:40 Break
Session 7
18:20 Jacob Blumenfeld (Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg):
‘The Negative or Freedom or Crime’
19: 00 Daniel-Pascal Zorn (Bergische Universität Wüppertal): ‘Hegels Strategien,
Hegels Didaktik. Zum Darstellungs problem der spekulativen Dialektik’
19:40 Break
20:30-22.00 Book Session: Paul Redding’s “Conceptual Harmonies: The Origins and Relevance of Hegel’s Logic” with Stephen Houlgate and Sebastian Rand
Response from Paul Redding
Note: all times are Australian Eastern Daylight Times (GMT+11)
* Speaker presenting on-line
