12:00 RegistrationSaturday, October 22
1:30 Opening Remarks (Davis/Rand)
1:45 Lewis Wang (Boston University), “Hegel’s Justification of Private Property”
2:45 Break
3:00 Allegra De Laurentiis (Stony Brook), “On the Political Subtext of Hegel’s ‘The Good and Conscience’”
4:00 Break
4:15 Invited Speaker: Thom Brooks (Durham), TBA
6:45 Reception
8:30 Coffee and RegistrationSunday, October 23
9:00 Dylan Shaul (Toronto), “Love and the Family in the Philosophy of Right: Hegel’s Final Critique of Morality”
10:00 Kevin Thompson (DePaul), “Critical Patriotism: Hegel on Virtue, Trust, and the Public Sphere”
11:00 Coffee Break
11:30 Presidential Address: Jere Surber (Denver), “Hegel's 'Metaphilosophy' and Objective Spirit: The Inadvertent Apotheosis of the Political"
12:30 Lunch
2:20 HSA Executive Council Meeting
2:30 Andrew Davis (Belmont University), “Willing to Read: On the Preface to the Philosophy of Right”
3:30 Nicoletta Montaner (UC Berkeley), “Incompatibilisms. Contemporary Perspectives on Hegelian Political Economy”
4:30 Coffee Break
5:00 Jeff Church (Houston), “Three Concepts of Political Rationality in Hegel’s Executive”
6:00 HSA Business Meeting
7:30 Banquet
9:00 Coffee
9:30 Paul Wilford (Boston College), “Hegel’s Doppelsatz: The Critique of Kant and the Challenge of Marx”
10:30 Break
10:45 Alex Adamson (Babson College), “Queer Spirit: Towards the Actualization of Social Freedom”
11:45 Adjournment
The twenty-sixth biennial meeting of the Hegel Society of America will take place on October 21st-23rd, 2022 at the Scarritt Bennett Center in Nashville, TN. A map of the campus is available at https://scarrittbennett.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/SBC_CampusMap_2021.pdf. The conference proceedings will begin at noon on Friday the 21st and conclude at 12:30pm on Sunday the 23rd. All conference proceedings will take place in Clyde & Mary Hall.
Registration is US $60 (Individual) / US $30 (Student)
Check is preferred. Checks should be made out to: Hegel Society of America and sent to the conference host:
Venmo OR Paypal payments can also be arranged. Contact the conference host Andrew Davis (andrew.davis [@] belmont.edu) for details.
Registration deadline: September 30th, 2022.
Registration fee includes spirited reception at Vanderbilt University and coffee / breakfast at the Scarritt Bennett Center in the mornings. An evening banquet will take place at a separate cost.
Unfortunately, reserving a room block at a local hotel was not possible this year. Individuals will need to make reservations based on availability.
A limited number of rooms may be available at the Scarritt Bennett center itself. Participants are encouraged to book these early as the center hosts other conferences as well and will not hold rooms in advance without payment. Reserving a block was not financially feasible. These rooms are around $100 per night. Address:
There are about a dozen hotels within walking distance of the conference. We recommend the following:
Nashville International Airport (BNA) is located 15 - 20 minutes drive from the Scarritt Bennett Center. There is no public transit option to speak of and participants are advised to book a taxi, Uber or Lyft. The price one way should be around $30.
There will be an exhibit of books and journals of interest to the Society's members. Authors should have their publisher representative contact the conference host, Andrew Davis (andrew.davis [@] belmont.edu).
If you have any further questions about the conference, please contact Andrew Davis:
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