HEGEL SOCIETY OF AMERICA
27th BIENNIAL CONFERENCE
HEGEL’S RELEVANCE TODAY
OCTOBER 11TH–13TH, 2024
BOSTON UNIVERSITY
Boston, MA
Information for participants:
The 27th biennial meeting of the Hegel Society of America will take place October 11-13 at Boston University. See the final page of the program below for a map. A map of the campus is available electronically at https://maps.bu.edu/?id=647#!ct/?s/
Registration:
To register for the conference and/or purchase a banquet ticket, please visit the conference registration page: https://www.pdcnet.org/wp/registrations/2024-hsa/
Hotel information:
The Hotel Commonwealth (500 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA 02215)
Discounted rooms available for $309/night. To reserve your room, use the booking link below or call the hotel directly at (617) 532-5019 and mention the conference.
Flight Information:
Boston’s airport is Logan Airport (BOS). From there, it is quite easy (and inexpensive) to get to the BU area via public transportation (versus by cab which will cost about $45). From the baggage level at Logan, catch a shuttle bus that will take you to the “T” station (the “T” is Boston’s underground service). Board the “T” in the direction of “Bowdoin”. After a few stops, get off at “Government Center”. From there, take ANY train going into the city (via “Park Street”). From “Government Center”, it’s a one-stop ride to “Park Street” where you will need to transfer either to the “B” or “C” branches of the “Green Line”. Either branch will take you to the “Kenmore” stop, and you will then be merely a few steps from Hotel Commonwealth. The whole ride will take 40-50 minutes.
Here’s more info about the Boston “T”:
If you travel by train, get off either at South Station or Back Bay Station. The “T” is again the best and cheapest means of getting to the BU campus and Hotel Commonwealth. See above link.
Schedule:
Friday, October 11th
Room: PHO 906
12:00 PM
Registration
1:15 pm
Opening Remarks
Jeffrey Church (University of Houston)
Sally Sedgwick (Boston University)
C. Allen Speight (Boston University)
Room 1 – Photonics (PH) 906 | Room 2 – School of Theology (STH) 625 |
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1:30 pm | 1:30 pm |
C. Allen Speight (Boston University) | Andrew Buchwalter (University of North Florida) |
“Hegel and the Philosophy of Culture: Contemporary Questions”
| “Hegel on Time, History, and Environmental Intergenerationalism”
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Chair: Daniel Dahlstrom (Boston University) | Chair: William Desmond (Villanova University) |
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2:30 pm | 2:30 pm |
Dylan Shaul (Yale University) | Jim Vernon (York University) |
“Hegel after Post-Structuralism: From Absolute Idealism to New Materialism” | “’The Very Stones Cry Out and Raise Themselves to Spirit’: Hegel, Crystals, and the Emancipatory Magic of Natural Beauty” |
Chair: Bernard Yack (Brandeis University) | Chair: Yan Mikhaylov (College of Southern Nevada) |
3:30 |
Coffee Break |
Room 1 – PH 906 | Room 2 – STH 625 |
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4:00 pm | 4:00 pm |
Tim Brownlee (Xavier University) | Giulia Battistoni (Boston University) |
“Publicity and Ideology: the Limits of Critique in Hegel’s Social Theory” | "New Insights on Biodiversity from Hegel to Jonas" |
Chair: Michael Rosen (Harvard University) | Chair: Giovanni Pietro Basile (Boston College) |
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5:00 pm |
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Plenary Address |
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Klaus Vieweg (Universität Jena) “A completely different history of philosophy: Hegel's logically founded, ideal-typical-paradigmatic conception” |
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Chair: Kevin Thompson (DePaul University) |
6:45 pm |
Reception in PHO 906 |
Saturday, October 12th
Room: PHO 906
8:30 am
Coffee and Registration
Room 1 – PHO 906 | Room 2 – PH 901 |
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9:00 am | 9:00 am |
Viren Murthy (University of Wisconsin, Madison) | Susan Hahn (Bentley University) |
“Hegelian Critiques of Capitalism: Rethinking Modernity through Speculative Metaphysics” | “Dialectical Law and Optical Law” |
Chair: Alex Adamson (Babson College) | Chair: Richard Dien Winfield (University of Georgia) |
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Room 1 – PH 906 | Room 2 – PH 901 |
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10:00 am | 10:00 am |
Günter Zöller (Ludwig Maximilians Universität, München) | Michael Baur (Fordham University) |
“Res Publica Abstracta. Hegel’s Distinction Between Civil Society and the Political State and the American Polity Today” | “Hegel’s Relevance for Contemporary Critical Theory” |
Chair: Mark Alznauer (Northwestern Univeristy) | Chair: Jay Gupta (Northeastern University) |
11:00 am | |
Coffee Break | |
11:30 am | |
Presidential Address | |
Kevin Thompson (DePaul University) | |
"Hegel and the Problems of Nature" | |
Chair: Jere Surber (University of Denver) | |
12:30-2:20 pm | |
Lunch | |
Meeting of the HSA Executive Council |
Room 1 – PH 906 | Room 2 – PH 901 |
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2:30 pm | 2:30 pm |
Jere Surber (University of Denver) | Nadine Mooren (University of Münster) |
“Foucault, Deleuze, and the ‘Escape from Hegel’” | “Embedded Individuality: Hegel’s Concept of Personal Experience and the Relevance of Intersubjectivity” |
Chair: Anna-Lisa Sander (University of Tübingen and Heidelberg) | Chair: Lenny Moss (UNAM) |
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3:30 pm | 3:30 pm |
Jay Miller (Warren Wilson College) | Shannon Hoff (Memorial University) |
“Hegel and Contemporary Identity Politics” | “Hegel, Ethical Life, Conscience, and Colonialism” |
Chair: Senem Saner (Cal State, Bakersfield) | Chair: Amod Lele (Northeastern University) |
4:30 pm | |
Coffee Break | |
5:00 pm | |
HSA Business Meeting (all are welcome) | |
6:30 | |
Banquet |
Sunday, October 13th
8:30 am
Coffee
Room 1 – PH 906 | Room 2 – PH 901 |
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9:00 am | 9:00 am |
Emmanuel Chaput (Johns Hopkins University) | Ana Vieyra (Emory University) |
“The Relevance of System and Life in Hegel” | “Conceptual Truth and the Idea in Hegel” |
Chair: Daniel Mendez (Bridgewater State University) | Chair: Andrew Buchwalter (University of North Florida) |
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10:00 am | 10:00 am |
Daniel Luna (University of Toronto) | Paul Wilford (Boston College) |
“Hegel and the Ethical Moment of the Pandemic” | “The Poverty of Contemporary Political Philosophy” |
Chair: Tim Brownlee (Xavier University) | Chair: Shterna Friedman (Harvard University) |
11:00 am
Coffee Break
Room 1 – PH 906 | Room 2 – PH 901 |
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11:30 am | 11:30 am |
Stephanie Takata-Struble (Stony Brook University) | Tyler van Wulven (University of Kentucky) |
“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” | “The Road to Hell” |
Chair: James K.A. Smith (Calvin University) | Chair: Jeffrey Church (University of Houston) |
12:30 pm
Adjournment
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