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Registration is FREE but required for catering purposes. Registration button below. Please also find the *finalized programme *below. *Nature and Culture in German Romanticism and Idealism* UNSW Australia and the University of Sydney 12-14 March The last two decades can be described as witness to a genuine revival of interest in German romantic and idealist philosophy. Philosophers working in a variety of areas have embraced the ideas of the romantics and idealists, disentangling them from false or misunderstood legacies, and reexamining them in light of contemporary debates. This conference aims to advance this significant historical and philosophical research, by investigating the two most central themes in German idealist and romantic philosophy: nature and culture and their interdependence. Precisely because of the interdisciplinary character of romanticism and idealism, the conference approaches the two movements from a number of related angles. In the first instance, the goal is to consider how various thinkers from the romantic era conceived nature and culture, and sought to harmonize the sphere of the natural sciences (*Naturwissenschaften*) and the sphere of the humanities (*Geisteswissenschaften*), which, only some fifty years later, became fully separated. In addition, the conference seeks to investigate the interdisciplinary conception of "Geist" developed during that time, which today can be translated into "mind" as well as its various externalizations as "society," "arts," "institutions," and "culture." In these two ways, the conference will explore the uniqueness of the romantic and idealist views, and consider their potential significance for contemporary debates. Conference website<https://webmail.sydney.edu.au/owa/redir.aspx?C=wJwec8HLnE2_jtJ7fh1z1hjx75P6CtEIRCLi9cZC93IJ7a0ecy2EphbA4oGOIoEadCpS8M6s0SE.&URL=http%3a%2f%2fsydney.edu.au%2farts%2fphilosophy%2fabout%2fncgri_conference.shtml> Registration is FREE but required (for catering purposes). Please register here.<https://webmail.sydney.edu.au/owa/redir.aspx?C=wJwec8HLnE2_jtJ7fh1z1hjx75P6CtEIRCLi9cZC93IJ7a0ecy2EphbA4oGOIoEadCpS8M6s0SE.&URL=http%3a%2f%2fsydney.edu.au%2farts%2fphilosophy%2fresearch%2f2014_german_romanticism_conference_registration.php> Conference organizers: Heikki Ikäheimo (UNSW), Dalia Nassar (Sydney) and Paul Redding (Sydney) Conference sponsored by the Sydney Intellectual History Network (SIHN) at the University of Sydney and the Faculty of Arts and Social Science and the School of Humanities and Languages at UNSW Australia. *** *conference schedule* *Wednesday 12 March* UNSW Australia Room: John Goodsell 119 *Session I:* Chair, Heikki Ikäheimo 9-10.30 Richard Eldridge (Swarthmore), "Why Be Moral? Idealism and the Value of Autonomy" 10.30-11.30 Melissa Merritt (UNSW), "*Cultur *and Cognitive Virtue in Kant's *Metaphysics of Morals*" 11.30-12.30 *Lunch* *Session II:* Chair, Francesco Borghesi 12.30-1.30 Stephen Gaukroger (Sydney), "Language as a Form of Expression in Herder" 1.30-2.30 Anik Waldow (Sydney), "How to Study the Human Being? Reflections on Kant's Anthropology" 2.30-3 *Tea* *Session III:* Chair, Simon Lumsden 3-4 Heikki Ikäheimo (UNSW), "Between Determinism and Freedom - Fichte's Trouble with Recognition" 4-5 John Rundell (Melbourne), "The Mooring and Unmooring of the Imagination in Schiller and Fichte" ***** *Thursday 13 March* University of Sydney Room: CCANESA Boardroom, Madsen Building *Session I:* Chair, Daniela Helbig 9-10 Andrew Benjamin (Monash), "From Natural Feeling to Moral Feeling: Kant and the Limitations of Happiness" 10-11 Dalia Nassar (Sydney), "*Description* or *Explanation*? Natural Philosophy after Kant" 11-11.30 *Tea* *Session II:* Chair, Dalia Nassar 11.30-1 Kate Rigby (Monash), "Earth's Poesy: Natural Philosophy, Romantic Poetics, and Biosemiotics" 1-1.45 *Lunch* *Session III:* Chair, Luke Fischer Reading Room, St Andrew's College, University of Sydney 2-3 Tim Mehigan (Queensland), "Kleist, Scepticism and Romanticism" 3-4 Jennifer Milam (Sydney), "German Garden-Landscape-Art: 'a kind of nature in miniature as a poetic ideal'" 4-5 Goetz Richter (violin) and Jeanell Carrigan (piano) (Sydney Conservatorium of Music), "Music as Philosophy: Beethoven's Rhetoric of Romanticism" 5-6.30 Book launch, *The Relevance of Romanticism*, Stephen Gaukroger + Reception *7pm Speakers' Dinner* ***** *Friday 14 March* University of Sydney Room: CCANESA Boardroom, Madsen Building *Session I:* Chair, Heikki Ikäheimo 9.30-11 Brady Bowman (Penn State), "Nature and the Emergence of Conscience: Alternative Accounts" 11-12 Simon Lumsden (UNSW), "Freedom and Dwelling in Hegel and Heidegger" 12-1 *Lunch* *Session II:* Chair, Paul Redding 1-2.30 Manfred Frank (Tübingen), "'Identity of Identity and Non-Identity': Schelling's Path to the 'Absolute System of Identity'" 2.30-3 *Tea* *Session III:* Chair, Dalia Nassar 3-4 Paul Redding (Sydney), "Hegel, the Conceptual and the Creaturely" 4-5 Jean-Philippe Deranty (Macquarie): "Self-relation and Object-relation in Feuerbach: a Sensuous Strand in Post-Hegelian Philosophy" *7pm Speakers' Dinner* *****
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