Please find below zoom links and conference program for the upcoming Australian Hegel Society conference that will be held at UNSW’s Kensington Campus this Thursday and Friday (December 11 and 12).
Zoom links Thursday, December 11 Link: https://unsw.zoom.us/j/83731883004?pwd=Bcxsceh9kYO2CbjyAvgVxWxPMIpLAa.1 Password: 954662 Meeting ID: 837 3188 3004 Friday, December 12 Link: https://unsw.zoom.us/j/88099588294?pwd=dkRyNGDoQmXYTW7XBFkx8OLeeJ4Ppb.1 Password: 144962 Meeting ID: 880 9958 8294 Conference Program Thursday 11 December 2025 (UNSW Kensington campus and hybrid) Electrical Engineering, Room G04 Welcome 8:50 Session 1 9:00-11:30 (in person and online) 9:00 Chong-Fuk Lau (CUHK): ‘Freedom as Autonomy under Idealism as Holism’ 9:40 Heikki Ikäheimo (UNSW Sydney): ‘Concrete Freedom and Anthropological Universalism’ 10:20 *Jarrad A. Felgenhauer (Seattle): ‘Freedom and the Power of Resistance in Hegel’s Thought’ 11:00 *Mithra Lehn (The New School): ‘Freedom of Necessity or Necessity of Freedom? The Politics of Hegel’s A-Normative Concept of Freedom’ (HDR) Lunch 11:30-12:30 Session 2 12:30-14:30 (in person) 12:30 Friedemann Barniske (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong): ‘Religion of Freedom. Hegel on Reformation’ 13:10 Samuel Vitel (Ottawa): ‘From constitution to self-constitution: Hegel on spiritual kinds as concepts of freedom’ 13:50 Yusuke Iizumi (Fukuoka): ‘Freedom of the “Ungrateful” Thinking: On the Potential Openness of Hegel’s Speculative Philosophy’ Break 14:30-14:50 Session 3 14:50-17:10 (online) 14:50 *Berker Basmaci (Bilkent): ‘Inwardness and the Globalization of Freedom: Hegel, Sufi Poetry, and the Limits of Objective Spirit’ 15:30 *Olerato K. Mogomotsi (Cape Town): ‘Towards an Ontology of Safe Spaces: A Hegelian Account’ 16:10 *Suresh Chauhan (Delhi): ‘Freedom as the Truth of Necessity: A Logical and Ontological Investigation in Hegel’s Science of Logic’(HDR) 16:40 *Cailan Harris (Luxembourg): ‘Freedom, Eurocentrism and the idea of history of self-consciousness’ (HDR) Break 17:10-17:30 Keynote Address 17:30-19:00 (online) *Julia Peters (Heidelberg): Beyond the Pleasure Principle: Pain, Negativity, and Freedom in Hegel Friday 12 December 2025 (UNSW campus and hybrid) Electrical Engineering, Room G03 Session 4 9:00-11:00 (online) 9:00 *Gerad Gentry (Baylor): ‘Freedom and Hegelian Constitutivism’ 9:40 *Zaida Olvera (Veracruzana): ‘Earthly attachments: Hegel’s concept of freedom beyond World history’ 10:20 *Günter Zöller (Munich): ‘After Freedom. The American Polity in Hegel’s Philosophy of World History’ Break 11:00-11:30 Keynote Address 11:30-13:00 (in person) Klaus Vieweg (Jena): ‘A philosophical history of philosophy – On a logically founded conception’ 1:00-2:00 Lunch Session 5 14:00-16:00 (in person) 14:00 Matt Marasco (LaTrobe): ‘The Freedom of Physiognomy in Hegel’s Aesthetic’ 14:40 Lior Levy (Melbourne): ‘Racializing Freedom: Fanon Reading Hegel’ 15:20 Andy Blunden (Independent): ‘How Marx Used Hegel in Capital’ Break 16:00 -16:20 Session 6 16:20-18:10 (online) 16:20 *Eyal Yair-Hacohen (Tel Aviv): ‘A Hegelian Critique of Climate Denial: Towards an Ecological conception of freedom’ (HDR) 16:50 *Wouter Wiersma (Freiburg): ‘Autonomy and Social Freedom’ 17:30 *Paul Cobben (Amsterdam): ‘Beyond Eurocentrism: Hegel’s Universal Concept of Freedom’ Note: all times are Australian Eastern Daylight Times (GMT+11) *Speaker presenting online For information please contact either Heikki Ikaheimo [email protected] Simon Lumsden [email protected] This email and any files transmitted with it may contain confidential information. If you believe you have received this email or any of its contents in error, please notify me immediately by return email and destroy this email. Do not use, disseminate, forward, print or copy any contents of an email received in error. --------- SydPhil mailing list To unsubscribe, change your membership options, find answers to common problems, or visit our online archives, please go to the list information page: https://mailman.sydney.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/sydphil
