Monday, March 14, 2011

Hegel and Negativity Schedule

The schedule is up for the upcoming conference "Hegel and Negativity - Negativity and Hegel" on the events page at the Department of Philosophy at University of Ottawa. This promises to be a great conference, and I say that as an attendee and not a presenter. Here's the information:

Hegel and Negativity - University of Ottawa - April 1 -3
Friday April 1
7:30 - 9:00 Keynote speaker: Paul Redding (Sydney) and discussion

Saturday April 2 (each 25 min. presentation is followed by 20 min. discussion)
9:15 - 9:40 Jennifer Bates, Duquesne, "Hegel and the Concept of Extinction"
10:00 - 10:25 John McCumber, UCLA, "Dialectics and Speculation in Hegel's Logic"
10:45 - 11:10 Christopher Lauer, Indiana U. of Pennsylvania, "Beyond Restlessness: Hegel on Becoming the Negative"
11:30 - 11:55 Jon Burmeister, Boston College, "Language as Divine Reversal"
12:15 - 12:40 Tim Brownlee, Xavier, "Intersubjective Recognition, Freedom and Negativity in Hegel's Practical Thought"
1:00 - 2:30 Lunch
2:30 - 3:40 Graduate Student Research Panel (4X10 plus 30 min. discussion)
3:45 - 4:10 Emilia Angelova, Trent, "Negativity in Hegel's Phenomenology: On Making Thinking More Thoughtful"
4:30 - 4:55 Ulrich Schloesser, Toronto, "Hegel's Methodology of Immanent Critique"
5:15 - 5:40 Douglas Moggach, Ottawa, "Modernity's Shadow"

Sunday  April 3

9:15 - 9:40 Jeffrey Reid, Ottawa, "For-another, For-me: Negativity and Irony"
10:00 - 10:25 Jacob Quinlan, Trent, "Dwelling within the Dark Night"
10:45 - 11:10 Joseph Arel, Guelph, "Confession and the Persistence of Unhappy Consciousness"
11:30 - 11:55 Theo Geraets, "Negativity in Hegel's System: At the Beginning and at the End"
12:15 - Close

Contact: Jeffrey Reid
Phone: 613-562-5800 ext. 3678
Location: Room 509, Arts Hall, 70 Laurier Avenue East

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