Events

UPCOMING Events

When
What
Where
Contact

05.23-05.25

2024

Conference: “The Young Kant”

Further information coming soon.

TBA

TBA





03.15

2024

2024 Chicago-Area Consortium in German Philosophy Workshop

10:00 AM – Jennifer Dobe, Grinnell
“Making Room: A Place for the Uncanny in Kant’s Aesthetics”
Commentator: Taylor Kloha, University of Illinois-Chicago

11:30 AM – Patrick Kain, Purdue
“Plato Was Right: Kant on The Practical Ideas of Grounds”
Commentator: Dustin Trampe, Marquette

1:00-2:30 – Lunch

2:30 PM – Avery Goldman, DePaul
“‘Reality [Realität]’ in Kant’s Anti-Rationalist and Anti-Materialist Second Edition Paralogisms”
Commentator: Karl von der Luft, University of Chicago

4:00 PM – Janum Sethi, University of Michigan
“‘A Scandal of Philosophy’: Kant’s Refutation of External World Skepticism”
Commentator: Kasey Hettig-Rolfe, Northwestern

DePaul University

Rosati Room (300)

Richardson Library

kthomp12

at depaul.edu





03.08

2024

Peace, Violence, & the Highest Good: Kantian Perspectives on Morality and History

8:30 – Welcome

8:45 – Dr. Michael Olson (MU) “Slavery and Enthusiasm in the German Enlightenment”

9:45 – Dr. Philip J. Rossi (MU) “The Categorical Imperative, Socially Inflected: There Is To Be No War”

11:00 – Dr. Luigi Filieri (Mainz/MU) “Neither God Nor Nature: Kant on the Duty of Peace”

1:00 Mr. Dustin Trampe (MU) “Kant’s Highest Goods: Personal and Political”

2:00 Dr. Nataliya Palatnik (UWM) “Kant’s Practical Ideal of Perfect Virtue”

3:30 Dr. Rachel Zuckert (Northwestern) “Kant’s Philosophy of History as Stoic Consolation”  (in Marquette Hall, 105)

Marquette University

Eisenberg Reading Room

kantworkshop

at marquette.edu





02.28

2024

Nothing Halfway: System Critique and Building in German Idealism

Speaker: Jim Kreines (Claremont McKenna College)

4:00PM, Wednesday, February 28th

Mundelein 519

Loyola University  Chicago

Lake Shore Campus

Naomi Fisher

nfisher1

at luc.edu





02.09

2024

 20th Century German Philosophical Aesthetics Workshop

9:00-10:20 — “Heidegger on Temporality and Kant’s Aesthetics” by Morganna Lambeth (Cal State, Fullerton)  

Commentator: Abigail Iturra (Northwestern) |  Chair: Andrew Cutrofello (Loyola University, Chicago)

 

10:30-11:50 — “‘Fused and Melted with Their Meanings’: Cassirer on Aesthetic Symbolic Formations” by Luigi Filieri (JGU-Mainz/Marquette University)

Commentator: Kenni Zellner (Northwestern) |  Chair: Peter Fenves (Northwestern)

[lunch break]

1:30- 2:50 — “Langer, Musical Symbols, and What Cannot be Said of Ineffability” by Bryan Parkhurst (Oberlin) 

Commentator: Emily Lemmon (University of Iowa)  |  Chair: Ryan Dohoney (Northwestern, Music)

 

3:00-4:20 — “Adorno as a Travesty: Music, the Domination of Nature, and the Sublime in Adorno and Lyotard” by David Benjamin Johnson (School of the Art Institute of Chicago) 

Commentator: Eskil Elling (Northwestern) |  Chair: Mark Alznauer (Northwestern)

Kresge 3-438

Northwestern University

Kasey Hettig-Rolfe

kaseyhettig-rolfe2023

at u.northwestern.edu





04.14

2023

2023 Chicago Area Consortium in German Philosophy Workshop

Topic: “Themes From Hegel”

  • 11:00AM: W. Clark Wolf (Marquette)
    • “Living Artifacts in Hegel’s Logic
  • 2:00PM: Kevin Thompson (DePaul)
    • “Systematicity, Circularity, Syllogism: Hegel on the Question of Closure”
  • 4:00PM: Ardis Collins (Loyola)
    • “To Thine Own Self Be True: Integrity, Diversity, and Forgiveness”

CAGP Flyer

Rosati Room (300)

Richardson Library

DePaul University

Kasey Hettig-Rolfe

kaseyhettig-rolfe2023

at u.northwestern.edu





03.31-04.01

2023

Notre Dame Colloquium: “Kant’s Moral Vision as Affirmative Religion” 

Keynote Address:

Stephen Palmquist (Hong Kong Baptist University),

“In What Sense Does Kant Have a Vision of ‘Affirmative Religion’? Reflections on an Evolving Hermeneutic Revolution”

Friday, March 31st, 8:30am to 7:00pm

Saturday, April 1st, 8:30am to 7:00pm

Colloquium Flyer

Colloquium Schedule

Duncan Student Center

Meeting Room 2 South, W210

University of Notre Dame

  Meredith Trexler

mtrexler -at- nd.edu





 

Other Events

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What
Where
Contact 
Fridays German Philosophy Workshop

Unless otherwise noted, all German Philosophy Workshop events are on Fridays, starting at 2 p.m. Please refer to the website for workshop locations and details, at: http://cas.uchicago.edu/workshops/germanphilosophy/.

University of Chicago

Stephen Cunniff

scunniff -at- uchicago.edu