Past Events
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05.23-05.25 2024 |
Conference: “The Young Kant” For a more detailed schedule of events, please see: Young Kant Program |
Northwestern University |
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03.15 2024 |
2024 Chicago-Area Consortium in German Philosophy Workshop 10:00 AM – Jennifer Dobe, Grinnell 11:30 AM – Patrick Kain, Purdue 1:00-2:30 – Lunch 2:30 PM – Avery Goldman, DePaul 4:00 PM – Janum Sethi, University of Michigan |
DePaul University |
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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 |
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02.28 2024 |
Nothing Halfway: System Critique and Building in German Idealism Speaker: Jim Kreines (Claremont McKenna College) 4:00PM, Wednesday, February 28th |
Loyola University Chicago |
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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) |
Northwestern University |
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04.14 2023 |
2023 Chicago Area Consortium in German Philosophy Workshop Topic: “Themes From Hegel”
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DePaul University |
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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 |
University of Notre Dame |
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10.28-10.29 2022 |
2022 Midwest Study Group Meeting of the North American Kant Society Keynote: Samantha Matherne, “Kant Without Judgment: Rethinking Kantian Aesthetics” Friday, Oct. 28th 8:45am-6:15pm in McCormick Lounge, Coffey Hall Saturday, Oct. 29th 8:45-4:00pm in Cuneo Hall, Rm 109 |
Loyola University Chicago
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05.19-05.21 2022 |
Fifteenth Biennial Meeting of the North American Fichte Society Topic: Fichte’s Practical Philosophy |
DePaul University |
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04.27 2022 |
Kant’s Critical Teleology Speaker: Prof. Thomas Teufel (CUNY, Baruch College) |
Loyola University |
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03.11 2022 |
CACGP Workshop 2021 “The Hermeneutics of Suspicion Revisited” Speakers: Sarah Johnson (University of Chicago) Jaqueline Scott (Loyola University) Elizabeth Rottenberg (DePaul University) |
DePaul University |
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June 3, 2021 |
Speaker: Prof. Mark Lilla (Columbia University) A Panel Discussion of Thomas Mann’s Reflections on A Nonpolitical Man Discussants: Eskil Elling (Northwestern University) David Kretz (University of Chicago) Miloš Broćić (University of Toronto) |
Zoom |
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January 28, 2021
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Speaker: Prof. Rachel Zuckert (Northwestern) Panel Discussion of Rachel Zuckert’s Herder’s Naturalism Discussants: Naomi Fisher (Loyola) Melissa Merritt (UNSW) Gregg Horowitz (Pratt Institute) |
Zoom |
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October 9, 2020 |
Speaker: Prof. Kevin Thompson (DePaul University) A Panel Discussion of Kevin Thompson’s book Hegel’s Theory of Normativity Discussants: Jason Yonover (Johns Hopkins University) Hao Liang (Northwestern University) |
Zoom |
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| February 13, 2020 |
Workshop: Heidi Schlipphacke (UIC), “Aesthetics of Kinship” |
Northwestern University |
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November 4, 2019 |
Speaker: Melissa Merritt (University of New South Wales) Title: Kant and Stoicism |
Northwestern University |
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October 17, 2019 |
Speaker:Larissa Berger (University of Siegen) Title: Kant’s Notion of a sensus communis and the Paradox of Taste |
Northwestern University |
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| September 17-18, 2019 |
Workshop: Kant on the Self – Moral and Psychological Dimensions Patrick Frierson (Whitman College) Julia Peters (University of Tübingen) Clinton Tolley (UC San Diego) Yoon Choi (Marquette University) Sasha Newton (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Katharina Kraus (University of Notre Dame) Béatrice Longuenesse (NYU) |
University of Notre Dame |
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June 10, 2019 |
Speaker:Petra Lohmann (University of Siegen) Title:The Aesthetic Implications of Fichte on Feeling |
DePaul University
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May 21, 2019 |
Speaker: Laura Papish (George Washington University) Title: “Radical Evil in light of Kant’s Natural Historical Writings” |
Northwestern University |
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April 8, 2019 |
The After-life of Phenomenology Workshop Speaker: Vicki Spencer (New Zealand) Title: “Herder and Relativism” |
Northwestern University |
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March 28, 2019
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Speaker: Andrew Cooper (Warwick) Title: Necessity, empirical laws and hypotheses in Kant’s philosophy of science |
Loyola University at Chicago |
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March 18, 2019
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Annual German Philosophy Workshop: Kant Matthew Boyle (University of Chicago), “Kant’s Categories as Concepts of Reflection” Commentator: Güçsal Pusar (DePaul University) Katharina Kraus (Notre Dame), “The Empirical Self and the Demands of Reason” Commentator: Amy Levine (University of Chicago) Naomi Fisher (Loyola University in Chicago), Commentator: Taylor Rogers (Northwestern University) Sam Fleischacker (University of Illinois-Chicago), “Empathy and Demonization” Commentator: Stephen Setman (Purdue University) |
DePaul University |
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October 19, 2018
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The After-life of Phenomenology Workshop Speaker: Sally Sedgwick (UIC) Title: An Argument for Geist’s Historical Nature |
Northwestern University
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October 4, 2018
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The After-life of Phenomenology Workshop:
Speaker: James Kreines (Claremont McKenna College) Title: Absolute Idealism and the Metaphysical Definitions of God: Hegel on Aristotle and Spinoza *It is the same talk that is delivered at U of Chicago on Oct 2.* |
Northwestern University
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October 2, 2018
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German Philosophy Workshop
Speaker: James Kreines
(Claremont McKenna College)
Title: Absolute Idealism and the Metaphysical Definitions of God: Hegel on Aristotle and Spinoza
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University of Chicago
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| May 11, 2018 | Workshop: Molly Flynn (Assumption College), “The Intentionality of the Modern Concept of the State: A Husserlian Investigation” | Northwestern University |
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| March 16, 2018 |
German Philosophy Workshop: German Aesthetics Mark Alznauer (Northwestern), “Aesthetic Theodicy in Wordsworth and Hegel”; commentator: Miguel Gualdrón (DePaul) Andrew Cutrofello (Loyola), “How are synthetic a priori judgments possible in poetry?”; commentator: Hao Liang (Northwestern) Heidi Schlipphacke (UIC), “Kinship and Aesthetic Depth: The Tableau Vivant in Goethe’s Elective Affinities (Die Wahlverwandtschaften)”; commentator: Eliza Little (University of Chicago) |
DePaul University |
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October 17, 2017
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Book discussion of Fred Rush, Irony and Idealism: Rereading Schlegel, Hegel, and Kierkegaard (OUP 2016) Participants: Mark Alznauer (Northwestern), Elizabeth Millàn (DePaul), and Robert Pippin (University of Chicago), with response by Fred Rush (University of Notre Dame). | Northwestern University |
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| May 12, 2017 | Prof. Alexander Schmidt (Friedrich Schiller University): “Rights of Man Redefined: Fichte’s Legal Positivism as Response to the Crisis of Natural Law” |
Northwestern University |
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| April 10, 2017 | Prof. John Richardson (NYU) | Northwestern University |
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March 31, 2017 |
German philosophy workshop on Kant’s theoretical philosophy: Yoon Choi (Marquette University): “Kant and the Spontaneity of the Understanding” Avery Goldman (DePaul University): “Kant on Leibniz: Disentangling the Principle of Sufficient Reason from the Principle of the Identity of Indiscernibles“ Jacqueline Mariña (Purdue University): “The Second Analogy and the Motion of the Subject” Daniel Sutherland (UIC): “Kant on Pure and Applied Mathematics” |
DePaul University |
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February 17, 2017
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Prof. Rebecca Comay (University of Toronto): “Walter Benjamin and Revolutionary Inheritance” |
Loyola University Chicago Cuneo 217 |
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November 29, 2016 |
Prof. Catalina González (Universidad de los Andes): Workshop on Odo Marquard | Northwestern University |
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September, 26, 2016 |
Prof. Michelle Kosch (Cornell University): “Fichte and Blumenbach on the Bildungstrieb.” | University of Illinois Chicago |
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| April 15, 2016 |
Annual German Philosophy Workshop: Title:”German Philosophical Aesthetics” Speakers: Robert Pippin (University of Chicago), Howard Pollack-Milgate (DePauw University), and Rachel Zuckert (Northwestern University). |
DePaul University |
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February 19, 2016 |
Prof. Dr. Anton Koch (University of Heidelberg, Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago), Kant’s Transcendental Deduction |
University of Illinois Chicago |
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| October 23, 2015 | Paul Guyer (Brown University), “The Twofold Morality of Kantian Recht” | Northwestern University |
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| September 15, 2015 |
Workshop with Stefan Schick (University of Regensburg): “Spirit of the Ages and Reason in History: Herder, Hegel, and Jacobi” | University of Illinois Chicago |
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| May 28-30 2015 |
Kant’s Moral Philosophy Workshop with Melissa Merritt (The University of New South Wales) |
Northwestern University |
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| April 24, 2015 | Paul Katsafanas (Boston University)Title:”Fugitive Pleasure and the Meaningful Life: Nietzsche on Nihilism and Higher Values.” | Northwestern University |
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| March 20, 2015 |
Workshop on German Romanticism speakers: María Acosta (DePaul); Karl Ameriks (Notre Dame); Guy Elgat (Northwestern University, School of the Art Institute); Elizabeth Millán (DePaul) |
DePaul University |
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| November 5, 2014 | Lisa Shabel (The Ohio State University) | Loyola University |
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| October 30, 2014 | Karin de Boer (University of Leuven) | Loyola University |
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October 17, 2014 |
Workshop discussion with Professor Jay Bernstein (New School for Social Research) for graduate students. | Northwestern University |
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October 17 2014 |
Jay Bernstein (New School of Social Research) Title: “Arendt’s Dilemma: On the Necessity and Emptiness of Conscience” |
Northwestern University
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| October 16 2014 |
Jay Bernstein (New School of Social Research) Title: “Nature — Reason — Suffering: Adorno on the Moral Necessity of Modernism” Sponsored by the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities |
Northwestern University |
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April 23, 2014 |
Paul Redding (University of Sydney) Title: “The Role of Formal Logic in Hegel’s Science of Logic” |
University of Illinois Chicago
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| March 7, 2014 |
German Philosophy Workshop on the theme: “Hegel” Speakers: Hank Southgate (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Bill Bristow (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), Ardis Collins (Loyola University), and Kevin Thompson (DePaul University). |
Marquette University |
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| February 4. 2014 | Stephen Engstrom (University of Pittsburgh): “Reflection on Reflection in Hume and Kant” |
University of Illinois Chicago |
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| November 15, 2013 |
Book Discussion of Sally Sedgwick, Hegel’s Critique of Kant. Participants: Sebastian Rand (Georgia State University), William Bristow (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee), Sally Sedgwick (University of Illinois at Chicago). Co-sponsored by the Institute for the Humanities at University of Illinois at Chicago |
University of Illinois Chicago |
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October 18, 2013 |
Charles Bambach (university of Texas, Dallas): “Ethical Dwelling: Heidegger’s Heraclitean Critique of Ethics in’The Letter of Humanism'” |
DePaul University |
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| October 14,2013 |
Barbara Montero (CUNY): Workshop on 19th Century Philosophy of Mind |
Northwestern University |
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| September 13, 2013 |
Dieter Sturma (University of Bonn): “What is German Idealism?” |
DePaul University |
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May 10, 2013 |
Karl Ameriks “History, Idealism, and Schelling” |
DePaul University |
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| April 12-13, 2013 |
Conference: “Norms of Freedom in Kant and Hegel” For the full program click HERE For the event’s flyer, click HERE |
University of Illinois Chicago |
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| April 11, 2013, |
Dan Breazeale (University of Kentucky) Lecture Title: “Fichte: Against Nature” |
DePaul University |
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| March 19, 2013 |
Frederick Neuhouser: “Nietzsche on Illness and Its Promise”. |
Northwestern University |
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| March 15, 2013 | Luigi Caranti: “Two faces of Republicanism: Kant and Rousseau” |
Northwestern University |
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March 8, 2013 |
Issues in Phenomenology Speakers: Hanne Jacobs (Loyola University): “On Becoming One’s Own Person. Husserl on Personhood and Intersubjectivity” Sebastian Luft (Marquette University): “Speculative Thoughts on a Phenomenology of Attention: Husserl and Goethe” Frédéric Seyler (DePaul University): “Radical Phenomenology and Fichtean Phenomenology” |
DePaul University |
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| February 1, 2013 |
A book discussion on Avery Goldman’s Kant and the Subject of Critique: On the Regulative Role of the Psychological Idea (Indiana University Press) Speakers: Ian Blecher (Art Institute); Andrew Cutrofello (Loyola); Pierre Keller (University of California, Riverside); Rachel Zuckert (Northwestern); with response by Avery Goldman. |
DePaul University |
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January 31, 2013 |
Pierre Keller, University of California, Riverside: “Kant’s World-Concept of Philosophy and the Very Idea of a Phenomenological Philosophy” |
DePaul University |
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| November 30, 2012 |
Günter Zöller, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität, München: “The Virtuous Republic. Rousseau and Kant on the Relation Between Civil and Moral Religion.” |
Northwestern University
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October 12, 2012
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Sally Sedgwick (UIC): “Freedom and Necessity in Hegel’s Philosophy of History” |
University of Chicago |
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November 29, 2012
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“Newer Research in German Philosophy: Innocence, Cognition and Interest, Transcendental Idealism, Civil Religion – Workshop”
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Marquette University |
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July 9-13, 2012
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Master Class by Robert Pippin (University of Chicago) on “Post-Kantian Idealism”.
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For further information visit this link.
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April 5, 2012
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Christoph Menke: “The ‘Different Form’ of Domination: Toward a Critique of the Social Critique of Law” |
Northwestern University
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February 10, 2012
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Aesthetics and German Philosophy Conference (sponsored by the Pippin: “After the Beautiful: Hegel and the Philosophy of Visual Modernism” Wellbery: “The Concept of Artistic Medium in Idealist Aesthetics” Ameriks: “Stages of the Aesthetic, from Kant to Nietzsche” Millan-Zaibert: “Aesthetics and the Opening of the European Mind: |
University of Illinois Chicago
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| September 30 , 2011 |
Frederick Neuhouser: “Hegel on Life, Freedom, and Social Pathology”
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Depaul University
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| September 25, 2011 |
Workshop on Kant’s Philosophy of Mathematics
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University of Illinois Chicago |
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| 2011 |
Kant’s philosophy of math (UIC). (In honor of the Michael Friedman Charles Parsons |
University of Illinois at Chicago |
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| April 29, 2011 |
Lecture: Lanier Anderson. Title: “Difficult Birth: The Emergence of Kant’s Synthetic-Analytic DIstinction” |
University of Illinois Chicago |
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May 3, 2010
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Steven Crowell, “Heidegger on Practical Reasoning: Morality and Agency” |
University of Chicago |
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| April 21, 2010 | Helga Varden, “The Priority of Rightful Care to Virtuous Care: A Kantian Critique of the Care Tradition” | Loyola University |
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| February 23, 2010 | Emmanuel Faye, public workshop open to interested graduate students and faculty: “Heidegger and the Nazi Movement in the Interpretations of Hannah Arendt, Eric Voegelin and Aurel Kolnai” | University of Notre Dame |
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| February 22, 2010 | Emmanuel Faye, “National Socialism in Philosophy: Being, History, Technology and Extermination in Heidegger’s Work” Reception to follow | University of Notre Dame |
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| November 13, 2009 | Michael Rosen, “Freedom in German Idealism” | University of Notre Dame |
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| October 28, 2009 |
Michael Forster (title of talk TBA) |
University of Notre Dame
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| October 9, 2009 |
Rolf-Peter Horstmann, “The Metaphysics of the Self: Hegel’s Metaphysical Conception of Self-Consciousness” |
Northwestern University |
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| September 14, 2009 | Rachel Zuckert (title of talk TBA) | University of Illinois Chicago |
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| March 20, 2009 |
Workshop in German Philosophy Robert Pippin (University of Chicago) Papers available under Secure Link |
University of Illinois Chicago
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