[SydPhil] Reminder: Australian Hegel Society conference, December 11-12 (UNSW, Sydney — Hybrid event)

[Simon Lumsden]

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://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/ONk1CD1vlpTJy50g2cWfjFjhPiO?domain=unsw.zoom.us
Password: 954662

Meeting ID: 837 3188 3004



Friday, December 12

Link: https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/JLg_CE8wmrt0Y3MRrIwhMF7TF8D?domain=unsw.zoom.us
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 h.ikaheimo at unsw.edu.au

Simon Lumsden s.lumsden at unsw.edu.au



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