April 12 & 13, 2013 | 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM EST | The Jordan Center's Hegel Conference
The Hegel to Russia and Back conference is sponsored by the Humanities Initiative, the Center for the Humanities at the Graduate Center CUNY, and the Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia.
Building on and in many respects departing from traditional discussions of Hegel’s influence on generations of Russian thinkers, recent work on Hegel in Russia has significantly broadened its scope. This conference seeks to explore the effects of migrating Hegelianism on a wide range of sociocultural practices: poetics of everyday behavior, fashioning of the self in history, mutations of narrative form, historiographic imaginaries of the modern, techniques of statecraft, literary criticism, etc. The activist and far-reaching nature of Russian engagement with Hegel’s philosophy during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries provides us with especially rich material for continuing to pose the central Hegelian question of the relationship between the rational and the actual, while at the same time thematizing the mechanisms of transcultural reception itself.
Link to written recap of Day 1
Link to written recap of Day 2
Conference Schedule
Friday, April 12, 2013
CUNY
Segal Theater
The Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10016
10:00 AM – 10:30 AM
Introductions
Katherine Carl, CUNY
Yanni Kotsonis, NYU
10:30 AM – 1:00 PM
Panel 2 | Wrestling with Hegel: Three Encounters
Irina Paperno, UC Berkeley
Jeff Love, Clemson University
Katerina Clark, Yale University
Yanni Kotsonis, NYU (Discussant)
2:00 PM – 4:30 PM
Panel 1 | Assimilating Hegelian Narratives
Vadim Shkol’nikov, University of Illinois at Chicago
Ilya Kliger, NYU
Victoria Frede, UC Berkeley
John Randolph, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Discussant)
5:00 PM
Kojève Exhibit
Introduction with Boris Groys & Small Group Tours
Saturday, April 13, 2013
NYU
The Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia
19 University Place, Great Room
New York, NY 10003
9:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Panel 3 | Soviet Hegel
Yanni Kotsonis, NYU
Vesa Oittinen, University of Helsinki
David Bakhurst, Queen’s University
Petre Petrov, Princeton University (Discussant)
12:30 PM – 3:00 PM
Panel 4 | Hegel in Marxist Aesthetics
Vadim Shneyder, Yale University
Inessa Medzhibovskaia, The New School
Nikolaj Plotnikov, Ruhr-Universität
Olivia Crough, NYU (Discussant)
3:30 PM – 6:00 PM
Panel 5 | Kojève
Boris Groys, NYU
Galin Tihanov, University of London
Siarhei Biareishyk, NYU
Irina Paperno, UC Berkeley (Discussant)
