LOGISTICS | Hegel to Russia and Back Conference

Conference Description:

The Hegel to Russia and Back conference is sponsored by the Humanities Initiative, the City University of New York, 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 socio-cultural 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 trans-cultural reception itself.

Pre-Arrival Instructions:

Please complete the following items by the dates indicated below:

1. Submit a biography and headshot for use in all conference publicity to jordan.center.workstudy@gmail.com by 3:00 PM EST on Friday, February 15, 2013.

2. Complete the Jordan Center Media Release Form and email to jordan.center.workstudy@gmail.com by 3:00 PM EST on Thursday, March 28, 2013.

3. RSVP to jordan.center.workstudy@gmail.com and confirm attendance at the Saturday, April 13th dinner by 3:00 PM EST on Thursday, March 28, 2013.

4. Read and consider the papers submitted by your colleagues.  Papers will be uploaded and available here on the Hegel Conference Logistics page.

Format:

Participants are asked to submit their full-length papers by March 28, 2013 to the Jordan Center administrator (jordan.russia.center@nyu.edu).  Each panelist will speak for approximately 20-25 minutes about his / her contribution, after which discussants (to be announced) will facilitate conversation among the panelists and audience.

Conference Schedule

Friday, April 12, 2013
CUNY

10:00 AM – 10:30 AM

Introductions

Katherine Carl, CUNY

Yanni Kotsonis, NYU

10:30 AM – 1:00 PM  
Panel 1 | Assimillating 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)

2:00 PM – 4:30 PM

Panel 2 | Wrestling with Hegel:  Three Encounters

Irina Paperno, UC Berkeley
"How Tolstoy Rewrote Hegel"

Jeff Love, Clemson University
"Hegelian Madness? Nikolai Fedorov and the Repudiation of History."

Katerina Clark, Yale University

Yanni Kotsonis, NYU (Discussant)

5:00 PM          

Kojève Exhibit


Introduction & Tour with Boris Groys

Saturday, April 13, 2013
NYU

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
"The Hegelian Spirit in the Bolshevik-Marxist Aesthetics (the case of Anatoly Lunacharsky)"

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)