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14/05-15/05: Freiburg-Warwick-Zhejiang University German Idealism Workshop

Rachel Harrington — Tue, 05 May 2026 08:47:11 GMT

When: Thu, 14 May - Fri, 15 May '26

Where: Hybrid: R1.04 or online

You are warmly invited to an exciting event: The Freiburg-Warwick-Zhejiang University German Idealism Workshop, taking place on 14–15 May. This workshop will bring together established and early-career scholars from the three universities. Topics include Kant, Hegel, Schelling, Heidegger and Nietzsche, covering the research interests of almost all of our department's continental philosophers!

It is a hybrid event. You can either join us via the Zoom link or attend in person. If you are attending in person, please email Ying (ying.xue@warwick.ac.uk) by 10^th May to let me know and to inform me of any dietary requirements you may have for lunch.

Zoom link: https://uni-freiburg.zoom-x.de/j/67489189826?pwd=EkwWoTY02XikW5rUYpX6ECuNJQmDJV.1

Meeting-ID: 674 8918 9826
Code: Vrj8kVK5r

The department, the Mind Association, the UK Kant Society and the Hegel Society of Great Britain have kindly funded this event.

Thursday, 14th of May

9:30-9:40 Welcome
Tobias Keiling (Warwick)
9:40-11:10 Panel 1: Kant
Chair: Rozemin Keshvani (Warwick)
9:40-10:25	What is Wrong with Dogmatism? Kant on the "Storehouse of Reason"	Dino Jakušić (Warwick)
10:25-11:10	Kant’s Philosophy of Nature Reconsidered	Stephen Howard (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)
11:10-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-12:45 Keynote Session 1
Chair: Eric Sancho-Adamson (Liverpool)
11:30-12:45	How to Acquire the World: Hegel’s Practical Theory of Figurative Synthesis and Kant’s Doctrine of Right	Eliza Little (Warwick)
12:45-14:15 Lunch Break
14:15-15:45 Panel 2: Hegel Part I
Chair: Zhaoyi Zhu (Warwick)
14:15-15:00	Unconditioned Condition: Transcendental Dialectic and the Dialectic of Condition	Bruna Picas i Prats (Barcelona/Warwick)
15:00-15:45	From Principle to Negativity: Hegel’s Transformation of German Idealism	Yuyang Zhu (Zhejiang)
15:45-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-17:15 Keynote Session 2
Chair: Fridolin Neumann (Warwick)
16:00-17:15	Kant and Hegel on Being	Stephen Houlgate (Warwick)

Friday, 15th of May

9:45-11:15 Panel 3: Hegel Part II
Chair: Shifan Zhou (Warwick)
9:45-10:30	The Relation of Logic to Realphilosophie in G.W.F. Hegel	Evgenia Sonnabend (Freiburg)
10:30-11:15	Hegel’s Intersubjective Logic: Hegel and the Possibility of a New Social Ontology	Juyong Kim (Warwick)
11:15-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-13:00 Panel 4: Schelling
Chair: Robb Dunphy (Sussex)
11:30-12:15	Original Sin, Freedom, and the Feminine in Schelling	Jinhua Hao (Freiburg)
12:15-13:00	Four Frameworks for the Hegel - (Late) Schelling Dispute and Schelling’s 1795 Letters	Ying Xue (Warwick)
13:00-14:00 Lunch Break
14:00-15:15 Keynote Session 3
Chair: Sally Zhu (Warwick)
14:00-15:15	What is Historicity? From Hegel to Heidegger to Nietzsche	Philipp Schwab (Freiburg)
15:15-15:30 Coffee Break
15:30-17:00 Panel 5: The Legacy of German Idealism
Chair: Jinhua Hao (Freiburg)
15:30-16:15	The Positive Primordial Function of the Negative: Heidegger on the “Greatest and Most Hidden Secret of Hegelian Philosophizing”	Karl Kraatz (Zhejiang)
16:15-17:00 Roundtable Discussion

12/03 5pm-7pm: Spring Break Social

Rachel Harrington — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 16:15:06 GMT

When: 5pm - 7pm, Thu, 12 Mar '26

Where: FAB Atrium

04/02 12pm-2pm: WMA Graduate Research Seminar

Rachel Harrington — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 09:16:57 GMT

When: 12pm - 2pm, Wed, 04 Feb '26

Where: S1.88

Week 4 (4 Feb), 12:00-14:00, room: S1.88

21/01 12pm-2pm: WMA Graduate Research Seminar

Rachel Harrington — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 09:15:37 GMT

When: 12pm - 2pm, Wed, 21 Jan '26

Where: S1.88

Week 2 (21 Jan), 12:00-14:00, room: S1.88

19/01 6pm-9pm: WMA Party

Rachel Harrington — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 13:04:21 GMT

When: 6pm - 9pm, Mon, 19 Jan '26

Where: The Graduate Room, Dirty Duck

15/12 8am-12pm: Warwick East Asia Graduate Conference in Continental Philosophy 2025

Rachel Harrington — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 11:01:33 GMT

When: 8am - 12pm, Mon, 15 Dec '25

Where: Zoom

Mon 15 Dec - 8:00-12:00 BST / 9:00-13:00 CET / 16:00-20:00 CST / 17:00-21:00 JST

Shohei Kobayashi (University of Erfurt),
“Ought We to Discard Useless Concepts?: The effect of the word „being“ in Martin Heidegger’s philosophy”

Liang, Yulin (Tongji University Shanghai),
“Reassessing Jonas’s Critique of Heidegger’s Conception of Nature”

Keigo Shimada (Warwick University),
“Reason in Kant and Husserl”

KEYNOTE Matthias Flatscher (University of Würzburg)
“Derrida’s Politics of Alterity”

Zoom Details (no registration necessary)

https://kwansei-gakuin.zoom.us/j/92834254546

Passcode: 616540

17/12 8am-10:30am: Warwick East Asia Graduate Conference in Continental Philosophy 2025

Rachel Harrington — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 10:51:31 GMT

When: 8am - 10:30am, Wed, 17 Dec '25

Where: Zoom

Wed 17 Dec

8:00-10:30 BST / 9:00-11:30 CET / 16:00-18:30 CST / 17:00-19:30 JST

Ryo Yamazaki (Keio University),
“What Do I Perform, When I Ask? Early Heidegger on the Subjective Meaning of Question”

Luyao Shi (Tongji University Shanghai),
“Being and Play: on the concept of Play in middle Heidegger’s thought”

Andreas Wiener (Würzburg University),
“Democratic Ethics as self-alienation”

Zoom Details (no registration necessary)

https://kwansei-gakuin.zoom.us/j/95945442808

Passcode: 652527

16/12 8am-10:30am: Warwick East Asia Graduate Conference in Continental Philosophy 2025

Rachel Harrington — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 10:49:54 GMT

When: 8am - 10:30am, Tue, 16 Dec '25

Where: Zoom

Tue 16 Dec

8:00-10:30 BST / 9:00-11:30 CET / 16:00-18:30 CST / 17:00-19:30 JST

Ryosuke Sasaki (Kwansei Gakuin University),
“The Truth of Judgment in Kitarō Nishida’s System of the Universal: Drawing on Heidegger’s Critique of Propositional Truth”

Xing Sun (Capital Normal University),
“On the authentic ‘being-with’: from the perspective of temporality in Heidegger”

Samuel Ronalds (Warwick University),
“A Heideggerian Approach to the Question of Plant Minds”

Zoom Details (no registration necessary)

https://kwansei-gakuin.zoom.us/j/91772015564

Passcode: 845944

11/11 3pm-5pm: WMA Graduate Research Seminar

Rachel Harrington — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 09:51:18 GMT

When: 3pm - 5pm, Tue, 11 Nov '25

Where: S1.141

WMA Graduate Research Seminar

Link to further info: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/philosophy/news/seminars/consciousness

11/12 2pm-4pm: WMA Graduate Research Seminar

Rachel Harrington — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 09:16:27 GMT

When: 2pm - 4pm, Thu, 11 Dec '25

Where: S1.50

WMA Graduate Research Seminar 11 Dec 2025 14:00-16:00 s1.50

27/11 2pm-4pm: WMA Graduate Research Seminar

Rachel Harrington — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 09:15:34 GMT

When: 2pm - 4pm, Thu, 27 Nov '25

Where: S1.50

WMA Graduate Research Seminar 27 Nov 2025 14:00-16:00 s1.50

For further information https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/philosophy/news/seminars/consciousness

30/10 2pm-4pm: WMA Graduate Research Seminar

Rachel Harrington — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 09:14:02 GMT

When: 2pm - 4pm, Thu, 30 Oct '25

Where: S2.64

WMA Graduate Research Seminar 30 Oct 2025 14:00-16:00 s2.64

For further information https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/philosophy/news/seminars/consciousness

08/10 2pm-5pm: PG Welcome Event: "Does history matter to philosophy?"

Rachel Harrington — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 12:05:51 GMT

When: 2pm - 5pm, Wed, 08 Oct '25

Where: OC0.04

This is an academic welcome event for all incoming MA, MPhil, and PhD students. The event begins with tea & coffee followed by a plenary discussion and small breakout group discussions on different readings.

10/12 10am-11am: Reading Group: Democracy Despite Itself: Liberal Constitutionalism and Militant Democracy

Rachel Harrington — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 10:59:32 GMT

When: 10am - 11am, Wed, 10 Dec '25

Where: S2.61

In the Autumn Term we are reading Democracy Despite Itself: Liberal Constitutionalism and Militant Democracy. As before, we meet at 10am on Wednesdays in Lorenzo’s office.

If you haven’t come along before the book group is very informal and super fun. It is mostly staff, with (usually) a couple of PhD students. Staff come from across the department and we have members from every research centre, so it really is a broad church. Expertise in the subject is absolutely not a prerequisite for coming. It’s a way to do philosophy together and get to know each other better. All welcome!

The book is available online in the library:

https://0-academic-oup-com.pugwash.lib.warwick.ac.uk/book/56365/chapter/447851580

03/12 10am-11am: Reading Group: Democracy Despite Itself: Liberal Constitutionalism and Militant Democracy

Rachel Harrington — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 09:51:13 GMT

When: 10am - 11am, Wed, 03 Dec '25

Where: S2.61

In the Autumn Term we are reading Democracy Despite Itself: Liberal Constitutionalism and Militant Democracy. As before, we meet at 10am on Wednesdays in Lorenzo’s office.

The book is available online in the library:

https://0-academic-oup-com.pugwash.lib.warwick.ac.uk/book/56365/chapter/447851580

26/11 10am-11am: Reading Group: Democracy Despite Itself: Liberal Constitutionalism and Militant Democracy

Rachel Harrington — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 09:51:01 GMT

When: 10am - 11am, Wed, 26 Nov '25

Where: S2.61

In the Autumn Term we are reading Democracy Despite Itself: Liberal Constitutionalism and Militant Democracy. As before, we meet at 10am on Wednesdays in Lorenzo’s office.

The book is available online in the library:

https://0-academic-oup-com.pugwash.lib.warwick.ac.uk/book/56365/chapter/447851580

19/11 10am-11am: Reading Group: Democracy Despite Itself: Liberal Constitutionalism and Militant Democracy

Rachel Harrington — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 09:50:50 GMT

When: 10am - 11am, Wed, 19 Nov '25

Where: S2.61

In the Autumn Term we are reading Democracy Despite Itself: Liberal Constitutionalism and Militant Democracy. As before, we meet at 10am on Wednesdays in Lorenzo’s office.

The book is available online in the library:

https://0-academic-oup-com.pugwash.lib.warwick.ac.uk/book/56365/chapter/447851580

05/11 10am-11am: Reading Group: Democracy Despite Itself: Liberal Constitutionalism and Militant Democracy

Rachel Harrington — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 09:50:33 GMT

When: 10am - 11am, Wed, 05 Nov '25

Where: S2.61

In the Autumn Term we are reading Democracy Despite Itself: Liberal Constitutionalism and Militant Democracy. As before, we meet at 10am on Wednesdays in Lorenzo’s office.

The book is available online in the library:

https://0-academic-oup-com.pugwash.lib.warwick.ac.uk/book/56365/chapter/447851580

29/10 10am-11am: Reading Group: Democracy Despite Itself: Liberal Constitutionalism and Militant Democracy

Rachel Harrington — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 09:50:19 GMT

When: 10am - 11am, Wed, 29 Oct '25

Where: S2.61

In the Autumn Term we are reading Democracy Despite Itself: Liberal Constitutionalism and Militant Democracy. As before, we meet at 10am on Wednesdays in Lorenzo’s office.

The book is available online in the library:

https://0-academic-oup-com.pugwash.lib.warwick.ac.uk/book/56365/chapter/447851580

22/10 10am-11am: Reading Group: Democracy Despite Itself: Liberal Constitutionalism and Militant Democracy

Rachel Harrington — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 09:50:05 GMT

When: 10am - 11am, Wed, 22 Oct '25

Where: S2.61

In the Autumn Term we are reading Democracy Despite Itself: Liberal Constitutionalism and Militant Democracy. As before, we meet at 10am on Wednesdays in Lorenzo’s office.

The book is available online in the library:

https://0-academic-oup-com.pugwash.lib.warwick.ac.uk/book/56365/chapter/447851580

15/10 10am-11am: Reading Group: Democracy Despite Itself: Liberal Constitutionalism and Militant Democracy

Rachel Harrington — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 09:49:50 GMT

When: 10am - 11am, Wed, 15 Oct '25

Where: S2.61

In the Autumn Term we are reading Democracy Despite Itself: Liberal Constitutionalism and Militant Democracy. As before, we meet at 10am on Wednesdays in Lorenzo’s office.

The book is available online in the library:

https://0-academic-oup-com.pugwash.lib.warwick.ac.uk/book/56365/chapter/447851580

08/10 5pm-7pm: Pub Quiz

Rachel Harrington — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 08:51:13 GMT

When: 5pm - 7pm, Wed, 08 Oct '25

Where: Rootes Restaurant

23/07 12:30pm-2:30pm: Philosophy Graduation Celebration

Rachel Harrington — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 07:47:46 GMT

When: 12:30pm - 2:30pm, Wed, 23 Jul '25

Where: Social Sciences Courtyard, under the wisteria

17/06 1pm-4pm: End of Year Celebration and BBQ

Rachel Harrington — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 14:29:13 GMT

When: 1pm - 4pm, Tue, 17 Jun '25

Where: Social Sciences Courtyard

Join us to celebrate the end of the year with a BBQ in the Social Sciences courtyard.

17/06 11am-1pm: Student Research Celebration

Rachel Harrington — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 14:22:57 GMT

When: 11am - 1pm, Tue, 17 Jun '25

Where: S0.18

6 of our students will present their research and work on the themes of Bodies, Beauty, and Injustice.

01/05 4pm-5pm: Truth and Truthfulness Reading Group

Rachel Harrington — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 11:33:45 GMT

When: 4pm - 5pm, Thu, 01 May '25

Where: s1.50

In preparation for the WMA Symposium on Bernard Williams' Truth and Truthfulness in week 6, the WMA is hosting a reading group on the book. We aim to cover two chapters of the book each week, all are welcome to join. Any questions please email wma@warwick.ac.uk

24/04 3pm-4:30pm: Truth and Truthfulness Reading Group

Rachel Harrington — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 11:33:01 GMT

When: 3pm - 4:30pm, Thu, 24 Apr '25

Where: s1.50

08/05 3pm-4:30pm: Truth and Truthfulness Reading Group

Rachel Harrington — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 11:33:01 GMT

When: 3pm - 4:30pm, Thu, 08 May '25

Where: s1.50

15/05 3pm-4:30pm: Truth and Truthfulness Reading Group

Rachel Harrington — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 11:33:01 GMT

When: 3pm - 4:30pm, Thu, 15 May '25

Where: s1.50

22/05 3pm-4:30pm: Truth and Truthfulness Reading Group

Rachel Harrington — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 11:33:01 GMT

When: 3pm - 4:30pm, Thu, 22 May '25

Where: s1.50