SGIR Sessions in 2025
American Philosophical Association
Pacific APA (San Fransisco)
16 April 2025
6:00 - 8:00 P.M.
Society for German Idealism and Romanticism, Session 1
Topic: Philosophy of Art and Aesthetic Normativity
Chair: Jonathan Gingerich (Rutgers University)
Speakers:
Kyle Scott (University of California, Los Angeles)
“Art and Aesthetics in Marx’s Theory of Unalienated Labor”
Jonathan Gingerich (Rutgers University)
“Genius, Spontaneous Freedom, and the Avant-Garde”
Eliza Starbuck Little (University of Warwick)
“Hegel on Aesthetic Value”
2:30–4:10 p.m.
Society for German Idealism and Romanticism, Session 2
Topic: Philosophy of Art and Aesthetic Normativity
Chair: SJ Cowan (University of California, Berkeley)
Speakers:
Eskil Elling (Northwestern University)
“Hegel on Aesthetic Freedom as Normative Lingering”
SJ Cowan (University of California, Berkeley)
“The Play of Appearances: Kant, Schiller, and Aesthetic Semblance”
Vladimir L. Marchenkov (Ohio University)
“Where is Art in Hegel’s Science of Logic?”
The SGIR is now maintaining an open call for nominations for sessions at the APA (Eastern, Central, and Pacific). We welcome nominations from any SGIR member for sessions on a specified topic. Please email nominations to Gerad Gentry (Gerad.Gentry@gmail.com). Proposed sessions should include speakers, affiliations, chair, and session topics. In general, we aim to support and facilitate any well-thought out session that falls meaningfully within the scope of the SGIR.
2025 SGIR Conference and Sessions
2025 Conference of the Society for German Idealism and Romanticism
Kant and the Norms of Reflection: Revaluation of the Synthetic Priori
Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz (Thyssen Stiftung)
Co-organized by Konstantin Pollok, Luigi Filieri, and Gerad Gentry
Program TBA
SGIR Sessions in 2025
American Philosophical Association
Eastern APA (New York City)
10 January 2025
7:00–10:00 p.m.
G14H. Society for German Idealism and Romanticism 2
Topic: The Problem of the Method of Mathematical Construction in Philosophy: Kant, Hoyer, and Schelling
Chair: Karin Nisenbaum (Syracuse University)
Speakers:
Giovanni Pietro Basile (Boston College)
“Kant’s Critique of Mathematical Construction as a Method for Philosophy”
Jesper Lundsfryd Rasmussen (University of Copenhagen)
“Constructing Organically. The Origins & Limits of Philosophical Construction in Schelling’s System of Knowledge”
Violetta Lato (Boston College)
“The Mathematical Method in Philosophy: The Idea of Construction in Kant, Schelling, and Hoyer”
Lara Ostaric (Temple University)
“Schelling’s Method of Construction in Philosophy of Art”
9:00–10:50 a.m.
G10C. Society for German Idealism and Romanticism (SGIR)
Topic: Philosophy of Art and Aesthetic Normativity
Chair: Gualtiero Lorini (University of Milan)
Speakers:
Robbie Kubala (The University of Texas at Austin)
“Proust on Imagination, Beauty, and the Imagination of Beauty”
Gualtiero Lorini (University of Milan)
“The Normative Structure of Artistic Pleasure: Kant’s Aesthetic Judgment between Criticism and Anthropology”
Mang Su (Temple University)
“Temporality, Self-Affection, & the Feeling of Pleasure: An A-Normative Reading of the Judgment of Taste"
The SGIR is now maintaining an open call for nominations for sessions at the APA (Eastern, Central, and Pacific). We welcome nominations from any SGIR member for sessions on a specified topic. Please email nominations to Gerad Gentry (Gerad.Gentry@gmail.com). Proposed sessions should include speakers, affiliations, chair, and session topics. In general, we aim to support and facilitate any well-thought out session that falls meaningfully within the scope of the SGIR.
SGIR Sessions in 2025
American Philosophical Association
Central APA (online)
20 February 2025
10:00 A.M.–12:20 P.M.
G1.2B Society for German Idealism and Romanticism (SGIR)
Topic: Kant on Aesthetic Feeling and A Priori Form
Chair: Gerad Gentry (University of Mainz)
Speakers:
Keren Gorodeisky (Auburn University)
“Kant's Aesthetic Personality?”
Alix Cohen (University of Notre Dame)
“Aesthetic Feeling”
Giulia Milli (University of Pavia)
“Kant on Aesthetic Feeling as Transcendental Access to the Self”
2:30–4:10 p.m.
G1.4A Society for German Idealism and Romanticism (SGIR)
Topic: Philosophy of Art and Aesthetic Normativity
Chair: Juan Carlos Gonzalez (University of California, San Diego)
Speakers:
Bangrui (Christoph) Chen (University of Chicago)
“The Sublime, Infinity, and the Possibility of Intuitive Intellect”
Juan Carlos Gonzalez (Colby College)
“From Germany, to Mexico, and Back: Schiller and Caso on Aesthetics as a Remedy to Existential Crisis”
Shamoni Sarkar (University of California, Riverside)
“The Fragmentary Community in Early German Romanticism”
The SGIR is now maintaining an open call for nominations for sessions at the APA (Eastern, Central, and Pacific). We welcome nominations from any SGIR member for sessions on a specified topic. Please email nominations to Gerad Gentry (Gerad.Gentry@gmail.com). Proposed sessions should include speakers, affiliations, chair, and session topics. In general, we aim to support and facilitate any well-thought out session that falls meaningfully within the scope of the SGIR.
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