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.

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

Jeff Love, Clemson University

Katerina Clark, Yale University

Yanni Kotsonis, NYU (Discussant)

5:00 PM          

Kojève Exhibit


Introduction & Tour with Boris Groys

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