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.

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)

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