Published on Wednesday, April 23, 2025
Abstract
Le 36e congrès international Hegel vise à fournir une vision « globale » de l’actualité de la philosophie hégélienne et de sa réception dans le monde entier. L’un des objectifs du congrès est donc d’essayer de surmonter les particularismes, tout d’abord d’un point de vue géographique. Le congrès entend interroger à la fois l’image que Hegel a donné, dans ses œuvres et dans ses cours, de l’Afrique, des Amériques, de l’Asie, de l’Océanie et de l’Europe, et la réception de la pensée hégélienne dans le monde. Mais pour parvenir à une vision « globale » de l’actualité de la philosophie hégélienne et de sa réception, il sera indispensable de dépasser les particularismes en termes de contenu également.
Announcement
XXXVI International Hegel Congress 2026, September 01-04, 2026, Department of Philosophy, Communication and Performing Arts, Roma Tre University Via Ostiense 234-236, Rome, Italie
Argument
The 36th International Hegel Congress aims to provide a ‘global’ view of the contemporary relevance and legacy of Hegelian Philosophy and its worldwide reception.
One of the aims of the Congress will be to try to overcome particularisms, first of all from a geographical perspective (Section 1). Only by grasping the specificities of the reception of Hegel’s philosophy in Africa, the Americas, Asia, Oceania, and Europe, it is possible to identify the recurring paradigms and Fixpunkte (Henrich) of World Hegelianism as well as its different declinations and thus to give an appraisal, however provisional, of the fortunes and misfortunes Hegelian thought has met with in the world. Equally, it is valuable to consider the images that Hegel presents in his various writings of Africa, the Americas, Asia, Oceania, and Europe, and to evaluate those images’ limits no less than their possibly fertile intuitions.
However, to achieve a “global” vision of the contemporary relevance of Hegelian philosophy and its reception, it is equally indispensable to overcome particularisms from the perspective of content (Section 2). The most ambitious challenge facing the Congress will therefore be to search for the presence of Hegelian resonances in spheres that are, on the face of it, extraneous to and even incompatible with his Idealism: from the debate on human rights to social movements, from ecological movements to the world economy, from philosophy of technology to posthumanism and pop culture. Indeed, the Congress seeks to extend the frontier of Hegelian Idealism to confront social problems, gender issues, environmental crisis, and artistic creations, and to assess whether the contemporary debate can borrow concepts, paradigms, figures of thought from Hegel’s Idealism so as to submit these to innovative and original contaminations that may prove fruitful in addressing heated issues. In recent decades, Hegel’s Idealism has come to exert “influence” on and within a variety of different and unusual contexts. For example, while in the 1970s feminism was conspicuous for its violent attacks on Hegelian philosophy as an instance of patriarchal thought, a number of contemporary feminist philosophers acknowledge the fruitfulness of confronting some paradigmatically Hegelian concepts – e.g. self-consciousness, recognition, and dialectics – as a way to enhance emancipatory thinking and to identify new, unexplored narratives. Moreover, without Hegel we would not have the politics of recognition as we know it. Similarly, Hegel’s Idealism has been brought into play to address contemporary environmental concerns, showing the connections between idealism, the philosophy of nature, and environmental ethics. This global dimension may also encourage reflection on Hegel’s conception of religions in the horizon of an ever greater speculative understanding of them. Even the art-world, in all its expressions, has drawn and continues to draw on Hegelian philosophy — and it does so not only in the most traditional contexts, but also across the breadth of pop culture from videogames to cinema. In this framework, the conference aims at fostering a broader reflection on new alternative narratives of German Idealism, focused on inclusion, coexistence, and intercultural dialogue. Furthermore, original source-manuscripts from the Heidelberg period, newly (re-)discovered in 2022, promise to fill a gap and offer an increasingly comprehensive view of Hegelian philosophy. The new sources, as well as the history of Hegelian manuscripts and scholars, testify to the global attitude and dissemination of Hegel’s philosophy, since several manuscripts have been found in different European countries.
The 36th International Hegel Congress will be held in Rome, the capital of Italy, one of the few countries in which Hegel’s philosophy has found maximum resonance since the 19th century, becoming a sort of “adoptive homeland” for Hegelian Idealism, not only because Hegel’s Philosophy experienced a second flowering here in the second half of the 19th century. Hegel’s long-running Italian reception-history is undoubtedly unique, given that the attraction of Italian intellectuals to Hegelian philosophy has continued virtually without interruption, so much so, indeed, that it was no accident that one of the most important centers of European Hegelianism developed in Naples in the 1840s, thanks to Bertrando Spaventa and Francesco De Sanctis. Hegel’s theories of freedom and progress took root in the midst of the Risorgimento, raising hopes for the country’s future political and cultural emancipation. Hegel’s philosophy then became a powerful message of hope, a providential lifeline, a secular ‘cult’ or ‘ideal religion’ as Bertrando Spaventa saw it, suited to guide the political action of Italian intellectuals. It was against this turbulent background that Benedetto Croce and Giovanni Gentile’s intense confrontation with Hegel took place – not without reinterpretations, reforms, and betrayals – which a number of acute Italian interpreters then went on to turn into a critical study of Hegel’s philosophy in the 1960s, when interest in Hegel was heightened in the light of dialectical and historical materialism and hermeneutics: from Galvano della Volpe to Ugo Spirito, from Guido Calogero to Eugenio Garin, from Leo Lugarini to Nicolao Merker, from Lucio Colletti to Francesco Valentini, from Valerio Verra to Remo Bodei, from Franco Chiereghin to Claudio Cesa, from Gianni Vattimo to Giorgio Agamben. In addition to the general issues suggested above, the Congress also aims to discuss the specific, rich tradition of the Italian reception of Hegel’s Philosophy, which is indebted to such personalities. This topic will be addressed in a separate section held in memory of Francesco Valentini (1924-2009) and Valerio Verra (1928 –2001), two of the leading Hegel scholars in Italy, active at the Universities of Rome La Sapienza and Roma Tre, who have trained generations of Italian Hegel scholars. A discussion exploring themes, research perspectives, and new translations by young scholars engaged in the study of the reception of Hegelian philosophy in Italy will also be held as part of the Congress.
PANEL #1
- Hegel and Africa – Africa and Hegel
- Hegel and the Americas – The Americas and Hegel
- Hegel and Asia – Asia and Hegel
- Hegel and Oceania – Oceania and Hegel
- Hegel and Italy – Italy and Hegel
- Hegel and Europe – Europe and Hegel
- Hegel before/and/beyond the spatial turn: geography, maps, borders and the globe
- Hegel and Translations: Translating Hegel
- Hegel and/on Migration – Migrating Hegel
- Hegel and Astronomy: Universe and Multiverse
PANEL #2
- Hegel and Human Rights
- Hegel, Feminism and LGBTQI+
- Hegel and Social Movements
- Hegel, Ecology, and the Anthropocene
- Hegel, Anti-Racism and Decolonial Thought
- Hegel, Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy of Technology, and Posthumanism
- Hegel and World Economy
- Hegel and Pop Culture (Film, Videogame, Pop Music, Manga, Social Networks)
- Hegel, the Arts and the Artworld
- Hegel, Musealization and Cultural Appropriation
- Hegel and Religions – Religions and Hegel
- Hegel Rediscovered: New Sources on Hegelian Philosophy
Submission guidelines
The names of the keynotes speaker will be announced in September 2025.
We are pleased to invite submissions for the 36th International Hegel Congress of the Internationale Hegel-Gesellschaft e.V., to be held in Roma Tre University, Rome, Italy, on 01-04 September 2026.
If you would like to contribute with a paper to one of the parallel sections, please submit a descriptive summary of your Paper
by December 15, 2025.
Contributions for presentations are welcome in German, English, and French and should not exceed 20 minutes. The following information must be provided:
- Author’s name
- (Institutional) address
- Email address
- Bio (max 150 words)
- Title of the Paper
- A descriptive summary of the paper indicating its relevance to the topic of the Congress (1500 characters including spaces or about 220 words)
- An indication of the section for which the paper is intended
- A short abstract of the paper (600 to 800 characters including spaces or about 100–125 words)
Summaries and abstracts exceeding the specified length will not be considered.
Submission of abstracts should be sent via e-mail to: hegelglobal@hegelnow.org
Participation in the conference requires a regular registration fee of 70 €. Undergraduate students, graduate students, PhD candidates, post-docs pay a reduced fee of 30 €.
A later publication of the papers in the Hegel-Jahrbuch is planned.
More information can be found on the website: https://hegelglobal.hegelnow.org
Confirmation of acceptance: March 1st, 2026
Scientific Committee
- Francesca Iannelli (Università degli Studi Roma Tre)
- Gabriele Schimmenti (Università degli Studi Roma Tre)
- Chiara Magni (Università degli Studi Roma Tre)
- Gioia Sili (Università degli Studi Roma Tre)
Subjects
- Modern (Main category)
- Mind and language > Thought > Philosophy
Places
- Université Roma Tre – Département de Philosophie, Communication et Arts du spectacle - Via Ostiense 234/236
Rome, Italian Republic (00146)
Event attendance modalities
Full on-site event
Date(s)
- Monday, December 15, 2025
Keywords
- Hegel, global, Afrique, Amériques, Asie, Océanie, Italie, Europe, tournant spatial, traduction, migration, astronomie, droits de l’homme, féminisme, communauté LGBTQI+, mouvements sociaux, écologie, antiracisme, pensée décoloniale, intelligence a
Reference Urls
Information source
- Hegel Global
courriel : hegelglobal [at] hegelnow [dot] org
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To cite this announcement
« Hegel Global », Call for papers, Calenda, Published on Wednesday, April 23, 2025, https://doi.org/10.58079/13sjw
