Workshop

Fifth Annual Critical Theory Workshop

August 19-22, 2025 Université de Montréal
2910 Édouard-Montpetit, Room 422

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After four iterations of the Critical Theory Graduate Workshop organized by the Department of philosophy at the Université de Montréal and the Institut für Kulturwissenschaften at the University of Leipzig, the Department of Philosophy at the University of Potsdam has joined the collaboration.

Program

August 20, 2025

Université de Montréal, 2910 Édouard-Montpetit, Room 422

9:30–10:00 Coffee
10:00–11:00 Jonas Balzer (IfS Frankfurt am Main/Leipzig), “Hegel’s Concept of Need and its Socio-Historical Preconditions”
11:00–12:00 León Antonio Heim (Potsdam), “Self-Determined Dependence: Hegel on Freedom, Nature, and the Reproduction of Life”
12:00–13:30 Lunch Break
13:30–14:30 Dirk Quadflieg (Leipzig), “Social Totality and Immanent Critique: Hegel’s Concept of ‘Absolute Actuality’
14:30–15:30 Iain Macdonald (Montréal), “Contingency and Futurity in Hegel”

August 21, 2025

Université de Montréal, 2910 Édouard-Montpetit, Room 422

9:30–10:00 Coffee
10:00–11:00 Isabel Mira Sickenberger (Potsdam), “The Division of Labour and Gender in Hegel and Marx”
11:00–12:00 Maxime Fortin-Archambault (Montréal), “Do Working Animals Dream of Labour?”
12:00–13:30 Lunch Break
13:30–14:30 Liola Mattheis (ZfL Berlin/Leipzig), “Arcades and Embryos: Benjamin’s Recapitulations”
14:30–15:30 Eveline Mailhot-Paquette (Montréal), “Why Authenticity? Authenticity as an Ambiguous Criterion for Successful Storytelling”
15:30–15:45 Coffee Break
15:45–16:45 Olivier Dorais (Montréal), “Unrueh Aesthetics”

August 22, 2025

Université de Montréal, 2910 Édouard-Montpetit, Room 422

9:30–10:00 Coffee
10:00–11:00 Alexey Weißmüller (Potsdam) “Adorno’s Negative Dialectics of Nature and History”
11:00–12:00 Sarahlou Wagner-Lapierre (Montréal), “Adorno on Teleology”
12:00–13:30 Lunch Break
13:30–14:30 Edgar Lopez-Asselin (Montréal), “At the Price of Death: Motifs of Evasion in Adorno”
14:30–15:30 Lilith Poßner (Leipzig), “Psychologizing Authoritarianism: On the Wrong Identity of Individual and Society”
15:30–15:45 Coffee Break
15:45–16:45 Jan Beuerbach (Leipzig): “‘Determinate negation is what survives.’ Critical Situatedness in the Context of Political Epistemology”