16 December 2025: The SGIR is glad to partner with the Institute for the Study of Aesthetics and its History and the North American Kant Society to host the first in a series of online talks organized by Robert Clewis on aesthetics and its history beginning with tomorrow's talk by Robert Louden (University of Southern Main) at 11am to 12:30 eastern. Robert Louden will be speaking on Kant and Music (online). The zoom link is here.
SGIR 2026 Annual Conference
Freedom and Ethics
Boston University
The Annual Conference of the Society for German Idealism and Romanticism will take place on 6-7 November 2026 on the topic of “Freedom and Ethics" and will be hosted by Boston University. It is organized by Allen Speight (Boston university) and Gerad Gentry. Keynote Speakers will be Dean Moyar (Johns Hopkins University) and Konstantin Pollok (University of Mainz). There will be an additional five invited speakers and between 4 and 5 speakers selected through the SGIR double-blind-review submission-process (conducted by members of the advisory board and committee with no access to identifying information). Contacting members of the committee or board about your submission results in the removal of the submission. Use of LLMs or any other AI assist device in the writing or formation of the ideas is prohibited and results in disqualification. Submissions should be 400-700 words, prepared for blind review, and submitted to FreedomEthics.SGIR2026@gmail.com by March 5th. Results will be communicated by May 1st.
Sponsored Conferences and Talks:
16 December 2025: The SGIR is glad to partner with the Institute for the Study of Aesthetics and its History and the North American Kant Society to host the first in a series of online talks organized by Robert Clewis on aesthetics and its history beginning with tomorrow's talk by Robert Louden (University of Southern Main) at 11am to 12:30 eastern. Robert Louden will be speaking on Kant and Music (online). The zoom link is here.
26-28 February 2026: The SGIR is sponsoring a conference at the Center for Post-Kantian Philosophy at the University of Potsdam organized by Jonas Heller (Frankfurt a.M.), David Jacobs (Potsdam) and Gregor Schäfer (London/Basel), titled, “Communism of Spirits. Conceptions of Political Life in Classical German Philosophy between Critique and Aesthetics”; website.
9-11 April 2026: The Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung is funding a 3-day conference on Hegelian Constitutivism at Baylor University, organized by Gerad Gentry (Baylor University), which is a part of a larger research initiative that is developing a strand of Hegel’s philosophy of action, ethics, and knowledge in conversation with contemporary metaethical theories.
Boston University
2026 SGIR Conferences and Sessions
Freedom and Ethics
SGIR Sessions in 2026
American Philosophical Association
Pacific APA (online)
11 April 2026 (Saturday), Pacific APA online 2-4pm PST:
2.3 “Philosophy and Literature”: AMC on Return of the Gods: Mythology in Romantic Philosophy and Literature
Author: Owen Ware (University of Toronto)
Critics: Laure Cahen-Maurel (University of Bonn)
Richard Eldridge (University of Tennessee)
Espen Hammer (Temple University)
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 2026
American Philosophical Association
Central APA (Chicago)
19 February 2026 (Thursday): the SGIR has organized two sessions at the Central APA in Chicago, USA.
2.1 “Kant and Natural Normativity” (4-5:50pm)
Speakers: Karin Nisenbaum (Syracuse University), “A Well-Grounded Account of Kant’s Highest Good”
Kelsey Maglio (Baylor University), “A Kantian Analysis of Aristotelian Naturalist Epistemology”
Christopher Benzenberg (University of Notre Dame), “Divine Assistance Squares with Kant’s Insistence that ‘Ought Implies Can’”
2.2 “Kant’s Ethics of Belief” (7-9:50pm)
Speakers: Christopher Benzenberg (University of Notre Dame), “Why Kant Doesn’t Believe in the Truth-Fairy”
Alix Cohen (University of Notre Dame), “What’s Wrong with Prejudice? Kant on Logical Character”
Lewis Wang (Boston University), “Kant on Norms of Belief”
Andrew Chignell (Princeton University), “Kant on the Grounds of the Ethics of Belief”
Chair: Maya Krishnan (University of Chicago)
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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