We are glad to give notice of the International Workshop Konzepte der Liebe in der klassischen deutschen Philosophie, which will take place on June 5-6, 2026, at the Freie Universität Berlin.
The event is organized by Dina Emundts (Freie Universität Berlin), Federica Gregoratto (Universität Luzern), Andreja Novakovic (University of California Berkeley), and Tobias Wieland (Freie Universität Berlin).

Below you can find the program of the workshop.

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Program

Friday, 5 June

10:00 – Introduction

Panel 1 – Loving Fragments: Negativity Unbound?

10:15 – Federica Gregoratto, ‘‘Ich werde, solange ich liebe, keinen Platz in der Welt finden'”: Unlove, depression and structural femicide in Günderrode and Bachmann”
11.15 – Shamoni Sarkar, “Fragmentary Communing; The Ontology and Ethics of Relation in Karoline von Günderrode”
12.15 – Karin Nisenbaum, (brief presentation of a text)

Panel 2 – Chemie, Freundschaft, Liebe

14:30 – Dina Emundts, Chemie der Liebe
15:30 – Lydia Moland, Helene Stöcker
16:30 – Paul Kottman, „Love as Second Chance”

Saturday, 6 June

Panel 3 – Formen der Verhältnisse

10:15 – Andreja Novakovic, Hegel Fragment (Experiments inEquality),
11:15 – Esther Neuhann, Caroline Schlegel-Schelling (Primärtext)
12:15 – Guido Frilli, „Being in Love. Hegel on Love as a Feeling”

Panel 4 – Familie, Emanzipation, „family abolition”

14:30 – Bruna Picas i Prats, „Do we ,just click‛? Elective Affinities, Feedom, and the Logic of Love in Goethe and Hegel”
15:30 – Evgenia Sonnabend, „Liebe als Negativität in Hegel”
15:30 – Tobias Wieland, „Konsensualität und Anerkennung”