We are glad to give notice of the Workshop Social Forms of Freedom: Recognition, which will take place on June, 19-20, 2026, at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Hauptgebäude, Unter den Linden 6).
The event is organized by Matthias Haase (University of Chicago), Thomas Meyer (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), and Tobias Rosefeldt (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin).

To register, please email: antonia.augsbach.1@hu-berlin.de.

Below you can find the program of the event.

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Program

Friday, June 19

(Hauptgebäude, Unter den Linden 6, Lichthof (Ost))

9.30 – Anton Ford (University of Chicago), Help
Moderator: Tobias Wieland (FU Berlin)

11.30 – Larissa Wallner (FU Berlin), Yearning for Shared Reality: Beauvoir’s Account of Sade as Exemplary Human
Moderator: Florian Klinger (University of Chicago)

14.30 – Tobias Rosefeldt (HU Berlin), Given as Free: Fichte’s Account of the Summons as a Theory of Communication
Moderator: Jason Bridges (University of Chicago)

16.30 – Maya Krishnan (University of Chicago), Risky Recognition
Moderator: Johannes-Georg Schülein (RUB Bochum)

Saturday, June 20

(Hauptgebäude, Unter den Linden 6, Raum 2249a)

10.00 – Dina Emundts (FU Berlin), Hegel’s Logical Justification of the Contradictions and Conflicts between Humans 
Moderator: Thomas Pendlebury (University of Chicago)

12.00 – Stephen Cunniff (University of Chicago), Freedom and the Naturally Political Animal
Moderator: Isette Schuhmacher (HU Berlin)

15.00 – Thomas Meyer (HU Berlin), Ethical Life as a Form of Self-Realization in Hegel’s Hybrid Constitutivism
Moderator: James Conant (University of Chicago)

17.00 – Matthias Haase (University of Chicago), Moral Constituvism and the Other Open Question
Moderator: Tobias Rosefeldt (HU Berlin)

For further information, please visit the website of the event.

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