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From 10 to 13 September, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation is hosting the Research Award Winners’ Forum entitled “Global Perspectives on Kant” in Bonn. In Kant’s 300th anniversary year, Humboldt Award Winners and Fellows will discuss Kantian philosophy from a global perspective and global problems from a Kantian perspective together with Kant researchers from all over the world.
Some 30 lectures will address Kant’s relationship to human rights, colonisation and world religions. The event will focus on how Kantian philosophy is received and developed further in non-European contexts, how it is enmeshed in colonialism and whether it can form a basis for post-colonial theories.
Sven Bernecker: "Selbstdenken und Abhängigkeit"
At the launch, the philosopher Sven Bernecker, Humboldt Professor at the University of Cologne and a member of the Forum’s scientific committee, will introduce the topic. The keynote lecture will be held by the American philosopher and Humboldt Research Award winner, Paul Guyer of Brown University, New York, who will speak on “Kant’s Enlightened Individualism.” On 8 September, Paul Guyer will receive the International Kant Prize, awarded by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation. The award ceremony will take place during the International Kant Congress which is being held at the University of Bonn (8.-13.9.) concurrently. Anyone attending the Humboldt Research Award Winners’ Forum and the Kant Congress may participate in the programme of either event.
Through its annual Bonn Humboldt Research Award Winners’ Forum, the Humboldt Foundation aims to forge closer ties between its research award winners and both junior researchers and German host institutions. The conference also serves to heighten the profile of Bonn as a city of science.
Journalists are most welcome; we are happy to arrange interviews.
Selection from the programme:
Tuesday, 10 September 2024, Bundeskunsthalle Bonn, 7 p.m.
- Opening and welcome
Steffen Mehlich, Head of the Sponsorship and Network Department, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation - Introduction
Sven Bernecker, Alexander von Humboldt Professor, University of Cologne - Keynote lecture: “Kant's Enlightened Individualism”
Paul Guyer, Humboldt Research Award winner, Brown University, United States
Wednesday, 11 September 2024, Dorint Hotel, Berliner Freiheit 2, Bonn, from 9 a.m.
- “Kant and the Commons: Implications of Kant’s Political Philosophy for Contemporary Concerns”
Lucy Allais, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, & Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, United States - “Surviving Kant: What the Colonialism and Racism Debate are (not) about”
Oritsegbubemi Anthony Oyowe, The University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa - “Reason as the Cause in Transcendental Freedom”
Chong-Fuk Lau, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
Wednesday, 11 September 2024, Beethoven-Haus, Bonn, 7.30 p.m. (Special exhibition “Beethoven and Kant. Genius – Republic – Freedom”)
- Conversation concert: “‘The upward gaze’ in Kant and Beethoven: from the Critique of Practical Reason to Beethoven’s last piano sonata and 9th symphony”
William Kinderman, University of California, Los Angeles, United States
Every year, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation enables more than 2,000 researchers from all over the world to spend time conducting research in Germany. The Foundation maintains an interdisciplinary network of well over 30,000 Humboldtians in more than 140 countries around the world – including 61 Nobel Prize winners.