The Southern Study Group was founded in 2008 by Kristi Sweet and Oliver Sensen, in order to bring together Kant scholars in the southern part of the US. There is an annual study group meeting each spring, featuring refereed papers.

Contact

Kristi Sweet, Regional Chair

2025 NAKS Southern Study Group Meeting: 

April 25-26, 2025

Louisiana State University at Alexandria

Alexandria, LA

Organizer: Holly L Wilson, Louisiana State University at Alexandria (hwilson@lsua.edu)

April 25, 2025

9 am - Keynote Speaker: Oliver Sensen, Tulane University – “"Human Nature and the Categorical Imperative" (will be Zoomed)

10:30 am - Robert English (University of Mississippi) “A Cancer on Practical Reason: Kant on the Passion for Freedom and the Mania for Domination”

Lunch 12-1 pm

1 pm - Matthew Koshak (Georgetown University) “On the Use and Abuse of Reason: The Logic of Kant’s Anti-Judaism”

2:30 pm - Connor Tannas (travel stipend award*) (Princeton University) “Kant on Slavery and the Scope of Moral Personhood”

3:45 pm - Karl von der Luft (University of Chicago) “Evil and the Unity of Practical Reason: Back to Kant (from Schelling)”

5 pm – Dinner

April 26, 2025

9 am - Keynote Speaker:  Robert Louden, University of Southern Maine - "'One Could Reckon All of This as Anthropology': Further Reflections on the Relationship Between Kant's Anthropology and Critical Philosophy"

10: 30 am - Blake Perry (Villanova University) “Tragic and Transcendental Anthropology”

12 – 1 pm - Lunch

1 pm - Joseph Hamilton (Columbia University) “Kant’s Concept of Weakness of the Will”

2:30 pm - Liam Allore (University of Western Ontario) “The Morally Justifiable and the Morally Good in Kant”

 *finalist for the Markus Herz prize

The conference will take place on the Louisiana State University at Alexandria campus which is approximately 7.5 miles from the majority of hotels in Alexandria.

Airport: Alexandria International Airport (AEX)

Hotels (recommended since they are in the same general location of the circle on MacArthur Dr):

Courtyard Alexandria (Marriott) 3-star hotel

Home2 Suites by Hilton Alexandria 3-star hotel

TownePlace Suites Alexandria 3-star hotel