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Jennifer Ann Bates is Full Professor of Philosophy at 福利免费毛片 (Ph.D., Toronto, 1997). She specializes in 19th-century German philosophy with an emphasis on Hegel. She is the author of  (Bloomsbury, November 2025), Hegel and Shakespeare on Moral Imagination (SUNY, 2010), Hegel鈥檚 Theory of Imagination (SUNY, 2004), and co-editor with Richard Wilson of Shakespeare and Continental Philosophy (Edinburgh University Press, 2014). She has published numerous book chapters, most recently,  鈥鈥 in The Necessity of Freedom in Hegel's Turn Between Logic and History. (Ed. Angelova, University of Toronto Press, January 2026), and Shakespeare鈥檚 The Rape of Lucrece (in L鈥橦茅ritage de Hegel / Hegel鈥檚 Legacy, 2022), on Hegel and Shakespeare鈥檚 Coriolanus (in the Arden Shakespeare鈥檚 Coriolanus: A Critical Reader, 2021), and on 鈥淪ustaining the Trivial: Why the Liberal Arts and the Environment Need to be Sustained Together鈥 (in The Global Sustainability Challenge, 2020). Her IOC 2022 Plenary Presentation, , is published in Resilience in Ecology and Health. Bates has published articles in the Wallace Stevens Journal, the Journal for Environmental Ethics, Criticism: A Quarterly for Literature and the Arts, Memoria di Shakespeare, Philosophy Compass, Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, and Philosophy Today.

Professor Bates is the editor of Idealistic Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy.

Professor Bates established the Philosophy 福利免费毛片鈥揌eidelberg Exchange in 2013 and chaired it until 2016. She has served as a Heidelberg University Alumni Research Ambassador since 2013. More information can be found at the Heidelberg Exchange.

Education

  • Ph.D., Philosophy, University of Toronto, 1997
  • DAAD, Ruprecht-Karls-Universit盲t Heidelberg, 1992-93
  • M.A., Comparative Literature, University of Toronto, 1989
  • B.A., Philosophy and Literary Studies, University of Toronto, 1987

 

Graduate courses

  • Seminar on Fichte
  • Seminar on Schelling
  • Seminar on Hegel鈥檚 Phenomenology of Spirit
  • Seminar on Hegel鈥檚 Science of Logic
  • Seminar on Hegel鈥檚 Philosophy of Nature
  • Hegel and Shakespeare on Imagination
  • Kierkegaard鈥檚 Early Works
  • Kierkegaard鈥檚 Later Works
  • Kant鈥檚 Critique of Pure Reason
  • Kant鈥檚 Critique of Practical Reason
  • Kant鈥檚 Critique of Judgment
  • Kant鈥檚 Religion Within the Bounds of Mere Reason
  • Imagination in 19th Century Continental Philosophy

Undergraduate Courses

  • Philosophy and Literature: Philosophical Shakespeare
  • Later Modern Philosophy
  • Consciousness in 19th C. Thought
  • Philosophy of the Environment
  • Philosophical Ethics
  • Philosophy of Religion
  • Contemporary Continental Philosophy
  • Social and Political Philosophy
  • Introduction to Philosophy

Published Single-Authored Books:

  • Bates, Jennifer A.  London, England: Bloomsbury Press, 2025. 
  • Bates, Jennifer A. . Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 2010.  
  • Bates, Jennifer A. . Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 2004.

Published Co-Edited Book:

  • Bates, Jennifer A., and Richard Wilson, eds. . Edinburgh University Press, 2014.

Published Book Chapters:  

Refereed

  • Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥溾&苍产蝉辫;滨苍&苍产蝉辫;The Necessity of Freedom in Hegel's Turn Between Logic and History. University of Toronto Press, January 2026.  
  • Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥溾&苍产蝉辫; In Resilience in Ecology and Health, edited by Dr. Gerald Magill. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2023. 
  • Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥溾&苍产蝉辫; In L'h茅ritage de Hegel / Hegel's Legacy, directed by Kaveh Boveiri. Laval University Press, 2022.
  • Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥溾 In Critical Reader on Shakespeare's Coriolanus for the Arden Early Modern Drama Guides, edited by Liam Semler and Arden Press Editors. Bloomsbury Press, 2021.
  • Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥溾&苍产蝉辫; In The Global Sustainability Challenge, edited by Gerald Magill and James Benedict. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020.
  • Bates, Jennifer A. (2018). 鈥溾&苍产蝉辫; In The Routledge Companion to Shakespeare and Philosophy, edited by Craig Bourne and Emily Caddick Bourne. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2018. 
  • Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥溾&苍产蝉辫; In Why So Serious: On Philosophy and Comedy 1st Edition Edited by Russell Ford, edited by Russell Ford. Routledge Press, 2017. 
  • Bates, Jennifer A. (2017). 鈥溾 In The Philosophy of Theatre, Drama and Acting. Rowman & Littlefield, 2017.
  • Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥溾 In Shakespeare and Continental Philosophy, edited by Jennifer Bates and Richard Wilson. Edinburgh University Press, 2014.
  • Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥溾&苍产蝉辫; In Person, Being, and History: Essays in Honor of Kenneth L. Schmitz, edited by Robert E. Wood and Michael Baur. Catholic University of America Press, 2010.

Forthcoming Book Chapters (Under Contract):

  • Bates, Jennifer A. Submitted and completed chapter: 鈥淓ncountering Objectivity: Hegel's Phenomenology of Nature.鈥 In Encountering Objectivity II - Reality and Cognition in Classical German Philosophy and Contemporary Debates, edited by Karen Koch and Elana Tripaldi. Volume under contract with Palgrave Macmillan, 2025.
  • Bates, Jennifer A. Submitted and completed chapter: 鈥淐an Hegel's Philosophy of Nature be Used to Argue for a Non-Anthropocentric Theory of Sustainability?鈥 In The Concept of Nature in Kant, Schelling, and Hegel, edited by Christian Martin and Florian Ganzinger. Volume under contract with DeGruyter/Brill, 2024.
  • Bates, Jennifer A. Submitted and completed chapter: 鈥淎ctualizing the Dialectic of Reason and Nature in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit.鈥 In Contradiction as Method and Metaphysics: Reviving Hegel's Dialectic, edited by Edgar Maraguat and Rafael Arag眉茅s. Volume under contract with Routledge Press, 2025.

Published Refereed Articles:  

  • Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淭he Rub of the Negative: Concrete Universality, the Sache selbst and Noumena in Cutrofello's All for Nothing.鈥 Philosophy Today 61, no. 2 (2017): 439-450.
  • Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淎bsolute Knowing: Consternation and Preservation in Hegel and Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida.鈥 Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities 21, no. 3 (2016): 65-82.
  • Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淐onfusing Matters: Romeo and Juliet and Hegel's Philosophy of Nature.鈥 Memoria di Shakespeare. A Journal of Shakespearian Studies, no. 1 (2014): 173-201.
  • Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淗egel and the Concept of Extinction.鈥&苍产蝉辫; Philosophy Compass 9, no. 4 (2014): 238-252.
  • Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淗egel's Inverted World, Cleopatra, and the Logic of the Crocodile.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Criticism 54, no. 3 (2012): 427-443.
  • Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淎n Inquiry Into The Nature of Environmentally Sound Thinking.鈥 Environmental Ethics 25, no. 2 (2003): 183-197.
  • Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淪tevens, Hegel and the Palm at the End of the Mind.鈥 Wallace Stevens Journal 23, no. 2 (1999): 152-166.
  • Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淎bstract of Ph.D. Dissertation.鈥 Bulletin of The Hegel Society of Great Britain 18, no. 2 (1997): 75-76.

Published Invited Articles/Reviews:

  • Bates, Jennifer A. Review of The Accessible Hegel, by Michael Allen Fox. Philosophy in Review XXVII, no. 1 (2007): 27-29.
  • Bates, Jennifer A. Review of Hegel and the Symbolic Mediation of Spirit, by Kathleen Magnus. Philosophy in Review XXII, no. 5 (2002): 341-343.
  • Bates, Jennifer A. Review of Son of Spirit, by David Farrell Krell. Canadian Philosophical Reviews 28, no. 1 (1998): 40-41.
  • Bates, Jennifer A.  Report on 鈥淭he Idea of System of Transcendental Idealism in Kant, Fichte, Schelling and Hegel鈥 --An International Conference at Dartmouth College, August 27-30, 1995. Bulletin of The Hegel Society of Great Britain, 1996.
  • Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淭ips for Teaching Assistants.鈥 The Teaching Handbook. Toronto: University of Toronto Philosophy Department in-house Manual, 1995. 

Presentation of Refereed Papers:

International

  • Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥溾&苍产蝉辫;Paper presented at L'Heritage de Hegel / Hegel's Heritage, Montreal, Canada, Virtual, 2022.
  • Bates, Jennifer A.  Paper presented at the Modern Language Association conference, Pittsburgh, Virtual, 2021.
  • Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淪ustaining the Trivial: Why the Liberal Arts and the Environment Need to be Sustained Together.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Paper presented at the Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences Conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2019.
  • Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淗egel and Kierkegaard on the Anxiety of Generation.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Paper presented at the Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture (EPTC) conference, Canadian Congress, Montreal, Canada-Quebec, 2010.
  • Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淭he Problem of Genius in King Lear: Hegel on the Felling Soul and the Tragedy of Wonder.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Paper presented at the Society for Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture Conference, Ottawa, Canada-Ontario, 2009.
  • Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淗egel, Falstaff and the Politics of Wit.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Paper presented at the International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Freiburg, Germany, 2006.
  • Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淭earing the Fabric: Hegel, Antigone, Coriolanus and Kinship-State Conflict.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Paper presented at the International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Syracuse, New York, 2004.
  • Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淒isorientations in Hegel and Shakespeare.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Paper presented at the Canadian Philosophical Association, Winnipeg, Canada-Manitoba, 2004.
  • Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淭he Moral Chemist of the Corpus Mysticum: Why Some Version of Kant's Practical Postulates is Necessary, Even for Hegel.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Paper presented at the Society for German Idealism Conference, American Philosophical Association Pacific Meeting, Pasadena, California, 2004.
  • Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淚magination in Vajrayana Buddhism: A Philosophical Investigation of Tibetan Thangka Symbolism in the Light of Kantian Epistemology and Hegelian Aesthetics.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Paper presented at the International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Leeds, Great Britain, 2003.
  • Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淧atience and the Visible.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Paper presented at The Canadian Society for Hermeneutics and Postmodern Thought, Learned Societies Meeting, University of Laval, Quebec, Canada-Quebec, 2001.
  • Bates, Jennifer A. and Jill Gilbert. 鈥淎 Body of One's Own: Self-Equivalence in Words.鈥 Paper presented at the Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy Conference, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada-Ontario, 2001.
  • Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淗egel's Temporal Hypotenuse.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Paper presented at the International Association for Philosophy and Literature, The University of California at Irvine, Irvine, California, 1998.
  • Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淗egel and the Palm at the End of the Mind.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Paper presented at the International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Mobile, Alabama, 1997.
  • Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淗egel's Early Psychology: (in) the Wake of the Dreaming Spirit.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Paper presented at the Western Canadian Philosophical Society, Winnipeg, Canada-Manitoba, 1997.
  • Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淗egel, Imagination and the Nocturnal Pit.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Paper presented at the Canadian Philosophical Association, Learned Societies Meeting, Toronto, Canada-Ontario, 1996.
  • Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淔ichte and the Failed Imago.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Paper presented at the Learned Societies Meeting of the Society for the History and Philosophy of Science, Calgary University, Calgary, Canada-Alberta, 1994.
  • Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥1794 or 1994? Fichte, Teleology and the Postmodern Imagination.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Paper presented at the Strategies of Critique VIII Conference, York University, Toronto, Canada-Ontario, 1994.

Presentation of Invited Papers:  

International

  • Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥渢itle tba, on Hegel's Aesthetics in his Fr眉he Schriften II.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Invited presentation at international conference Aesthetics and Forms of the Fr眉he Schriften II, to be held at the University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy, November 2026.
  • Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淢odality in Kant and Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Invited presentation at Norms and Nature in Kant and Hegel, Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana, August 26-28, 2024.
  • Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淐an Hegel's Philosophy of Nature be Used to Argue for a Non-Anthropocentric Theory of Sustainability?鈥 Invited keynote presentation at Encountering Objectivity - Reality and Cognition between German Classical Philosophy and Contemporary Debates (sponsored by DAAD Hoschuldialog mit S眉deuropa 2023-24, Freie Universit盲t Berlin/Universit脿 degli Studi di Padova), Padua, Italy, October 2-3, 2023.
  • Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淐an Hegel's Philosophy of Nature be Used to Argue for a Non-Anthropocentric Theory of Sustainability?鈥 Invited presentation at Conceptions of Nature in Classical German Philosophy, Stuttgart, Germany, July 5-7, 2023.
  • Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淗egel's Rome and Shakespeare's Coriolanus: Grounds for Tragedy.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Invited presentation at Sheffield Hallam/Bangor joint research seminar, Bangor, United Kingdom, Virtual, 2022.
  • Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥溾&苍产蝉辫;Invited keynote presentation at Integrity of Creation: Climate Resiliency: Collaboration, Adaptation, and Action, Pittsburgh, United States of America, April 2022.
  • Bates, Jennifer A.  Invited presentation at University of Sydney's EMLAC (Early Modern Literature and Culture), Sydney, Australia, Virtual, August 2021.
  • Bates, Jennifer A. Commentator on Jeffrey Morrisey's paper 鈥淰isibility and Subjectivity: Hegel on the Medium and Meaning of Painting.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Invited presentation at Society for Phenomenological and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2019.
  • Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淗egel's Rome and Shakespeare's Coriolanus: Grounds for Tragedy.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Invited Plenary Speaker presentation at Shakespeare And/As Philosophy Conference, Royal Holladay University, London, England, September 3-4, 2018.
  • Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淗egel and Shakespeare on the Measure for Measure: The Hangman's Mystery.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Invited presentation at Hegel and Shakespeare Symposium, Kingston University London, Kingston, London, Great Britain, April 2017.
  • Bates, Jennifer A. Panel Discussion of Scholar/Teacher Henry Silton Harris. Invited presentation at Ontario Hegel Organization Toronto, Toronto, Canada-Ontario, 2016.
  • Bates, Jennifer A. Panel Presentation on Cutrofello's Book All For Nothing: Hamlet's Negativity. Invited presentation at Society for Phenomenological and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), Atlanta, Georgia, October 2015.
  • Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淐onfusing Matters: Romeo and Juliet and Hegel's Philosophy of Nature.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Invited keynote speaker presentation at Poetics Versus Philosophy: Life, Artifact, and Theory Conference, Texas A & M University, College Station, Texas, 2013.
  • Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淗egel and the Concept of Extinction.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Invited presentation at Heidelberg University Philosophy Speaker Series, Heidelberg, Germany, 2013.
  • Bates, Jennifer A. Panel Speaker on 鈥淗egel: The Sway of the Negative鈥 by Karin de Boer. Invited presentation at Society for Phenomenological and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), Rochester, New York, November 2012.
  • Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淥rganic or Inorganic Freedom.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Invited presentation at Ontario Hegel Organization Trent University, Peterborough, Canada-Ontario, April 2012.
  • Bates, Jennifer A. Respondent to Paper 鈥淭he Cosmopolitics of Capital: Prospects for Renewal and Decline鈥 by Tony Smith. Invited presentation at Cosmopolitics: Unity, Diversity, and Global Subjects conference, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2011.
  • Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淗egel and the Concept of Extinction.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Invited presentation at Ontario Hegel Organization, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada-Ontario, April 2011.
  • Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淜ierkegaard and Hegel on the Movement of the Moment.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Invited presentation at Conference on Hegel's Absolute Spirit, 福利免费毛片, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2010.
  • Bates, Jennifer A. Commentary on "Sartre and the Specter of Bergson". Invited presentation at Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture (EPTC) conference, Canadian Congress, Montreal, Canada-Quebec, 2010.
  • Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淗amlet and Kierkegaard on Outwitting Recollection.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Invited Executive Symposium Paper presentation at Society for Phenomenological and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), Montreal, Canada-Quebec, November 2010.
  • Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淭he Wandering Sage and the Absolute Knower: Chuang-tzu and Hegel on 'the Constant' (a textual analysis of two passages in Chuang-tzu).鈥&苍产蝉辫;Invited presentation at East-West Philosophy Round Table Discussion, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada-Ontario, 2007.
  • Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淗egel and Shakespeare on Moral Imagination: Conscience and Evil in Richard III, Hamlet and Macbeth.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Invited Philosophy Guest Speaker presentation at University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada-Ontario, 2007.
  • Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淚nfection in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Invited presentation at Ontario Hegel Organization York University, Toronto, Canada-Ontario, 2007.
  • Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淗enry V's Unchangeableness.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Invited presentation at University of Toronto Centre for Comparative Literature Guest Speaker, Toronto, Canada-Ontario, 2006.
  • Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淗egel, Falstaff and the Politics of Wit.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Invited presentation at Wilfred Laurier University Department of Philosophy Guest Speaker, Waterloo, Canada-Ontario, 2006.
  • Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淩ichard II and the Alienation of the Will.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Invited presentation at Ontario Hegel Organization University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada-Ontario, 2004.
  • Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淗egel on Good and Bad Luck in Shakespearean Drama.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Invited guest speaker presentation at University of Toronto Centre for Comparative Literature, Toronto, Canada-Ontario, 2004.
  • Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淗egel on Good and Bad Luck in Shakespearean Drama.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Invited presentation at Ontario Hegel Organization University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada-Ontario, 2003.
  • Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淒esire and the Symbolic.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Invited presentation at Ontario Hegel Organization Trent University, Peterborough, Canada-Ontario, 2002.
  • Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淲hat is an Absolute Deed? Kant and Hegel on the Categorical Imperative.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Invited guest speaker presentation at University of Guelph Philosophy, Guelph, Canada-Ontario, 2002.
  • Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淗egel's Dialectical Imagination.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Invited presentation at Concordia University Speaker Series, Montreal, Canada-Quebec, 2001.
  • Bates, Jennifer A. Commentary on 鈥淭he Necessity of the Dialectical Development in Hegel's Philosophy.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Invited presentation at Canadian Philosophical Association, Learned Societies Meeting, University of Laval, Quebec City, Canada-Quebec, 2001.
  • Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淭he Night Time and Space of Experience; Hegel's Inwardizing Imagination.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Invited presentation at University of Guelph Philosophy Department Speaker Series, Guelph, Canada-Ontario, 2000.
  • Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淲as vernuenftig ist, das ist wirklich; und was wirklich ist, das ist vernuenftig.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Invited presentation at University of Victoria, Department of Germanic Studies Colloquia, Victoria, Canada-British Columbia, 2000.
  • Bates, Jennifer A. Commentary on 鈥淐an Intentionality be Replaced? Gilles Deleuze on the Platonic Paradigm of Weaving.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Invited presentation at Western Canadian Philosophical Association, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada-Saskatchewan, 1999.
  • Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淗egel's Temporal Hypothenuse.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Invited guest speaker presentation at Trent University, Peterborough, Canada-Ontario, 1998.
  • Bates, Jennifer A. Commentary on three papers on Hegel and Post-Modernism. Invited presentation at International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Villanova University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1995.
Local
  • Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淧hilosophy and Sustainability.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Invited presentation at CTE: Introducing Sustainability in Your Courses, 福利免费毛片, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2025.
  • Bates, Jennifer A. Discussant's summary/questions of Dr. Frederick's Panel Presentation. Invited presentation at Integrity of Creation Conference: The Global Sustainability Challenge, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2018.
  • Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淜antian Grit: Severus Snape and Shakespeare's Brutus.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Invited presentation at Examined Life @ High Noon Speaker Series, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2016.
  • Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淗egel's Sache Selbst: The Absolute Thing.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Invited presentation at 福利免费毛片 Philosophy Department Speaker Series, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2015.
  • Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淗egel's 鈥業nstinct of Reason鈥 and Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice: What is a Relevant Aufhebung of Nature? Of Justice?.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Invited presentation at Center for Interpretive and Qualitative Research (CIQR), 福利免费毛片, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2014.
  • Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淗egel and Shakespeare on Moral Imagination: Conscience and Evil in Richard III, Hamlet and Macbeth.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Invited guest speaker presentation at 福利免费毛片 University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2007.
National
  • Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淗egel's Rome and Shakespeare's Coriolanus: Grounds for Tragedy.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Invited presentation at Invited Speaker, Speaker Series, Philosophy Department, Miami University Ohio, Oxford, United States of America, April 2019.
  • Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淗egel and Shakespeare on the Measure for Measure: The Hangman's Mystery.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Invited presentation at Slippery Rock University, Slippery Rock University, Pennsylvania, April 2017.
  • Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淭he Problem of Genius in King Lear: Hegel on the Feeling Soul and the Tragedy of Wonder.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Invited presentation at 'Shakespeare and the History of Philosophy' Shakespeare Symposium, Loyola University Chicago Graduate School, Chicago, Illinois, 2009.
  • Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淎n Inquiry Into The Nature of Environmentally Sound Thinking.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Invited guest speaker presentation at Pace University Philosophy Department, New York, New York, 2001.
  • Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淪pirit's Epilogue: Identity, Morality and Prospero's Insight.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Invited presentation at 鈥楬egel and Spirit鈥 conference, Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania, 1999.
State
  • Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淗egel and Shakespeare.鈥 Invited presentation at Carlow University conference 'Philosophy and Shakespeare,鈥 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2011.
  • Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淗egel and Kierkegaard on the Anxiety of Generation.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Invited presentation at the Philosophy Department of Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, 2010.

General Editorship of a Major International Philosophy Journal:

  • Bates, Jennifer A.  2025. 
    --This journal publishes three issues a year; each issue includes four to five articles and one to two Book Reviews. I have been General Editor for 8 years (since 2018).
    • I produced a Special Issue (51.2) 鈥淧hilosophical Idealism as Anti-Racism鈥 on the Occasion of Hegel鈥檚 250th Anniversary 1770-2020 and the 50th Anniversary of Idealistic Studies 1971-2021.
    • Under my Editorship since 2018, the journal has risen from 4th Quartile to 2nd Quartile (SCImago Media Rankings).
  • Form and Matter in Kant鈥檚 Theoretical Philosophy, by Aaron Higgins-Brake.  Defended June 22, 2024.

  • 鈥淭he Dialectic of Naturgeist in Hegel鈥檚 Anthropology: Soul, World, and Bodiliness,鈥 by Jiho Oh. Defended July 2020. Received McAnulty Dissertation Fellowship Award, 2018鈥19.
  • 鈥淓xternality in Hegel鈥檚 Philosophy of Nature,鈥 by Martin Krahn. Defended November 2018. Received 福利免费毛片 Annual Distinguished Dissertation Award [Humanities], 2018鈥19.
  • 鈥淭hinking Without Concepts: The Aesthetic Use of The Logical Functions in Kant鈥檚 Third Critique,鈥 by Stephanie Adair. Defended April 2016. Co-supervised by Frau Prof. Dr. Claudia Bickmann, University of Cologne, Germany. This dissertation was nominated by the Philosophy Department for a 福利免费毛片 Annual Distinguished Dissertation Award, 2015鈥16; it received 鈥淗onorable Mention鈥 from the Awards Committee.
  • 鈥淪adra and Hegel on the Relationship Between Essence/Existence and Subject/Object,鈥 by Kamal Abdulkarim Shlbei. Defended May 2013.
  • Interview of Bates by Heidelberg University Magazine
  • 2026 Faculty Award for Excellence in Scholarship, McAnulty College and Graduate School of Liberal Arts, 福利免费毛片
  • Nominee 2025-26 Faculty Senate Honors Showcase
  • 2022 IOC Plenary Speech: 
  • 2015: Presidential Scholarship Award
  • 2013: 鈥淗AIreconnect Grant鈥 (Heidelberg Alumni International, University of Heidelberg) grant to travel to Heidelberg, Germany and set up student/faculty exchanges between our universities
  • 2013: Grant Writing Fellowship (McAnulty College Award)
  • 2011: National Endowment for the Humanities, for 鈥淗egel Logic Day鈥 conference involving four invited panelists (three from Canada) and guest student attendees from Canada as well as my Hegel Logic graduate class from 福利免费毛片, October 28, 2011
  • 2010: National Endowment for the Humanities, for Hegel Conference, 鈥淗egel鈥檚 Absolute Spirit: Connections Between Art, Religion and Philosophy,鈥 March 19鈥21, 2010
  • 2009: National Endowment for the Humanities, toward publication of my second book, Hegel and Shakespeare on Religious Imagination