Enfilade

Immanuel Kant was born this month 300 years ago (April 22). From the conference registration form:

Immanuel Kant and Hull
Hull History Centre, East Yorkshire, 15 June 2024

Drinking glass engraved with the names of Immanuel Kant and four men from Hull, 1763 (Lüneburg: East Prussian State Museum).

Presented by the Georgian Society for East Yorkshire and Friends of Kant and Königsberg, in association with Hull History Centre and University of Hull Maritime History Trust

This conference commemorates the tercentenary of the birth of the most important German philosopher, Immanuel Kant (1724–1804), and celebrates his close friendship with Joseph Green and Robert Motherby, merchants from Hull. It has been said that Green’s effect on the philosopher “cannot be overestimated.” The Königsberg firm of Green and Motherby managed Kant’s finances, and Kant had a great influence on the education of Robert Motherby’s children, one of whom, William, founded The Friends of Kant in 1805.

The fee of £30 (Georgian Society for East Yorkshire and Friends of Kant and Königsberg members £25) includes all refreshments. Book early, as places limited. Please direct questions to to Susan Neave, susananeave@gmail.com.

p r o g r a m m e

11.00  Introduction – Gerfried Horst (Chairman, Friends of Kant and Königsberg)

11.15  Morning Session
• Life and Work of Immanuel Kant – Tim Kunze (Curator, Immanuel Kant Department, East Prussian State Museum, Lüneburg)
• Königsberg Kant’s Home – Max Egremont (author of Forgotten Land: Journeys among the Ghosts of East Prussia)

1.00  Lunch

1.45  Afternoon Session
• Kant and Slavery – Judith Spicksley (Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation, University of Hull)
• Hull’s Baltic Trade – Nick Evans (School of Humanties, University of Hull)
• Hull Merchants and Immanuel Kant – David Neave (Georgian Society for East Yorkshire)
• The Motherby Family of Hull and Königsberg – Marianne Motherby (Friends of Kant and Königsberg)

4.00  Tea and Cakes