In May 2024, the Archiv der Zeitgenossen in Krems (Austria) will host the conference “The Kafkaesque in the Arts”. The conference language is German. The Call for Papers can be found here: https://www.archivderzeitgenossen.at/das-archiv/news/detail/news/detail/News/call-for-papers-das-kafkaeske-in-den-kuensten/
Author: Meindert Peters
Only Fools and Horses
by Meindert Peters Franz Kafka loved movies. He went to the movies often and wrote about them to friends and in his diaries. From these sources, Hanns Zischler has constructed a Kafka film library: a list of movies that Kafka must have seen. Zischler’s research was turned into a book and later a DVD collection,…
Kafka and ‘Authentic Judaism’
By Niamh Devlin Niamh Devlin holds a first-class MA (joint honours) in Philosophy/Theology & Religious Studies from the University of Glasgow and spent part of the summer of 2022 on a UNIQ+ research internship working with the Oxford Kafka Research Centre. Kafka, a German-speaking assimilated Jew, living in turn-of-the century Prague, had a complex relationship…
Upcoming Event: Franz Kafka: The Drawings — A Roundtable with Andreas Kilcher and the Oxford Kafka Research Centre
The Oxford Kafka Research Centre is excited to host a roundtable to celebrate the publication of Franz Kafka: The Drawings by Yale University Press. We are joined by the book’s editor Andreas Kilcher, Professor of Literature and Cultural Studies at ETH Zürich, to discuss Franz Kafka’s drawings and the new perspectives they bring to his…
‘Kafka Global’ Workshop (2)
On 6 May, the Oxford Kafka Research Centre organised another workshop, this time to discuss the exciting possibilities of a cultural programme around the Kafka Global Project. With us to discuss were artists and producers from different disciplines in the arts. In the first roundtable, playwright Ed Harris and BBC Radio producer Sasha Yevtushenko discussed…
On a 1983 Kafka Exhibition in Oxford
By Carolin Duttlinger Kafka has played a central role in the cultural life of Oxford for several decades. One important milestone was the centenary of Kafka’s birth in 1983, which the Bodleian Library marked with an exhibition dedicated to him. The richly illustrated catalogue describes an exhibition of two parts and with a dual focus.[1]…
New Article: ‘Kafka in Oxford’
Carolin Duttlinger, co-director of the Oxford Kafka Research Centre, just published a new article on the history of Kafka’s manuscripts. In the article, she traces how so many of the writings of this early-twentieth-century writer from Prague ended up in Oxford and reflects on the manuscripts as representing an ongoing inspiration and obligation to Kafka…
‘Kafka Global’ Workshop (1)
On the 14th and 15th of March, the Oxford Kafka Research Centre organised the first of two workshops around the theme of ‘Kafka Global’. With scholars from the UK, Ireland, and Germany, from literary, film, and dance studies, the workshop addressed new and innovative ways of working with (Kafka’s) manuscripts; ways of thinking about Kafka…