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Kafkas Diagnostik der Moderne
Kafka's diagnosis of modernity
Event by: Petr Kouba
Location: Akc, Husova, Praha 1
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PROGRAM
Wednesday October 16th, 2024
2:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. Welcome by Markus E. Hodec and Jan Schenk
2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Kafka's writing moderated by Jan Schenk
14:30 - 15:15 Wolfgang Müller-Funk: Franz Kafka or the experiences of a border crosser - liminal considerations
15:15 - 16:00 Roshanak Moosavi/Soheyl Zakerzadeh: The Parlograph - reviving the term Franz Kafka
4:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. Interdisciplinary perspectives on Kafka's work moderated by Markus E. Hodec
4:30 p.m. - 5:15 p.m. Mia Kaven: Moral Masochism - Diagnosis of Modernity in Freud and Kafka
/>17:15 - 18:00 Sigrid Weigel: The study of law as a gateway to
Justice - Benjamin reads Kafka
18:00 - 20:00 Dinner
20:00 - 22: 00 Evening program: Public reading and panel discussion with Zuzana Říhová in the Prague House of Literature
Thursday October 17th, 2024
09:30 - 11:00 On the socio-historical circumstances of Kafka's work
moderated by Jan Schenk
09:30 - 10:15 Petr Kouba: Diagnosis of social space in Kafka's letters to Milena - anti-Semitism and social visibility
10:15 - 11:00 Michael Scheffel: Why not want to be first ? Kafka's early prose piece 'Zum Denk für Herrenreiter' and its context
11:30 - 13:00 Kafka as a seismograph of modern subjectivity moderated by Michael Scheffel
11:30 - 12:15 Carolin Duttlinger: Between vigilance and distraction – Kafka’s struggle with attention
12:15 – 1:00 p.m. Lukas Wegner: Kafka’s Idiosyncrasies
2:30 – 4:00 p.m. Selfhood and alterity in Kafka’s work
moderated by Marius Sitsch
14:30 - 15:15 Carmen Lacan: The relationship between individuality and alterity in Kafka's work
15:15 - 16:00 Syamala Roberts: Kafka's Rotpeter on stage -
Updates on the artistry
16:30 - 18:00 Kafka's Aesthetics of Modernity moderated by Markus E. Hodec
16:30 - 17:15 Anna Dombrowsky/Jan Schenk: The specific modernity of Kafka's humor
17:15 - 18 :00 Alex Mentzel: Kafka, art machine of modernity -
Thinking critically about tradition using the example of
generative art and kitsch
6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. Dinner
8:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.: 00 Evening program: musical-literary performance by Věra Koubová at the Goethe-Institut
Friday October 18th, 2024
09:30 - 11:00 Comprehensibility and comprehensibility of Kafka moderated by Michael Scheffel
09 :30 - 10:15 Amirhossein Tasdighishahrezaei: Signifying the unlimited - Kafka and the representational space
10:15 - 11:00 Erhard Schüttpelz: Kafka's handling of the 'idée reçue'
11:30 - 13: 00 last lecture and final discussion
11:30 - 12:15 Axel Grube: In paradise as always... A poetic philosophy of Franz Kafka
12:15 - 13:00 final discussion and farewell
Wednesday October 16th, 2024
2:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. Welcome by Markus E. Hodec and Jan Schenk
2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Kafka's writing moderated by Jan Schenk
14:30 - 15:15 Wolfgang Müller-Funk: Franz Kafka or the experiences of a border crosser - liminal considerations
15:15 - 16:00 Roshanak Moosavi/Soheyl Zakerzadeh: The Parlograph - reviving the term Franz Kafka
4:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. Interdisciplinary perspectives on Kafka's work moderated by Markus E. Hodec
4:30 p.m. - 5:15 p.m. Mia Kaven: Moral Masochism - Diagnosis of Modernity in Freud and Kafka
/>17:15 - 18:00 Sigrid Weigel: The study of law as a gateway to
Justice - Benjamin reads Kafka
18:00 - 20:00 Dinner
20:00 - 22: 00 Evening program: Public reading and panel discussion with Zuzana Říhová in the Prague House of Literature
Thursday October 17th, 2024
09:30 - 11:00 On the socio-historical circumstances of Kafka's work
moderated by Jan Schenk
09:30 - 10:15 Petr Kouba: Diagnosis of social space in Kafka's letters to Milena - anti-Semitism and social visibility
10:15 - 11:00 Michael Scheffel: Why not want to be first ? Kafka's early prose piece 'Zum Denk für Herrenreiter' and its context
11:30 - 13:00 Kafka as a seismograph of modern subjectivity moderated by Michael Scheffel
11:30 - 12:15 Carolin Duttlinger: Between vigilance and distraction – Kafka’s struggle with attention
12:15 – 1:00 p.m. Lukas Wegner: Kafka’s Idiosyncrasies
2:30 – 4:00 p.m. Selfhood and alterity in Kafka’s work
moderated by Marius Sitsch
14:30 - 15:15 Carmen Lacan: The relationship between individuality and alterity in Kafka's work
15:15 - 16:00 Syamala Roberts: Kafka's Rotpeter on stage -
Updates on the artistry
16:30 - 18:00 Kafka's Aesthetics of Modernity moderated by Markus E. Hodec
16:30 - 17:15 Anna Dombrowsky/Jan Schenk: The specific modernity of Kafka's humor
17:15 - 18 :00 Alex Mentzel: Kafka, art machine of modernity -
Thinking critically about tradition using the example of
generative art and kitsch
6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. Dinner
8:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.: 00 Evening program: musical-literary performance by Věra Koubová at the Goethe-Institut
Friday October 18th, 2024
09:30 - 11:00 Comprehensibility and comprehensibility of Kafka moderated by Michael Scheffel
09 :30 - 10:15 Amirhossein Tasdighishahrezaei: Signifying the unlimited - Kafka and the representational space
10:15 - 11:00 Erhard Schüttpelz: Kafka's handling of the 'idée reçue'
11:30 - 13: 00 last lecture and final discussion
11:30 - 12:15 Axel Grube: In paradise as always... A poetic philosophy of Franz Kafka
12:15 - 13:00 final discussion and farewell