Category Archives: Whose Kafka?

Kata Gellen and I are co-directing a PAL (Center for Philosophy, Arts, and Literature)/FHI (Franklin Humanities Center) Mellon Faculty Seminar in 2014-2015 called “Whose Kafka? Multiplicity, Reception, and Interpretation,” which explores a range of Kafka’s categorizations in order to discuss both Kafka’s own work, as well as what interpretations of his work reveal about the readers and their cultural, historical, and political contexts.

PAL/FHI Mellon Seminar Lecture Series

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The public is invited to attend these PAL/FHI Lectures organized in conjunction with the “Whose Kafka? Multiplicity, Reception, and Interpretation” Mellon Faculty Seminar, co-directed with Kata Gellen.

October 2nd at 4:00 p.m., Mark Anderson, “Kafka, Crusoe, Colonialism, and the Logic of Cannibalism”

November 6th at 5:00 p.m., Martin Puchner, “Stranger than Fiction: A Short History of Literature”

December 11th at 5:00 p.m., Vivian Liska

January 15th at 5:00 p.m., Kafka Rountable: Ruth V. Gross, Clayton Koelb, James Rolleston 

February 9th at 5:00 p.m., Davide Stimilli

February 12th or 13th at 5:00, Jean-Michel Rabaté

March 19th or 20th at 5:00, John Zilcosky

“Whose Kafka? Multiplicity, Reception, and Interpretation” Seminar

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Each seminar has a different topic for which we discuss a primary text by Kafka and secondary literature by the guest scholar.

October: Mark Anderson (Columbia University), Virtual Kafka

November: Martin Puchner (Harvard University), Theatrical Kafka

December: Vivian Liska (University of Antwerp), Jewish Kafka

February: Jean-Michel Rabaté (University of Pennsylvania), Absurd Kafka

March: John Zilcosky (University of Toronto), Modernist Kafka