Kafka lectures

Event Name Kafka lectures
Start Date 24th Oct 2011 4:15pm
End Date 24th Oct 2011 7:15pm
Duration 3 hours
Description

The Bodleian Library celebrates the acquisition of Franz Kafka’s letters to his sister in partnership with the Deutsches Literaturarchiv in Marbach with a series of events held in the Sheldonian Theatre on 24 October:

  • 16.00 - Welcome by Dr Sarah Thomas, Bodley’s Librarian
  • 16.15 - Reading of Act I, Scene I from Alan Bennett’s play Kafka’s Dick
  • 16.30 - Kafka’s Writings: Private Confessions or Public Property? Lecture by Ritchie Robertson, Taylor Professor of the German Language and Literature, University of Oxford
  • 17.00 - Panel discussion chaired by Katrin Kohl, Professor of German Literature, University of Oxford

Liebe Ottla, an exhibition of Franz Kafka’s letters to his sister with highlights from the Bodleian Kafka collection is currently on display in the Proscholium until 30 October.

All Welcome. Admission Free.