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'Looking for Kafka in Oxford', an interview with Carolin Duttlinger on the 跳岛 FM (Talking Literature) Podcast, is now available on our YouTube Channel:
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November 11, 2025 at 9:22 AM
📢FREE LECTURE ON FRIDAY!

⏰Friday 7 November, 5pm
📍Taylor Institution

Join us for a talk by philosopher Aaron Schuster, 'How to Research like a Dog: Kafka's New Science'

Book here: tinyurl.com/4sa3d9n2

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November 4, 2025 at 3:20 PM
📢FREE LECTURE ON FRIDAY!

⏰Friday 24 October, 5pm
📍Taylor Institution

Join us for a talk by Professor Dirk Oschmann, 'The Two Beginnings of Kafka's The Castle'.

Limited spaces available on door!

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October 23, 2025 at 1:46 PM
📢Free workshop for German students @ox.ac.uk with playwright Ed Harris!

⏰Thursday 23 October, 4pm-6pm
📍C Day Lewis Room, Wadham College
Meet at Porters’ Lodge 4pm (no need to sign up)
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October 15, 2025 at 3:10 PM
📢Booking is now open for two free events!

24 October - The Two Beginnings of Kafka's The Castle with Dirk Oschmann tinyurl.com/3bwuvnjk
7 November - How to Research Like a Dog: Kafka's New Science with Aaron Schuster tinyurl.com/4sa3d9n2

⏰5pm
📍Taylorian, Oxford

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September 17, 2025 at 11:20 AM
16 October: Kafka Study Day @stjohnsox.bsky.social with playwright Ed Harris! Y12 students of Modern Languages, English and Drama from non-selective state schools can apply here: tinyurl.com/3an6whus

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September 10, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Our post-doctoral researcher Ian Ellison has recorded a podcast episode with @ppfideas.bsky.social about The Trial - now available online!

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NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!

Today’s episode in Politics on Trial is about the most famous trial in literature and one that never actually takes place. David talks to writer and literary scholar Ian Ellison about Franz Kafka’s The Trial, first published in 1925.

Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
August 21, 2025 at 3:06 PM
📣Congratulations to the winners of the Kafka Undergraduate Essay Prize 2025! 👏

First prize: Katie Robinson
Joint second prize: Josephine Kalwij, Anna Tonge

Read more here: tinyurl.com/y79su32b

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June 25, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Professor Ruth Gross (North Carolina State University) on working with the words and finding something new every time you read Kafka's stories.
youtu.be/EeEsZbL9GFo

Video: Film Shed Media Ltd

More interviews with Kafka Transformed delegates on our YouTube channel!

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Kafka Transformed interview with Ruth Gross
YouTube video by Kafka's Transformative Communities
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June 9, 2025 at 1:57 PM
A year on, highlights from our interviews with artists! youtu.be/I2qJRfLq8qs

Can Bilir 🎵
Tessa Farmer 🎨
Ed Harris 🎭
Anna Kelly 📚
Frank Moon 🎹
Arthur Pita 🩰

More details: tinyurl.com/yc3326me

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Highlights from artist interviews at Kafka Transformed
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June 3, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Next up, Martin Lindner (University of Oxford) explores colonialist themes and narrative ambiguities in Kafka's texts.
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Kafka Transformed International Conference, September 2024.
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Kafka Transformed interview with Martin Lindner
YouTube video by Kafka's Transformative Communities
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June 2, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Congratulations to ‪@naomialderman.bsky.social‬ whose story in A Cage Went in Search of a Bird has been shortlisted for the ALCS Tom Gallon Trust Award, administered by the @societyofauthors.bsky.social

Find out more about our collaboration with Abacus Books here: tinyurl.com/4ys8h6fp
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Publication Day of A Cage Went in Search of a Bird: Ten Kafkaesque Stories
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May 22, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Ten versions of Kafka
Taylor Institution, 6pm, 13 June tinyurl.com/4x265bbs
Join Ian Ellison in conversation with prize-winning author Maïa Hruska.
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May 20, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Dix versions de Kafka with Maïa Hruska
***Please note that the event will now start at 6pm***

Taylor Institution, Friday 13 June
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May 15, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Ten versions of Kafka
Taylor Institution, 5pm, 13 June
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Join Ian Ellison in conversation with prize-winning author Maïa Hruska, followed by a Q&A and drinks reception.

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May 7, 2025 at 12:37 PM
An interview with Dr Sahib Kapoor (Jawaharlal Nehru University): youtu.be/B9SOq2OMrzU

Dr Kapoor explores book illustrations of Kafka and video games as emerging areas of research.

Kafka Transformed International Conference, September 2024.
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Kafka Transformed interview with Sahib Kapoor
YouTube video by Kafka's Transformative Communities
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May 1, 2025 at 2:25 PM
In the spotlight this week: Dr. Hebatalla Elakkad (Cairo University): youtu.be/RMVsPtvYW30

Dr. Elakkad explores why Kafka is an enigma and how to reframe him.

Kafka Transformed International Conference, September 2024.
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Kafka Transformed interview with Hebatalla Elakkad
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April 8, 2025 at 4:18 PM
An interview with Professor Kiyoko Myojo (Seijo University) at Kafka Transformed International Conference, Oxford, UK, September 2024: youtu.be/aoLvBcETERQ

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Kafka Transformed interview with Kiyoko Myojo
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March 25, 2025 at 4:04 PM
A discussion between participating artists at Kafka Transformed International Conference:

Tessa Farmer, artist
Ed Harris, playwright
Anna Kelly, publishing director, Little, Brown
Arthur Pita, choreographer
Chair: Professor Lucia Ruprecht

Video credit: Film Shed Media Ltd

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Kafka Transformed podium discussion
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March 20, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Our Kafka: Making of an Icon exhibition catalogue is available to purchase from the Bodleian Shop: bodleianshop.co.uk/products/kaf...

This collection of essays, illustrated with manuscripts, archival material, postcards and family photographs, is a must read!

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March 19, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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We are delighted to announce this year's Undergraduate Kafka Essay Prize competition!
Theme: Identities
Prize: £1,000
Deadline: 1 April 2025
Details: tinyurl.com/m299ckka
The Oxford Kafka Research Centre is grateful to Nigel Jones for generously funding this prize.
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December 16, 2024 at 2:34 PM
In New York tomorrow, members of our project team will discuss 'Kafka and the Non-Human' with Ross Benjamin, Mark Christian Thompson,Mark Anderson and Luca Arens.
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Deutsches Haus, New York
21 February, 9.30am
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February 20, 2025 at 4:27 PM
As we go to New York to view our Kafka: Making of an Icon exhibition at the Morgan Library, here is a reminder of how amazing our exhibition at The Bodleian was.
Music: The Metamorphosis by Frank Moon.
Video: Zoe West-Taylor and Ioan Ings.
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Kafka: Making of an Icon Exhibition, Oxford
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February 19, 2025 at 3:26 PM
We are delighted to announce this year's Undergraduate Kafka Essay Prize competition!
Theme: Identities
Prize: £1,000
Deadline: 1 April 2025
Details: tinyurl.com/m299ckka
The Oxford Kafka Research Centre is grateful to Nigel Jones for generously funding this prize.
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December 16, 2024 at 2:34 PM