Thursday, April 2 — Arrival of Participants

7:45 - 10:00PM — Dinner Reception at home of Ruth Gross and Hans Kellner, (116 Sturbridge Rd. Raleigh, NC 27515)

Note: For those of you traveling by van from the Hampton Inn & Suites or Carolina Inn, the vans will leave the hotels at 7:15 PM.  Please be in the lobby no later than 7:10 PM.

Friday, April 3

8:00 - 9:00AM — Continental Breakfast set up at John Hope Franklin Center, Duke Campus

9:00 - 9:15 — Opening announcements and welcomes

9:15 - 10:30 — First Keynote — Walter Sokel, 'The Dionysian Connection. Nietzsche and Kafka'

10:30 - 10:45 — Break

10:45 - 12:25PM — Roundtables 1 and 2

Roundtable 1 - Moderator: James Rolleston

• Mark Blum, “Kafka’s Encoded Narrative: Its Origin and Function”
• Uta Degner, “Why Kafka Needs Comparison: Kafka and Pierre Bourdieu’s Concept of the Literary Field”
• Gernot Wimmer, “Franz Kafkas Werk aus poetologischer Sicht”

Roundtable 2 - Moderator: Ritchie Robertson

• Rolf Goebel, “Kafka in Virilio’s Teletopical City”
• Patrick Fortmann, “Driving, Riding, Running, Swimming: On Modalities and Media of Movement in Kafka’s Writing”
• Paul Malone, “The Medium is not a Matter of Indifference: Intermedial Adaptation of Kafka as Response-- and Challenge-- to Scholarship”

12:30 - 1:30 — Lunch — Franklin Center

1:45 - 3:00 — Second Keynote — John Zilcosky, 'Samsa war Reisender: Trains, Trauma, and the Mechanized Body'

3:00 - 3:15 — Coffee break

3:15 - 5:00 — Roundtables 3 and 4

Roundtable 3 - Moderator: Roland Reuß

• Esther Bauer, “Looking at the Body: Kafka Dix, and Schiele”
• Alice Kuzniar, “The Animal that Therefore I Am: Derrida and Kafka”
• Nina Pelikan-Straus, “An Investigation into Kafka’s Animal Sites”

Roundtable 4 - Moderator: Clayton Koelb

• Helga Braunbeck, “How to Stand on the Shoulders of Kafka”
• Robert Lemon, “Investigations of Tone: Correlating the Kafkaesque in Kazuo Ishiguro's 'The Unconsoled'”
• Marcela Pozarek, “Der tschechische Blick auf Kafka—Untersuchung einer vermeintlich bekannten Perspektive”

5:15 - 6:30 — Champagne Reception: Maria Luise Caputo-Mayr, Kafka and the Kafka Society of America: An Update; Mark Harman, Reading of a New Translation

Saturday, April 4

8:00 - 9:10AM — Continental breakfast set up in Dey Hall, UNC Campus

9:15 - 10:30 — Third Keynote — Roland Reuß, 'Editing Kafka’s Handwriting in the Small Octavos'

10:30 - 10:45 — Break

10:45 - 12:25PM — Roundtables 5 and 6

Roundtable 5 - Moderator: Walter Sokel

• Jake Burnett, “Strange Loops and the Absent Center in The Castle”
• Helga Kraft, “Imagining the Center of Power: Kafka’s Der Proceß and Streeruwitz’s Kreuzungen”
• Saskia Ziolkowski, “Kafka’s Progeny: For a New Genealogy of Italian Modernism”

Roundtable 6 - Moderator: Stanley Corngold

• Doreen Densky, “Proxies in Kafka: Koncipist, Prokurist, Fürsprecher”
• Bettina von Jagow, “Franz Kafka: Genie or Patient?”
• Kata Gellen, “Works Recited: Franz Kafka and the Art of Literary Recitation”

12:30 - 2:00 — Lunch — Free in Chapel Hill

2:00 - 3:15 — Fourth Keynote — Ritchie Robertson, 'Kafka and Institutions'

3:15 - 3:30 — Coffee Break

3:30 - 5:15 — Roundtables 7 and 8

Roundtable 7 - Moderator: John Zilcosky

• Peter Beicken, “Kafka’s Intermediality: The Literary, Visual, Cinematic”
• Mark Harman, “’Spaß und Verzweiflung’: Kafka and Metaphor Revisited”
• Markus Zisselberger, “Kafka’s Infancy: Blanchot, Lyotard and the Afterlife of Literature”

Roundtable 8 - Moderator: Ruth Gross

• Iris Bruce, “Crossing Borders: Prejudice and Racial Conflict in Kafka and Israeli-Palestinian Literature”
• Katja Garloff, “Kafka’s Racial Melancholy: In Defense of Cultural Studies”
• Joel Morris, “Hunting Gracchus: Kafka and the Search for German-Jewish Ground”
• Oliver Hiob, “Why did Georg Have to Die? An Investigation Based on Rabbinic Law”

7:30 — Banquet at 411 Restaurant in Chapel Hill, guest speaker Stanley Corngold