EVENT: Kafka(esque) Cinema Weekend🍿
The Lady Margaret Hall Foreign Film Club will be hosting a series of screenings covering films Kafka watched, adaptations of his prose, and ‘Kafkaesque’ cinema.
⏰ 27 April 1:30pm - 28 April 6:15pm
📍Lady Margaret Hall – Simpkins Lee Theatre
More info in bio!

We have lots of exciting events coming up to mark the centenary of Franz Kafka's death with #OxfordReadsKafka ! Take a look here at some of the things we have planned for May and June: mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/news/2024/04/2…
#OxfordKafka2024

Ed Gaughan 'Words and Music'
10-12 May May part of a double bill with Kafka's Ape.
oldfirestation.org.uk/whats-on/
“Eccentric, heartfelt and very funny”✶✶✶✶ Guardian
“A surreal hybrid of theatre, stand up comedy and jazz concert. hysterical” ✶✶✶✶ Independent
#OxfordreadsKafka

Tonight, online, 7pm: Join the Oxford Kafka Research Centre's Prof. Carolin Duttlinger and translator Michael Hofmann as they discuss Franz Kafka’s 'The Metamorphosis' for this month's Hay Festival Book Club!

𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘎𝘳𝘦𝘨𝘰𝘳 𝘚𝘢𝘮𝘴𝘢 𝘢𝘸𝘰𝘬𝘦 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮𝘴...

Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka is our Book Club pick for April. Join us Wednesday 24 April for our free online event.

Sign up 🪳 hayfestival.org/book-club/apri… #HFBookClub

Coming soon: The world premiere of A Hunger Artist, based on #franzkafka 's iconic story. Created by Arthur Pita and frank moon in collaboration with the Oxford Kafka Research Centre @oxfordkafka. Oxford, 3-5 June 2024. Tickets: oxfordculturalprogramme.org.uk/event/a-hunger…

Excited to discuss Kafka's 'The Metamorphosis' with translator Michael Hofmann and Manveen Rana at Hay Festival April Book Club. hayfestival.com/p-21355-hay-fe…

Really productive & enjoyable visit to Bold Tendencies to discuss our Oxford Kafka collaboration 'Franz Kafka: Deep Cuts' on 3 July 2024, part of their upcoming #Communion events. What an amazing location to celebrate Kafka's birthday!

It’s not long now until our exhibition ‘Kafka: Making of an Icon’ opens Bodleian Libraries! With lots coming up soon on the project, let’s take a look back at what we got up to in March… 🧵

📢 More big news in March: University of Oxford officially launched #oxfordkafka2024 , and Bodleian Libraries announced our ‘Kafka: Making of an Icon’ exhibition! For the complete events programme, see the link in our bio.

Our centenary exhibition 'Kafka: Making of an Icon' will open at the Weston Library Oxford on 30 May. Here's a preview of some highlights: theguardian.com/books/2024/mar…

A programme of University-wide events and activities will celebrate the literary works and enduring global legacy of Franz Kafka and mark the 100-year anniversary of his death.

Find out more ⬇️
ox.ac.uk/news/2024-03-0…

It lives! To encourage students to read, think about and discuss Kafka’s amazing novella The Metamorphosis we have been able to do a special printing of the text to give to each student ⁦University of Oxford⁩ and to the public libraries, as part of #OxfordreadsKafka #OxfordKafka24

Veteran radio chums, Ewan Bailey (in this, Corporal Catling & about 3,000 other Amerikans) and Ian Dunnet Jnr (Robinson, & about 3 other Amerikans). Both wonderful, cartoonish, sadistic, violent & hilarious! #TheManwhoDisappeared #FranzKafka @bbcradio4 16th & 23rd June, 2024 🪳

Honoured and excited to have my essay on #FranzKafka and #attention published in this latest issue of Neue Rundschau (S. Fischer Verlage), where Kafka's story 'A Hunger Artist' was first published 1922.

Announcing our #OxfordKafka2024 season with a wide range of events centering on our exhibition ⁦Bodleian Libraries⁩ ⁦German at Oxford⁩ Kafka: Making of an Icon’ and our ambition to get the university & city to read his Metamorphosis #OxfordreadsKafka ! ox.ac.uk/news/2024-03-0…

Roundtable on #Kafka Taylor Institution Library (Taylorian) starting German at Oxford with Barry Murnane welcoming Andreas Kilcher and Carolin Duttlinger for the Oxford Kafka Research Centre

👋 Welcome to the official Twitter page for the Arts and Humanities Research Council Kafka's Transformative Communities project at University of Oxford! Here you will find information about the project and different events and opportunities we'll be offering.

Concerns about the closure of modern languages at the University of Lincoln - Sign the Petition! chng.it/ZbYyWN7z via Change.org UK

This is a turning point in UK higher education. A financially viable department cut in order to pay for the expansion of subjects that get more high-fees international students. If this is allowed to happen, many many unis will follow. Please speak out!