"The Pain of Private Parts": Kafka, Gender, and Sexuality, Dublin

International conference at Trinity College Dublin, 12-13 December 2024.

Organized on the occasion of the Kafka Centenary 2024 by the Trinity German Department with support by the Beate Schuler Fund, the AHSS Benefaction Fund, the Long Room Hub, and the Austrian embassy in Dublin. 

Organizing Board: Clemens Ruthner (Dublin), Veronika Jičínská (Prague) & Jan Ceuppens (Brussels).

Schedule:

12th DECEMBER 2024, 18:00-19:30

Thomas Davies Theatre, TCD Arts Block (2nd floor) 
and online: https://tcd-ie.zoom.us/j/8285256536

Clemens RUTHNER (Trinity College Dublin)
“The Pain of Private Parts” (Max Brod): in lieu of an introduction

Stanley CORNGOLD (Princeton)
Keynote: Kafka and Sex – revisited

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13th  DECEMBER 2024, 9:00-18:00

Trinity Long Room Hub, Neill Theatre (in person only)

9:00-10:30: session 1

Irma DURAKOVIĆ (U of Sarajevo)
”Abstoßende Weiblichkeit" bei Kafka 

Veronika JIČÍNSKÁ (UJEP Ústí nad Labem)
Milena Jesenská as translator and lover of Kafka

Anne FUCHS (University College Dublin)
Pets, Colonized Animals, and  Pavlovian Dogs: 
In search of the animalesque in Kafka's animal stories

10:30-11:00: Coffee Break (Ideas Space)

11:00-12:30: session 2

Martin POKORNY (Charles University, Prague) 
The Metaphysics of Eroticism in Schopenhauer and Kafka

Wolfgang MÜLLER-FUNK (Univ. of Vienna) 
Discomfort with Sex and Gender: 
Franz Kafka in the shadow of Grillparzer and Weininger

Alida VETTURELLI (PLUSalzburg)
Swamp Creatures, Amazons, or Mothers? 
Kafka’s women in the light of Bachofen’s matriarchal theory

12:30-14:00 Lunch (Ideas Space)

14:00-15:30: session 3

Karyn BALL (UofA Edmonton) 
#MeToo, Herr K., me too“: prefiguration unfulfillment in Kafka

Elizabeth BOA (Univ. of Nottingham):
Kafka's Erotic Comedy: The female gaze in ‚The Castle‘

Jan CEUPPENS (KUL Brussels)
“Sinking in Dirt”: ‚The Trial‘ as a cabinet of sexual curiosities

15:30-16:00: Coffee Break (Ideas Space)

16:00-17:30: session 4

Veronika TUCKEROVÁ (Harvard University)
Climbing up the Laurenziberg: ‘Description of a Struggle’ and the ‘Gothic Soul’ 

Mary COSGROVE (Trinity College Dublin)
‘Ein Landarzt’: Phallus & Vulva
 

Vahidin PRELJEVIĆ (Univ.  of Sarajevo)
Kafkas Detailästhetik und die literarische Erotik um 1910

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ALL WELCOME to attend and re-circulate, no admission fee!

Contact Information

Prof. Clemens Ruthner

Contact Email

ruthnerc@tcd.ie

URL

https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/events-calendar/events/2024/the-pain-of-p…