If you’re into a bit of Kafka or a bit of Orwell (but especially if you’re into a bit of Kafka), check out this BBC Press Office release, to see what a bumper fun-packed month June will be for you! 🪳❤️🐷

Dr Ian Ellison will be appearing at a FREE panel session in our Jitterbug tent in University Parks this Friday at 5.30pm. The panel will discuss Kafka's enduring influence on literature and here he provides us with a quick overview. #jitterbugoxford #oxfordkafka24 #oxfordkafka

As Ian Ellison reveals, the first ever use of the term #Kafkaesque was about "something funny and original, far removed from the dour and illogical menace of perverse bureaucratic systems". Check out his illuminating piece in the Literary Review: literaryreview.co.uk/metamorphosis-…

Oxford Kafka has a brand new look👀 Check out our new logo and website design courtesy of our collaborator sally varne! ⬇️ kafka-research.ox.ac.uk/home

'Kafka in Mind' is on 25 Sept, 2-5pm. This conversation on Kafka’s work related to Mind and Mental Illnesses is part of the Oxford Kafka celebrations. Speakers include our SRF Prof. Kamaldeep Bhui CBE, and Ockenden Fellow and Tutor in German Carolin Duttlinger: bit.ly/4fLGjqC Oxford Kafka

📢EVENT: Join Prof. Kamaldeep Bhui CBE Carolin Duttlinger and others for our Kafka in Mind event, which will explore Kafka’s work in relation to the mind and mental illnesses. Information & tickets: tinyurl.com/c8jfx85k Oxford Kafka #oxfordkafka2024 #franzkafka #Kafka2024

100 years after Kafka's death, 'Cambridge Introduction to Kafka' has been translated into Korean. Its author, Carolin Duttlinger visits the Goethe-Institut Korea Library today to discuss her work and various aspects of Kafka. tinyurl.com/bdd7pdst #oxfordkafka2024 #franzkafka

Apparently, Nobel Laureate Mo Yan visited our #Kafka exhibition in Oxford and not only wrote about it but also responded with poetry/calligraphy!! Bodleian Libraries Oxford Kafka Read it here (in Chinese): mp.weixin.qq.com/s/ysIu-iCUoMDJ…

Learn about Kafka's Legacy - 100 years at Meeting Minds! Richard Ovenden, will be in conversation with academics inc. Carolin Duttlinger about the interdisciplinary nature of Kafka's enduring legacy, 22 Sept, 11:30-12:30pm, Sheldonian Theatre: bit.ly/3MxFmoG Oxford University Alumni

Last week was a busy one - a highlight: Carolin Duttlinger discusses some of #Kafka’s minuscule drawings 이화여자대학교, inc. an oceanside view between the lines of a (pirated) lecture script. Also interesting details on early 20th-cent. media technology, e.g. Felice Bauer at work!

Our Kafka Transformed International Conference is kicking off Wadham College!

Università di Udine Sapienza Università di Roma UniBg 東京外国語大学 Tokyo University of Foreign Studies Cambridge University Paulo de Medeiros University of Warwick gave us a fantastic pre-dinner talk on Kafka and World Literature in the beautiful Holywell Music Room Wadham College!

Universiteit Leiden UNIVERSITÄT LEIPZIG Incheon National University 인천대학교 Before a final address from Carolin Duttlinger, Barry Murnane and Ian Ellison! A huge thank you to our speakers and everyone who attended. We look forward to welcoming you back to Oxford for the next conference!

Can’t wait to talk about Kafka’s diaries at Oxford on the 11th of October! Oxford Kafka Penguin Classics UK visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/oct24/gl…

Absolutely over the moon that my unpublished novel, The Experimental Gentlemen, has won the Yeovil Literary Prize! Thank you to the judge AJ West #AlwaysTogether and to the whole prize team. I couldn't be happier! #YLP24

The exhibit by Tessa Farmer in Kafka: Making of an Icon Bodleian Libraries has been reviewed in The World of Interiors: check it out!🪳

Glimpses Into Kafka's Workshop - October 11th. 5-6pm. This event will explore the challenges (and rewards) of translating Franz Kafka’s diaries, and what these diaries reveal about Kafka’s literary life. Tickets are free but booking is essential: tickets.ox.ac.uk/webstore/shop/…

We won! We won! We only went and bloomin WON! The Best European Fictional Drama 2024 goes to….. Franz and Felice! 🏆🕺🤩🙌🥹 We won! Here’s Sasha, in person, and me… remotely 😂🏆 Thank you Sasha Yevtushenko 💙💛! BBC Radio Drama! Thank you PRIX EUROPA!! Thank you! 🤩🪳⭐️🏆

Glimpses into Kafka's Workshop: A great discussion of Kafka’s diaries between translator Ross Benjamin, Carolin Duttlinger, Daniel Medin AUP and Ian Ellison. Many thanks to Bodleian Libraries to hosting!

Congratulations to our project partner Ed Harris 🥽🐥🌸, Sasha Yevtushenko 💙💛 and BBC Radio Drama for winning the PRIX EUROPA for Best European Audio Fiction of the Year 2024 with the play Franz and Felice! tinyurl.com/mwrenmur #oxfordkafka2024 #franzkafka