“The Pain of Private Parts”: Kafka, Gender, and Sexuality

An international conference organized by the TCD German Department at Trinity College Dublin with support by the Beater Schuler Fund, the AHSS Benefaction Fund, the Austrian embassy in Dublin and the Trinity Long Room Hub.

All welcome, no admission fee. For more information please contact: ruthnerc@tcd.ie.

Programme:
12 DECEMBER, 18:00-19:30
Davies Theatre, Trinity College, Arts Block (2nd floor) and via Zoom: https://tcd-ie.zoom.us/j/8285256536
Clemens RUTHNER (TCD) “The pain of private parts” (Max Brod): in lieu of an Introduction
Stanley CORNGOLD (Princeton) Keynote: Kafka and Sex – revisited

13 DECEMBER
Trinity Long Room Hub, Neill Lecture Theatre (in person)
9:00-10:30: session 1
Irma DURAKOVIĆ (University of Sarajevo) ”Abstoßende Weiblichkeit" bei Kafka
Veronika JIČÍNSKÁ (UJEP Ústí n.L.): 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 (Hoey Ideas Space)

11:00-12:30: session 2
Martin POKORNY (Charles University, Prague) The metaphysics of eroticism in Schopenhauer and Kafka
Wolfgang MÜLLER-FUNK (University of Vienna) Discomfort with sex and gender: Franz Kafka in the shadow of Grillparzer and Weininger
Alida VETTURELLI (PLU Salzburg) 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 (University of Alberta, Edmonton) #MeToo, Herr K., me too“: prefiguration unfulfillment in Kafka
Elizabeth BOA (University 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): Climbing up the Laurenziberg: ‘Description of a Struggle’ and the ‘Gothic Soul’ 
Mary COSGROVE (Trinity College Dublin) ‘Ein Landarzt’: phallus & vulva
Vahidin PRELJEVIĆ (University of Sarajevo) Kafkas Detailästhetik und die literarische Erotik um 1910

Please indicate if you have any access requirements, such as ISL/English interpreting, so that we can facilitate you in attending this event. Contact: ruthnerc@tcd.ie