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THE KAFKA SOCIETY CONVENTION PROGRAM
Philadelphia, PA; December 2009
Tuesday, 29 December 2009
3:30–4:45 pm, Loews Philadelphia
Kafka Anew: Life, Work, Translations
Program arranged by the Kafka Society of America
Presiding: Marie Luise Caputo-Mayr, Temple University
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Matthew Powell
Walsh University |
Searching Kafka’s Diaries for the Untold Story |
Marjorie Edna Rhine
University of Wisconsin, Whitewater |
Kafka’s Epistolary Project: Translating Libidinal Energies in
“Letters to Felice” |
Phillip Lundberg
Bridgewater, NJ |
“Essential Kafka”: Translating What’s Written In Between the Lines |
Catriona MacLeod
University of Pennsylvania |
Kafka’s Amerika: Lost (and Found) in Translation |
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Wednesday, 30 December 2009
1:45–3:00 pm, Loews Philadelphia
Kafka Anew: Multiple Perspectives
Program arranged by the Kafka Society of America
Presiding: Mark Harman, Elizabethtown College |
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Pamela S. Saur
Lamar University |
Conversational Interactions in Kafka and Pinter:
A Linguistic Analysis |
Shambhavi Prakash
Rutgers University |
Sonorous Intrusions: Translation of Sound in Kafka’s Der Process |
Agnes Malinowska
University of Chicago |
The Cloudy Spot at the Center of the Father’s Concern: Kafka and Benjamin on Legal Violence and Narrative Postponement |
Hugo Rios
Rutgers University |
Embracing Failure: Kafka on Film |
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ELECTION RESULTS FOR EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEMBERS AND VICE-PRESIDENT
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| Vice-president |
Marjorie Rhine, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater |
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Executive Committee
(New Members) |
Mark Harman, Elizabethtown College
Michael Levine, Rutgers University
Marjorie Rhine, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater
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| These esteemed colleagues will start their term in 2009. We welcome all of them and are looking forward to collaborating with them. |
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THE KAFKA SOCIETY CONVENTION PROGRAM
San Francisco, CA; December 2008
Saturday, 27 December 2008
3:30–4:45 pm, San Francisco Marriott, Foothill E
Kafka, the Premier Practitioner of Labor Law in Central Europe
Presiding: Michael Levine, Rutgers University
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Ayad Rahmani
Washington State
University |
In the Belly of the Ship: A Demonstration of Machine Power
and Labor Relations |
Paul North
New York University |
Everything Succumbs to Building |
Megan M. Ewing
Princeton University |
From Burrow to Bureau: Ego Defense in Kafka’s “Der Bau” |
Respondent: Iris Bruce, McMaster University |
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Sunday, 28 December 2008
12:00 noon –1:15 pm, San Francisco Marriott, Pacific Suite A
Kafka, Brecht and Labor
Presiding: Marie Luise Caputo-Mayr, Kafka Society of America |
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Olaf Berwald
University of North Dakota |
Marsyas Skin Grafts: Brecht/Kafka Palimpsests in Volker Braun’s Poetics of Survival |
Jens Klenner
Princeton University |
Denken als Dienstleistung: Von Kopflangern und Handlangern in Brecht und Kafka |
Nicola Behrmann
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Food Comes First: Labor and Poverty in Kafka and Brecht |
Respondent: Judith Ryan, Harvard University |
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ANNOUNCING THE WINNERS OF
THE KAFKA SOCIETY OF AMERICA
PRIZE FOR THE BEST ESSAY BY AN EMERGING SCHOLAR
Among the many valuable scholarly submissions
for the best essay prize, the Committee selected two outstanding
essays and split the prize money of USD $2,000.00 between
the two authors:
Keith Leslie Johnson, Brigham Young University,
Provo, UT
Kafka: Toward an Ethic of the Creaturely
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