An afternoon on Kafka
Sat, Nov 7 at 12-2:30 pm
The Nimoy
Join us for an afternoon on Kafka as we go deeper into the world of Kafka's Letter to His Father and beyond. The event will include a U.S. premiere of Franz Kafka Lost in Fame, a Czech documentary, a panel discussion, and much more.
The program includes:
- Behind-the-scenes remarks on the production.
- A conversation with Czech artist Radka Salcmannová, costume designer of Kafka’s Letter to His Father.
- Kafka’s Prague: Three Languages, One City, No Belonging — a panel discussion on the linguistic and cultural limbo that shaped Kafka's themes of alienation in the midst of the Central European identity crisis.
Panelists:
Yasemin Yildiz, Associate Professor of European Languages and Transcultural Studies and Comparative Literature (UCLA)
Susan Kresin, Senior Lecturer of Russian and Czech Department (UCLA)
Ross Benjamin, award-winning writer and German translator of the critically acclaimed Franz Kafka's Diaries
Moderated by Chris Nichols, senior editor, Los Angeles Magazine
The panel is co-sponsored by the Center for European and Russian Studies (CERS) and Department of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Languages and Cultures, UCLA.
- A music demonstration of original composition by Jiři Trtik, composer of Kafka’s Letter to His Father.
- U.S. premiere of the documentary Franz Kafka Lost in Fame by Pavel Simak.
This event is free with RSVP.