| Hunger Artistry: Kafka and the Art of Starvation |
Kafka’s provocative story “The Hunger Artist” explores starvation, art, and the nature of human existence. Experts discuss the story and its reception. |
Peter Boxall, Ankhi Mukherjee, Meindert Peters, Karen Leeder, Alys Moody |
10 July, 2024 |
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| 'Kafka's Ape' and 'Words and Music' |
Interview with the creatives behind two shows inspired by Kafka's story 'A Report for an Academy' which explore race, migration, ageing and "humanimal" agency. |
Ed Gaughan, Karen Leeder, Tony Miyambo, Wes Williams |
7 June, 2024 |
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| Kafka’s Metamorphosis |
An in-depth exploration of the theme of transformation in Kafka's "The Metamorphosis". Why does Kafka's story still resonate today? |
Carolin Duttlinger, Bary Murnane, Karen Leeder |
3 June, 2024 |
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| Dancing "The Metamorphosis" |
One of the most striking transformations of Kafka's most famous story is into an acclaimed performance for the Royal Ballet. |
Meindert Peters, Karen Leeder |
3 June, 2024 |
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| Kafka and Humour |
Award-winning comedian David Baddiel discusses the kinds of humour that operate in Kafka and how laughter and nightmare are often closer than you think |
David Baddiel, Karen Leeder |
3 June, 2024 |
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| Kafka and Comics |
Kafka's "The Metamorphosis" has been translated into many languages and forms. This podcast explores Peter Kuper's graphic novel. |
Alexandra Lloyd, Karen Leeder |
3 June, 2024 |
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| Kafka and Race |
The transformation that takes place in "The Metamorphosis" has been referenced in any number of recent works by writers that explore issues of race, otherness and power. |
Kirstin Gwyer, Karen Leeder |
3 June, 2024 |
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| Kafka and Ecology |
Although Kafka does not treat environmental issues directly, his work has much to say about time, scale, uncertainty, inside and out and ecology in a broader sense, along our own position in a fragile world. |
Conor Brennan, Karen Leeder |
3 June, 2024 |
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| Kafka and Illness |
Using Kafka's "The Metamorphosis" as a starting point, this memoir of MS examines a range of lives and works to think through how illness challenges identity and how literature can help find a way through. |
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Karen Leeder |
3 June, 2024 |
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| The Brazilian Kafka: Clarice Lispector |
Dubbed "the Brazilian Kafka", the writer Clarice Lispector wrote an experimental text that seems to echo the "Metamorphosis" in a number of ways. |
Claire Williams, Karen Leeder |
3 June, 2024 |
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| J. M. Coetzee and Kafka |
Nobel-prize winning author J. M. Coetzee has continued to reflect on and respond to Kafka in different ways throughout his life and work. |
Elleke Boehmer, Karen Leeder |
3 June, 2024 |
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| Two Czech Reflections on Greta Samsa |
The figure of the sister, Greta Samsa, in Kafka's story "The Metamorphosis" has fascinated writers and thinkers since the story was written. |
Rajendra Chitnis, Karen Leeder |
3 June, 2024 |
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| Writing Back: Spanish Literature |
Two important works of modern Spanish literature both take their cue from Kafka's letters to his companion, the Czech writer, journalist and translator Milena Jesenska. |
Daniela Omlor, Karen Leeder |
3 June, 2024 |
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| Writing Back: Russian Literature |
Although Kafka and his work was frowned on behind the iron curtain, his works had a remarkable subterranean currency. This podcast takes its cue from Kafka's story "The Judgement" to discuss the "letters" written back to Kafka from today's Russia. |
Sophia Buck, Karen Leeder |
3 June, 2024 |
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| Of all things broken and lost: Durs Grünbein’s Perspectives on Dresden and the problems of modern Elegy |
Professor Karen Leeder delivers the inaugural Schwarz-Taylor Lecture |
Karen Leeder |
17 October, 2022 |
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| Book at Lunchtime: Porcelain - Poem on the Downfall of my City |
TORCH Book at Lunchtime webinar on Porcelain: Poem on the Downfall of my City by Durs Grünbein, translated by Professor Karen Leeder. |
Durs Grünbein, Karen Leeder, Edmund de Vaal, Patrick Major, Wes Williams |
25 June, 2021 |
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| Book at Lunchtime: Sophocles – Antigone and other tragedies |
TORCH Book at Lunchtime event on Sophocles: Antigone and other tragedies by Professor Oliver Taplin. With panellists Professor Karen Leeder and Dr Lucy Jackson. |
Oliver Taplin, Karen Leeder, Lucy Jackson, Wes Williams |
1 March, 2021 |
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| Live Event: Voices from the Wings: Poetry, Performance and Translation on and off the page |
TORCH Goes Digital! presents a series of weekly live events Big Tent - Live Events! Translation Week Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. |
Ulrike Almut Sandig, Karen Leeder |
13 October, 2020 |
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| Rereading East Germany |
A Book at Lunchtime discussion tracing the cultural legacy of the GDR with Karen Leeder, Dennis Tate, Sara Jones, Marc Silberman and Tom Smith |
Karen Leeder, Dennis Tate, Sara Jones, Marc Silberman, Tom Smith |
5 May, 2016 |
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| Rubble Flora: Volker Braun Poetry Reading |
The German poet gives a special reading of old and new work and answers questions with David Constantine and Karen Leeder. |
Volker Braun, David Constantine, Karen Leeder |
20 May, 2015 |
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