Evening Seminar in the Swedish History Museum

Welcome to Weimar Jewish Readings of Kafka’s The Castle, a workshop on Kafka’s novel departing from the readings by Franz Rosenzweig, Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem, led by Prof. Howard Caygill.

Howard Caygill s a philosopher and cultural historian who was educated at Bristol, Sussex and Oxford Universities in the UK. Most recently serving on the faculties of Goldsmiths, Kingston and Paris VIII, Howard Caygill is currently Professor of Philosophy and Art Theory at the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts, Portland, USA. He is the author of several acclaimed books including A Kant Dictionary, Walter Benjamin: The Colour of Experience, On Resistance: A Philosophy of Defiance and Kafka: In Light of the Accident. He is currently working on the philosophy and aesthetics of the anthropocene and the role of philosophy in curating and interpreting the art produced by inmates of mental hospitals during the first half of the Twentieth Century. He lives between Athens and Barton-on-Sea on the coast of England.

Venue: The Swedish History Museum, Narvavägen 15-17 (room “Bifrost”)

The seminar is organized by Sophie Bäärnhielm Pousette, member of the research project Experimenting with Traditions, in collaboration with Paideia – The European Institute for Jewish Studies in Sweden, and funded by The Foundation of Baltic and East Eurpean Studies (Östersjöstiftelsen).

For more information about the seminar, see attached poster.