Princeton University
September 22-23, 2005
Thursday, September 22, 2005
7.30 Dinner at the Masala Grill, 19 Chambers Street
Friday, September 23
Room: 106 McCormick
9.00 Coffee
9.15 Welcome. Brigid Doherty (Department of German, Princeton) + Benno Wagner (Allgemeine Literaturwissenschaft, Siegen)
9.30 Stanley Corngold (Department of German, Princeton). “ In der Strafkolonie : Entziffern, Allotria, Excreta”
9.55 John Zilcosky (Department of German, Toronto). “Colonial Perversion: Kafka's Favorite Books and In der Strafkolonie ”
10.20 Discussion.
10.45 Coffee Break.
11.00 Andreas Kilcher (Deutsches Seminar, Tübingen). “Kaleidoskop der Moderne. Kafkas interdiskursive Textur am Beispiel der ‘Sorge des Hausvaters'”
11.25 Wolf Kittler (Department of German, Cornell). “A Plea for Precision: Reading and Commenting Kafka's In the Penal Colony ”
11.50 Discussion
12.15 Joseph Vogl (Department of German, Princeton; Fakultät Medien der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar). To Be Announced.
12.40 Arnd Wedemeyer (Department of German, Princeton). Critical Review.
1.00 Lunch
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2.30 – 3.00 Prof. Benno Wagner/Timo Reinhard
• Current theoretical views on digitizing the Gutenbeg Galaxy (brief survey)
• Brief survey of 'cutting edge' projects under way (hypernietzsche, rossettiarchive, e.a.)
• Kafka's Virtual Library/Kafka's Data Processing: specific features of our project (as compared to projects above)
• Explanation and demonstration of the two technical levels:
• Kafka's Virtual Library (a relational data file on Kafka's 'readings'/Media;
Kafka's Data Processing: "In the Penal Colony" as a test case (a hypertext connecting Kafka's 'writings' to his 'readings'; resp. his writings as re-readings; visibilizing Kafka's oeuvre as 'déja-vue-machine')