Lecture and Workshop with Professor Ritchie Robertson

The German department welcomed Professor Ritchie Robertson for two events, a lecture titled “Rethinking the Enlightenment: The Poetics of Sympathy from Lessing to Burns” and a workshop on three short works written by Franz Kafka.

Ritchie Robertson is Professor of German Language and Literature, Fellow of the Queen’s College, Faculty of Modern Languages, University of Oxford, UK. He is the author and editor of numerous books on Franz Kafka, Heinrich Heine, the “Jewish Question” in German Literature, German Enlightenment, and many other topics. He is also the translator of Franz Kafka’s The Man who Disappeared (Amerika). He is co-director of the Oxford Kafka Research Centre and of the Besterman Centre for the Enlightenment. He is currently working on a book on the Enlightenment as an international movement.