Keynote: Time traveling with Gregor Samsa, or what you can do with six legs
The Metamorphoses offers an opportunity to contemplate the unexpected shifts in our being that occur to all of us over a lifetime. The parable of Gregor Samsa’s sudden transformation from an average man to a monstrous vermin is a larger-than-life, grim version of the everyday changes we all experience moving through life. This lecture muses about other possible lives navigated, futures imagined, communities entered, environments created, and flourishing cultivated. Illness, disability, infirmity, and aging sustain the diversity of human variations.

This event will be live-captioned for deaf and hard-of-hearing audience members.
Date: 3 June 2024, 14:00 (Monday, 7th week, Trinity 2024)
Venue: Weston Library, Broad Street OX1 3BG
Venue Details: Sir Victor Blank Lecture Theatre
Speaker: Rosemarie Garland Thomson
Organising department: Social Sciences Division
Organisers: Professor Eben Kirksey (University of Oxford), Eben Kirksey
Part of: Kafka and Disability
Booking required?: Required
Booking url: https://tickets.ox.ac.uk/webstore/shop/viewItems.aspx?cg=bodnf&c=lectures#64759
Cost: Free
Audience: Public
Editor: Emma Stell