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Liliana Corobca

Caiet de cenzor

The Censor’s Notebook

Presented by:Cristina Spinei

Central and Eastern Europe

Communism

Cold War

Anti-communism

Censorship

Sostiene Pereira

Pereira Maintains

Presented by:Zrinka Božić

Commitment

Fascism

Political resistance

20th century

Spanish Civil War

Sofi Oksanen

Puhdistus

Purge

Presented by:Eric Bergman

Identity

Feminism

Female Body

Nationalism

Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn

Один день Ивана Денисовича (Odin den' Ivana Denisovicha)

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Presented by:Zvonimir Glavaš

Stalinism

Prison Fiction

Gulag

Cold War

Sharon Dodua Otoo

Adas Raum

Ada’s Room

Presented by:Kyung-Ho Cha

Colonialism

An Gorta Mór

Slavery

Great Famine (Ireland)

Holocaust

Pajtim Statovci

Kissani Jugoslavia

My Cat Yugoslavia

Presented by:Eric Bergman

Exile

Identity

Yugoslavia

Ignazio Silone

Brot und Wein

Bread and Wine

Presented by:Ivana Perica

Wars

Political Dictatorship

Fascism

Socialism

Organised action

Patriarchy

Catholicism

Protestantism

Natasha Brown

Assembly

Presented by:Polina Mackay

Cancer

Racism

United Kingdom

Intersectional Politics

Alain van Crugten

La dictature des ignares

The Dictatorship of the Ignoramuses

Presented by:Dorota Walczak-Delanois

Authoritarianism

Students’ movement

History

East vs. West

Derviš Sušić

Hodža Strah

The Imam of Fear

Presented by:Ewa Szperlik

Ottoman Empire

Nationalism

Colonialism

Maria Modrakowska

Anetka

Presented by:Anna Artwich

Feminism

Queer

Igor Štiks

Elijahova stolica

The Judgment of Richard Richter

Presented by:Ewa Szperlik

Identity

Migrations

Second World War

Nationalism

Yugoslavia

Materials

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Article

Błażej Warkocki: From Poland with love: Politics of queerness in the time of neoliberal post-socialism (the case of Michał Witkowski)

By: Błażej Warkocki

Video

Women's migration and travel writing - Interview with Charlotte Woodford

By: Tomasz Mizerkiewicz, Charlotte Woodford

Working Paper

Alexandra Irimia: “Bureaucracies of Memory. Institutionalized History in Four Contemporary European Novels.” & Stephen Shapiro: “Response to Alexandra Irimia.”

By: Alexandra Irimia, Stephen Shapiro

Elias Kreuzmair: Response to Sophie Salvo’s Contribution

Video

Rethinking the Political: Narrative, Protest and Fiction in the 21st Century

Audio

Podcast: Periphery and banishment

By: Ivana Perica, Aurore Peyroles, Jospeh Ponthus, Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Topics

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Fidelity

African Authors in Europe

Feminism

Fascism

Post-foundational politics

Digital Era