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Annie Ernaux

La Femme gelée

A Frozen Woman

Presented by:Aurore Peyroles

Gender

Class

Feminism

Second-Wave Feminism

Il’ia Il’f, Evgenii Petrov

Двенадцать стульев/ Dvenadtsat' stul'yev & Золотой телёнок/ Zolotoy telyonok

The Twelve Chairs & The Golden Calf

Presented by:Zrinka Božić

Abdulrazak Gurnah

The Last Gift

Presented by:Ante Andabak

Migrations

Colonialism

African Authors in Europe

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Ragazzi di vita

The Street Kids

Presented by:Pietro Turinetti

Class

Second World War

Economic Downfall and Scarcity

Capitalism

Cold War

Ignazio Silone

Fontamara

Presented by:Zrinka Božić

Political Corruption

Italy

Fascism

Anti-fascist resistance

Herta Müller

Atemschaukel

The Hunger Angel

Presented by:Cristina Spinei

Internment

Prison Fiction

Collective Memory

Gulag

Christa Wolf

Nachdenken über Christa T.

Reflections on Christa T.

Presented by:Renate Flagmeier

Malte Tellerup

Hedeselskabet

The Heathland Society

Presented by:Troels Thorborg Andersen

Feminism

Consumerism

Utopianism

Eco-criticism

Counterculture

Chika Unigwe

On Black Sisters’ Street

Presented by:Isabella Villanova

Migrations

Postcolonialism

Afropea

Sex work

Human trafficking

Péter Esterházy

Kis Magyar Pornográfia

A Little Hungarian Pornography

Presented by:Richárd Vincze

Dezső Kosztolányi

Édes Anna

Anna Édes

Presented by:Gábor Tamás Molnár

Class

Domestic Servitude

Right-Wing Restoration

Hungarian Commune of 1919

Miroslav Krleža

Zastave

Flags

Presented by:Marina Protrka Štimec

Political Discourse

First World War

Nationalism

Dialogism

Yugoslavia

Communism

Materials

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Article

Dispositions and Dispossessions: Interwar Left-Wing Literary Writing in Vienna and Zagreb

By: Ivana Perica

Working Paper

“Semi-peripheral Nodes and the Circulation of Political Ideas. The Case of a Romanian Novel” & “Uneven and Combined Development in the Centre of Modernism: Beckett, Joyce, London and Dublin. Response"

By: Alina Bako, Paul Stewart

Video

Exile as an opportunity - Interview with Zrinka Božić

By: Tomasz Mizerkiewicz, Zrinka Božić

Conference Collection

Literary Acts of Agency: Negotiating the Rule of Law

By: Ivana Perica, Catriona Corke, Philipp Wegmann

Video

Workshop: Thinking the Political (part 2)

By: Clare Woodford, Allan Hansen

Video

Coloniality, race, and Europeanness: Britain’s borders after Brexit

By: Aleksandra Lewicki

Topics

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Italy

Black Identity

Digital Modernism

Second-Wave Feminism

Perception

Spanish Civil War