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Max Winter

Matters II

Presented by:Anna Zsellér

Precariousness

Precariat

Working poor

Globalization

Louis Aragon

La Semaine sainte

Holy Week

Presented by:Aurore Peyroles

Commitment

Fidelity

Antagonism

19th century

Military

Civil War

Pierre Michon

Les Onze

The Eleven

Presented by:Nenad Ivić

French Revolution

Historiography

History

Image

France

Nikolai Ostrovsky

Как закалялась сталь (Kak zakalyalas stal)

How the Steel Was Tempered

Presented by:Karlo Držaić

Marxism–Leninism

Bolsheviks

Revolution

Stalinism

Civil War

Proletariat

Socialism

Andrzej Szczypiorski

Msza za miasto Arras

A Mass for Arras

Presented by:Gerard Ronge

Antisemitism

Censorship

Scapegoating

Moral Panic

Robert Menasse

Die Hauptstadt

The Capital

Presented by:Alexandra Irimia

Refugees

Political Corruption

European Transnational Integration

Nationalism

Holocaust

Dinçer Güçyeter

Unser Deutschlandmärchen

Our Fairy Tale of Germany

Presented by:Kyung-Ho Cha

Migrations

Guest Worker

Torborg Nedreaas

Av måneskinn gror det ingenting

Nothing Grows by Moonlight

Presented by:Øyvind Soldal Rasmussen

Feminism

Female Body

Patriarchy

Alberts Bels

Būris

The Cage

Presented by:Daria Banasiewicz

Totalitarianism

Existentialism

Surveillance

Dissidence

Mohamed Mbougar Sarr

La plus secrète mémoire des hommes

The Most Secret Memory of Men

Presented by:Sandra Folie

Racism

Colonialism

Postcolonialism

African Authors in Europe

Literary Market

Afropea

Irene Solà

Canto jo i la muntanya balla

When I sing, mountains dance

Presented by:Andrea Gastón Codony

History

Collective Memory

Spanish Civil War

Francoism

Maria Modrakowska

Anetka

Presented by:Anna Artwich

Feminism

Queer

Materials

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Video

Roundtable: Literature in Times of Crisis: What Can the Novel Do?

By: Ivana Perica, Patrick Eiden-Offe, Heike Geißler, Alhierd Bacharevič, Maryam Aras

Working Paper

“Vlastimil Vondruška and the Inevitable Demise of Europe” and “Being East European (from a Polish perspective). Response”

By: Stefan Segi, Błażej Warkocki

Video

Exile as an opportunity - Interview with Zrinka Božić

By: Tomasz Mizerkiewicz, Zrinka Božić

Reading Group Resources

How to Start a Reading Group

By: Sarah Colvin, Tara Talwar Windsor

Conference Collection

Conference collection: What is the Political Novel? Defining the Genre

By: Ivana Perica, Aurore Peyroles, Christoph Schaub, Patrick Eiden-Offe, Johanna-Charlotte Horst, Kyung-Ho Cha

Article

Fundamental operations of the political in Beckett’s Molloy

By: Paul Stewart

Topics

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Healthcare workers

Political Discourse

Sex work

Upward Mobility

Political Asylum

Violence