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Arthur Koestler

Darkness at Noon

Presented by:Ivana Perica

Bolsheviks

Stalinism

Fascism

Anti-communism

Show trials

Organised action

Individualism

Womb City

Presented by:Joanna Kellond

Gender

African Authors in Europe

Decolonisation

Luis Martín-Santos

Tiempo de silencio

Time of Silence

Presented by:Marta Gburzyńska

Violence

Class

Economic Downfall and Scarcity

Estrangement

Spanish Civil War

Francoism

Derviš Sušić

Hodža Strah

The Imam of Fear

Presented by:Ewa Szperlik

Ottoman Empire

Nationalism

Colonialism

Vjekoslav Kaleb

Divota Prašine

Glorious Dust

Presented by:Krystyna Pieniążek-Marković

Yugoslavia

Communism

Partisans

Daša Drndić

Canzone di guerra: nove davorije

Canzone di guerra

Presented by:Mirela Dakić

Gender

Migrations

Totalitarianism

Second World War

Economic Downfall and Scarcity

Yugoslavia

Izabela Morska

Absolutna amnezja

Absolute Amnesia

Presented by:Izabela Sobczak

Gender

Feminism

Female Body

Neoliberalism

Political resistance

Communism

Patriarchy

Marek Hłasko

Piękni dwudziestoletni

Beautiful twentysomethings

Presented by:Natalia Grudzień

Authoritarianism

Communism

Karel Čapek

Válka s mloky

The War with the Newts

Presented by:Anna Gawarecka

Dystopic Europes

Totalitarianism

Colonialism

Nazism

Stalinism

Tadeusz Konwicki

Mała apokalipsa

The Minor Apocalypse

Presented by:Zofia Paetz

Dissidence

Anti-communism

Censorship

Borislav Pekić

Besnilo: žanr roman

Rabies: genre novel

Presented by:Zrinka Božić

Holocaust

20th century

Epidemic

Cold War

Daniel Kehlman

Liechtspiel

The Director

Presented by:Filip Kučeković

Migrations

Authoritarianism

20th century

Materials

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Video

Brick Dust - A Novel - Pre-launch Discussion

By: Craig Jordan-Baker, Liam Connell

Video

Workshop: Literary Politics and Geopolitics

By: Zrinka Božić, Mark Devenney, Ivana Perica, Aurore Peyroles, Christoph Schaub, Patrick Eiden-Offe, Charlotte Woodford, Nenad Ivić, Korbinian Lindel, Lisa Katharina Schmitz, Ekaterina Vassilieva, Fanny Wehner, Anna Björk Einarsdóttir, Max Roehl, Benjamin Kohlmann, Natalya Bekhta, Louis Aubry, Marina Sivak

Working Paper

Political Fictionality and the Authorship of Power: Vladislav Surkov between Literature and Geopolitics

By: Ekaterina Vassilieva

Video

Philosopher/Writer Workshop - Diego Garcia by Natasha Soobramanien and Luke Williams in discussion with Olivia Rutazibwa

By: Natasha Soobramanien, Luke Williams, Olivia Rutazibwa

Working Paper

Digital (Paratextual) Economies in And Other Stories and Jessi Jezewska Stevens’s "The Visitors" (2022): Between Autonomy and Subsumption

By: Joana Roqué Pesquer

Reading Group Resources

Questions for Reading Groups

By: Sarah Colvin, Tara Talwar Windsor

Topics

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Electronic Literature

Democracy

Exile

Female Politicians

GFC (Global Financial Crisis) of 2008

Authoritarianism