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Dimitri Verhulst

The Misfortunates

De helaasheid der dingen

Presented by:Dorota Walczak-Delanois

Feminism

Working poor

Patriarchy

Family

Danilo Kiš

Peščanik

Hourglass

Presented by:Krystyna Pieniążek-Marković

Totalitarianism

Antisemitism

Second World War

Holocaust

Marta Sanz

Clavícula

Clavicle

Presented by:Magda Potok

Gender

Age

GFC (Global Financial Crisis) of 2008

Vulnerability

Precariousness

Female Body

Vjenceslav Novak

Majstor Adam

Master Adam

Presented by:Karlo Držaić

Class

Nationalism

Socialism

Moral Panic

Dubravka Ugrešić

Ministarstvo boli

The Ministry of Pain

Presented by:Ewa Szperlik

Identity

Migrations

Yugoslavia

F. E. Sillanpää

Hurskas Kurjuus: Päättynyt Suomalainen Elämäkerta

Meek Heritage

Presented by:Eric Bergman

Kathrin Röggla

wir schlafen nicht

we never sleep

Presented by:Aurore Peyroles

Neoliberalism

Capitalism

Izabela Morska

Absolutna amnezja

Absolute Amnesia

Presented by:Izabela Sobczak

Gender

Feminism

Female Body

Neoliberalism

Political resistance

Communism

Patriarchy

László Krasznahorkai

Herscht 07769

Presented by:Richárd Vincze

GFC (Global Financial Crisis) of 2008

Racism

Nazism

German Democratic Republic (GDR/DDR)

Central and Eastern Europe

Annie Ernaux

Les Années 

The Years

Presented by:Tomasz Mizerkiewicz

Sexual Revolution

Petty-bourgeoisie

France

Rudolf Sloboda

Rozum

Reason

Presented by:Olha Norba

Prague Spring 1968

Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia

Existentialism

Cultural Politics

Ivo Brešan

Ništa Sveto

Nothing Sacred

Presented by:Andrea Milanko

Yugoslavia

Materials

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Video

How to Read Political Novels? Online lecture

By: Ivana Perica

Video

What’s Novel about a Novel? Storytelling and Travelling Knowledge

By: Miriam Schwarz, Tara Talwar Windsor

Working Paper

Impotent Forms: "Crabwalk" and the Political Novel

By: Sophie Salvo

Video

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

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

Video

Migration in the Age of Anthropocene - Interview with Mark Devenney

By: Dawid Borucki, Mark Devenney

Topics

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Blitzkrieg

Holocaust

emancipation

Proletariat

Alternative Europes

Military