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Jospeh Ponthus

À la ligne: Feuillets d'usine

On the Line: Notes from a Factory

Presented by:Aurore Peyroles

Precariousness

Capitalism

Precariat

work

21st century

Annie Ernaux

Les Années 

The Years

Presented by:Tomasz Mizerkiewicz

Feminism

Sexual Revolution

French Postwar Politics

Petty-bourgeoisie

NoViolet Bulawayo

Glory

Presented by:Sarah Colvin

Authoritarianism

Uprising

Anti-fascist resistance

Collective Memory

Pierre Michon

Les Onze

The Eleven

Presented by:Nenad Ivić

French Revolution

Historiography

History

Politics

Image

Marta Sanz

Clavícula

Clavicle

Presented by:Magda Potok

Gender

Age

GFC (Global Financial Crisis) of 2008

Vulnerability

Precariousness

Female Body

Alberts Bels

Būris

The Cage

Presented by:Daria Banasiewicz

Totalitarianism

Existentialism

Surveillance

Dissidence

Janko Polić Kamov

Isušena kaljuža

The Dried-out Mire

Presented by:Andrea Milanko

Igor Štiks

Elijahova stolica

The Judgment of Richard Richter

Presented by:Ewa Szperlik

Identity

Migrations

Yugoslav Wars

Second World War

Nationalism

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

Hans Keilson

Der Tod des Widersachers

The Death of the Adversary

Presented by:Heinrich Detering

Exile

Second World War

Nazism

Fascism

Anti-fascist resistance

Vladan Desnica

Zimsko ljetovanje

The Winter Summer Vacation

Presented by:Marina Protrka Štimec

Wars

Racism

Balkanism

Morlacism

Class Hegemony

Second World War

Kim Mehmeti

Shpërngulja e të vdekurve

Exodus of the Dead

Presented by:Tea Hodaj

Identity

Gender

Migrations

Materials

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Article

Zvonimir Glavaš: “From Charlemagne to the Title of the King”: Political novel between estrangement and recognition

By: Zvonimir Glavaš

Video

Conference: What is the Political Novel: Defining the Genre - day 2

By: Rahul Putty, Vedrana Veličković, Magda Potok, Polina Mackay, Marina Protrka Štimec, Mirela Dakić

Video

Thinking the Political Workshop - part 2

By: Allan Hansen, Clare Woodford

Working Paper

Stefan Segi: “Vlastimil Vondruška and the Inevitable Demise of Europe.” & Błażej Warkocki: “Being East European (from a Polish perspective). Response to Stefan Segi.”

By: Błażej Warkocki, Stefan Segi

Video

Thinking the Political Workshop - part 4

By: Prathama Banerjee, German Primera

Working Paper

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

By: Paul Stewart, Alina Bako

Topics

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Electrification

Political Asylum

Irish Independence

Sectarianism

Class

collective