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Alain van Crugten

La dictature des ignares

The Dictatorship of the Ignoramuses

Presented by:Dorota Walczak-Delanois

Authoritarianism

Students’ movement

History

East vs. West

Georges Simenon

Le President

The President

Presented by:Dorota Walczak-Delanois

Political Corruption

Crisis

France

Liliana Corobca

Caiet de cenzor

The Censor’s Notebook

Presented by:Cristina Spinei

Central and Eastern Europe

Communism

Cold War

Anti-communism

Censorship

Arthur Koestler

Darkness at Noon

Presented by:Ivana Perica

Bolsheviks

Stalinism

Fascism

Anti-communism

Show trials

Organised action

Individualism

Dezső Kosztolányi

Édes Anna

Anna Édes

Presented by:Gábor Tamás Molnár

Class

Domestic Servitude

Right-Wing Restoration

Hungarian Commune of 1919

Samuel Beckett

Molloy 

Molloy

Presented by:Paul Stewart

Violence

Marginalisation

Subjectification

Identity

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

Abdulrazak Gurnah

The Last Gift

Presented by:Ante Andabak

Migrations

Colonialism

African Authors in Europe

Joseph Conrad

Under Western Eyes

Presented by:Ivana Perica

Revolution

Terrorism

Autocracy

Despotism

Reformism

Espionage

Cynicism

Political Espionage

Russian Revolution of 1905 (First Russian Revolution)

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

Marta Sanz

Clavícula

Clavicle

Presented by:Magda Potok

Gender

Age

GFC (Global Financial Crisis) of 2008

Vulnerability

Precariousness

Female Body

Materials

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Video

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

By: Natasha Soobramanien, Luke Williams, Olivia Rutazibwa

Article

From Poland with love: Politics of queerness in the time of neoliberal post-socialism (the case of Michał Witkowski)

By: Błażej Warkocki

Storytelling

The Political Novel: A Palimpsest

By: Ivana Perica

Conference Collection

Literary Acts of Agency: Negotiating the Rule of Law

By: Ivana Perica, Catriona Corke, Philipp Wegmann

Video

Workshop: Thinking the Political (part 4)

By: Prathama Banerjee, German Primera

Article

What is a novel in the political novel? The perspectives of contemporary feminist theory

By: Mirela Dakić

Topics

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Catholicism

Sectarianism

European Transnational Integration

Democracy

Solidarity

Political Espionage