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Carlo Levi

L'Orologio

The Watch

Presented by:Silvia Valentini

Revolution

Second World War

Reactionism

Italy

Benjamin Zephaniah

Refugee Boy

Presented by:Ivana Perica

Migrations

Racism

Pan-Africanism

Rastafari

Political Asylum

Black Identity

Institutional Racism

Georgi Gospodinov

Времеубежище (Vremeubezhishte)

Time Shelter

Presented by:Ivana Perica

Nostalgia

Socialism

Liberalism

Collective Memory

Igor Štiks

Elijahova stolica

The Judgment of Richard Richter

Presented by:Ewa Szperlik

Identity

Migrations

Yugoslav Wars

Second World War

Nationalism

Louis Aragon

La Semaine sainte

Holy Week

Presented by:Aurore Peyroles

Commitment

Fidelity

Antagonism

19th century

Military

Civil War

Rudolf Sloboda

Rozum

Reason

Presented by:Olha Norba

Prague Spring 1968

Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia

Existentialism

Cultural Politics

Samuel Beckett

Molloy 

Molloy

Presented by:Paul Stewart

Violence

Marginalisation

Subjectification

Identity

Norman Manea

Plicul negru

The Black Envelope

Presented by: Brînduşa Nicolaescu

Authoritarianism

Totalitarianism

Antisemitism

Fear

Elizabeth Bowen

The Last September

Presented by:Paul Stewart

Wars

Irish Independence

Colonialism

Irish War of Independence

Herta Müller

Atemschaukel

The Hunger Angel

Presented by:Cristina Spinei

Internment

Prison Fiction

Collective Memory

Gulag

Fakir Baykurt

Yüksek Fırınlar

Blast Furnaces

Presented by:Duncan Lien

Gender

Class

Students’ movement

Second-Wave Feminism

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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Article

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

Working Paper Collection

Kyung-Ho Cha, Ivana Perica, Aurore Peyroles, Christoph Schaub (Eds.): European Centers and Peripheries in the Political Novel (Caponeu Working Papers)

Video

Exile as an opportunity - Interview with Zrinka Božić

Verónica Paula Gómez: Beyond the Idea of Nation: The Political Domicile of Digital Literature in the Interzone

Sophie Salvo: Impotent Forms: "Crabwalk" and the Political Novel

Video

How to Read Political Novels? Lecture by Ivana Perica

Topics

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Right-Wing Restoration

French Postwar Politics

Terrorism

Art

Globalization

Technology