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Bruno Jasieński

Palę Paryż/Je Brûle Paris

I burn Paris

Presented by:Krzysztof Ostrowski

Revolution

Colonialism

Communism

Marxism

Imre Kertész

Sorstalanság

Fatelessness

Presented by:Filip Kučeković

Antisemitism

Second World War

Nazism

Holocaust

Ćamil Sijarić

Bihorci

Bihorians

Presented by:Filip Kučeković

Colonialism

Yevgeny Zamyatin

My

We

Presented by:Mirela Dakić

Authoritarianism

Totalitarianism

Individualism

Dystopian novel

Suzanne Lacascade

Claire-Solange, âme Africaine

Presented by:Charlotte Woodford

Feminism

Négritude

Antje Rávik Strubel

Blaue Frau

Blue Woman

Presented by:Alrik Daldrup

Gender

Centres and Peripheries

East vs. West

Pajtim Statovci

Kissani Jugoslavia

My Cat Yugoslavia

Presented by:Eric Bergman

Exile

Identity

Yugoslavia

Max Winter

Matters II

Presented by:Anna Zsellér

Precariousness

Precariat

Working poor

Globalization

Hugo Claus

Het verdriet van België

The sorrow of Belgium

Presented by:Yoana Ganowski

History

Second World War

Nazism

Bildungsroman

Sofi Oksanen

Puhdistus

Purge

Presented by:Eric Bergman

Identity

Feminism

Female Body

Nationalism

Safae el Khannoussi

Oroppa

Presented by:Ingrid Hudabiunigg

Transnational Identity

Political imprisonment

Torture

Danilo Kiš

Peščanik

Hourglass

Presented by:Krystyna Pieniążek-Marković

Totalitarianism

Antisemitism

Second World War

Holocaust

Materials

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Article

Who’s afraid of the political novel? An introduction

By: Ivana Perica, Aurore Peyroles

Response to Sophie Salvo

By: Elias Kreuzmair

Book

Politics, Literature and Tertium Datur: Socialist Central Europe, 1928–1968

By: Ivana Perica

Reading Group Resources

How to Start a Reading Group

By: Sarah Colvin, Tara Talwar Windsor

Working Paper

CAPONEU Policy Indications - Interim report, February 2025

By: Autonomy Institute

Video

Coloniality, race, and Europeanness: Britain’s borders after Brexit

By: Aleksandra Lewicki

Topics

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Capitalism

poverty

imperial mode of living

Terrorism

Banlieu

Historiography