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Milan Kundera

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

Kniha smíchu a zapomnění

Presented by:Anna Gawarecka

Marxism–Leninism

Public / private

Prague Spring 1968

Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia

Everyday life

Antje Rávik Strubel

Blue Woman

Blaue Frau

Presented by:Alrik Daldrup

Gender

Centres and peripheries

East vs. West

Annie Ernaux

The Years

Les Années 

Presented by:Tomasz Mizerkiewicz

Petty-bourgeoisie

Sexual revolution

French postwar politics

Feminism

Fakir Baykurt

Blast Furnaces

Yüksek Fırınlar

Presented by:Duncan Lien

Gender

Class

Students’ movement

Second-wave feminism

Karin Struck

Class Love

Klassenliebe

Presented by:Christoph Schaub

Gender

Feminism

Class

Students’ movement

Public / private

Second-wave feminism

Hubert Fichte

Detlev’s Imitations

Detlevs Imitationen “Grünspan”

Presented by:Shambhavi Prakash

Second world war

Students’ movement

Blitzkrieg

Allied bombings

Elizabeth Bowen

The Last September

Presented by:Paul Stewart

Wars

Irish Independence

Colonialism

Irish War of Independence

David Albahari

Götz and Meyer

Gec i Majer

Presented by:Karlo Držaić

Second world war

Antisemitism

The Holocaust

Nationalism

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Literature in Times of Crisis: What Can the Novel Do?

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What is the Political Novel: Defining the Genre - day 3

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Thinking the Political Workshop - part 4

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Thinking the Political Workshop - part 1

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What is the Political Novel: Defining the Genre - day 1

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Thinking the Political Workshop - part 3

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Gender

UK politics

Vulnerability

COVID pandemic

Political asylum

Sexual revolution