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Anna Burns

Milkman

Presented by:Craig Jordan-Baker

The Troubles

Northern Ireland

Gender politics

Sectarianism

Paramilitarism

Class

Marta Sanz

Clavicle

Clavícula

Presented by:Magda Potok

Gender

Age

GFC (Global Financial Crisis) of 2008

Vulnerability

Female body

Precariousness

George Orwell

Nineteen Eighty-Four

1984

Presented by:Tea Hodaj

Dystopic Europes

Authoritarianism

Totalitarianism

Politicisation of fear

Michel Houellebecq

Submission

Soumission

Presented by:Aurore Peyroles

Dystopic Europes

Authoritarianism

Politicisation of fear

Islam

Political elections

Reactionism

Vladimir Nabokov

The Gift

Дар (Dar)

Presented by:Rossitsa Terzieva-Artemis

Exile

Bolsheviks

Cossacks

Revolution

Ali Smith

Summer

Presented by:Paul Stewart

Migrations

Second world war

Refugees

COVID pandemic

UK politics

Art

Internment

Political discourse

Antisemitism

Pajtim Statovci

My Cat Yugoslavia

Kissani Jugoslavia

Presented by:Eric Bergman

Exile

Identity

Yugoslav wars

Karin Struck

Class Love

Klassenliebe

Presented by:Christoph Schaub

Gender

Feminism

Class

Students’ movement

Public / private

Second-wave feminism

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

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Political Novel in Historiographical and Sociological Perspective: Structures and Analogies - part 2

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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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Thinking the Political Workshop - part 2

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Political Novel in Historiographical and Sociological Perspective: Structures and Analogies - part 1

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French postwar politics

Blitzkrieg

Age

Political parties (SPÖ, ÖVP, KPÖ)

Bolsheviks

Military