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Hilary Mantel

The Wolf Hall Trilogy

Presented by:Ante Andabak

Jonathan Littell

Les Bienveillantes

The Kindly Ones

Presented by:Zrinka Božić

Second World War

Holocaust

20th century

Juan Goytisolo

Señas de identidad

Marks of Identity

Presented by:Magda Potok

Authoritarianism

Centres and Peripheries

Spanish Civil War

Francoism

Benjamin Zephaniah

Refugee Boy

Presented by:Ivana Perica

Migrations

Racism

Pan-Africanism

Rastafari

Political Asylum

Black Identity

Aldous Huxley

Brave New World

Presented by:Elijah Butcher

Authoritarianism

Individualism

Dystopian novel

Alexandre Labruffe

Chroniques d’une station-service

Presented by:Melanie Schneider

Capitalism

Technology

Climate Crisis

21st century

António Lobo Antunes

Os cus de Judas

The Land at the End of the World

Presented by:Marta Gburzyńska

Wars

Political Dictatorship

Colonialism

Imperialism

Decolonisation

Ivo Andrić

Travnička hronika. Konsulska vremena

Bosnian Chronicle

Presented by:Marina Protrka Štimec

Balkanism

Ottoman Empire

Diplomacy

Goran Vojnović

Jugoslavija, moja dežela

Yugoslavia, My Homeland

Presented by:Krystyna Pieniążek-Marković

Identity

Wars

Collective Memory

Language

Yugoslavia

Mathias Énard

Zone

Presented by:Filip Kučeković

Wars

Espionage

Civil War

Karin Struck

Klassenliebe

Class Love

Presented by:Christoph Schaub

Gender

Class

Students’ movement

Public / private

Second-Wave Feminism

Annie Ernaux

Les Années 

The Years

Presented by:Tomasz Mizerkiewicz

Sexual Revolution

Petty-bourgeoisie

France

Materials

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Video

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

By: Aleksandra Lewicki

Storytelling

The Political Novel: A Palimpsest

By: Ivana Perica

Special collection

Thinking the Political: Theory, Literature, Practice

By: Craig Jordan-Baker, Joanna Kellond

Working Paper

Digital (Paratextual) Economies in And Other Stories and Jessi Jezewska Stevens’s "The Visitors" (2022): Between Autonomy and Subsumption

By: Joana Roqué Pesquer

Working Paper

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

By: Verónica Paula Gómez

Working Paper

“Multilingual Minority: Poetical Decomposition of the Embodied Dictatorial Legacy” & “Entrapment and Resistance. Language and Power in Andrea Tompa’s 'The Hangman’s House'. Response”

By: Mónika Dánél, Philipp Wegmann

Topics

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Dystopic Europes

Perception

Terror

Prosperity

sexual politics

Neoliberalism