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Orhan Pamuk

Kar

Snow

Presented by:Filip Kučeković

Female Body

East vs. West

Islam

Language

Igor Štiks

Elijahova stolica

The Judgment of Richard Richter

Presented by:Ewa Szperlik

Identity

Migrations

Second World War

Nationalism

Yugoslavia

Vladimir Nabokov

Дар (Dar)

The Gift

Presented by:Rossitsa Terzieva-Artemis

Exile

Bolsheviks

Cossacks

Revolution

Danilo Kiš

Peščanik

Hourglass

Presented by:Krystyna Pieniążek-Marković

Totalitarianism

Antisemitism

Second World War

Holocaust

Amélie Nothomb

Le Sabotage Amoureux

Loving sabotage

Presented by:Yoana Ganowski

Diplomacy

Communism

Cold War

People's Republic of China

George Orwell

1984

Nineteen Eighty-Four

Presented by:Tea Hodaj

Dystopic Europes

Authoritarianism

Totalitarianism

Public / private

Fear

Cold War

Hubert Fichte

Detlevs Imitationen “Grünspan”

Detlev’s Imitations

Presented by:Shambhavi Prakash

Allied Bombings

Students’ movement

Second World War

Blitzkrieg

Alain van Crugten

La dictature des ignares

The Dictatorship of the Ignoramuses

Presented by:Dorota Walczak-Delanois

Authoritarianism

Students’ movement

History

East vs. West

Jospeh Ponthus

À la ligne: Feuillets d'usine

On the Line: Notes from a Factory

Presented by:Aurore Peyroles

Precariousness

Capitalism

Precariat

Work

21st century

Vladan Desnica

Zimsko ljetovanje

The Winter Summer Vacation

Presented by:Marina Protrka Štimec

Wars

Racism

Balkanism

Class Hegemony

Second World War

Yugoslavia

Adania Shibli

Minor Detail

تفصيل ثانوي (Tafṣīl Ṯānawī)

Presented by:Ivana Perica

Nakba

Cancellation

Deplatforming

Janko Polić Kamov

Isušena kaljuža

The Dried-out Mire

Presented by:Andrea Milanko

Materials

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Working Paper

“Bureaucracies of Memory. Institutionalized History in Four Contemporary European Novels” & “Response”

By: Alexandra Irimia, Stephen Shapiro

Video

Women's migration and travel writing - Interview with Charlotte Woodford

By: Tomasz Mizerkiewicz, Charlotte Woodford

Working Paper

“Semi-peripheral Nodes and the Circulation of Political Ideas. The Case of a Romanian Novel” & “Uneven and Combined Development in the Centre of Modernism: Beckett, Joyce, London and Dublin. Response"

By: Alina Bako, Paul Stewart

Response to Sophie Salvo

By: Elias Kreuzmair

Article

Dispositions and Dispossessions: Interwar Left-Wing Literary Writing in Vienna and Zagreb

By: Ivana Perica

Audio

Podcast: Der politische Roman

By: Ivana Perica

Topics

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Imperialism

Genre

Political Espionage

Palestine

Capitalism

identity politics