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Sharon Dodua Otoo

Adas Raum

Ada’s Room

Presented by:Kyung-Ho Cha

Colonialism

An Gorta Mór

Slavery

Great Famine (Ireland)

Holocaust

Hugo Claus

Het verdriet van België

The sorrow of Belgium

Presented by:Yoana Ganowski

History

Second World War

Nazism

Bildungsroman

Ignazio Silone

Brot und Wein

Bread and Wine

Presented by:Ivana Perica

Wars

Political Dictatorship

Fascism

Socialism

Organised action

Patriarchy

Catholicism

Protestantism

Danilo Kiš

Grobnica za Borisa Davidoviča

A Tomb for Boris Davidovich

Presented by:Ivana Perica

Marxism–Leninism

Bolsheviks

Revolution

History

Internment

Second World War

Stalinism

Prison Fiction

Civil War

Gulag

Derviš Sušić

Hodža Strah

The Imam of Fear

Presented by:Ewa Szperlik

Ottoman Empire

Nationalism

Colonialism

Cesare Pavese

La Luna e i Falò

The Moon and the Bonfires

Presented by:Florentia Antoniou

Exile

Identity

Class

Second World War

Alain van Crugten

La dictature des ignares

The Dictatorship of the Ignoramuses

Presented by:Dorota Walczak-Delanois

Authoritarianism

Students’ movement

History

East vs. West

Samuel Beckett

Molloy 

Molloy

Presented by:Paul Stewart

Violence

Marginalisation

Subjectification

Identity

Torborg Nedreaas

Av måneskinn gror det ingenting

Nothing Grows by Moonlight

Presented by:Øyvind Soldal Rasmussen

Feminism

Female Body

Patriarchy

Antonio Tabucchi

Sostiene Pereira

Pereira Maintains

Presented by:Zrinka Božić

Commitment

Fascism

Political resistance

20th century

Spanish Civil War

Zofia Nałkowska

Romans Teresy Hennert

The Romance of Teresa Hennert

Presented by:Dawid Borucki

Feminism

Military

Marxism

Interwar period

Romance

Joseph Conrad

Under Western Eyes

Presented by:Ivana Perica

Revolution

Terrorism

Autocracy

Despotism

Reformism

Espionage

Cynicism

Political Espionage

Russian Revolution of 1905 (First Russian Revolution)

Materials

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Audio

Podcast: Periphery and banishment

By: Ivana Perica, Aurore Peyroles

Video

How to Read Political Novels? Online lecture

By: Ivana Perica

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

Video

Philosopher/Writer Workshop - Diego Garcia by Natasha Soobramanien and Luke Williams in discussion with Olivia Rutazibwa

By: Natasha Soobramanien, Luke Williams, Olivia Rutazibwa

Video

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

By: Andrea Milanko, Ana Tomljenović, Paul Stewart, Shambhavi Prakash, Rossitsa Terzieva-Artemis, Błażej Warkocki, Nenad Ivić

Video

Workshop: Literary Politics and Geopolitics

By: Zrinka Božić, Mark Devenney, Ivana Perica, Aurore Peyroles, Christoph Schaub, Patrick Eiden-Offe, Charlotte Woodford, Nenad Ivić, Korbinian Lindel, Lisa Katharina Schmitz, Ekaterina Vassilieva, Fanny Wehner, Anna Björk Einarsdóttir, Max Roehl, Benjamin Kohlmann, Natalya Bekhta, Louis Aubry, Marina Sivak

Topics

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liberation

Patriarchy

Nazism

Exile

Left-Wing Parliamentarism

Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia