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Georges Perec

W ou le souvenir d’enfance

W, or the Memory of Childhood

Presented by:Aurore Peyroles

Autobiography

Authoritarianism

Second World War

Nazism

Dystopian novel

László Krasznahorkai

Herscht 07769

Presented by:Richárd Vincze

Karel Čapek

Válka s mloky

The War with the Newts

Presented by:Anna Gawarecka

Dystopic Europes

Totalitarianism

Colonialism

Nazism

Stalinism

Alain van Crugten

La dictature des ignares

The Dictatorship of the Ignoramuses

Presented by:Dorota Walczak-Delanois

Authoritarianism

Students’ movement

History

East vs. West

Vladan Desnica

Zimsko ljetovanje

The Winter Summer Vacation

Presented by:Marina Protrka Štimec

Wars

Racism

Balkanism

Class Hegemony

Second World War

Yugoslavia

Ali Smith

Summer

Presented by:Paul Stewart

Migrations

United Kingdom

Refugees

Art

Internment

COVID Pandemic

Antisemitism

Political Discourse

Second World War

Torborg Nedreaas

Av måneskinn gror det ingenting

Nothing Grows by Moonlight

Presented by:Øyvind Soldal Rasmussen

Feminism

Female Body

Patriarchy

Alberts Bels

Būris

The Cage

Presented by:Daria Banasiewicz

Totalitarianism

Existentialism

Surveillance

Dissidence

Ivo Andrić

Travnička hronika. Konsulska vremena

Bosnian Chronicle

Presented by:Marina Protrka Štimec

Balkanism

Ottoman Empire

Diplomacy

Benjamin Zephaniah

Refugee Boy

Presented by:Ivana Perica

Migrations

Racism

Pan-Africanism

Rastafari

Political Asylum

Black Identity

Il’ia Il’f, Evgenii Petrov

Двенадцать стульев/ Dvenadtsat' stul'yev & Золотой телёнок/ Zolotoy telyonok

The Twelve Chairs & The Golden Calf

Presented by:Zrinka Božić

Monique Wittig

Les Guérillères

Presented by:Aurore Peyroles

Feminism

Female Body

Language

collective

Materials

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Article

What is a novel in the political novel? The perspectives of contemporary feminist theory

By: Mirela Dakić

Working Paper Collection

The Political Novel in Europe and the Challenges of the Digital Era (Caponeu Working Papers)

By: Ivana Perica, Aurore Peyroles

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

Working Paper

“Reimagining Political Peripheries in Pišťanek’s and Boldizar’s Siberian Slovakia” & “Response”

By: Charles Sabatos, Nina Weller

Video

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

By: Aleksandra Lewicki

Working Paper

Response to Anna Murashova

By: Isabell A. Meske

Topics

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Interwar period

Banishment

Agency

Commitment

Art

Anti-fascist Literature