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Vladan Desnica

Zimsko ljetovanje

The Winter Summer Vacation

Presented by:Marina Protrka Štimec

Wars

Racism

Balkanism

Class Hegemony

Second World War

Yugoslavia

Albert Camus

La Peste

The Plague

Presented by:Aurore Peyroles

Second World War

Nazism

Fascism

Anti-fascist resistance

Epidemic

Malte Tellerup

Hedeselskabet

The Heathland Society

Presented by:Troels Thorborg Andersen

Feminism

Consumerism

eco-criticism

counter-culture

utopianism

Amélie Nothomb

Le Sabotage Amoureux

Loving sabotage

Presented by:Yoana Ganowski

Diplomacy

Communism

Cold War

People's Republic of China

Sostiene Pereira

Pereira Maintains

Presented by:Zrinka Božić

Commitment

Fascism

Political resistance

20th century

Spanish Civil War

Monique Wittig

Les Guérillères

Presented by:Aurore Peyroles

Feminism

Female Body

Language

collective

Herta Müller

Atemschaukel

The Hunger Angel

Presented by:Cristina Spinei

Internment

Prison Fiction

Collective Memory

Gulag

Ivo Andrić

Travnička hronika. Konsulska vremena

Bosnian Chronicle

Presented by:Marina Protrka Štimec

Balkanism

Ottoman Empire

Diplomacy

Mohamed Mbougar Sarr

La plus secrète mémoire des hommes

The Most Secret Memory of Men

Presented by:Sandra Folie

Racism

Colonialism

Postcolonialism

African Authors in Europe

Literary Market

Andrzej Szczypiorski

Msza za miasto Arras

A Mass for Arras

Presented by:Gerard Ronge

Antisemitism

Censorship

Scapegoating

Moral Panic

Hubert Fichte

Detlevs Imitationen “Grünspan”

Detlev’s Imitations

Presented by:Shambhavi Prakash

Allied Bombings

Students’ movement

Second World War

Blitzkrieg

Adania Shibli

Minor Detail

تفصيل ثانوي (Tafṣīl Ṯānawī)

Presented by:Ivana Perica

Nakba

Cancellation

Deplatforming

Materials

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Article

Błażej Warkocki: From Poland with love: Politics of queerness in the time of neoliberal post-socialism (the case of Michał Witkowski)

By: Błażej Warkocki

Conference Collection

Conference collection: What is the Political Novel? Defining the Genre

Video

What’s Novel about a Novel? Storytelling and Travelling Knowledge

By: Miriam Schwarz, Tara Talwar Windsor

Working Paper

Alexandra Irimia: “Bureaucracies of Memory. Institutionalized History in Four Contemporary European Novels.” & Stephen Shapiro: “Response to Alexandra Irimia.”

By: Alexandra Irimia, Stephen Shapiro

Article

Ivana Perica and Aurore Peyroles: Who’s afraid of the political novel? An introduction

By: Ivana Perica, Aurore Peyroles

Article

Reparative Democracy: Testing the Borders of the Political. Interview with Wendy Brown

Topics

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Feminist reading

Fear

Formalism

United Kingdom

Marxism

Racism