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George Orwell

Nineteen Eighty-Four

1984

Presented by:Tea Hodaj

Dystopic Europes

Authoritarianism

Totalitarianism

Politicisation of fear

Sharon Dodua Otoo

Ada’s Room

Adas Raum

Presented by:Kyung-Ho Cha

The Holocaust

Colonialism

Natasha Brown

Assembly

Presented by:Polina Mackay

Cancer

Racism

Intersectional politics

Contemporary Britain

Antje Rávik Strubel

Blue Woman

Blaue Frau

Presented by:Alrik Daldrup

Gender

Centres and peripheries

East vs. West

Daša Drndić

Canzone di guerra

Canzone di guerra: nove davorije

Presented by:Mirela Dakić

Economic downfall and scarcity

Gender

Migrations

Totalitarianism

Second world war

Yugoslav wars

Michael Scharang

Charly Traktor

Presented by:Ivana Perica

Class

Public / private

Workerism

Autonomism

Province / periphery

Political parties (SPÖ, ÖVP, KPÖ)

East vs. West

Upward mobility

Marta Sanz

Clavicle

Clavícula

Presented by:Magda Potok

Gender

Age

GFC (Global Financial Crisis) of 2008

Vulnerability

Female body

Precariousness

Hubert Fichte

Detlev’s Imitations

Detlevs Imitationen “Grünspan”

Presented by:Shambhavi Prakash

Second world war

Students’ movement

Blitzkrieg

Allied bombings

Robert Menasse

The Capital

Die Hauptstadt

Presented by:Alexandra Irimia

Political corruption

European transnational integration

Refugees

The Holocaust

Nationalism

David Albahari

Götz and Meyer

Gec i Majer

Presented by:Karlo Držaić

Second world war

Antisemitism

The Holocaust

Nationalism

F. E. Sillanpää

Meek Heritage

Hurskas Kurjuus: Päättynyt Suomalainen Elämäkerta

Presented by:Eric Bergman

Pajtim Statovci

My Cat Yugoslavia

Kissani Jugoslavia

Presented by:Eric Bergman

Exile

Identity

Yugoslav wars

Karin Struck

Class Love

Klassenliebe

Presented by:Christoph Schaub

Gender

Feminism

Class

Students’ movement

Public / private

Second-wave feminism

Milan Kundera

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

Kniha smíchu a zapomnění

Presented by:Anna Gawarecka

Marxism–Leninism

Public / private

Prague Spring 1968

Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia

Everyday life

Louis Aragon

Holy Week

La Semaine sainte

Presented by:Aurore Peyroles

Commitment

Fidelity

Civil war

Antagonism

19th century

Military

Annie Ernaux

The Years

Les Années 

Presented by:Tomasz Mizerkiewicz

Petty-bourgeoisie

Sexual revolution

French postwar politics

Feminism

Pierre Michon

The Eleven

Les Onze

Presented by:Nenad Ivić

French Revolution

Historiography

History

Politics

Image

Anna Burns

Milkman

Presented by:Craig Jordan-Baker

The Troubles

Northern Ireland

Gender politics

Sectarianism

Paramilitarism

Class

Samuel Beckett

Molloy

Molloy 

Presented by:Paul Stewart

Violence

Marginalisation

Subjectification

Identity

Ismail Kadare

The Palace of Dreams

Nënpunësi i pallatit të ëndrrave

Presented by:Ivana Perica

Political corruption

Authoritarianism

Ottoman Empire

Political dictatorship

People's Socialist Republic of Albania

Norman Manea

The Black Envelope

Plicul negru

Presented by: Brînduşa Nicolaescu

Authoritarianism

Totalitarianism

Politicisation of fear

Antisemitism

Ilmari Kianto

The Red Line

Punainen viiva

Presented by:Eric Bergman

Liviu Rebreanu

The Uprising

Răscoala

Presented by:Alina Bako

social class dynamics

parties

uprising

Benjamin Zephaniah

Refugee Boy

Presented by:Ivana Perica

Migrations

Racism

Institutional racism

Political asylum

Pan-Africanism

Rastafari

Black identity