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Adania Shibli

Minor Detail

تفصيل ثانوي (Tafṣīl Ṯānawī)

Presented by:Ivana Perica

Nakba

Cancellation

Deplatforming

Izabela Morska

Absolutna amnezja

Absolute Amnesia

Presented by:Izabela Sobczak

Gender

Feminism

Female Body

Neoliberalism

Political resistance

Communism

Patriarchy

Imre Kertész

Sorstalanság

Fatelessness

Presented by:Filip Kučeković

Antisemitism

Second World War

Nazism

Holocaust

Vladimir Nabokov

Дар (Dar)

The Gift

Presented by:Rossitsa Terzieva-Artemis

Exile

Bolsheviks

Cossacks

Revolution

Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn

Один день Ивана Денисовича (Odin den' Ivana Denisovicha)

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Presented by:Zvonimir Glavaš

Stalinism

Prison Fiction

Gulag

Cold War

Samuel Beckett

Molloy 

Molloy

Presented by:Paul Stewart

Violence

Marginalisation

Subjectification

Identity

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)

Zofia Nałkowska

Romans Teresy Hennert

The Romance of Teresa Hennert

Presented by:Dawid Borucki

Feminism

Military

Marxism

Interwar period

Psychological fiction

Romance

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

Dubravka Ugrešić

Ministarstvo boli

The Ministry of Pain

Presented by:Ewa Szperlik

Identity

Migrations

Yugoslavia

Anna Burns

Milkman

Presented by:Craig Jordan-Baker

Gender

The Troubles

Sectarianism

Paramilitarism

Class

Northern Ireland

NoViolet Bulawayo

Glory

Presented by:Sarah Colvin

Authoritarianism

Uprising

Anti-fascist resistance

Collective Memory

Materials

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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

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

By: Tomasz Mizerkiewicz, Charlotte Woodford

Video

How to Read Political Novels? Lecture by Ivana Perica

By: Ivana Perica

Elias Kreuzmair: Response to Sophie Salvo’s Contribution

Video

Workshop: Thinking the Political (part 2)

By: Clare Woodford, Allan Hansen

Article

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

Topics

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Antagonism

Public / private

Patriarchy

subsistence

Bildungsroman

work