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Elizabeth Bowen

The Last September

Presented by:Paul Stewart

Wars

Irish Independence

Colonialism

Irish War of Independence

Dubravka Ugrešić

Ministarstvo boli

The Ministry of Pain

Presented by:Ewa Szperlik

Identity

Migrations

Yugoslavia

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

Theis Ørntoft

Jordisk

Earthly

Presented by:Troels Thorborg Andersen

Capitalism

Geopolitics

Climate Crisis

Consumerism

Karel Čapek

Válka s mloky

The War with the Newts

Presented by:Anna Gawarecka

Dystopic Europes

Totalitarianism

Colonialism

Nazism

Stalinism

Rudolf Sloboda

Rozum

Reason

Presented by:Olha Norba

Prague Spring 1968

Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia

Existentialism

Cultural Politics

Ádám Bodor

Sinistra körzet

The Sinistre Zone

Presented by:Boglárka Kodácsi

Authoritarianism

Totalitarianism

Political Dictatorship

Socialism

Tvrtko Kulenović

Kasino

Casino

Presented by:Zvonimir Glavaš

Albert Camus

La Peste

The Plague

Presented by:Aurore Peyroles

Second World War

Nazism

Fascism

Anti-fascist resistance

Epidemic

Vjekoslav Kaleb

Divota Prašine

Glorious Dust

Presented by:Krystyna Pieniążek-Marković

Yugoslavia

Communism

Partisans

Juan Goytisolo

Señas de identidad

Marks of Identity

Presented by:Magda Potok

Authoritarianism

Centres and Peripheries

Spanish Civil War

Francoism

Sharon Dodua Otoo

Adas Raum

Ada’s Room

Presented by:Kyung-Ho Cha

Colonialism

An Gorta Mór

Slavery

Great Famine (Ireland)

Holocaust

Materials

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Working Paper

Mónika Dánél: “Multilingual Minority: Poetical Decomposition of the Embodied Dictatorial Legacy.” & Philipp Wegmann: “Entrapment and Resistance. Language and Power in Andrea Tompa’s 'The Hangman’s House'. Response to Mónika Dánél.”

By: Mónika Dánél, Philipp Wegmann

Sophie Salvo: Impotent Forms: "Crabwalk" and the Political Novel

Article

Zrinka Božić: Rethinking the politics of form: The strange case of the political novel

By: Zrinka Božić

Storytelling

CAPONEU - behind the scenes

By: Marko Vuković

Video

Workshop: Thinking the Political (part 4)

By: Prathama Banerjee, German Primera

Video

Migration in the Age of Anthropocene - Interview with Mark Devenney

By: Dawid Borucki, Mark Devenney

Topics

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Cold War

Electrification

LGBT

Terrorism

Marxism–Leninism

Sectarianism