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Andrzej Szczypiorski

Msza za miasto Arras

A Mass for Arras

Presented by:Gerard Ronge

Antisemitism

Censorship

Scapegoating

Moral Panic

Danilo Kiš

Peščanik

Hourglass

Presented by:Krystyna Pieniążek-Marković

Totalitarianism

Antisemitism

Second World War

Holocaust

Ali Smith

Summer

Presented by:Paul Stewart

Migrations

United Kingdom

Refugees

Art

Internment

COVID Pandemic

Antisemitism

Political Discourse

Second World War

Samuel Beckett

Molloy 

Molloy

Presented by:Paul Stewart

Violence

Marginalisation

Subjectification

Identity

Ignazio Silone

Fontamara

Presented by:Zrinka Božić

Political Corruption

Italy

Fascism

Anti-fascist resistance

Chika Unigwe

On Black Sisters’ Street

Presented by:Isabella Villanova

Migrations

Postcolonialism

Afropea

Sex Trafficking

Carmen Laforet

Nada

Presented by:Florentia Antoniou

Economic Downfall and Scarcity

Existentialism

Civil War

Bildungsroman

Mathias Énard

Zone

Presented by:Filip Kučeković

Wars

Espionage

Civil War

László Krasznahorkai

Herscht 07769

Presented by:Richárd Vincze

GFC (Global Financial Crisis) of 2008

Racism

Nazism

German Democratic Republic (GDR/DDR)

Central and Eastern Europe

Norman Manea

Plicul negru

The Black Envelope

Presented by: Brînduşa Nicolaescu

Authoritarianism

Totalitarianism

Antisemitism

Fear

Michał Witkowski

Lubiewo

Lovetown

Presented by:Błażej Warkocki

Neoliberalism

Queer

LGBT

Central and Eastern Europe

Non-binary

Kim Mehmeti

Shpërngulja e të vdekurve

Exodus of the Dead

Presented by:Tea Hodaj

Identity

Gender

Migrations

Materials

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Article

Fundamental operations of the political in Beckett’s Molloy

By: Paul Stewart

Working Paper

CAPONEU Policy Indications - Interim report, February 2025

By: Autonomy Institute

Video

Workshop: Political Novel in Historiographical and Sociological Perspective - Structures and Analogies (part 2)

By: Mirela Dakić, Goran Pavlić, Ante Andabak, Branimir Janković

Article

Dispositions and Dispossessions: Interwar Left-Wing Literary Writing in Vienna and Zagreb

By: Ivana Perica

Reading Group Resources

Questions for Reading Groups

By: Sarah Colvin, Tara Talwar Windsor

Working Paper

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

By: Charles Sabatos, Nina Weller

Topics

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Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia

German Democratic Republic (GDR/DDR)

Balkanism

Political novel

Working poor

(Anti-)unionism