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Anna Burns

Milkman

Presented by:Craig Jordan-Baker

The Troubles

Sectarianism

Paramilitarism

Class

Gender Politics

Northern Ireland

Herta Müller

Atemschaukel

The Hunger Angel

Presented by:Cristina Spinei

Internment

Prison Fiction

Collective Memory

Gulag

Sarah Waterfeld

Sex mit Gysi

Sex with Gysi

Presented by:Ivana Perica

Careerism

Political Disenchantment

Left-Wing Parliamentarism

Female Politicians

Political Elections

Liviu Rebreanu

Răscoala

The Uprising

Presented by:Alina Bako

Uprising

Parties

Social Class Dynamics

Samuel Beckett

Molloy 

Molloy

Presented by:Paul Stewart

Violence

Marginalisation

Subjectification

Identity

Norman Manea

Plicul negru

The Black Envelope

Presented by: Brînduşa Nicolaescu

Authoritarianism

Totalitarianism

Antisemitism

Fear

Louis Aragon

La Semaine sainte

Holy Week

Presented by:Aurore Peyroles

Commitment

Fidelity

Antagonism

19th century

Military

Civil War

Vladan Desnica

Zimsko ljetovanje

The Winter Summer Vacation

Presented by:Marina Protrka Štimec

Wars

Racism

Balkanism

Morlacism

Class Hegemony

Second World War

Robert Menasse

Die Hauptstadt

The Capital

Presented by:Alexandra Irimia

Refugees

Political Corruption

European Transnational Integration

Nationalism

Holocaust

Kathrin Röggla

wir schlafen nicht

we never sleep

Presented by:Aurore Peyroles

Neoliberalism

Capitalism

Ismail Kadare

Nënpunësi i pallatit të ëndrrave

The Palace of Dreams

Presented by:Ivana Perica

Authoritarianism

Ottoman Empire

People's Socialist Republic of Albania

Political Dictatorship

Political Corruption

Nikolai Ostrovsky

Как закалялась сталь (Kak zakalyalas stal)

How the Steel Was Tempered

Presented by:Karlo Držaić

Marxism–Leninism

Bolsheviks

Revolution

Stalinism

Civil War

Proletariat

Socialism

Materials

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Video

Exile as an opportunity - Interview with Zrinka Božić

Working Paper

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

Video

Political Novel through Migrant Info Point's Eyes – Interview with Alicja Skrzypczak and Marta Kowalczyk

Working Paper

Kyung-Ho Cha, Ivana Perica, Aurore Peyroles, Christoph Schaub: “European Centers and Peripheries in the Political Novel.”

Video

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

Video

Political Novel in Historiographical and Sociological Perspective: Structures and Analogies - part 1

Topics

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Antisemitism

Sexual Revolution

Workerism

Age

Paramilitarism

Right-Wing Restoration