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Samuel Beckett

Molloy 

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Presented by: Paul Stewart

Violence

Marginalisation

Subjectification

Identity

Anna Burns

Milkman

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Presented by: Craig Jordan-Baker

The Troubles

Northern Ireland

Gender politics

Sectarianism

Paramilitarism

Class

Michael Scharang

Charly Traktor

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Presented by: Ivana Perica

Class

Public / private

Workerism

Autonomism

Province / periphery

Political parties (SPÖ, ÖVP, KPÖ)

East vs. West

Upward mobility

Ali Smith

Summer

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Presented by: Paul Stewart

Migrations

Second world war

Refugees

COVID pandemic

UK politics

Art

Internment

Political discourse

Antisemitism

Pierre Michon

Les Onze

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Presented by: Nenad Ivić

French Revolution

Historiography

History

Politics

Image

Natasha Brown

Assembly

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Presented by: Polina Mackay

Cancer

Racism

Intersectional politics

Contemporary Britain

Vladimir Nabokov

Дар (Dar)

Presented by: Rossie Artemis

Exile

Bolsheviks

Cossacks

Revolution

Milan Kundera

Kniha smíchu a zapomnění

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Presented by: Anna Gawarecka

Marxism–Leninism

Public / private

Prague Spring 1968

Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia

Everyday life

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Second-wave feminism

Cossacks

Cynicism

Public / private

Reformism

Periods of prosperity and affluence