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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

Alberts Bels

Būris

The Cage

Presented by:Daria Banasiewicz

Totalitarianism

Existentialism

Surveillance

Dissidence

Paul Lynch

Prophet Song

Presented by:Aurore Peyroles

Exile

Authoritarianism

Civil War

Everyday Life

21st century

Dystopian novel

Hugo Claus

Het verdriet van België

The sorrow of Belgium

Presented by:Yoana Ganowski

History

Second World War

Nazism

Bildungsroman

Alexandre Labruffe

Chroniques d’une station-service

Presented by:Melanie Schneider

Capitalism

Technology

Climate Crisis

21st century

David Albahari

Gec i Majer

Götz and Meyer

Presented by:Karlo Držaić

Antisemitism

Second World War

Nationalism

Holocaust

Péter Esterházy

Kis Magyar Pornográfia

A Little Hungarian Pornography

Presented by:Richárd Vincze

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Ragazzi di vita

The Street Kids

Presented by:Pietro Turinetti

Class

Second World War

Economic Downfall and Scarcity

Capitalism

Cold War

Yevgeny Zamyatin

My

We

Presented by:Mirela Dakić

Authoritarianism

Totalitarianism

Individualism

Dystopian novel

Vjekoslav Kaleb

Divota Prašine

Glorious Dust

Presented by:Krystyna Pieniążek-Marković

Yugoslavia

Communism

Partisans

Raw Content

Presented by:Joanna Kellond

Gender

Motherhood

psychopolitics

Jospeh Ponthus

À la ligne: Feuillets d'usine

On the Line: Notes from a Factory

Presented by:Aurore Peyroles

Precariousness

Capitalism

Precariat

Work

21st century

Materials

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Working Paper

“Semi-peripheral Nodes and the Circulation of Political Ideas. The Case of a Romanian Novel” & “Uneven and Combined Development in the Centre of Modernism: Beckett, Joyce, London and Dublin. Response"

By: Alina Bako, Paul Stewart

Puo-an Francisca Wu Fu: Digital Platforms and the Geopolitics of English in Mithu Sanyal’s Novel "Identitti"

Video

Brick Dust - A Novel - Pre-launch Discussion

By: Craig Jordan-Baker, Liam Connell

Article

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

Conference Collection

Conference collection: What is the Political Novel? Defining the Genre

By: Ivana Perica, Aurore Peyroles, Christoph Schaub, Patrick Eiden-Offe, Johanna-Charlotte Horst, Kyung-Ho Cha

Working Paper

“Bureaucracies of Memory. Institutionalized History in Four Contemporary European Novels” & “Response”

By: Alexandra Irimia, Stephen Shapiro

Topics

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Cossacks

Sectarianism

imperial mode of living

Partisans

Common Time

Human Rights