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Antje Rávik Strubel

Blaue Frau

Blue Woman

Presented by:Alrik Daldrup

Gender

Centres and Peripheries

East vs. West

Dualla Misipo

Der Junge aus Duala. Ein Regierungsschüler erzählt…

The Boy from Douala. A Government School Student Tells his Story...

Presented by:Sandra Folie

Racism

Colonialism

Postcolonialism

African Authors in Europe

Afropea

Christa Wolf

Der geteilte Himmel

They Divided the Sky

Presented by:Katie Unwin

Berlin

Cold War

Individualism

Annie Ernaux

Les Années 

The Years

Presented by:Tomasz Mizerkiewicz

Sexual Revolution

Petty-bourgeoisie

France

Michael Scharang

Charly Traktor

Presented by:Ivana Perica

Class

Public / private

Workerism

Autonomism

East vs. West

Parties

Province / Periphery

Izabela Morska

Absolutna amnezja

Absolute Amnesia

Presented by:Izabela Sobczak

Gender

Feminism

Female Body

Neoliberalism

Political resistance

Communism

Patriarchy

Dubravka Ugrešić

Ministarstvo boli

The Ministry of Pain

Presented by:Ewa Szperlik

Identity

Migrations

Yugoslavia

Hugo Claus

Het verdriet van België

The sorrow of Belgium

Presented by:Yoana Ganowski

History

Second World War

Nazism

Bildungsroman

Il’ia Il’f, Evgenii Petrov

Двенадцать стульев/ Dvenadtsat' stul'yev & Золотой телёнок/ Zolotoy telyonok

The Twelve Chairs & The Golden Calf

Presented by:Zrinka Božić

Milan Kundera

Kniha smíchu a zapomnění

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

Presented by:Anna Gawarecka

Marxism–Leninism

Public / private

Prague Spring 1968

Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia

Everyday Life

Stanisław Brzozowski

Płomienie. Z papierów po Michale Kaniowskim

Flames. From the Papers of Michal Kaniowski

Presented by:Tomasz Mizerkiewicz

Class

Terrorism

Elizabeth Bowen

The Last September

Presented by:Paul Stewart

Wars

Irish Independence

Colonialism

Irish War of Independence

Materials

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Audio

Podcast: Periphery and banishment

By: Ivana Perica, Aurore Peyroles

Audio

Podcast: Anti-fascist Literature

By: Ivana Perica

Article

Fundamental operations of the political in Beckett’s Molloy

By: Paul Stewart

Article

Who’s afraid of the political novel? An introduction

By: Ivana Perica, Aurore Peyroles

Storytelling

The Political Novel: A Palimpsest

By: Ivana Perica

Article

From Poland with love: Politics of queerness in the time of neoliberal post-socialism (the case of Michał Witkowski)

By: Błażej Warkocki

Topics

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Image

Gulag

Anti-fascist resistance

Existentialism

Bolsheviks

Age