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Dimitri Verhulst

The Misfortunates

De helaasheid der dingen

Presented by:Dorota Walczak-Delanois

Feminism

Working poor

Patriarchy

Family

Womb City

Presented by:Joanna Kellond

Gender

African Authors in Europe

Decolonisation

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Ragazzi di vita

The Street Kids

Presented by:Pietro Turinetti

Class

Second World War

Economic Downfall and Scarcity

Capitalism

Cold War

Anna Burns

Milkman

Presented by:Craig Jordan-Baker

Gender

The Troubles

Sectarianism

Paramilitarism

Class

Northern Ireland

Fakir Baykurt

Yüksek Fırınlar

Blast Furnaces

Presented by:Duncan Lien

Gender

Class

Students’ movement

Second-Wave Feminism

Miloš Crnjanski

Dnevnik o Čarnojeviću

The Journal of Čarnojević

Presented by:Krystyna Pieniążek-Marković

Class

First World War

Jaan Kross

The Czar's Madman

Keisri hull

Presented by:Daria Banasiewicz

Authoritarianism

Revolution

Terrorism

Javier Cercas

Soldados de Salamina

Soldiers of Salamis

Presented by:Zrinka Božić

Fascism

20th century

Spanish Civil War

Francoism

Borislav Pekić

Besnilo: žanr roman

Rabies: genre novel

Presented by:Zrinka Božić

Holocaust

20th century

Epidemic

Cold War

Carmen Laforet

Nada

Presented by:Florentia Antoniou

Economic Downfall and Scarcity

Existentialism

Civil War

Bildungsroman

Samuel Beckett

Molloy 

Molloy

Presented by:Paul Stewart

Violence

Marginalisation

Subjectification

Identity

Paul Lynch

Prophet Song

Presented by:Aurore Peyroles

Exile

Authoritarianism

Civil War

Everyday Life

21st century

Dystopian novel

Materials

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Video

Roundtable: Literature in Times of Crisis: What Can the Novel Do?

By: Ivana Perica, Patrick Eiden-Offe, Heike Geißler, Alhierd Bacharevič, Maryam Aras

Article

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

By: Błażej Warkocki

Article

Competitive Words: Identity Counts in Large Amounts

By: Ivana Perica

Response to Sophie Salvo

By: Elias Kreuzmair

Video

Migration in the Age of Anthropocene - Interview with Mark Devenney

By: Dawid Borucki, Mark Devenney

Working Paper Collection

European Centers and Peripheries in the Political Novel (Caponeu Working Papers)

By: Kyung-Ho Cha, Ivana Perica, Aurore Peyroles, Christoph Schaub

Topics

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Civil War

Socialism

Historiography

Political Elections

Individualism

Totalitarianism