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Anna Burns

Milkman

Presented by:Craig Jordan-Baker

Gender

The Troubles

Sectarianism

Paramilitarism

Class

Northern Ireland

August Cesarec

Careva kraljevina

Emperor’s Kingdom

Presented by:Zrinka Božić

Prison Fiction

20th century

Austro-Hungarian Empire

Natasha Brown

Assembly

Presented by:Polina Mackay

Cancer

Racism

United Kingdom

Intersectional Politics

Monique Wittig

Les Guérillères

Presented by:Aurore Peyroles

Feminism

Female Body

Language

collective

Pierre Michon

Les Onze

The Eleven

Presented by:Nenad Ivić

French Revolution

Historiography

History

Image

France

Karel Čapek

Válka s mloky

The War with the Newts

Presented by:Anna Gawarecka

Dystopic Europes

Totalitarianism

Colonialism

Nazism

Stalinism

Miloš Crnjanski

Dnevnik o Čarnojeviću

The Journal of Čarnojević

Presented by:Krystyna Pieniążek-Marković

Class

First World War

Paul Lynch

Prophet Song

Presented by:Aurore Peyroles

Exile

Authoritarianism

Civil War

Everyday Life

21st century

Dystopian novel

Alexandre Labruffe

Chroniques d’une station-service

Presented by:Melanie Schneider

Capitalism

Technology

Climate Crisis

21st century

Jonathan Littell

Les Bienveillantes

The Kindly Ones

Presented by:Zrinka Božić

Second World War

Holocaust

20th century

Herta Müller

Atemschaukel

The Hunger Angel

Presented by:Cristina Spinei

Internment

Prison Fiction

Collective Memory

Gulag

Yevgeny Zamyatin

My

We

Presented by:Mirela Dakić

Authoritarianism

Totalitarianism

Individualism

Dystopian novel

Materials

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Working Paper

Digital (Paratextual) Economies in And Other Stories and Jessi Jezewska Stevens’s "The Visitors" (2022): Between Autonomy and Subsumption

By: Joana Roqué Pesquer

Mike Phillips’ "A Shadow of Myself": Reading a post-Cold War Thriller through an Afropean Lens

By: Fanny Wehner

Video

Workshop: Political Novel in Europe and Migration/Exile

By: Caponeu Team

Video

Coloniality, race, and Europeanness: Britain’s borders after Brexit

By: Aleksandra Lewicki

Video

Conference: What is the Political Novel: Defining the Genre - day 3

By: Andrea Milanko, Ana Tomljenović, Paul Stewart, Shambhavi Prakash, Rossitsa Terzieva-Artemis, Błażej Warkocki, Nenad Ivić

Working Paper

The Power of the Weak. Imperialism and Resistance in Anna Seghers’ "Der Führer"

By: Max Roehl

Topics

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Right-Wing Restoration

Patriarchy

Irish War of Independence

Political Disenchantment

Digital Era

Antisemitism