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Yevgeny Zamyatin

My

We

Presented by:Mirela Dakić

Authoritarianism

Totalitarianism

Individualism

Dystopian novel

Maria Modrakowska

Anetka

Presented by:Anna Artwich

Feminism

Queer

Alberts Bels

Būris

The Cage

Presented by:Daria Banasiewicz

Totalitarianism

Existentialism

Surveillance

Dissidence

Alain van Crugten

La dictature des ignares

The Dictatorship of the Ignoramuses

Presented by:Dorota Walczak-Delanois

Authoritarianism

Students’ movement

History

East vs. West

Mathias Énard

Zone

Presented by:Filip Kučeković

Wars

Espionage

Civil War

Dubravka Ugrešić

Ministarstvo boli

The Ministry of Pain

Presented by:Ewa Szperlik

Identity

Migrations

Yugoslavia

Louis Aragon

Les Communistes

Presented by:Aurore Peyroles

History

Nazism

Fascism

Communism

Partisans

France

António Lobo Antunes

Os cus de Judas

The Land at the End of the World

Presented by:Marta Gburzyńska

Wars

Political Dictatorship

Colonialism

Imperialism

Decolonisation

Tadeusz Konwicki

Mała apokalipsa

The Minor Apocalypse

Presented by:Zofia Paetz

Dissidence

Anti-communism

Censorship

Georges Perec

W ou le souvenir d’enfance

W, or the Memory of Childhood

Presented by:Aurore Peyroles

Autobiography

Authoritarianism

Second World War

Nazism

Dystopian novel

Deniz Ohde

Streulicht

Sky Glow

Presented by:Christoph Schaub

Migrations

Precariousness

Racism

Class

Theis Ørntoft

Jordisk

Earthly

Presented by:Troels Thorborg Andersen

Capitalism

Geopolitics

Climate Crisis

Consumerism

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Article

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

By: Błażej Warkocki

Working Paper

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

By: Alexandra Irimia, Stephen Shapiro

Audio

Podcast: Periphery and banishment

By: Ivana Perica, Aurore Peyroles

Writing and Unmaking the Geopolitical in "Un captif amoureux"

By: Louis Aubry

Article

Fundamental operations of the political in Beckett’s Molloy

By: Paul Stewart

Storytelling

The Political Novel: A Palimpsest

By: Ivana Perica

Topics

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An Gorta Mór

Italy

Romance

Female Politicians

Espionage

Estrangement