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Max Winter

Matters II

Presented by:Anna Zsellér

Precariousness

Precariat

Working poor

Globalization

Dezső Kosztolányi

Édes Anna

Anna Édes

Presented by:Gábor Tamás Molnár

Class

Domestic Servitude

Right-Wing Restoration

Hungarian Commune of 1919

Luis Martín-Santos

Tiempo de silencio

Time of Silence

Presented by:Marta Gburzyńska

Violence

Class

Economic Downfall and Scarcity

Estrangement

Spanish Civil War

Francoism

Vladimir Nabokov

Дар (Dar)

The Gift

Presented by:Rossitsa Terzieva-Artemis

Exile

Bolsheviks

Cossacks

Revolution

Womb City

Presented by:Joanna Kellond

Gender

African Authors in Europe

Decolonisation

Halldór Laxness

Íslandsklukkan

Iceland's Bell

Presented by:Filip Kučeković

History

Nationalism

Colonialism

Karel Čapek

Válka s mloky

The War with the Newts

Presented by:Anna Gawarecka

Dystopic Europes

Totalitarianism

Colonialism

Nazism

Stalinism

Väinö Linna

Täällä Pohjantähden alla

Under the North Star

Presented by:Eric Bergman

History

Civil War

Communism

Anti-communism

Serhiy Zhadan

Ворошиловград (Voroshylovhrad)

Voroshilovgrad

Presented by:Sarah Colvin

Tibor Déry

G. A. úr X-ben

Mr. G. A. in X

Presented by:Richárd Vincze

Norman Manea

Plicul negru

The Black Envelope

Presented by: Brînduşa Nicolaescu

Authoritarianism

Totalitarianism

Antisemitism

Fear

Albert Camus

La Peste

The Plague

Presented by:Aurore Peyroles

Second World War

Nazism

Fascism

Anti-fascist resistance

Epidemic

Materials

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Special collection

Thinking the Political: Theory, Literature, Practice

By: Craig Jordan-Baker, Joanna Kellond

Working Paper

Literary Politics and Geopolitics: An Introduction

By: Ivana Perica, Aurore Peyroles, Patrick Eiden-Offe

Video

Rethinking the Political: Narrative, Protest and Fiction in the 21st Century

Storytelling

The Political Novel: A Palimpsest

By: Ivana Perica

Video

Workshop: Thinking the Political (part 2)

By: Clare Woodford, Allan Hansen

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

Topics

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Historiography

Diego Garcia

Vulnerability

Great Famine (Ireland)

Postcolonialism

Second World War