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Carmen Laforet

Nada

Presented by:Florentia Antoniou

Economic Downfall and Scarcity

Existentialism

Civil War

Bildungsroman

Vjekoslav Kaleb

Divota Prašine

Glorious Dust

Presented by:Krystyna Pieniążek-Marković

Yugoslavia

Communism

Partisans

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

László Krasznahorkai

Herscht 07769

Presented by:Richárd Vincze

Igor Štiks

Elijahova stolica

The Judgment of Richard Richter

Presented by:Ewa Szperlik

Identity

Migrations

Second World War

Nationalism

Yugoslavia

Adania Shibli

Minor Detail

تفصيل ثانوي (Tafṣīl Ṯānawī)

Presented by:Ivana Perica

Nakba

Cancellation

Deplatforming

Stanisław Brzozowski

Płomienie. Z papierów po Michale Kaniowskim

Flames. From the Papers of Michal Kaniowski

Presented by:Tomasz Mizerkiewicz

Class

Terrorism

Kim Mehmeti

Shpërngulja e të vdekurve

Exodus of the Dead

Presented by:Tea Hodaj

Identity

Gender

Migrations

Sarah Waterfeld

Sex mit Gysi

Sex with Gysi

Presented by:Ivana Perica

Careerism

Political Disenchantment

Left-Wing Parliamentarism

Female Politicians

Political Elections

Sharon Dodua Otoo

Adas Raum

Ada’s Room

Presented by:Kyung-Ho Cha

Colonialism

An Gorta Mór

Slavery

Great Famine (Ireland)

Holocaust

Rudolf Sloboda

Rozum

Reason

Presented by:Olha Norba

Prague Spring 1968

Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia

Existentialism

Cultural Politics

Materials

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Working Paper

Alina Bako: “Semi-peripheral Nodes and the Circulation of Political Ideas. The Case of a Romanian Novel.” & Paul Stewart: “Uneven and Combined Development in the Centre of Modernism: Beckett, Joyce, London and Dublin. Response to Alina Bako"

By: Alina Bako, Paul Stewart

Article

Tomasz Mizerkiewicz: Perceptions, cartographies, and ‘cartographies of time’ in the political novel

By: Tomasz Mizerkiewicz

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

Video

Women's migration and travel writing - Interview with Charlotte Woodford

By: Tomasz Mizerkiewicz, Charlotte Woodford

Working Paper

Brînduşa Nicolaescu: “A Political Novel between the Periphery and the Center: Norman Manea’s 'Plicul negru' (1986) / 'The Black Envelope' (1995).” & Natalya Bekhta: “Response to Brînduşa Nicolaescu.”

By: Brînduşa Nicolaescu, Natalya Bekhta

Video

Workshop: Thinking the Political (part 4)

By: Prathama Banerjee, German Primera

Topics

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polyphonic novel

Class Hegemony

Nationalism

Guest Worker

Digital Modernism

Anti-fascist Literature