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Kim de l’Horizon

Blutbuch

Blood Book

Presented by:Sarah Colvin

Identity

Gender

Feminism

Queer

Non-binary

Family

Szczepan Twardoch

Null

Presented by:Natalia Grudzień

Russian invasion of Ukraine

Tom Lanoye

Kartonnen dozen

Cardboard Boxes

Presented by:Dorota Walczak-Delanois

Identity

Nationalism

Nostalgia

Queer

LGBT

Catholicism

Family

Torborg Nedreaas

Av måneskinn gror det ingenting

Nothing Grows by Moonlight

Presented by:Øyvind Soldal Rasmussen

Feminism

Female Body

Patriarchy

Anna Burns

Milkman

Presented by:Craig Jordan-Baker

Gender

The Troubles

Sectarianism

Paramilitarism

Class

Northern Ireland

Ivo Andrić

Travnička hronika. Konsulska vremena

Bosnian Chronicle

Presented by:Marina Protrka Štimec

Balkanism

Ottoman Empire

Diplomacy

Danilo Kiš

Peščanik

Hourglass

Presented by:Krystyna Pieniążek-Marković

Totalitarianism

Antisemitism

Second World War

Holocaust

Milan Kundera

Kniha smíchu a zapomnění

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

Presented by:Anna Gawarecka

Marxism–Leninism

Public / private

Prague Spring 1968

Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia

Everyday Life

Goran Vojnović

Čefurji raus!

Southern Scum Go Home!

Presented by:Krystyna Pieniążek-Marković

post-Yugoslav literature

Slovenia

The Erased (Izbrisani)

Balkan stereotypes

immigrants

Péter Nádas

Párhuzamos történetek

Parallel Stories

Presented by:Richárd Vincze

Hugo Claus

Het verdriet van België

The sorrow of Belgium

Presented by:Yoana Ganowski

History

Second World War

Nazism

Bildungsroman

Miloš Crnjanski

Dnevnik o Čarnojeviću

The Journal of Čarnojević

Presented by:Krystyna Pieniążek-Marković

Class

First World War

Materials

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Response to Sophie Salvo

By: Elias Kreuzmair

Storytelling

The Political Novel: A Palimpsest

By: Ivana Perica

Arcana Imperii and Globalatinization: A Probe Into Contemporary Cultural Style

By: Nenad Ivić

Article

Is Pierre Michon’s "The Eleven" a political novel?

By: Nenad Ivić

Video

Workshop: Thinking the Political (part 1)

By: Vedrana Veličković, Oliver Marchart

Working Paper

“Multilingual Minority: Poetical Decomposition of the Embodied Dictatorial Legacy” & “Entrapment and Resistance. Language and Power in Andrea Tompa’s 'The Hangman’s House'. Response”

By: Mónika Dánél, Philipp Wegmann

Topics

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Motherhood

Formalism

The Troubles

Romance

Mining

Post-foundational politics