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Belén Gopegui

La conquista del aire

Conquering the Air

Presented by:Marta Gburzyńska

Class

Capitalism

Democracy

Natasha Brown

Assembly

Presented by:Polina Mackay

Cancer

Racism

United Kingdom

Intersectional Politics

F. E. Sillanpää

Hurskas Kurjuus: Päättynyt Suomalainen Elämäkerta

Meek Heritage

Presented by:Eric Bergman

Ali Smith

Summer

Presented by:Paul Stewart

Migrations

United Kingdom

Refugees

Art

Internment

COVID Pandemic

Antisemitism

Political Discourse

Second World War

Izabela Morska

Absolutna amnezja

Absolute Amnesia

Presented by:Izabela Sobczak

Gender

Feminism

Female Body

Neoliberalism

Political resistance

Communism

Patriarchy

NoViolet Bulawayo

Glory

Presented by:Sarah Colvin

Authoritarianism

Uprising

Anti-fascist resistance

Collective Memory

Zofia Nałkowska

Romans Teresy Hennert

The Romance of Teresa Hennert

Presented by:Dawid Borucki

Feminism

Military

Marxism

Interwar period

Psychological fiction

Romance

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

Robert Menasse

Die Hauptstadt

The Capital

Presented by:Alexandra Irimia

Refugees

Political Corruption

European Transnational Integration

Nationalism

Holocaust

Ismail Kadare

Nënpunësi i pallatit të ëndrrave

The Palace of Dreams

Presented by:Ivana Perica

Authoritarianism

Ottoman Empire

People's Socialist Republic of Albania

Political Dictatorship

Political Corruption

Kathrin Röggla

wir schlafen nicht

we never sleep

Presented by:Aurore Peyroles

Neoliberalism

Capitalism

Sarah Waterfeld

Sex mit Gysi

Sex with Gysi

Presented by:Ivana Perica

Careerism

Political Disenchantment

Left-Wing Parliamentarism

Female Politicians

Political Elections

Materials

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Video

Migration in the Age of Anthropocene - Interview with Mark Devenney

By: Dawid Borucki, Mark Devenney

Working Paper

Kyung-Ho Cha, Ivana Perica, Aurore Peyroles, Christoph Schaub: “European Centers and Peripheries in the Political Novel.”

By: Kyung-Ho Cha, Ivana Perica, Aurore Peyroles, Christoph Schaub

Video

Workshop: The Political Novel in Europe and the Challenges of the Digital Era

By: Aurore Peyroles, Ivana Perica, Johanna-Charlotte Horst, Christoph Schaub

Sophie Salvo: Impotent Forms: "Crabwalk" and the Political Novel

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

Working Paper

Alexandra Irimia: “Bureaucracies of Memory. Institutionalized History in Four Contemporary European Novels.” & Stephen Shapiro: “Response to Alexandra Irimia.”

By: Alexandra Irimia, Stephen Shapiro

Topics

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Fidelity

Authoritarianism

Spanish Civil War

Proletariat

Genre

Autocracy