Summer School in Critical Theory and Praxis: Literature and Society

Sunday, 5 Jul 2026

19.00
Guest Arrival and Registration

20.00 Opening Ceremony
Welcome Drinks Reception

Monday, 6 Jul 2026

9.00 Workshop A

Rossita Terzieva-Artemis (University of Nicosia): Truth, Metafiction, and Power: Postmodern Revisions of the European Political Novel

10.45 Workshop B

Aurore Peyroles, Ivana Perica (ZfL): Political Readings of Natasha Brown’s Assembly

18.00 Plenary Lecture

Alan Finlayson (The University of East Anglia, Norwich): We can be heroes, every day: Myth, Decadence and Reactionary Digital Politics

Tuesday, 7 Jul 2026

9.00 Workshop C

Mark Devenney, Joanna Kellong (University of Brighton): Gender, Family and Politics of the Novel

10.45 Workshop D

Tara Talwar Windsor (University of Cambridge): Alternative Epistemologies and the Politics of Memory in Sharon Dodua Otoo’s Ada’s Realm and Kamila Shamsie’s A God in Every Stone

18.00 Plenary Lecture

Juan E. de Castro (The New School, New York): Gabriel García Márquez versus Mario Vargas Llosa: Magic, Realism, and Politics in the Latin American Novel

Wednesday, 8 Jul 2026

9.00 Workshop E

Błażej Warkocki (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań): The Politics of Queer Literature in Poland from a Transnational Perspective, Part I: The Interwar Period

10.45 Workshop A

Rossita Terzieva-Artemis (University of Nicosia): Truth, Metafiction, and Power: Postmodern Revisions of the European Political Novel

18.00 Plenary Lecture

Karin Doolan (Institute for Social Research in Zagreb), Liam Mullally (Autonomy Institute): From practice to policy: the political novel in action

Thursday, 9 Jul 2026

9.00 Workshop B

Aurore Peyroles, Ivana Perica, Patrick Eiden-Offe (ZfL): How to Read Political Novels: Natasha Brown’s Assembly

10.45 Workshop C

Vedrana Veličković, German Primera (University of Brighton): Reading groups and the politics of literature

18.00 Roundtable

Theatre director Oliver Frljić in conversation with Zrinka Božić and Mirela Dakić Kučeković (University of Zagreb): Politics in Artistic Practice

Friday, 10 Jul 2026

9.00 Workshop D

Tara Talwar Windsor (University of Cambridge): Alternative Epistemologies and the Politics of Memory in Sharon Dodua Otoo’s Ada’s Realm and Kamila Shamsie’s A God in Every Stone

10.45 Workshop E

Błażej Warkocki (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań): The Politics of Queer Literature in Poland from a Transnational Perspective, Part II: Late Socialism and the Post-1989 Era

20.00 Film projection and public forum
directed by Igor Bezinović

Fiume o morte! – screening

21.30 A Post-Screening Conversation

with Igor Bezinović (tbc), Ivan Jeličić (University of Rijeka), Branimir Janković (University of Zagreb), and Zvonimir Glavaš (University of Zagreb)

Saturday, 11 Jul 2026

9.00 Excursion

Labin Republic and Raša (including a boat lunch and visits to Cres beaches)

20.00 Conversation

Craig Jordan-Baker (University of Brighton), Mark Devenney (University of Brighton), Zrinka Božić (University of Zagreb): The Task of Writing a Political Novel

21.15 Closing dinner

Sunday, 12 Jul 2026

Departure