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Deniz Ohde

Streulicht

Sky Glow

Presented by:Christoph Schaub

Migrations

Precariousness

Racism

Class

Theis Ørntoft

Jordisk

Earthly

Presented by:Troels Thorborg Andersen

Capitalism

Geopolitics

Climate Crisis

Consumerism

Hubert Fichte

Detlevs Imitationen “Grünspan”

Detlev’s Imitations

Presented by:Shambhavi Prakash

Allied Bombings

Students’ movement

Second World War

Blitzkrieg

Louis Aragon

Les Communistes

Presented by:Aurore Peyroles

History

Nazism

Fascism

Communism

Partisans

France

Nikolai Ostrovsky

Как закалялась сталь (Kak zakalyalas stal)

How the Steel Was Tempered

Presented by:Karlo Držaić

Marxism–Leninism

Bolsheviks

Revolution

Stalinism

Civil War

Proletariat

Socialism

Jaan Kross

The Czar's Madman

Keisri hull

Presented by:Daria Banasiewicz

Authoritarianism

Revolution

Terrorism

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

Alberts Bels

Būris

The Cage

Presented by:Daria Banasiewicz

Totalitarianism

Existentialism

Surveillance

Dissidence

Pajtim Statovci

Kissani Jugoslavia

My Cat Yugoslavia

Presented by:Eric Bergman

Exile

Identity

Yugoslavia

Alain van Crugten

La dictature des ignares

The Dictatorship of the Ignoramuses

Presented by:Dorota Walczak-Delanois

Authoritarianism

Students’ movement

History

East vs. West

Elvira Navarro

La trabajadora

A Working Woman

Presented by:Magda Potok

GFC (Global Financial Crisis) of 2008

Neoliberalism

Precariat

Amélie Nothomb

Le Sabotage Amoureux

Loving sabotage

Presented by:Yoana Ganowski

Diplomacy

Communism

Cold War

People's Republic of China

Materials

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Video

Thinking the Political Workshop - part 1

By: Vedrana Veličković, Oliver Marchart

Article

Marina Protrka Štimec: “Perché i xe bestie?!” Politics, race and exclusion in Vladan Desnica’s The Winter Summer Vacation

By: Marina Protrka Štimec

Video

How to Read Political Novels? Lecture by Ivana Perica

By: Ivana Perica

Thinking the Political: Theory, Literature, Practice

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

Exile as an opportunity - Interview with Zrinka Božić

By: Tomasz Mizerkiewicz, Zrinka Božić

Topics

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Totalitarianism

utopianism

Sectarianism

Critical phallacy

19th century

Racism