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Vassilis Vassilikos

Ζ, φανταστικό ντοκυμανταίρ ενός εγκλήματος (Z, phantastikó dokimantaír enós englímatos)

Z

Presented by:Niki Sioki

Authoritarianism

Military

Civil War

Fascism

Väinö Linna

Täällä Pohjantähden alla

Under the North Star

Presented by:Eric Bergman

History

Civil War

Communism

Anti-communism

Péter Esterházy

Kis Magyar Pornográfia

A Little Hungarian Pornography

Presented by:Richárd Vincze

Juan Goytisolo

Señas de identidad

Marks of Identity

Presented by:Magda Potok

Authoritarianism

Centres and Peripheries

Spanish Civil War

Francoism

Vjekoslav Kaleb

Divota Prašine

Glorious Dust

Presented by:Krystyna Pieniążek-Marković

Yugoslavia

Communism

Partisans

Sofi Oksanen

Puhdistus

Purge

Presented by:Eric Bergman

Identity

Feminism

Female Body

Nationalism

Stanisław Brzozowski

Płomienie. Z papierów po Michale Kaniowskim

Flames. From the Papers of Michal Kaniowski

Presented by:Tomasz Mizerkiewicz

Class

Terrorism

Karin Struck

Klassenliebe

Class Love

Presented by:Christoph Schaub

Gender

Class

Students’ movement

Public / private

Second-Wave Feminism

Theis Ørntoft

Jordisk

Earthly

Presented by:Troels Thorborg Andersen

Capitalism

Geopolitics

Climate Crisis

Consumerism

Carlo Levi

L'Orologio

The Watch

Presented by:Silvia Valentini

Revolution

Second World War

Reactionism

Italy

Christa Wolf

Der geteilte Himmel

They Divided the Sky

Presented by:Katie Unwin

Berlin

Cold War

Individualism

Il’ia Il’f, Evgenii Petrov

Двенадцать стульев/ Dvenadtsat' stul'yev & Золотой телёнок/ Zolotoy telyonok

The Twelve Chairs & The Golden Calf

Presented by:Zrinka Božić

Materials

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Video

Migration in the Age of Anthropocene - Interview with Mark Devenney

By: Dawid Borucki, Mark Devenney

Article

Keine Nebensache: Adania Shiblis politischer Roman

By: Ivana Perica

Article

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

By: Nenad Ivić

Working Paper

“Bureaucracies of Memory. Institutionalized History in Four Contemporary European Novels” & “Response”

By: Alexandra Irimia, Stephen Shapiro

Book

The Political Uses of Literature: Global Perspectives and Theoretical Approaches, 1920–2020

By: Ivana Perica, Benjamin Kohlmann

Article

Rethinking the politics of form: The strange case of the political novel

By: Zrinka Božić

Topics

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Commitment

Intersectionality

21st century

Artificial Intelligence

Care Work

Stalinism