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Alexandre Labruffe

Chroniques d’une station-service

Presented by:Melanie Schneider

Capitalism

Technology

Climate Crisis

21st century

Kallia Papadaki

Δενδρίτες / Dendrítes

Dendrites

Presented by:Niki Sioki

Identity

Racism

Economic Downfall and Scarcity

Crisis

Emigration

Juan Goytisolo

Señas de identidad

Marks of Identity

Presented by:Magda Potok

Authoritarianism

Centres and Peripheries

Spanish Civil War

Francoism

Géza Ottlik

Iskola a határon

School at the Frontier

Presented by:Richárd Vincze

Izabela Morska

Absolutna amnezja

Absolute Amnesia

Presented by:Izabela Sobczak

Gender

Feminism

Female Body

Neoliberalism

Political resistance

Communism

Patriarchy

Annie Ernaux

Les Années 

The Years

Presented by:Tomasz Mizerkiewicz

Sexual Revolution

Petty-bourgeoisie

France

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

Derviš Sušić

Hodža Strah

The Imam of Fear

Presented by:Ewa Szperlik

Ottoman Empire

Nationalism

Colonialism

Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn

Один день Ивана Денисовича (Odin den' Ivana Denisovicha)

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Presented by:Zvonimir Glavaš

Stalinism

Prison Fiction

Gulag

Cold War

Ivo Andrić

Travnička hronika. Konsulska vremena

Bosnian Chronicle

Presented by:Marina Protrka Štimec

Balkanism

Ottoman Empire

Diplomacy

Mohamed Mbougar Sarr

La plus secrète mémoire des hommes

The Most Secret Memory of Men

Presented by:Sandra Folie

Racism

Colonialism

Postcolonialism

African Authors in Europe

Literary Market

Afropea

Thomas Gunzig

Kuru

Presented by:Yoana Ganowski

Capitalism

Organised action

Individualism

Moral Panic

Materials

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Working Paper

CAPONEU Policy Indications - Interim report, February 2025

By: Autonomy Institute

Article

Dispositions and Dispossessions: Interwar Left-Wing Literary Writing in Vienna and Zagreb

By: Ivana Perica

Working Paper

“A Political Novel between the Periphery and the Center: Norman Manea’s 'Plicul negru' (1986) / 'The Black Envelope' (1995)” & “Response”

By: Brînduşa Nicolaescu, Natalya Bekhta

Article

Who’s afraid of the political novel? An introduction

By: Ivana Perica, Aurore Peyroles

Audio

Podcast: Periphery and banishment

By: Ivana Perica, Aurore Peyroles

Article

Perceptions, cartographies, and ‘cartographies of time’ in the political novel

By: Tomasz Mizerkiewicz

Topics

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COVID Pandemic

Organised action

Russian Revolution of 1905 (First Russian Revolution)

Political Disenchantment

Nightlife

Commitment