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Amélie Nothomb

Le Sabotage Amoureux

Loving sabotage

Presented by:Yoana Ganowski

Diplomacy

Communism

Cold War

People's Republic of China

Nikos Davvetas

Ωστικό κύμα (Ostiko kyma)

Blast wave

Presented by:Niki Sioki

Violence

Racism

Terrorism

East vs. West

Islam

Vjenceslav Novak

Majstor Adam

Master Adam

Presented by:Karlo Držaić

Class

Nationalism

Socialism

Moral Panic

Alexandre Labruffe

Chroniques d’une station-service

Presented by:Melanie Schneider

Capitalism

Technology

Climate Crisis

21st century

Dimitri Verhulst

The Misfortunates

De helaasheid der dingen

Presented by:Dorota Walczak-Delanois

Feminism

Working poor

Patriarchy

Family

Saša Stanišić

Herkunft

Where You Come From

Presented by:Krystyna Pieniążek-Marković

Madeleine Bourdouxhe

Sous le pont Mirabeau

Under the Bridge Mirabeau

Presented by:Dorota Walczak-Delanois

Wars

Second World War

Fascism

Motherhood

David Albahari

Gec i Majer

Götz and Meyer

Presented by:Karlo Držaić

Antisemitism

Second World War

Nationalism

Holocaust

Antje Rávik Strubel

Blaue Frau

Blue Woman

Presented by:Alrik Daldrup

Gender

Centres and Peripheries

East vs. West

Michael Scharang

Charly Traktor

Presented by:Ivana Perica

Class

Public / private

Workerism

Autonomism

East vs. West

Parties

Province / Periphery

Heinrich Böll

Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum oder: Wie Gewalt entstehen und wohin sie füren kann

The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum, or: How violence develops and where it can lead

Presented by:Filip Kučeković

Terrorism

media

legal system

Michał Witkowski

Lubiewo

Lovetown

Presented by:Błażej Warkocki

Neoliberalism

Queer

LGBT

Central and Eastern Europe

Non-binary

Materials

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Working Paper

CAPONEU Policy Indications - Interim report, February 2025

By: Autonomy Institute

Response to Verónica Paula Gómez

By: Liam Connell

Book

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

By: Ivana Perica, Benjamin Kohlmann

Article

Fundamental operations of the political in Beckett’s Molloy

By: Paul Stewart

Response to Sophie Salvo

By: Elias Kreuzmair

Conference Collection

Conference collection: What is the Political Novel? Defining the Genre

By: Ivana Perica, Aurore Peyroles, Christoph Schaub, Patrick Eiden-Offe, Johanna-Charlotte Horst, Kyung-Ho Cha

Topics

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Uprising

Precariousness

Feminist reading

Afropea

Russian Revolution of 1905 (First Russian Revolution)

dispossession