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Christa Wolf

Kassandra

Cassandra

Presented by:Charlotte Mencke

German Democratic Republic (GDR/DDR)

Cold War

ancient Greek mythology

Franz Kafka

Der Verschollene

Amerika: The Missing Person

Presented by:Ante Andabak

Migrations

Anti-capitalism

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

20th century

Soviet Laughter

The NEP (New Economic Policy) Era

Womb City

Presented by:Joanna Kellond

Gender

African Authors in Europe

Decolonisation

Tadeusz Konwicki

Mała apokalipsa

The Minor Apocalypse

Presented by:Zofia Paetz

Dissidence

Anti-communism

Censorship

George Orwell

1984

Nineteen Eighty-Four

Presented by:Tea Hodaj

Dystopic Europes

Authoritarianism

Totalitarianism

Public / private

Fear

Cold War

Ivo Andrić

Travnička hronika. Konsulska vremena

Bosnian Chronicle

Presented by:Marina Protrka Štimec

Balkanism

Ottoman Empire

Diplomacy

Chika Unigwe

On Black Sisters’ Street

Presented by:Isabella Villanova

Migrations

Postcolonialism

Afropea

Sex Trafficking

Ignazio Silone

Fontamara

Presented by:Zrinka Božić

Political Corruption

Italy

Fascism

Anti-fascist resistance

Alberts Bels

Būris

The Cage

Presented by:Daria Banasiewicz

Totalitarianism

Existentialism

Surveillance

Dissidence

Andrzej Szczypiorski

Msza za miasto Arras

A Mass for Arras

Presented by:Gerard Ronge

Antisemitism

Censorship

Scapegoating

Moral Panic

Nikos Davvetas

Ωστικό κύμα (Ostiko kyma)

Blast wave

Presented by:Niki Sioki

Violence

Racism

Terrorism

East vs. West

Islam

Materials

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Audio

Podcast: Anti-fascist Literature

By: Ivana Perica

Storytelling

The Political Novel: A Palimpsest

By: Ivana Perica

Article

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

By: Ivana Perica

Working Paper

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

By: Alexandra Irimia, Stephen Shapiro

Working Paper

The Political Novel in Europe and the Challenges of the Digital Era: An Introduction

By: Ivana Perica, Aurore Peyroles

Video

Workshop: Political Novel in Europe and Migration/Exile

By: Caponeu Team

Topics

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Recognition

Work

Italy

Nightlife

An Gorta Mór

Collective Memory