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Serhiy Zhadan

Ворошиловград (Voroshylovhrad)

Voroshilovgrad

Presented by:Sarah Colvin

Miroslav Krleža

Zastave

Flags

Presented by:Marina Protrka Štimec

Political Discourse

First World War

Nationalism

Dialogism

Yugoslavia

Communism

Fedor Gladkov

Цемент (Cement)

Cement

Presented by:Ivana Perica

Gender

Marxism–Leninism

Bolsheviks

Class

Petty-bourgeoisie

Proletariat

Honest Intelligentsia

Socialism

Mathias Énard

Zone

Presented by:Filip Kučeković

Wars

Espionage

Civil War

Pierre Michon

Les Onze

The Eleven

Presented by:Nenad Ivić

French Revolution

Historiography

History

Image

France

Ignazio Silone

Brot und Wein

Bread and Wine

Presented by:Ivana Perica

Wars

Political Dictatorship

Fascism

Socialism

Organised action

Patriarchy

Catholicism

Protestantism

Liliana Corobca

Caiet de cenzor

The Censor’s Notebook

Presented by:Cristina Spinei

Central and Eastern Europe

Communism

Cold War

Anti-communism

Censorship

Joseph Conrad

Under Western Eyes

Presented by:Ivana Perica

Revolution

Terrorism

Autocracy

Despotism

Reformism

Espionage

Cynicism

Political Espionage

Russian Revolution of 1905 (First Russian Revolution)

Carlo Levi

L'Orologio

The Watch

Presented by:Silvia Valentini

Revolution

Second World War

Reactionism

Italy

Pajtim Statovci

Kissani Jugoslavia

My Cat Yugoslavia

Presented by:Eric Bergman

Exile

Identity

Yugoslavia

Anna Burns

Milkman

Presented by:Craig Jordan-Baker

Gender

The Troubles

Sectarianism

Paramilitarism

Class

Northern Ireland

Abdulrazak Gurnah

The Last Gift

Presented by:Ante Andabak

Migrations

Colonialism

African Authors in Europe

Materials

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Audio

Podcast: Periphery and banishment

By: Ivana Perica, Aurore Peyroles, Jospeh Ponthus, Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Video

Political Novel in Historiographical and Sociological Perspective: Structures and Analogies - part 2

By: Mirela Dakić, Goran Pavlić, Ante Andabak, Branimir Janković

Video

Conference: What is the Political Novel: Defining the Genre - day 2

By: Polina Mackay, Marina Protrka Štimec, Mirela Dakić, Magda Potok, Vedrana Veličković, Rahul Putty

Video

Aleksandra Lewicki: Coloniality, race, and Europeanness: Britain’s borders after Brexit

By: Aleksandra Lewicki

Working Paper

Kyung-Ho Cha, Ivana Perica, Aurore Peyroles, Christoph Schaub: “European Centers and Peripheries in the Political Novel.”

By: Kyung-Ho Cha, Ivana Perica, Aurore Peyroles, Christoph Schaub

Article

Zvonimir Glavaš: “From Charlemagne to the Title of the King”: Political novel between estrangement and recognition

By: Zvonimir Glavaš

Topics

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French Revolution

Protest

Communism

Central and Eastern Europe

Romance

Bolsheviks