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Alberts Bels

Būris

The Cage

Presented by:Daria Banasiewicz

Totalitarianism

Existentialism

Surveillance

Dissidence

Juan Goytisolo

Señas de identidad

Marks of Identity

Presented by:Magda Potok

Authoritarianism

Centres and Peripheries

Spanish Civil War

Francoism

Marta Sanz

Clavícula

Clavicle

Presented by:Magda Potok

Gender

Age

GFC (Global Financial Crisis) of 2008

Vulnerability

Precariousness

Female Body

Antonio Tabucchi

Sostiene Pereira

Pereira Maintains

Presented by:Zrinka Božić

Commitment

Fascism

Political resistance

20th century

Spanish Civil War

Christa Wolf

Der geteilte Himmel

They Divided the Sky

Presented by:Katie Unwin

Berlin

Cold War

Individualism

Georges Simenon

Le President

The President

Presented by:Dorota Walczak-Delanois

Political Corruption

Crisis

France

Dimitri Verhulst

The Misfortunates

De helaasheid der dingen

Presented by:Dorota Walczak-Delanois

Feminism

Working poor

Patriarchy

Family

Albert Camus

La Peste

The Plague

Presented by:Aurore Peyroles

Second World War

Nazism

Fascism

Anti-fascist resistance

Epidemic

Arthur Koestler

Darkness at Noon

Presented by:Ivana Perica

Bolsheviks

Stalinism

Fascism

Anti-communism

Show trials

Organised action

Individualism

David Albahari

Gec i Majer

Götz and Meyer

Presented by:Karlo Držaić

Antisemitism

Second World War

Nationalism

Holocaust

Ivo Brešan

Ništa Sveto

Nothing Sacred

Presented by:Andrea Milanko

Yugoslavia

Raw Content

Presented by:Joanna Kellond

Gender

Motherhood

psychopolitics

Materials

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Video

Workshop: Thinking the Political (part 2)

By: Allan Hansen, Clare Woodford

Video

Workshop: Thinking the Political (part 4)

By: Prathama Banerjee, German Primera

Video

How to Read Political Novels? Online lecture

By: Ivana Perica

Working Paper Collection

European Centers and Peripheries in the Political Novel (Caponeu Working Papers)

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

Working Paper

Response to Anna Murashova

By: Isabell A. Meske

Article

Reparative Democracy: Testing the Borders of the Political. Interview with Wendy Brown

Topics

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Motherhood

Antisemitism

Perception

Banishment

GFC (Global Financial Crisis) of 2008

Irish Independence