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Benjamin Zephaniah

Refugee Boy

Presented by:Ivana Perica

Migrations

Racism

Pan-Africanism

Rastafari

Political Asylum

Black Identity

Dinçer Güçyeter

Unser Deutschlandmärchen

Our Fairy Tale of Germany

Presented by:Kyung-Ho Cha

Migrations

Guest Worker

László Krasznahorkai

Herscht 07769

Presented by:Richárd Vincze

GFC (Global Financial Crisis) of 2008

Racism

Nazism

German Democratic Republic (GDR/DDR)

Central and Eastern Europe

Hilary Mantel

The Wolf Hall Trilogy

Presented by:Ante Andabak

Carlo Levi

L'Orologio

The Watch

Presented by:Silvia Valentini

Revolution

Second World War

Reactionism

Italy

Jaan Kross

The Czar's Madman

Keisri hull

Presented by:Daria Banasiewicz

Authoritarianism

Revolution

Terrorism

Michel Houellebecq

Soumission

Submission

Presented by:Aurore Peyroles

Dystopic Europes

Authoritarianism

Fear

Islam

Reactionism

Political Elections

Arthur Koestler

Darkness at Noon

Presented by:Ivana Perica

Bolsheviks

Stalinism

Fascism

Anti-communism

Show trials

Organised action

Individualism

Elvira Navarro

La trabajadora

A Working Woman

Presented by:Magda Potok

GFC (Global Financial Crisis) of 2008

Neoliberalism

Precariat

Derviš Sušić

Hodža Strah

The Imam of Fear

Presented by:Ewa Szperlik

Ottoman Empire

Nationalism

Colonialism

Daša Drndić

Canzone di guerra: nove davorije

Canzone di guerra

Presented by:Mirela Dakić

Gender

Migrations

Totalitarianism

Second World War

Economic Downfall and Scarcity

Yugoslavia

Amanda Michalopoulou

Η γυναίκα του Θεού (I gynaika tou Theou)

God's Wife

Presented by:Niki Sioki

Identity

Gender

Feminism

Female Body

Materials

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Video

Workshop: Political Novel in Europe and Migration/Exile

By: Caponeu Team

Working Paper

“Reimagining Political Peripheries in Pišťanek’s and Boldizar’s Siberian Slovakia” & “Response”

By: Charles Sabatos, Nina Weller

Video

Workshop: Literary Politics and Geopolitics

By: Zrinka Božić, Mark Devenney, Ivana Perica, Aurore Peyroles, Christoph Schaub, Patrick Eiden-Offe, Charlotte Woodford, Nenad Ivić, Korbinian Lindel, Lisa Katharina Schmitz, Ekaterina Vassilieva, Fanny Wehner, Anna Björk Einarsdóttir, Max Roehl, Benjamin Kohlmann, Natalya Bekhta, Louis Aubry, Marina Sivak

Article

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

By: Zvonimir Glavaš

Working Paper

CAPONEU Policy Indications - Interim report, February 2025

By: Autonomy Institute

Video

Migration in the Age of Anthropocene - Interview with Mark Devenney

By: Dawid Borucki, Mark Devenney

Topics

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Commitment

Precariousness

French Revolution

Political Corruption

Paramilitarism

Neoliberalism