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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

Izabela Morska

Absolutna amnezja

Absolute Amnesia

Presented by:Izabela Sobczak

Gender

Feminism

Female Body

Neoliberalism

Political resistance

Communism

Patriarchy

Malte Tellerup

Hedeselskabet

The Heathland Society

Presented by:Troels Thorborg Andersen

Feminism

Consumerism

eco-criticism

counter-culture

utopianism

Michael Scharang

Charly Traktor

Presented by:Ivana Perica

Class

Public / private

Workerism

Autonomism

East vs. West

Parties

Province / Periphery

George Orwell

1984

Nineteen Eighty-Four

Presented by:Tea Hodaj

Dystopic Europes

Authoritarianism

Totalitarianism

Public / private

Fear

Cold War

Pierre Michon

Les Onze

The Eleven

Presented by:Nenad Ivić

French Revolution

Historiography

History

Image

France

Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn

Один день Ивана Денисовича (Odin den' Ivana Denisovicha)

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Presented by:Zvonimir Glavaš

Stalinism

Prison Fiction

Gulag

Cold War

Serhiy Zhadan

Ворошиловград (Voroshylovhrad)

Voroshilovgrad

Presented by:Sarah Colvin

Orhan Pamuk

Kar

Snow

Presented by:Filip Kučeković

Female Body

East vs. West

Islam

Language

NoViolet Bulawayo

Glory

Presented by:Sarah Colvin

Authoritarianism

Uprising

Anti-fascist resistance

Collective Memory

Max Winter

Matters II

Presented by:Anna Zsellér

Precariousness

Precariat

working poor

Globalization

Christa Wolf

Der geteilte Himmel

They Divided the Sky

Presented by:Katie Unwin

Berlin

Cold War

Individualism

Materials

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Working Paper

Stefan Segi: “Vlastimil Vondruška and the Inevitable Demise of Europe.” & Błażej Warkocki: “Being East European (from a Polish perspective). Response to Stefan Segi.”

By: Stefan Segi, Błażej Warkocki

Article

Tomasz Mizerkiewicz: Perceptions, cartographies, and ‘cartographies of time’ in the political novel

By: Tomasz Mizerkiewicz

Article

Paul Stewart: Fundamental operations of the political in Beckett’s Molloy

By: Paul Stewart

Working Paper

Charles Sabatos: “Reimagining Political Peripheries in Pišťanek’s and Boldizar’s Siberian Slovakia.” & Nina Weller: “Response to Charles Sabatos.”

By: Charles Sabatos, Nina Weller

Article

Mirela Dakić: What is a novel in the political novel? The perspectives of contemporary feminist theory

By: Mirela Dakić

Video

Conference: What is the Political Novel: Defining the Genre - day 3

By: Andrea Milanko, Ana Tomljenović, Paul Stewart, Shambhavi Prakash, Rossitsa Terzieva-Artemis, Błażej Warkocki, Nenad Ivić

Topics

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Great Famine (Ireland)

mushrooms

Paramilitarism

Everyday Life

Refugees

Prague Spring 1968