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Michel Houellebecq

Soumission

Submission

Presented by:Aurore Peyroles

Dystopic Europes

Authoritarianism

Fear

Islam

Reactionism

Political Elections

Péter Esterházy

Kis Magyar Pornográfia

A Little Hungarian Pornography

Presented by:Richárd Vincze

Kim Mehmeti

Shpërngulja e të vdekurve

Exodus of the Dead

Presented by:Tea Hodaj

Identity

Gender

Migrations

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Ragazzi di vita

The Street Kids

Presented by:Pietro Turinetti

Class

Second World War

Economic Downfall and Scarcity

Capitalism

Cold War

Hans Keilson

Der Tod des Widersachers

The Death of the Adversary

Presented by:Heinrich Detering

Exile

Second World War

Nazism

Fascism

Anti-fascist resistance

Liliana Corobca

Caiet de cenzor

The Censor’s Notebook

Presented by:Cristina Spinei

Central and Eastern Europe

Communism

Cold War

Anti-communism

Censorship

Vassilis Vassilikos

Ζ, φανταστικό ντοκυμανταίρ ενός εγκλήματος (Z, phantastikó dokimantaír enós englímatos)

Z

Presented by:Niki Sioki

Authoritarianism

Military

Civil War

Fascism

Louis-Ferdinand Céline

D’un château l’autre

Castle to Castle

Presented by:Ivan Silobrčić

Antisemitism

Second World War

Fascism

Carlo Levi

L'Orologio

The Watch

Presented by:Silvia Valentini

Revolution

Second World War

Reactionism

Italy

Väinö Linna

Tuntematon sotilas

The Unknown Soldier

Presented by:Eric Bergman

Class

Cynicism

Second World War

Military

Nationalism

Collective Memory

Danilo Kiš

Peščanik

Hourglass

Presented by:Krystyna Pieniążek-Marković

Totalitarianism

Antisemitism

Second World War

Holocaust

Abdulrazak Gurnah

The Last Gift

Presented by:Ante Andabak

Migrations

Colonialism

African Authors in Europe

Materials

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Article

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

By: Mirela Dakić

Video

Workshop: Thinking the Political (part 1)

By: Vedrana Veličković, Oliver Marchart

Working Paper

Digital (Paratextual) Economies in And Other Stories and Jessi Jezewska Stevens’s "The Visitors" (2022): Between Autonomy and Subsumption

By: Joana Roqué Pesquer

Video

Exile as an opportunity - Interview with Zrinka Božić

By: Tomasz Mizerkiewicz, Zrinka Božić

Working Paper

CAPONEU Policy Indications - Interim report, February 2025

By: Autonomy Institute

Video

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

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

Topics

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Terrorism

Critical Digital Humanities

Northern Ireland

Artificial Intelligence

Political Espionage

Historiography