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Robert Menasse

The Capital

Die Hauptstadt

Presented by:Alexandra Irimia

Political corruption

European transnational integration

Refugees

The Holocaust

Nationalism

Dezső Kosztolányi

Anna Édes

Édes Anna

Presented by:Gábor Tamás Molnár

domestic servitude

social class and family

the Hungarian Commune of 1919

right-wing restoration

Stanisław Brzozowski

Flames. From the Papers of Michal Kaniowski

Płomienie. Z papierów po Michale Kaniowskim

Presented by:Tomasz Mizerkiewicz

Terrorism

social class dynamics

Serhiy Zhadan

Voroshilovgrad

Ворошиловград (Voroshylovhrad)

Presented by:Sarah Colvin

Benjamin Zephaniah

Refugee Boy

Presented by:Ivana Perica

Migrations

Racism

Institutional racism

Political asylum

Pan-Africanism

Rastafari

Black identity

David Albahari

Götz and Meyer

Gec i Majer

Presented by:Karlo Držaić

Second world war

Antisemitism

The Holocaust

Nationalism

August Cesarec

Emperor’s Kingdom

Careva kraljevina

Presented by:Zrinka Božić

Prison Fiction

Danilo Kiš

Hourglass

Peščanik

Presented by:Krystyna Pieniążek-Marković

Totalitarianism

Second world war

Antisemitism

The Holocaust

Reading materials

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Centres and peripheries

Article

Alexandra Irimia: “Bureaucracies of Memory. Institutionalized History in Four Contemporary European Novels.” & Stephen Shapiro: “Response to Alexandra Irimia.”

Centres and peripheries

Article

Brînduşa Nicolaescu: “A Political Novel between the Periphery and the Center: Norman Manea’s 'Plicul negru' (1986) / 'The Black Envelope' (1995).” & Natalya Bekhta: “Response to Brînduşa Nicolaescu.”

Centres and peripheries

Article

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

Centres and peripheries

Article

Kyung-Ho Cha, Ivana Perica, Aurore Peyroles, Christoph Schaub (Eds.): European Centers and Peripheries in the Political Novel (Caponeu Working Papers)

Video

Thinking the Political Workshop - part 1

Video

Exile as an opportunity - Interview with Zrinka Božić

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Institutional racism

Literary market

critical digital humanities

Allied bombings

Fidelity

Prague Spring 1968