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Herta Müller

Atemschaukel

The Hunger Angel

Presented by:Cristina Spinei

Internment

Prison Fiction

Collective Memory

Gulag

Fakir Baykurt

Yüksek Fırınlar

Blast Furnaces

Presented by:Duncan Lien

Gender

Class

Students’ movement

Second-Wave Feminism

Christa Wolf

Nachdenken über Christa T.

Reflections on Christa T.

Presented by:Renate Flagmeier

Albert Camus

La Peste

The Plague

Presented by:Aurore Peyroles

Second World War

Nazism

Fascism

Anti-fascist resistance

Epidemic

Nikolai Ostrovsky

Как закалялась сталь (Kak zakalyalas stal)

How the Steel Was Tempered

Presented by:Karlo Držaić

Marxism–Leninism

Bolsheviks

Revolution

Stalinism

Civil War

Proletariat

Socialism

Joseph Conrad

Under Western Eyes

Presented by:Ivana Perica

Revolution

Terrorism

Autocracy

Despotism

Reformism

Espionage

Cynicism

Political Espionage

Russian Revolution of 1905 (First Russian Revolution)

Kathrin Röggla

wir schlafen nicht

we never sleep

Presented by:Aurore Peyroles

Neoliberalism

Capitalism

Borislav Pekić

Besnilo: žanr roman

Rabies: genre novel

Presented by:Zrinka Božić

Cesare Pavese

La Luna e i Falò

The Moon and the Bonfires

Presented by:Florentia Antoniou

Exile

Identity

Class

Second World War

Vassilis Vassilikos

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

Z

Presented by:Niki Sioki

Authoritarianism

Military

Civil War

Fascism

Benjamin Zephaniah

Refugee Boy

Presented by:Ivana Perica

Migrations

Racism

Pan-Africanism

Rastafari

Political Asylum

Black Identity

Dualla Misipo

Der Junge aus Duala. Ein Regierungsschüler erzählt…

The Boy from Douala. A Government School Student Tells his Story...

Presented by:Sandra Folie

Racism

Colonialism

Postcolonialism

African Authors in Europe

Afropea

Materials

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Article

“Perché i xe bestie?!” Politics, race and exclusion in Vladan Desnica’s The Winter Summer Vacation

By: Marina Protrka Štimec

Conference Collection

Literary Acts of Agency: Negotiating the Rule of Law

By: Ivana Perica, Catriona Corke, Philipp Wegmann

Working Paper

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

By: Charles Sabatos, Nina Weller

Video

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

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

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

Video

Women's migration and travel writing - Interview with Charlotte Woodford

By: Tomasz Mizerkiewicz, Charlotte Woodford

Topics

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Surveillance

Image

Electrification

Socialism

Dystopian novel

France