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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)

Vassilis Vassilikos

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

Z

Presented by:Niki Sioki

Authoritarianism

Military

Civil War

Fascism

Hilary Mantel

The Wolf Hall Trilogy

Presented by:Ante Andabak

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

August Cesarec

Careva kraljevina

Emperor’s Kingdom

Presented by:Zrinka Božić

Prison Fiction

20th century

Austro-Hungarian Empire

Christa Wolf

Der geteilte Himmel

They Divided the Sky

Presented by:Katie Unwin

Berlin

Cold War

Individualism

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Ragazzi di vita

The Street Kids

Presented by:Pietro Turinetti

Class

Second World War

Economic Downfall and Scarcity

Capitalism

Cold War

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

20th century

Soviet Laughter

The NEP (New Economic Policy) Era

Karel Čapek

Válka s mloky

The War with the Newts

Presented by:Anna Gawarecka

Dystopic Europes

Totalitarianism

Colonialism

Nazism

Stalinism

Herta Müller

Atemschaukel

The Hunger Angel

Presented by:Cristina Spinei

Internment

Prison Fiction

Collective Memory

Gulag

Natasha Brown

Assembly

Presented by:Polina Mackay

Cancer

Racism

United Kingdom

Intersectional Politics

Amélie Nothomb

Le Sabotage Amoureux

Loving sabotage

Presented by:Yoana Ganowski

Diplomacy

Communism

Cold War

People's Republic of China

Materials

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Working Paper

Response to Anna Murashova

By: Isabell A. Meske

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

Storytelling

The Political Novel: A Palimpsest

By: Ivana Perica

Article

Who’s afraid of the political novel? An introduction

By: Ivana Perica, Aurore Peyroles

Response to Verónica Paula Gómez

By: Liam Connell

Book

The Political Uses of Literature: Global Perspectives and Theoretical Approaches, 1920–2020

By: Ivana Perica, Benjamin Kohlmann

Topics

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Digitalisation

Agency

Feminist reading

Queer

Political Dictatorship

Critical Digital Humanities