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Fakir Baykurt

Yüksek Fırınlar

Blast Furnaces

Presented by:Duncan Lien

Gender

Class

Students’ movement

Second-Wave Feminism

Saša Ilić

Pas i kontrabas

The Dog and the Double Bass

Presented by:Filip Kučeković

Wars

Migrations

Emigration

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

Kallia Papadaki

Δενδρίτες / Dendrítes

Dendrites

Presented by:Niki Sioki

Identity

Racism

Economic Downfall and Scarcity

Crisis

Emigration

Zbigniew Uniłowski

Wspólny pokój

Common Room

Presented by:Krzysztof Ostrowski

social criticism

poverty

bohemian circles

housing crisis

Goran Vojnović

Figa

The Fig Tree

Presented by:Krystyna Pieniążek-Marković

Yugoslavia

Brotherhood and Unity (Bratstvo i jedinstvo)

Ismail Kadare

Nënpunësi i pallatit të ëndrrave

The Palace of Dreams

Presented by:Ivana Perica

Authoritarianism

Ottoman Empire

People's Socialist Republic of Albania

Political Dictatorship

Political Corruption

Stanisław Brzozowski

Płomienie. Z papierów po Michale Kaniowskim

Flames. From the Papers of Michal Kaniowski

Presented by:Tomasz Mizerkiewicz

Class

Terrorism

Tibor Déry

G. A. úr X-ben

Mr. G. A. in X

Presented by:Richárd Vincze

Danilo Kiš

Peščanik

Hourglass

Presented by:Krystyna Pieniążek-Marković

Totalitarianism

Antisemitism

Second World War

Holocaust

Madeleine Bourdouxhe

Sous le pont Mirabeau

Under the Bridge Mirabeau

Presented by:Dorota Walczak-Delanois

Wars

Second World War

Fascism

Motherhood

Vladimir Arsenijević

U potpalublju: sapunska opera

In the Hold

Presented by:Filip Kučeković

Wars

Nationalism

Materials

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Working Paper

Mapping the Sublime: Travel Writing and the Geopolitics of the Soviet Pamirs

By: Marina Sivak

Article

Who’s afraid of the political novel? An introduction

By: Ivana Perica, Aurore Peyroles

Video

Roundtable: Literature in Times of Crisis: What Can the Novel Do?

By: Ivana Perica, Patrick Eiden-Offe, Heike Geißler, Alhierd Bacharevič, Maryam Aras

Video

Rethinking the Political: Narrative, Protest and Fiction in the 21st Century

Article

Competitive Words: Identity Counts in Large Amounts

By: Ivana Perica

Video

Workshop: Thinking the Political (part 1)

By: Vedrana Veličković, Oliver Marchart

Topics

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Protest

Patriarchy

Intersectionality

Military

Medical and Environmental Crises

Second World War