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Michael Scharang

Charly Traktor

Presented by:Ivana Perica

Class

Public / private

Workerism

Autonomism

Province / periphery

Political parties (SPÖ, ÖVP, KPÖ)

East vs. West

Upward mobility

Vladan Desnica

The Winter Summer Vacation

Zimsko ljetovanje

Presented by:Marina Protrka Štimec

Wars

Second world war

Racism

Balkanism

Morlacism

Class hegemony

Norman Manea

The Black Envelope

Plicul negru

Presented by: Brînduşa Nicolaescu

Authoritarianism

Totalitarianism

Politicisation of fear

Antisemitism

George Orwell

Nineteen Eighty-Four

1984

Presented by:Tea Hodaj

Dystopic Europes

Authoritarianism

Totalitarianism

Politicisation of fear

Ivo Brešan

Nothing Sacred

Ništa Sveto

Presented by:Andrea Milanko

Yugoslav wars

Mohamed Mbougar Sarr

The Most Secret Memory of Men

La plus secrète mémoire des hommes

Presented by:Sandra Folie

Racism

Colonialism

Postcolonialism

Literary market

African authors in Europe

Daša Drndić

Canzone di guerra

Canzone di guerra: nove davorije

Presented by:Mirela Dakić

Economic downfall and scarcity

Gender

Migrations

Totalitarianism

Second world war

Yugoslav wars

Milan Kundera

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

Kniha smíchu a zapomnění

Presented by:Anna Gawarecka

Marxism–Leninism

Public / private

Prague Spring 1968

Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia

Everyday life

Reading materials

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Video

Thinking the Political Workshop - part 1

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

Video

Thinking the Political Workshop - part 4

Video

Thinking the Political Workshop - part 3

Exile

Migrations

Video

Workshop: Political Novel in Europe and Migration/Exile

Video

Thinking the Political Workshop - part 2

Topics

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Irish War of Independence

Antagonism

Structural transformations

COVID pandemic

Subjectification

Totalitarianism