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Karel Čapek

Válka s mloky

The War with the Newts

Presented by:Anna Gawarecka

Dystopic Europes

Totalitarianism

Colonialism

Nazism

Stalinism

Isabella Hammad

Enter Ghost

Presented by:Elijah Butcher

Identity

Revolution

Islam

Cultural Politics

Palestine

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

Ilmari Kianto

Punainen viiva

The Red Line

Presented by:Eric Bergman

Elvira Navarro

La trabajadora

A Working Woman

Presented by:Magda Potok

GFC (Global Financial Crisis) of 2008

Neoliberalism

Precariat

Sofi Oksanen

Puhdistus

Purge

Presented by:Eric Bergman

Identity

Feminism

Female Body

Nationalism

Theis Ørntoft

Jordisk

Earthly

Presented by:Troels Thorborg Andersen

Capitalism

Geopolitics

Climate Crisis

Consumerism

Tvrtko Kulenović

Kasino

Casino

Presented by:Zvonimir Glavaš

Ali Smith

Summer

Presented by:Paul Stewart

Migrations

United Kingdom

Refugees

Art

Internment

COVID Pandemic

Antisemitism

Political Discourse

Second World War

Vassilis Vassilikos

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

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Presented by:Niki Sioki

Authoritarianism

Military

Civil War

Fascism

Hugo Claus

Het verdriet van België

The sorrow of Belgium

Presented by:Yoana Ganowski

History

Second World War

Nazism

Bildungsroman

Väinö Linna

Täällä Pohjantähden alla

Under the North Star

Presented by:Eric Bergman

History

Civil War

Communism

Anti-communism

Materials

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Article

Reparative Democracy: Testing the Borders of the Political. Interview with Wendy Brown

Storytelling

The Political Novel: A Palimpsest

By: Ivana Perica

Video

How to Read Political Novels? Online lecture

By: Ivana Perica

Audio

Podcast: Der politische Roman

By: Ivana Perica

Video

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

Article

Who’s afraid of the political novel? An introduction

By: Ivana Perica, Aurore Peyroles

Topics

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First World War

Utopianism

archives

Gender

Historiography

Italy