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Ilmari Kianto

Punainen viiva

The Red Line

Presented by:Eric Bergman

Thomas Gunzig

Kuru

Presented by:Yoana Ganowski

Capitalism

Organised action

Individualism

Moral Panic

Stanisław Brzozowski

Płomienie. Z papierów po Michale Kaniowskim

Flames. From the Papers of Michal Kaniowski

Presented by:Tomasz Mizerkiewicz

Class

Terrorism

Javier Cercas

Soldados de Salamina

Soldiers of Salamis

Presented by:Zrinka Božić

Fascism

20th century

Spanish Civil War

Francoism

Georgi Gospodinov

Времеубежище (Vremeubezhishte)

Time Shelter

Presented by:Ivana Perica

Nostalgia

Socialism

Liberalism

Collective Memory

Ivo Brešan

Ništa Sveto

Nothing Sacred

Presented by:Andrea Milanko

Yugoslavia

Rudolf Sloboda

Rozum

Reason

Presented by:Olha Norba

Prague Spring 1968

Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia

Existentialism

Cultural Politics

Samuel Beckett

Molloy 

Molloy

Presented by:Paul Stewart

Violence

Marginalisation

Subjectification

Identity

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

Tibor Déry

G. A. úr X-ben

Mr. G. A. in X

Presented by:Richárd Vincze

Louis-Ferdinand Céline

D’un château l’autre

Castle to Castle

Presented by:Ivan Silobrčić

Antisemitism

Second World War

Fascism

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

Materials

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Article

Who’s afraid of the political novel? An introduction

By: Ivana Perica, Aurore Peyroles

Storytelling

The Political Novel: A Palimpsest

By: Ivana Perica

Video

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

By: Tomasz Mizerkiewicz, Charlotte Woodford

Article

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

Video

Workshop: Thinking the Political (part 1)

By: Vedrana Veličković, Oliver Marchart

Video

Workshop: The Political Novel in Europe and the Challenges of the Digital Era

By: Aurore Peyroles, Ivana Perica, Johanna-Charlotte Horst, Christoph Schaub, Anna Murashova, Isabell A. Meske, Joana Roqué Pesquer, Sophie Salvo, Elias Kreuzmair, Verónica Paula Gómez, Liam Connell, Tara Talwar Windsor, Rossitsa Terzieva-Artemis, Inna Häkkinen, Anna-Lena Eick

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Geopolitics

Polyphonic Novel

Workerism

Romance

Computer-Generated Texts

Political novel