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Caroline De Mulder

La pouponnière d'Himmler

Himmler's Nursery

Presented by:Filip Kučeković

Second World War

Lebensborn

Paul Lynch

Prophet Song

Presented by:Aurore Peyroles

Exile

Authoritarianism

Civil War

Everyday Life

21st century

Dystopian novel

Georgi Gospodinov

Времеубежище (Vremeubezhishte)

Time Shelter

Presented by:Ivana Perica

Nostalgia

Socialism

Liberalism

Collective Memory

Ivo Andrić

Travnička hronika. Konsulska vremena

Bosnian Chronicle

Presented by:Marina Protrka Štimec

Balkanism

Ottoman Empire

Diplomacy

Christa Wolf

Nachdenken über Christa T.

Reflections on Christa T.

Presented by:Renate Flagmeier

Maria Modrakowska

Anetka

Presented by:Anna Artwich

Feminism

Queer

Suzanne Lacascade

Claire-Solange, âme Africaine

Presented by:Charlotte Woodford

Feminism

Négritude

Michał Witkowski

Lubiewo

Lovetown

Presented by:Błażej Warkocki

Neoliberalism

Queer

LGBT

Central and Eastern Europe

Non-binary

Rudolf Sloboda

Rozum

Reason

Presented by:Olha Norba

Prague Spring 1968

Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia

Existentialism

Cultural Politics

Ilmari Kianto

Punainen viiva

The Red Line

Presented by:Eric Bergman

Milan Kundera

Kniha smíchu a zapomnění

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

Presented by:Anna Gawarecka

Marxism–Leninism

Public / private

Prague Spring 1968

Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia

Everyday Life

Ivo Brešan

Ispovijedi nekarakternog čovjeka

Confessions of an Amoral Man

Presented by:Andrea Milanko

Materials

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Article

Is Pierre Michon’s "The Eleven" a political novel?

By: Nenad Ivić

Working Paper

“Semi-peripheral Nodes and the Circulation of Political Ideas. The Case of a Romanian Novel” & “Uneven and Combined Development in the Centre of Modernism: Beckett, Joyce, London and Dublin. Response"

By: Alina Bako, Paul Stewart

Working Paper

Political Fictionality and the Authorship of Power: Vladislav Surkov between Literature and Geopolitics

By: Ekaterina Vassilieva

Writing and Unmaking the Geopolitical in "Un captif amoureux"

By: Louis Aubry

Video

Exile as an opportunity - Interview with Zrinka Božić

By: Tomasz Mizerkiewicz, Zrinka Božić

Working Paper

“A Political Novel between the Periphery and the Center: Norman Manea’s 'Plicul negru' (1986) / 'The Black Envelope' (1995)” & “Response”

By: Brînduşa Nicolaescu, Natalya Bekhta

Topics

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Irish Independence

Despotism

Refugees

Holocaust

Working poor

Augustinism