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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

Ivo Brešan

Ništa Sveto

Nothing Sacred

Presented by:Andrea Milanko

Yugoslav Wars

Fakir Baykurt

Yüksek Fırınlar

Blast Furnaces

Presented by:Duncan Lien

Gender

Class

Students’ movement

Second-Wave Feminism

Dezső Kosztolányi

Édes Anna

Anna Édes

Presented by:Gábor Tamás Molnár

Domestic Servitude

Right-Wing Restoration

Hungarian Commune of 1919

Social Class and Family

Abdulrazak Gurnah

The Last Gift

Presented by:Ante Andabak

Migrations

Colonialism

African Authors in Europe

Anna Burns

Milkman

Presented by:Craig Jordan-Baker

The Troubles

Sectarianism

Paramilitarism

Class

Gender Politics

Northern Ireland

Stanisław Brzozowski

Płomienie. Z papierów po Michale Kaniowskim

Flames. From the Papers of Michal Kaniowski

Presented by:Tomasz Mizerkiewicz

Terrorism

Social Class Dynamics

Louis-Ferdinand Céline

D’un château l’autre

Castle to Castle

Presented by:Ivan Silobrčić

Antisemitism

Second World War

Fascism

Danilo Kiš

Grobnica za Borisa Davidoviča

A Tomb for Boris Davidovich

Presented by:Ivana Perica

Marxism–Leninism

Bolsheviks

Revolution

History

Second World War

Stalinism

Civil War

Hans Keilson

Der Tod des Widersachers

The Death of the Adversary

Presented by:Heinrich Detering

Exile

Second World War

Nazism

Fascism

Anti-fascist resistance

NoViolet Bulawayo

Glory

Presented by:Sarah Colvin

Authoritarianism

Uprising

Anti-fascist resistance

Collective Memory

Vassilis Vassilikos

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

Z

Presented by:Niki Sioki

Authoritarianism

Military

Civil War

Fascism

Materials

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Working Paper

Kyung-Ho Cha, Ivana Perica, Aurore Peyroles, Christoph Schaub: “European Centers and Peripheries in the Political Novel.”

Video

Literature in Times of Crisis: What Can the Novel Do? Roundtable with Heike Geißler, Alhierd Bacharevič and Maryam Aras

Working Paper

Charles Sabatos: “Reimagining Political Peripheries in Pišťanek’s and Boldizar’s Siberian Slovakia.” & Nina Weller: “Response to Charles Sabatos.”

Storytelling

CAPONEU - behind the scenes

Article

Mirela Dakić: What is a novel in the political novel? The perspectives of contemporary feminist theory

Working Paper

Stefan Segi: “Vlastimil Vondruška and the Inevitable Demise of Europe.” & Błażej Warkocki: “Being East European (from a Polish perspective). Response to Stefan Segi.”

Topics

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Islam

Marginalisation

Political Corruption

Commitment

Parties

Structural Transformations