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Dinçer Güçyeter

Unser Deutschlandmärchen

Our Fairy Tale of Germany

Presented by:Kyung-Ho Cha

Migrations

Guest Worker

Géza Ottlik

Iskola a határon

School at the Frontier

Presented by:Richárd Vincze

Vladan Desnica

Zimsko ljetovanje

The Winter Summer Vacation

Presented by:Marina Protrka Štimec

Wars

Racism

Balkanism

Class Hegemony

Second World War

Yugoslavia

Paul Lynch

Prophet Song

Presented by:Aurore Peyroles

Exile

Authoritarianism

Civil War

Everyday Life

21st century

Dystopian novel

Dubravka Ugrešić

Ministarstvo boli

The Ministry of Pain

Presented by:Ewa Szperlik

Identity

Migrations

Yugoslavia

Juan Goytisolo

Señas de identidad

Marks of Identity

Presented by:Magda Potok

Authoritarianism

Centres and Peripheries

Spanish Civil War

Francoism

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

Albert Camus

La Peste

The Plague

Presented by:Aurore Peyroles

Second World War

Nazism

Fascism

Anti-fascist resistance

Epidemic

Ivo Andrić

Travnička hronika. Konsulska vremena

Bosnian Chronicle

Presented by:Marina Protrka Štimec

Balkanism

Ottoman Empire

Diplomacy

Kathrin Röggla

wir schlafen nicht

we never sleep

Presented by:Aurore Peyroles

Neoliberalism

Capitalism

Nikolai Ostrovsky

Как закалялась сталь (Kak zakalyalas stal)

How the Steel Was Tempered

Presented by:Karlo Držaić

Marxism–Leninism

Bolsheviks

Revolution

Stalinism

Civil War

Proletariat

Socialism

Väinö Linna

Tuntematon sotilas

The Unknown Soldier

Presented by:Eric Bergman

Class

Cynicism

Second World War

Military

Nationalism

Collective Memory

Materials

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Audio

Podcast: Periphery and banishment

By: Ivana Perica, Aurore Peyroles

Audio

Podcast: Anti-fascist Literature

By: Ivana Perica

Working Paper

“Multilingual Minority: Poetical Decomposition of the Embodied Dictatorial Legacy” & “Entrapment and Resistance. Language and Power in Andrea Tompa’s 'The Hangman’s House'. Response”

By: Mónika Dánél, Philipp Wegmann

Article

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

By: Nenad Ivić

Article

Competitive Words: Identity Counts in Large Amounts

By: Ivana Perica

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

Topics

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French Revolution

Careerism

The NEP (New Economic Policy) Era

Decolonisation

Digital Era

Antagonism