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Karel Čapek

Válka s mloky

The War with the Newts

Presented by:Anna Gawarecka

Dystopic Europes

Totalitarianism

Colonialism

Nazism

Stalinism

Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn

Один день Ивана Денисовича (Odin den' Ivana Denisovicha)

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Presented by:Zvonimir Glavaš

Stalinism

Prison Fiction

Gulag

Cold War

Henning Mankell

Hundarna i Riga

The Dogs of Riga

Presented by:Filip Kučeković

Juan Goytisolo

Señas de identidad

Marks of Identity

Presented by:Magda Potok

Authoritarianism

Centres and Peripheries

Spanish Civil War

Francoism

Dacia Maraini

Donna in guerra

Woman at War

Presented by:Matteo Heilbrun

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

Kallia Papadaki

Δενδρίτες / Dendrítes

Dendrites

Presented by:Niki Sioki

Identity

Racism

Economic Downfall and Scarcity

Crisis

Emigration

Craig Jordan-Baker

Brick Dust

Presented by:Zrinka Božić

Class

Nationalism

Northern Ireland

20th century

21st century

Family

Tatcherism

Halldór Laxness

Íslandsklukkan

Iceland's Bell

Presented by:Filip Kučeković

History

Nationalism

Colonialism

Christa Wolf

Kassandra

Cassandra

Presented by:Charlotte Mencke

German Democratic Republic (GDR/DDR)

Cold War

ancient Greek mythology

Safae el Khannoussi

Oroppa

Presented by:Ingrid Hudabiunigg

Transnational Identity

Political imprisonment

Torture

Annie Ernaux

La Femme gelée

A Frozen Woman

Presented by:Aurore Peyroles

Gender

Class

Feminism

Second-Wave Feminism

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Video

Workshop: Thinking the Political (part 2)

By: Clare Woodford, Allan Hansen

Video

Conference: What is the Political Novel: Defining the Genre - day 1

By: Zrinka Božić, Mark Devenney, Zvonimir Glavaš, Tomasz Mizerkiewicz

Working Paper

The Digitalization of the Novel and Platformization of Cultural Production: Practices, Hierarchies, Texts. The Russian Case  

By: Anna Murashova

Article

Keine Nebensache: Adania Shiblis politischer Roman

By: Ivana Perica

Arcana Imperii and Globalatinization: A Probe Into Contemporary Cultural Style

By: Nenad Ivić

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

Topics

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Irish War of Independence

Public / private

Slavery

Electrification

Nostalgia

Wars