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Ali Smith

Summer

Presented by:Paul Stewart

Migrations

Second world war

Refugees

COVID pandemic

UK politics

Art

Internment

Political discourse

Antisemitism

Antje Rávik Strubel

Blaue Frau

Blue Woman

Presented by:Alrik Daldrup

Gender

Centres and peripheries

East vs. West

Louis Aragon

La Semaine sainte

Holy Week

Presented by:Aurore Peyroles

Commitment

Fidelity

Civil war

Antagonism

19th century

Military

Carlo Levi

L'orologio

The Watch

Presented by:Silvia Valentini

Second world war

Revolution

Reactionism

Italy

Natasha Brown

Assembly

Presented by:Polina Mackay

Cancer

Racism

Intersectional politics

Contemporary Britain

Joseph Conrad

Under Western Eyes

Presented by:Ivana Perica

Revolution

Terrorism

Autocracy

Despotism

Political espionage

Reformism

Espionage

The Russian Revolution of 1905 (First Russian Revolution)

Cynicism

Pajtim Statovci

Kissani Jugoslavia

My Cat Yugoslavia

Presented by:Eric Bergman

Exile

Identity

Yugoslav wars

David Albahari

Gec i Majer

Götz and Meyer

Presented by:Karlo Držaić

Second world war

Antisemitism

The Holocaust

Nationalism

George Orwell

1984

Nineteen Eighty-Four

Presented by:Tea Hodaj

Dystopic Europes

Authoritarianism

Totalitarianism

Politicisation of fear

Ilmari Kianto

Punainen viiva

The Red Line

Presented by:Eric Bergman

Sarah Waterfeld

Sex mit Gysi

Sex with Gysi

Presented by:Ivana Perica

Political elections

female politicians

left-wing parliamentarism

political disenchantment

careerism

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

Materials

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Video

Thinking the Political Workshop - part 2

By: Clare Woodford, Allan Hansen

Video

Political Novel in Historiographical and Sociological Perspective: Structures and Analogies - part 1

By: Zrinka Božić, Nenad Ivić, Zvonimir Glavaš, Rossitsa Terzieva-Artemis, Tomislav Brlek, Karlo Držaić, Milica Resanović

Video

What is the Political Novel: Defining the Genre - day 2

By: Polina Mackay, Marina Protrka Štimec, Mirela Dakić, Magda Potok, Vedrana Veličković, Rahul Putty

Video

Political Novel in Historiographical and Sociological Perspective: Structures and Analogies - part 2

By: Mirela Dakić, Goran Pavlić, Ante Andabak, Branimir Janković

Video

Thinking the Political Workshop - part 1

By: Vedrana Veličković, Oliver Marchart

Video

What is the Political Novel: Defining the Genre - day 3

By: Andrea Milanko, Ana Tomljenović, Paul Stewart, Shambhavi Prakash, Rossitsa Terzieva-Artemis, Błażej Warkocki, Nenad Ivić

Topics

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French postwar politics

Yugoslav wars

Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia

Periods of prosperity and affluence

social class dynamics

Bolsheviks